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Buildings and Collections in the UNT Libraries
Willis Library
A major portion of the general collections of the University Libraries and a number of specialized collections are located in the Willis Library.
Bound Periodicals and Microforms
Lower Level, Willis
During regular desk hours, patrons may produce hard copies from microform materials via individual coin-operated reader/printers. Copies are 10 cents per page, and Copicards may also be used in lieu of dimes and nickels. A dollar bill changer is available which will convert both quarters and dollar bills to dimes and nickels.
The Microform Department also provides a microfiche duplication service, where fiche-to-fiche copies of "copyright free" ERIC documents can be obtained for 40 cents per fiche. For 1 to 20 copies of fiche, please allow at least 1 to 2 working days. For 20 copies or more, please allow 2 to 3 working days --- weekends excluded. Please consult the unit supervisor for assistance with this service.
Printing from microfiche and microfilm may be charged to departmental accounts. Likewise, microfiche duplication may be charged to accounts at 40 cents per fiche. Microcard and microprint printing must utilize a copycard only, and copies are retrieved at the public printer on the first floor.
General Reference Collection
First Floor, Willis
The Humanities and Social Sciences Department houses the General Reference Collection, comprising print sources in the humanities, social sciences, business, and education, as well as directories, bibliographies, almanacs, and other general reference materials. In addition, the General Abstracts and Indexes Collection, the Tax Library, and electronic information resources are accessible in this area.
The General Reference Desk serves as a first stop for information needs. More in-depth assistance from reference librarians is available by appointment. The department provides subject area and interdisciplinary guides listing essential reference sources. The Reference and Information Services Department also provides e-mail reference service, an on reference desk service, and access to quick reference sources on the Internet. Please call (940) 565-3245 for information or assistance.
Government Documents, Legal Collection, and Map Collection
Third Floor, Willis
UNT Libraries participate in the U.S. Federal Depository Library Program and the Texas State Publications Depository Program. The Government Documents Department promotes these programs by housing and providing assistance with access and using federal and state government publications. Collection strengths include education, geologic and environmental resources, health care, military history, statistics, public policy and legal issues.
Nationally known for its partnerships with the federal and state agencies to preserve and offer access to electronic government publications, the Department maintains the Government Information ConnectionSM Web site and actively pursues opportunities to provide Congressional Research Service Reports Archive to scholars and the public. Digital collections include Gammel’s Laws of Texas, Texas Register Archive, CyberCemetery, and Congressional Research Reports Archive.
The Libraries’ Legal Collection includes paper and electronic versions of regional and federal case reports, U.S. and Texas codes, law journals, and other selected legal resources. The Libraries’ Map Collection includes the U.S. Geological Survey’s topographic maps for Texas and surrounding states, the Geological Atlas of Texas, and a variety of atlases and maps.
Please call (940) 565-2870 for information or assistance, or send a request or comment through the Government Information ConnectionSM Contact Us
Digital Projects Department
Third Floor, Willis
The Digital Projects Department assists with all digital projects within the Libraries and assume responsibility for the long-term preservation of the Libraries’ digital collections.
Additionally, the Department coordinates a state-wide project to digitize materials related to Texas history. The UNT Library's Portal to Texas History Project is currently under development. This site will offer students and historians interested in Texas history a portal to the rich collections held in Texas libraries, archives, personal collections, and historical museums. This project will provide students with easy access to supplementary materials that can bring the subject of Texas history alive for them. As content for the site grows, curriculum guides will be provided for K-12 teachers to incorporate the materials into daily classes. Texas students, teachers, historians, and other researchers will have ready access through one Web location–a Portal–to an array of digital copies of major artifacts, manuscripts, photographs, maps, letters, and other primary source materials about Texas history. For more information about the Portal project see: http://texashistory.unt.edu/
A state-of-the-art digital lab has been created in the Willis Library to support all the digital efforts and will employ students for grant-funded and other projects. For more information about the new department and the digital lab, please contact Cathy Hartman (chartman@library.unt.edu).
Multimedia Development Lab
Third Floor, Willis
The Multimedia Development Lab provides web and multimedia development services to UNT faculty, staff, departments, and organizations. To arrange a consultation, contact Kristin Boyett (kboyett@library.unt.edu) at (940) 369-7249.
Music Library
Fourth Floor, Willis
The Music Library, one of the largest university music collections in the United States, contains over 200,000 volumes of books, periodicals, scores, dissertations, and reference works in all western languages. In addition to the printed collection, there are over 300,000 recordings of all kinds, from Edison cylinders to compact discs and digital tape recordings. Playback equipment is provided for all types of recordings in the Music Library's Audio Center. The Music Library also provides access to several electronic music information sources, including the Music Index, RILM, and the International Index to Music Periodicals. The Music Library's Special Collections database is accessible through the Music Library's Web page.
