University of North Texas Libraries
[4] The regents, sans-Willis, resolved to name the library to honor Willis for his "loyal and devoted service."
The Sycamore Library houses the government documents, law, political science, geography and business collections.
It also houses an open computer area, an ideal place to study in groups, create multi-media projects, and record presentations.
Music library acquisitions, simply put, are typically achieved three ways: (i) through a buying program from publishers, (ii) through archiving of original works of the host institution, and (iii) through donations or purchases of non-published, non-duplicated materials.
After World War I, sheet music publishers—namely those from Tin Pan Alley—experienced unprecedented growth that was fueled for the next three decades by composers, technological advancements—and also market saturation owed partly to higher quality of recorded sound, radio, and film.
The boom was so great that even some "established" music libraries were facing challenges relating to expectations of the scope of acquisitions deviating from European classical to avant-garde, popular, jazz, blues, folk, and experimental.
Many credit Otto Kinkeldey as not only being among the first musicologists, but also, in 1937, the first to propose music librarianship, not only as field of study at the university level, but also as a full-time vocation requiring expertise on par with PhDs.
In September 1940, Bain appointed the first North Texas music librarian, Anna Harriet Heyer (1910–2002).
[16] Heyer was a classical pianist and was among the first in the country who was formally educated at the university level specifically in the field of music librarianship.
But in 1937, she drew inspiration to pursue a career as a music librarian after reading a transcript of a speech delivered that same year by Kinkeldey.
One: Post World War II enrollment of music majors at North Texas grew exponentially.
In 1940, the year Heyer was hired, NASM granted North Texas full institutional membership.
[20] In 1957, Heyer published a groundbreaking bibliography, Historical Sets, Collected Editions, and Monuments of Music: A Guide to their Contents.
The Music Library has sizable special collections in jazz, including those of Stan Kenton, Maynard Ferguson, Willis Conover, Don Gillis, Leon Breeden, and WFAA.
Prominent musicians, composers and collectors not directly connected with the university began to include the music library in their wills.
Eight full-time librarians and about thirty full- and part-time staff also provide reference and access services for the Music Library.
Nolen to house records of enduring value of the university and to document the development of north central Texas.
The Archives also hold over 1500 oral history transcripts concerning various historical topics and approximately four hundred ledgers from selected Texas county offices.
The holdings of the Rare Book & Texana Collections range in age from 4,000-year-old clay tablets to items produced less than a year ago.
The Rare Book Collections include concentrations in the 18th century, travel and exploration, fashion and costume history, literature, women's studies, and World's Fairs.
Additional holdings include periodicals dating back to the 1700s and modern research sources in our Reference area.
In addition, this collection houses books from the private library of the last President of the Republic of Texas, Anson Jones—many with his signature and notes.
The North Texas Libraries, as of February 2015, partnered with the Black Academy of Arts and Letters, a philanthropic cultural organization based in Dallas, to serve as its official archival repository of items related to Academy Award nominees, Grammy winners, notable jazz musicians, comedians, and other performers hosted by the organization—dating back to its founding in 1977.
The items include programs, posters, photos, and video recordings of performances at The Black Academy of Arts and Letters.
That "temporary" location lasted 23 years, until the Documents Collection was moved to more spacious quarters on the Third Floor of the new Willis Library building in 1971.
As a participant, the UNT Depository Library was designated the host of the permanent online collection of the defunct Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (ACIR).
In 2001, the UNT Libraries received a grant to finance the creation of electronic copies of well-known ACIR print publications such as the Significant Features of Fiscal Federalism.
In 2000, UNT Libraries initiated the first Texas Agency Content Partnership through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).
These surveys demonstrate early scientific thought regarding soil identification and use, and the maps contained in them show many cultural features in the landscape, including businesses, churches, schools, gins, mills, and ferries.
According to its website, the division purports to have a premier infrastructure to support the scholarly and research endeavors of faculty, staff, and students.
