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The Media Library staff looooves movies.  Check out our favorite Halloween films.

Videos from Nicolas Slonimsky's 1977 lectures at North Texas are now viewable here and http://vimeo.com/6972015.

The Media Library has added a ton of great new titles to the collection. Stop by and check one out!

Traditionally, academic library outreach has meant reaching out to the campus community, providing services to faculty and students. Many universities and colleges, however, now have a new or renewed emphasis on outreach beyond the campus, seeking to ensure their institutions' relevance to the community at large. How can and do academic libraries participate in this type of outreach? What types of collaborations or partnerships are academic libraries forming with schools, public libraries, or community groups? How do academic librarians partner with faculty or campus departments on their community projects? What role does service-learning play? Nancy Courtney has assembled a sampling of approaches, from the innovative to the tried-and-true, each written in the voice of its strongest champion. 

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To see a list of new library science books, look at our new books acquisition list.

Artists' Books Competition and Biennial Exhibition

Sponsored by the Friends of the UNT Libraries

The Collection

In summer 2009, the Media Library decided to incorporate video games into the collection. To celebrate the launch of this new collection, two Game On!: Fun, Films and Gaming at the UNT Libraries events were held at the Media Library and Willis Library. Students came from across campus to meet new people and play games like Guitar Hero, Super Smash Brothers, Halo and more.  On September 2, The Media Library opened up circulation of the video game collection to UNT students, faculty and staff.  Currently, the collection contains games for the Wii, XBox 360 and PS3 consoles.

For information on the checkout period and fines, please refer to our loan chart  http://www.library.unt.edu/media/checking-out-media/checkout-information

Finding Games in the Collection

This list contains all of our video games: http://iii.library.unt.edu/search/X?SEARCH=d:%28video%20games%29&searchscope=6&SORT=D

You can also search "video games" as a keyword in the Library Catalog.

The UNT Libraries' Video on Demand collection continued to grow over the summer. Students and faculty can now view nearly 300 films online. Here are a few of the latest additions.

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Webinars

• This Discovery Park Library offers a series of free, hour-long interactive web seminars on critical information technology topics in higher education.  Upcoming webinars . . .
  

Workshops

• The Discovery Park Library offers workshops throughout the semester that are open to anyone who would like to attend. We also offer classes that faculty arrange for their students for specific courses. The skills and concepts taught in these classes provide students with a better comprehension of library research and improve their skills using the Libraries. Upcoming workshops . . .
  

Discovery Park Films

• In conjunction with the Media Library and the Center for Student Development, we will be offering a weekly screening of films including the DocSpot and Fem Flicks.  Upcoming films . . .
  

BTW, TMB

TXT 4 Answers: My Info Quest Text Reference Service Launches

East Peoria—July 16, 2009

It’s official!  People are now sending more text messages than they are making cell phone calls.  Librarians are aware of the popularity of texting and are ready to take their professional services to cell phones. 

Starting July 16th, patrons of approximately 50 libraries from all over the US, including UNT Libraries are able to text a question to (309) 222-7740 and a real, live librarian will respond within minutes.  The service is free of charge, but standard text messaging rates do apply.  Staffed by librarians from around the country, answers are sent to cell phones by librarians in 320 characters or less, or the equivalent of two 160-character text messages.

It’s a different way of helping people get the answers they need, wherever they are at the time, with professional assistance.  The service, named My Info Quest is the first collaborative text messaging reference service of its kind.   Other partners include San Jose State University Graduate School of Library and Information Science,  Abilene Christian University, Adams State Universitym, Alliance Library System, Dakota State University, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Nebraska at Omaha and University of South Florida at Tampa.

The hours of service will be Monday through Friday, 8 a.m.-10 p.m. and Saturday 9 a.m.-5 p.m.  For more information about My Info Quest and for a list of participating libraries, check out http://www.myinfoquest.info.

We are proud to announce the official release of the updated Portal to Texas History.  Working with the Multimedia Development Lab, the Digital Projects Unit redesigned the entire site.  We also restructured and migrated all of the Portal content to a new digital asset management system developed in-house.

This work is part of an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) funded research project investigating the information seeking behavior of genealogists, a significant user group of digital libraries.  The project continues through the end of November, and further usability and utility testing will inform enhancements to the Portal planned for the fall of 2009.  When the project concludes, the Web site will include several new updates based on user-centered feedback.

We hope that you will enjoy using the new Portal and return often to discover our latest content and enhancements.

This film series will return in the Fall as The Doc Spot.  Our first screening will be the Academy Award nominated documentary Trouble the Water, September 1 - 4.  Check back later this summer for a full schedule. 

UNT's One Book, One Community project has announced it's  2009/10 book selection- Jeff Goodell's Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future . The Media Library will be screening films in support of this project during the fall and spring semesters. More information on films and screening dates are forthcoming.

 About One Book, One Community

UNT’s One Book, One Community project focuses each year on a theme of general interest to students, their families, faculty, staff, administration and the community at large.

Our book for 2009-10 is Jeff Goodell's Big Coal (2006). Goodell spent three full years researching this fascinating look at the economic, environmental, and cultural forces behind the coal industry in America and around the world.In addition to Goodell’s public lecture to take place on October 6th (details forthcoming), we will host lectures and workshops that represent the widest possible range of political, economic, and cultural points of view in relation to both the larger theme of America’s Energy Future, and the arguments and assumptions behind Big Coal as well.

To help us assess UNT virtual reference services, please fill out our survey on e-mail reference and our  24/7 chat AskColorado pilot project: Ask Academic. Thanks!

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=irvTUITROM7xMGmiI1xaKA_3d_3d

You ask! We listened!

The Media Library now has an outdoor dropbox where materials can be returned after hours and when Chilton Hall is closed.  The dropbox is located at the north entrance of Chilton Hall at the first floor. More details available here.

The University of North Texas (UNT) announces a nationwide search to recruit a new Dean for its University Libraries.  We seek an academic leader with experience, vision and drive to lead dynamic University Libraries.  The position is open beginning fall 2009.

The UNT Libraries' Video On Demand systems has added new titles, bringing the total to nearly 200 online films!

New titles include:

We are excited to let everyone know that we have a new product - flash drives.

In an effort to provide a convenient search tool that will help the UNT libraries' web users to simultaneously search multiple online databases, the UNT Libraries recently implemented the Federated Search Engine - WebFeat. With the implementation of WebFeat, our users can search through 50 electronic resource databases, at once, including the library catalog and the digital collections.