What's Happening in the Libraries?

  • Raíces (Roots): History of Raza at UNT

    Wednesday, September 5, 2012 - 8:30am to Friday, December 21, 2012 - 4:30pm

    The UNT Libraries and Archives and Rare Books present an exhibit highlighting the Latino/a Student Experience at the University of North Texas. From UNT's first Latino student enrolled in 1948 to the many current...

  • First Edition of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol Now on Display

    Monday, November 5, 2012 - 8:30am to Friday, December 21, 2012 - 4:30pm

    The UNT Libraries and the Archives and Rare Books Department is proud to present an exhibit celebrating the spirit of the season, the bicentenary of Charles Dickens’ birth, and the generous donations and continued...

  • FOOD for FINES Fall 2012

    Monday, November 26, 2012 - 8:00am to Friday, December 14, 2012 - 8:00pm

    Starting Monday, November 26 and continuing through Friday, December 14, students can bring in canned goods and receive a reduction on their fines. One can = $1.00 and applies only to fines. Cans must be 12 oz. or larger and cannot be dented or...

  • Fem Flicks Film Series: The Fall of Womenland

    Wednesday, November 28, 2012 - 4:00pm

    The Mosuo people, a small minority situated in the southwest of China, are one of the last remaining matriarchal societies in the world. Without a formal marriage contract, the Mosuo traditionally build relationships based on free love and sexual...

  • Linguistics in Motion Film Series: If These Knishes Could Talk: A Film About the New York Accent

    Thursday, November 29, 2012 - 5:00pm

    From Atlantic Ave. to Zerega Ave., word on the street is the New York accent is disappearing — a casualty of a city that’s evolved into a vast expanse of banks, H&Ms and glass-blown high-rises. If These Knishes Could Talk gathers...

  • National Novel Writing Month: A TGIO Party

    Friday, November 30, 2012 - 5:00pm

    National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, the world’s largest writing event and nonprofit literary crusade, began in 1999 when a San Francisco writers’ group encouraged its members to write...

  • Doc Spot Film Series: The Greenhorns

    Tuesday, December 4, 2012 - 6:00pm

    Today's young farmers are dynamic entrepreneurs, stewards of place. Armed with a camcorder, farmer-filmmaker-activist Severine von Tscharner Fleming spent two years crisscrossing America, meeting and mobilizing a network of revolutionary...

  • Game On! @ UNT Libraries - December

    Wednesday, December 5, 2012 - 4:00pm to 9:00pm

    The only thing better than playing video games is playing with friends. That’s why once a month the Media Library host open gaming events in the libraries for you and your best buds.  Xbox 360s, PlayStation 3s, Nintendo Wiis and all of the games...