Services of the UNT Libraries

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This page lists many of the primary services offered by the UNT Libraries. Services are things we can or will do for you, and are distinct from policies/procedures, collections, subscription databases or other tools you use to access library materials, etc.

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Check Out Materials

This is a starting point for info on lending privileges, locations, borrowing reserve items, and borrowing items from other libraries.

Details: Circulation Policies & Procedures

This is a starting point for info on lending privileges, locations, borrowing reserve items, and borrowing items from other libraries. Check Out Materials Overview Laptops for Checkout Paying Fines Renewals Returning Items Search Service for Missing/Lost Items Details: Circulation Policies & Procedures Borrowing Items from the Libraries Students, faculty, staff, and members of the community with valid ID cards may borrow many library-owned items. Most books, music, media, and other formats can be checked out. New periodicals, rare, and unique items are considered non-circulating items. Items in the catalog will display their current availability and circulating status. Circulation Policies Need information on loan periods, the number or renewals allowed, checkout limits, and fines rates by classification? Look here: Borrowing Books and Music Materials Policy Media Periodicals Laptops & Equipment See Also Returning Items to the Libraries Renewing Items You Have Checked out Paying Fines Complete List of Circulation-Related Policies Checkout Locations Items can be checked out at one of the following locations: Willis Library Services Desk, 1st Floor, Willis Library Self-Checkout Machine, 1st Floor, Willis Library Discovery Park Library Services Desk Sycamore Library Services Desk Media Library Services Desk Music Library Services Desk, 4th Floor, Willis Library Frisco Landing Library Services Desk, 2nd Floor, Frisco Landing Borrowing Reserve Items Items on reserves have special loan periods, fines and fees, and rules for checkout. Please read more about: Reserves Services Borrowing Information & Reserves Policies Borrowing from Other Libraries Members of the UNT community who need a document that is not in our collection can: Request the item through Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery. Request a TexShare, or OCLC Card and visit another participating library.
We can deliver many regular circulating items to various library locations for you. Online Holds Distance Learning Services Interlibrary Loan Borrowing and Document Delivery Services Lending to Other Libraries Media Booking & Courier Service Overview Books can be requested through Discover for pickup at various library services desks throughout campus or for faculty delivery. After selecting a book through Discover, simply click on the “Request for pickup” link to submit a hold request. Login and select the pickup location. Some materials will have restrictions on where the items can be picked up. You will be able to place up to 10 holds at a time, and you will be able to manage your hold requests through your library account. Requests are processed within 48 hours if the items are available. You will be notified by email when the items are available for pick up and the items will be held at the requested service desk for 7 days from the time of notification. Items requested for pickup at the Media Library Service Desk are available for 3 days from the time of notification. Items that are checked out or not available may be requested through Interlibrary loan. Some students may be eligible for Distance Learning Services. Pickup Locations Discovery Park Library Service Desk Media Library Service Desk Music Library Service Desk Sycamore Library Service Desk Willis Library Services Desk Frisco Landing Library Service Desk Faculty Delivery Faculty are eligible to have books delivered through intercampus mail to their department offices. Select “Faculty - Deliver to Dept Office” as the pickup location when submitting your request. Willis Self-Service Pickup Located on the first floor of the Willis Library to the right of the Library Services Desk. Items picked up from the lockers will be checked out to your library account and can be picked up even when service desks are closed. You will receive an email when items are available. The email will include pickup instructions. Requests for an accessible locker can be made in the comments during the hold process. NOTE: Items will be available in the Self-Service Pickup Lockers for two business days starting at initial notification, after which they will be removed and placed on the Willis Service Desk Holds Shelf. Media and Music Audio Collection items cannot be picked up here — you must pick them up at their respective home library location. Questions? For more information about Online Holds e-mail Access Services or call (940) 565-2413.
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Course Reserves

Required or recommended readings, music, media and other items for courses can be found at either a reserve desk or online. This page provides links to policies, online systems, and can help you find the right desk.

Need something for your class? Search Course Reserves.

