Information including: guidelines, standardized rules, requirements, best practices, and other principles that further our goals to serve the UNT community and our users.
Covers a patron’s borrowing privileges, loan periods, and fine rates for regular circulating and music materials.
Describes the scope and limitations of Interlibrary loan and document delivery services, as well as relevant copyright implications.
Covers the placing of personal items, or legal off-air recordings on reserve for students to view in the library.
The Music Library houses reserves for music classes. Materials on reserve in the Music Library may include books, scores, recordings, or other personal items. Different policies and procedures apply to the various formats.
Outlines applicable copyright laws as they apply to faculty requests for reserve materials and is the University of North Texas Libraries policy related to fulfilling faculty requests for reserve materials.
Information about building use, identification, tobacco, animals, bicycles, food & drinks, noise, and room reservations.
The materials in the University of North Texas Libraries collections are open for research use, except where noted, or where restricted by law.
The Collection Development Policy of the University of North Texas Libraries governs the acquisition, disposition, placement, and access to materials that support the research and teaching needs of students and faculty, in accordance with the missions of the University and the Library.
Covers the acquisition of research data resources intended for inclusion in the general collection at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries, provided by non-UNT affiliates, including, but not limited to data sets and statistical resources.
The Libraries of UNT are committed to the principles of open access, as outlined in the IFLA Statement on Open Access to Scholarly Literature and Research Documentation. Resources provided by the University of North Texas Libraries include open access and born-digital products to support the educational and research-related goals of the university.
Addresses the collection development policies of the UNT Libraries and describes the methods of acquisition and selection in the Media Library department.
Addresses information related to the reconsideration of materials acquired by the UNT Libraries through its collection development practices and policies.
This policy describes the methods of acquisition and selection criteria for collections in the Special Collections department.
Addresses accepting gifts of books, journals, videos and resources in other formats offered to UNT Libraries in support of teaching and research information needs of University students and faculty.
Outlines and describes a policy regarding appropriate use of technology resources, stipulating user authentication requirements, prohibitions on personal device repairs and unauthorized installations, and emphasizing the importance of saving work securely, with penalties for non-compliance.
Covers The Media Library’s adherence to the face-to-face classroom exemption for use of media materials, as outlined in the Copyright Act (U.S. Code, Title 17, Section 110).
Concerns copyright, reproduction permission, purchase, appraisal, and modification of content in digitally archived government publications.
The UNT Libraries is committed to making library-generated data broadly available in the UNT Data Repository. When possible, deposited datasets will be made available with the Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC0) license and are generally intended to be completely in the Public Domain.
As a way of supporting Open Access and the free dissemination and reuse of knowledge, the UNT Libraries makes its contribution of cataloging and metadata records available as Public Domain resources.
Regarding the use of, contribution to, or creation and release of Open Source Software in or by the University Libraries in support of open scholarship at the University of North Texas.
This document describes the policies governing the interaction of external users with materials in the UNT Libraries’ (UNTL) Digital Collections.
This policy addresses preservation of digital collections and resources for which the University of North Texas Libraries (UNTL) is the primary custodian.
