Discovery Park Library: Services and Facilities

Welcome! 

The Discovery Park Library provides a wide variety of services and facilities, including how to borrow, return, renew and request the resources you need, computing and productivity, copying and study facilities and services to support specific needs such as distance learners and disability services.  If you need any additional help, please don't hesitate to contact us.

Reference 

Forms

• Reference by Appointment
• Instruction Sessions
• Faculty Request Reserves (articles, chapter, and books)
• Materials Delivery Request
  
• Distance Learning Request
• Interlibrary Loan

The reference desk is staffed by librarians, library staff, and research assistants who can help with your reference needs.  Room B112 holds current print subscriptions of over 350 journals, Reference and Student Study Collections.

• Individual sessions with one of the librarians, providing in-depth reference assistance or training on specific electronic resources, can be scheduled at your convenience.
• Faculty can request library instruction sessions for their classes by contacting Randy Wallace or Cindy Batman.
• Chat with or IM a librarian through our AskAcademic Virtual Reference or Meebo services.
  

Web Tools

• SkyDrive
  
• LibX Firefox Toolbar
• RefWorks
• Zotero
  
• RSS Feeds
• Email Alert Services

Circulation

The circulation desk in room M130 is staffed by library staff and student assistants who can help with your circulation needs.  The Discovery Park Library Book Collection in room M130 has books and bound journals for computer science, engineering, library science and materials sciences.  Reserve materials for courses at Discovery Park are also kept in room M130.

Writing Resources

• The Decisive Writer

• Writing Style Manuals
• Writing Exercises
• Writing Process
  
• General Reference Links
• The Tongue Untied
• OWL (Purdue University)
• Writing Handouts (OWL)
• Dissertations Subject Guide
• English Language Reference
  

Building Usage FAQ

• Printing
• Copying
• Scanning
  
• Food & Beverages
• Cell Phone
• Wireless
• Quiet Areas
  
• Group Study
  

Computer Services & Web Tools

The Discovery Park Library has 46 3.2 GHz Public workstations and roughly 40 electric outlets for patron use.  There is also one workstation with a scanner allowing patrons to save scanned files to floppy disk, flash drive, email scanned files to yourself, or to your SkyDrive (go to http://ams.unt.edu/ and enter your EUID and password to find your Live login).  The library also provides a networked drive (S: Drive) with 10 MB of space for temporary storage. Additionally, all of the workstations have Microsoft Office 2007 and MAGic accessibility software installed for seeing and hearing impaired patrons. 

• UNT Libraries is now licensed with RefWorks, an online research management, writing and collaboration tool that is designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.

• LibX is a toolbar for the Firefox web browser that adds support for searching the library catalog, electronic resources, and other scholarly sources from anywhere on the web.

• Zotero is a free Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. Fore more information, see the official website or view the library presentation.

Student Writing Lab

The UNT Student Writing Lab is now available in the Discovery Park Library at the Discovery Park campus.  The Writing Lab offer students, faculty and staff individualized and small-group assistance with all aspects of the writing process, including prewriting exercises, writing activities, revision, peer review, developing a thesis statement and other projects.

How it Works?

To request  an individual appointment with a tutor, contact Kalai Muthiah (km0037@unt.edu) or stop by during regular hours (current hours are Tuesday & Friday, 12PM - 5PM).  Please provide at least a two day notice when scheduling an appointment.