Borrowing

• Borrowing Books and Music Materials

  Covers a patron’s borrowing privileges, loan periods, and fine rates for regular circulating and music materials.

• Borrowing Course Reserves

  Covers a patron’s borrowing privileges, loan periods, and fine rates for course reserves.

• Borrowing Equipment From the Soundbox

  Describes patrons’ borrowing privileges, loan periods, and fine rates for Soundbox materials.

• Borrowing Laptops & Equipment

  Covers a patrons’ borrowing privileges, loan periods, and fine rates for laptops and equipment.

• Borrowing Materials From The Spark

  Describes the patrons’ borrowing privileges, loan periods, and fine rates for makerspace materials.

• Borrowing Media

  Covers the patrons’ borrowing privileges, loan periods, and fine rates for media materials.

• Borrowing Print Periodicals

  Covers a patron’s borrowing privileges, loan period, and fine rates for periodicals.

• ID Cards

  Covers the identification documents needed to borrow library materials.

• Recall Policy

  Describes the policies and procedures regarding recall of regular circulating items.

• Resource Sharing Policy

  Describes the scope and limitations of Interlibrary loan and document delivery services, as well as relevant copyright implications.

• Returning Items to the Libraries

  Covers a patron’s responsibility for borrowed library materials and returning them to the library.

Fines and Fees

• Fines Assessment Policy

  Describes when fines and fees are assessed and patrons are blocked.

• Damaged Item Charges

  Describes fees that patrons are charged with for damaging library materials.

• Lost Item Charges

  Describes basic information about fines and fees related to lost items.

Reserves

• General Course Reserves Policy

  Describes policy information related to placing items on reserves.

• Media Library Reserve Policy

  Covers the placing of personal items, or legal off-air recordings on reserve for students to view in the library.

• Music Library Reserve Policy

  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.

• Reserves: Copyright Information

  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.

Libraries Use

• Library Use

  Information about building use, identification, tobacco, animals, bicycles, food & drinks, noise, and room reservations.

• Outreach, Tours, Orientation, and Instruction Policy

  Guidelines for library outreach, tour requests, orientation, and instruction.

• Special Collections Policies

  The materials in the University of North Texas Libraries collections are open for research use, except where noted, or where restricted by law.

• Willis Library Locker Service Policy and Procedures

  Information about Willis Library Locker Service policies and procedures.

Collection Development

• Collection Development Policy

  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.

• Collection Development Policy for General Collection Research Data

  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.

• Collection Development Policy for Open Access and Born-Digital 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.

• Collection Development Policy for the UNT Libraries' Digital Collections

  Collection Development Policy for the UNT Libraries’ Digital Collections.

• Government Documents Collection Development Policy

  Governs the acquisition and maintenance of the UNT Libraries government information collections.

• Media Library Collection Development Policy

  Addresses the collection development policies of the UNT Libraries and describes the methods of acquisition and selection in the Media Library department.

• Music Library Collection Development Policy

  This policy addresses the Music Library collection development policies of the UNT Libraries.

• Reconsideration of Materials

  Addresses information related to the reconsideration of materials acquired by the UNT Libraries through its collection development practices and policies.

• Special Collections Collection Development Policy

  This policy describes the methods of acquisition and selection criteria for collections in the Special Collections department.

• UNT Libraries Gift Policy

  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.

Computing

• Computer, Software, and Network Use Policy

  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.

Copies, Printing and Copyright

• Applying Copyright Section 108(c) to the UNT Media Library Collection

  Covers creating preservation copies of audiovisual materials from the UNT Libraries collections.

• Library Printing Guidelines

  Printing Policies for UNT students at the Library.

• Media Library Copyright Policies

  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).

Digital Libraries

• General Digital Collections Policies (Government Publications)

  Concerns copyright, reproduction permission, purchase, appraisal, and modification of content in digitally archived government publications.

• Library Data Retention

  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.

• Locally Created Cataloging and Metadata Records Rights Policy

  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.

• Open Source Software Policy

  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.

• UNT Libraries' Digital Collections Usage and Feedback Policy

  This document describes the policies governing the interaction of external users with materials in the UNT Libraries’ (UNTL) Digital Collections.

• UNT Libraries' Digital Preservation Policy Framework

  This policy addresses preservation of digital collections and resources for which the University of North Texas Libraries (UNTL) is the primary custodian.