Required or recommended readings, music, media and other items for courses can be found at either a reserve desk or online. This page provides links to policies, online systems, and can help you find the right desk. Course Reserves Overview Placing Items on Reserves Reserves Policies Need something for your class? Search Course Reserves. For Instructors: Placing Items on Reserves. What Are Course Reserves? The UNT Libraries holds and distributes course reading materials, including some textbooks, for students as requested by instructors. These materials are placed at a service desk within the libraries or are made available online and can include books, articles, chapters of books, sample tests, videos, CDs, and DVDs. Although we do not have copies of all course textbooks, we do have many that have been placed on reserves by instructors or are part of the UNT Libraries’ collection. To determine if your textbook is on reserves, please go to our Find Course Reserves page or you may search for the title in the library catalog. Library materials that are on reserves have a more limited checkout periods than items in the general collection and accrue overdue fines. For information about checkout periods and fine rates, visit the Borrowing Reserves Policy. There are special access restrictions for electronic items that are on reserves. Once you have located an electronic reserve by searching the Find Course Reserves page, you must follow the provided login instructions. The Course Password for online reserves items is distributed by the instructor to students currently enrolled in the course. Library staff are unable to provide the course password. Locations of Reserves at Service Desks Course reserves for physical items are divided among library service desks based on the course subject. Willis Library: Arts, Sciences, Education, Humanities, Social Sciences, World Languages and Spanish Courses. These subjects are located at the Library Services Desk, first floor. Music Library: Music materials including books, scores, CDs, vinyl records, and film. This subject is located at the Music Library Service Desk, in the Music Library, 4th floor, Willis Library. Discovery Park Library: Computer Science, Library & Information Sciences, Engineering, and Material Science Courses. These subjects are located at the Discovery Park Library Service Desk. Sycamore Library: Business, Economics, Emergency Management and Disaster Science, Geography, Political Science, and Public Administration Course Reserves and Government Documents and Law materials. These subjects are located at the Sycamore Library Service Desk, Sycamore Hall. Frisco Landing Library: College of Applied and Collaborative Studies and other courses being taught at Frisco. Regardless of the course subject, reserve materials for courses being taught at Frisco are held at the Frisco Landing Library Service Desk. Media Library: Materials including film, video, and tabletop games. Regardless of the course being taught, media reserve materials are located at the Media Library Services Desk, on the second floor of Willis Library. Review the Media Reserves Policy.
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The Soundbox (Music Technology Lab)

The Soundbox is a music technology lab with resources for music production and sound design:

  • Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs): For composing, sequencing, arranging, and editing.
  • Hardware: A rotating selection of semi-modular and fully modular synthesizers, microphones, recorders, and audio interfaces available for checkout with a UNT ID.
  • Support: Our staff and student workers are knowledgeable in recording, music production, sound design, and composition.
The Soundbox is a music technology lab with resources for music production and sound design: Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs): For composing, sequencing, arranging, and editing. Hardware: A rotating selection of semi-modular and fully modular synthesizers, microphones, recorders, and audio interfaces available for checkout with a UNT ID. Support: Our staff and student workers are knowledgeable in recording, music production, sound design, and composition.
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Willis Library Lockers

We offer semester-long checkouts of lockers to Graduate Students in Willis Library.

We offer semester-long checkouts of lockers to Graduate Students in Willis Library. What is the Willis Library Locker Service? Lockers are available for currently enrolled UNT graduate student use and are located on the lower Level and Fourth Floor of Willis Library. Lockers are assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. An email will be sent to your UNT email address when a locker has been assigned. If demand exceeds our available supply, the Access Services Department will maintain a waiting list to help us assign lockers fairly. The loan period for lockers is one semester. Lockers can be renewed through your library account, at Willis Library Services Desk, or Music Library Service Desk. Rules & Regulations To learn more about the rules and regulations please visit the Willis Library Locker Service Policy and Procedures. Please note that music students have a priority for Fourth Floor lockers. How do I request a locker? Eligible graduate students can apply for a locker by submitting a Willis Library Locker Request Form.
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Assistance with Grant-Funded Research

Scholars across disciplines use resources provided by the UNT Libraries in the course of their research, including that research that is funded through grants. These resources range from collections made available through the Libraries (including access to online journals through licenses paid for by the Libraries) to digital expertise and infrastructure allowing researchers to easily organize, share, and preserve the products of their research.