The Music Library's rare book collection contains material ranging from a medieval manuscript to limited, signed first editions of twentieth-century authors. Special collections in the Music Library include manuscripts of Arnold Schoenberg, Aaron Copland, bandleader Stan Kenton, composers Don Gillis, Julia Smith, and Merrill Ellis; sheet music collections from radio stations WBAP (Fort Worth) and WFAA (Dallas); the Leon Breeden Jazz Archives; recordings and personal papers of jazz host Willis Conover; and a large collection of tape recordings of College of Music concerts and recitals. Please call (940) 565-2860 for information or assistance.
Rare Book and Texana Collections
Fourth Floor, Willis
The Rare Book and Texana Collections comprise approximately 15,000 volumes of books, manuscripts, maps, and ephemera. Particular strengths include Texas county histories, immigration and travel, eighteenth-century literature, French drama and theatre, children's books, pop-up and movable books, miniature books, and selected authors, such as William Blake, Willa Cather, Mary Webb, Larry McMurtry, and Warren Norwood.
The Rare Book Room also serves as a cultural center for the campus, providing a location for receptions, lectures, poetry readings, recitals, workshops, and other events. An active exhibit schedule is maintained, including joint exhibits with other departments in the Libraries and on campus. Exhibit catalogues, as well as information concerning the collections, are accessible through the Rare Book Room Web page.
The Rare Book Room staff is pleased to assist in classroom activities or research. The Rare Book Room is open 8:00 AM -5:00 PM, Monday through Thursday, Friday 8:00 AM to12:00 PM and by appointment. Please call (940) 565-2769 for information or assistance.
University of North Texas Archives
Fourth Floor, Willis
The University Archives, located in Room 430, not only houses records of enduring informational value concerning the University, including administrative records and published documents, but also serves as a repository for historical manuscript collections and business records that detail the political and industrial development of Texas. Among the major historical collections and business records housed in the Archives are the Sarah T. Hughes Collection (federal and state district judge), the Alvin M. Owsley Collection (U.S. diplomat), the Mary Jones Collection (Texas pioneer and wife of the last president of the Republic of Texas), the Fred Minor Collection (Texas Speaker of the House), records of the Fort Worth Stockyards Company and the Morrison Milling Company, and a number of labor union records and labor arbitrators’ papers. The Archives houses transcripts of interviews from the UNT Oral History Collection and is a depository for Cooke, Denton, Montague, and Wise County records. The University Archives is open 8-12 and 1-5, Monday through Friday. A number of collections are housed in remote storage at the Libraries' Annex and require an appointment with the Archivist to view. Please call (940) 565-2766 for information or assistance.
Science and Technology Library
Information Sciences Building
Located in the Information Sciences Building, the Science and Technology Library comprises three collections. The general collection includes materials in agriculture, library and information sciences, mathematics, medicine, the natural and physical sciences, psychology, and technology. It serves primarily the departments of Behavior Analysis, Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics, and Psychology, as well as the School of Merchandising and Hospitality Management and the School of Library and Information Sciences. The Curriculum Materials Collection on the second floor contains current state-adopted textbooks and supports the College of Education. The Juvenile Collection also on the second floor includes fiction and non-fiction books for pre-school through high school. Circulation/reserves, reference, and bibliographic instruction are located on the first floor. Please call (940) 565-2461 for Circulation/Reserves or (940) 565-4745 for reference assistance.
Media Library
Chilton Hall, Suite 111
The collections of the Media Library include VHS videocassettes, DVDs, video laserdiscs, 16mm motion pictures, slides and sound/slide programs, filmstrips, audiocassettes, and CD-ROMs.
Media materials may be searched in the Library Catalog at http://iii.library.unt.edu/search~S6. Booking of media materials is provided to ensure availability of items for particular class sessions. Media materials may be booked by calling the Booking Supervisor at (940) 565-2484; sending an e-mail request to medialibrary@library.unt.edu; sending a FAX to (940) 369-7396; or by booking on at http://iii.library.unt.edu/search~S6.
Requests may also be submitted electronically via Interlibrary Loan & Document Delivery Services. Rentals of audio-visual materials should be requested through the Media Library at (940) 565-2484. In all interlibrary loans, the UNT Libraries are bound by the conditions imposed by the lending institution. Obtaining photocopies through interlibrary loan is governed by the United States copyright laws (PL94-553). Faculty requests will be subsidized to a monetary limit established prior to the beginning of each academic year. All interlibrary loans must be arranged through the Interlibrary Loan Office or Media Library. Other loan arrangements made by individuals with institutions must remain the responsibility of the individual and may not be transferred to the Interlibrary Loan Office. Questions concerning Interlibrary Loan should be addressed to that office, (940) 565-2495.