Scholars across disciplines use resources provided by the UNT Libraries in the course of their research, including that research that is funded through grants. These resources range from collections made available through the Libraries (including access to online journals through licenses paid for by the Libraries) to digital expertise and infrastructure allowing researchers to easily organize, share, and preserve the products of their research. Overview Scholars across disciplines use resources provided by the UNT Libraries in the course of their research, including that research that is funded through grants. These resources range from collections made available through the Libraries (including access to online journals through licenses paid for by the Libraries) to digital expertise and infrastructure allowing researchers to easily organize, share, and preserve the products of their research. The services of the UNT Libraries that can be included in a grant application as documented cost share or, in certain cases, direct costs in grants. We encourage grant applicants to consult with the appropriate Libraries staff to verify the support that the UNT Libraries could offer in any grant-funded activity. Pre-award Grantseeking UNT Libraries subscribe to the Candid grant seeking databases, Foundation Directory and Foundation Grants to Individuals. The university also provides access to Pivot, a database of grant opportunities. See grantseeking resources to learn more about these and other resources from the Libraries. Data management: stewardship and preservation of data Funding agencies increasingly require that grant applications include plans for stewardship and preservation of data produced during the course of the grant project. The UNT Libraries provides guidance on writing data management plans, which, if desired, can include a commitment to preserve the data or other documents in the UNT Data Repository or other part of the UNT Libraries’ Digital Collections. See our information on data management for more information. Researchers affiliated with the College of Science should first contact the appropriate college research officer. Bibliometrics The UNT Libraries’ Guide to Scholarly Impact helps researchers locate h-indexes, citation counts, and other bibliometrics they may need for grant applications. Post-award Librarians serving on grant research teams Librarians can serve on grant research teams, performing roles such as: Collaborating on literature reviews and other research Consulting on data management, database design, controlled vocabularies, and stable identifiers such as DOIs, ISBNs, ISSNs, and ORCIDs Direct cost of a portion of a librarian salary. Please contact the appropriate subject librarian to discuss. Purchase of print or electronic resources for the UNT Libraries collection Direct cost depending on the cost of the resources. Contact Collection Development Department to discuss. Co-sponsoring of outreach events When a grant project includes community outreach or relates to the collections of the Libraries, the UNT Libraries can co-sponsor events, hosting them in rooms of various sizes in library facilities and assisting with marketing and publicity. Please contact the appropriate subject librarian to discuss the scope of activity and to determine appropriate direct costs. Scanning and other digitization for public access and preservation through the UNT Libraries’ Digital Collections The Libraries can digitize physical documents and make them available to the public through the UNT Libraries’ Digital Collections. All digital objects and metadata associated with digital documents and datasets are subject to the Libraries’ best practices for digital preservation and the Collection Development Policy for the UNT Libraries’ Digital Collections. Contact the following to discuss direct costs for digitization: Material Type Contact Pages of text, photograph prints, negatives, slides, and other images Digital Projects Lab Newspapers, posters, and other large-format documents Digital Newspaper Unit Moving images (film and video) Media Library Audio Music Library In addition, contact Mark Phillips to discuss direct costs for storage and access as well as other digital library infrastructure questions. Building web or social-media archives (datasets of webpages or posts for study) The Libraries can crawl the Web to collect news stories, social media posts, or other webpages related to certain topics, gathering the data for study by researchers. (For example, see a “Yes All Women” Twitter Dataset.) Contact Mark Phillips to discuss the scope of the collecting and any associated direct costs that might apply. Post-grant Public access and preservation of products of grant projects The Libraries can provide public access to white papers, technical reports, datasets, and other documents produced during a grant project through the UNT Data Repository or UNT Scholarly Works. If access restrictions are needed, we can restrict access to members of the UNT community only. No cost for projects with small files (less than 200GB in total project size); otherwise, one-time direct cost of $500 per terabyte. We encourage project teams to include title pages with clear statements of responsibility and date of last revision on all documents and to include page numbers for ease of citation by other researchers.
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Software Carpentry

Software Carpentry is an internationally active nonprofit organization whose mission is to teach professionals and students the ins and outs of programming so they can excel and become more efficient in their field.

Software Carpentry is an internationally active nonprofit organization whose mission is to teach professionals and students the ins and outs of programming so they can excel and become more efficient in their field. About Software Carpentry is a nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching students and professionals the basics of programming so they can excel in the workplace. They operate workshops at universities worldwide. Software Carpentry is run by volunteer instructors who have educated more than 34,000 researchers since 2012 through the organization’s workshops. Volunteers collaborate on GitHub to create upcoming lessons, which you can view here. UNT Libraries offers hands-on workshops open to students, faculty, and staff who want to improve their programming skills. Participation in our workshops is free. Please check the UNT Libraries calendar for listings. Registration Register Online Now! Upcoming Workshop Current Instructors Maristella Feustle - Music Special Collections Librarian - UNT Libraries Music Library Sarah Lynn Fisher - Digital Collections Librarian - UNT Libraries Digital Libraries Whitney Johnson-Freeman - Repository Librarian - UNT Libraries Digital Curation Unit Manuel (Gio) Gottardi - Software Developer - UNT Libraries Software Development Unit Lauren Ko - Supervisor/Software Developer - UNT Libraries Software Development Unit Mark Phillips - Associate University Librarian - UNT Libraries Digital Libraries