Viewing and listening carrels are provided for in-house use of materials.
Library Annex
941 Precision Drive
The Library Annex, located near the campus off of Airport Road, houses the Technical Services Department and the Preservation Unit. In addition, over 400,000 volumes and over 2,000 boxes of archival material are shelved in the remote storage portion of the Library Annex. The materials located in this facility are in a closed-stack arrangement. Requests for photocopies from periodicals or retrieval of specific titles may be made using the Library Materials Delivery Service. We strive for a twenty-four hour turn-around for filling requests Monday-Friday.
Reading Room at the Library Annex
If a long run of periodicals is needed at one time, the faculty member is invited to go to the Library Annex and use the material in the Reading Room. A photocopy machine is available for use if needed. There are also facilities for your computer. However, use of this room must be scheduled at least twenty-four (24) hours in advance so that the material may be pulled and placed in the room. To make use of this service, please call the General Circulation Desk at (940) 565-2413. You will need to tell them the titles and the volumes you require. A time for you to be at the Annex will also be established. It may be necessary to negotiate this time depending on the demands placed on this service. If you need the materials more than one day, please be sure to schedule the Reading Room for as many days as you will need it. After you have completed your use of the materials, they will be returned to remote storage. If you have any questions about this service, please call the Head, Access and Preservation Services, at (940) 565-2415.
Technical Services
Technical Services' responsibilities include: acquiring (ordering, receiving and paying for) library materials in all formats, spending and accounting for the Libraries' materials budget (FY 04/05 $6.5M), maintaining the New Acquisitions List, and cataloging new acquisitions.
The Department has a full time staff of 21 people (four librarians, fifteen library specialists, an accountant, and a secretary) plus student assistants. It is comprised of four units: Accounting; Cataloging; Monograph Acquisitions; and Serials and Receiving.
Preservation Unit
The Preservation Unit supports the University's academic programs and research by making library materials available and accessible to library patrons. The Preservation Unit binds and prepares materials in a timely manner so that current research is immediately available to students and faculty.
Members of the Preservation staff repair well-worn or damaged items so that they can be returned quickly to circulation. As a research institution, UNT is obligated to retain older materials; the Preservation Unit preserves and protects these items while continuing to make them available to library patrons. In addition, the Preservation Unit works with the University Archives, the Government Documents Department, and other library departments to care for fragile holdings.
The Preservation Unit binds and repairs only materials that belong to UNT. Individuals needing book repair or thesis binding should view the FAQ's on the Unit's web site for links to outside vendors. Please visit the Unit's website for more information.
Dallas Campus Library
8915 S. Hampton Rd., Rm. 155
Dallas, TX 75232-6002
The University of North Texas Dallas Campus is located in the southwest section of Dallas County. The Campus, which opened in January 2000, currently serves upper-level and graduate students in a limited but growing number of programs. The hybrid “virtual” library is a full-service library with a small collection (approximately 500 titles) of print reference books, select reserve materials and a vast collection of electronic resources.
The Library provides students with an open, friendly area in which to study. There are twelve general access computers for Internet searching and an adjacent computer lab with 31 computers for course-specific programs, Microsoft Office programs, Adobe Photoshop, a scanner and printer.
Subject guides have been assembled to aid students in finding the necessary materials for their coursework. Print materials that are not available onsite but which are available in Denton may be requested and sent to the student or to the Dallas Campus library via courier. Books and other materials may be returned to and checked in at the Dallas campus. The library staff provides group or individual instruction for library orientation to electronic resources, WebCT and EagleMail.
The librarians and student staff are friendly and eager to assist students, faculty and staff in their resource needs. Check out the Dallas Campus website at : http://www.unt.edu/unt-dallas/
For information regarding library instruction or print reserve materials, please contact Leora Kemp, Librarian, at lkemp@unt.edu or call 972-780-3625.
Research Park Library
Research Park, B 112 (library), M130 (book collection)
The Research Park Library, with two separate locations in the Research Park, provides electronic and print materials to support the College of Engineering. The Collection Area (M130) houses almost 40,000 volumes of engineering materials. The collection includes materials in engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, materials science, and engineering technology. The reserve materials that support engineering classes are also housed in this area. The library (B112) offers 46 public workstations (including three with adaptations for individuals with disabilities), a learning center with advanced equipment for instruction and videoconferencing, and three areas for group study. Library computers are equipped with StarOffice for word processing, preparation of spreadsheets and presentations, and other productivity tools. Please call (940) 369-7200 for reference services and other assistance or 940-565-3175 for Research Park Collection Circulation/Reserves.
Materials from the Main Campus can be requested for delivery by going to Library Materials Delivery Service. When the materials requested are retrieved, they will be held at the Circulation Desk in M130 for pick up. Interlibrary Loan materials will also be held at the Circulation Desk for pick up.