UNT Dallas Library News

08/27/2024

Zachary Brown

General and Interdisciplinary, Library

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Image one: Resources - A TexShare Card allows you to borrow items from participating libraries throughout the state of Texas. TexShare cards eligible for currently enrolled UNT Dallas students and UNT Dallas faculty and staff. TexShare cards issued at the library front desk (Student Center - 3rd floor). Please have your ID ready.

Image two: WorldCat.org is the world's largest network of library content and services that lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world.

America: Government, History, & Culture

07/11/2023

Zachary Brown

History, Humanities, Sociology, Women and Gender Studies, Library

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Image one: E-book titled Babysitter: An American History (2009) - synopsis: In Babysitter, Miriam Forman-Brunell brings critical attention to the ubiquitous, yet long-overlooked babysitter in the popular imagination and American history. Informed by her research on the history of teenage girls’ culture, Forman-Brunell analyzes the babysitter, who has embodied adults’ fundamental apprehensions about girls’ pursuit of autonomy and empowerment. In fact, the grievances go both ways, as girls have been distressed by unsatisfactory working conditions. In her quest to gain a fuller picture of this largely unexamined cultural phenomenon, Forman-Brunell analyzes a wealth of diverse sources, such as The Baby-sitter’s Club book series, horror movies like The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, urban legends, magazines, newspapers, television shows, and more.

Image two: E-book titled Part of Our Lives: A People's History of the American Library (2015) - synopsis: Despite dire predictions in the late twentieth century that public libraries would not survive the turn of the millennium, their numbers have only increased. Two of three Americans frequent a public library at least once a year, and nearly that many are registered borrowers. Although library authorities have argued that the public library functions primarily as a civic institution necessary for maintaining democracy, generations of library patrons tell a different story. In Part of Our Lives, Wayne A. Wiegand delves into the heart of why Americans love their libraries. The book traces the history of the public library, featuring records and testimonies from as early as 1850. Rather than analyzing the words of library founders and managers, Wiegand listens to the voices of everyday patrons who cherished libraries. Drawing on newspaper articles, memoirs, and biographies, Part of Our Lives paints a clear and engaging picture of Americans who value libraries not only as civic institutions, but also as social spaces for promoting and maintaining community.

National Library Week: There's More to the Story

04/20/2023

Zachary Brown

Education, Library, Information Literacy

Next week is National Library Week!

"National Library Week (April 23 - 29, 2023) is a time to celebrate our nation's libraries, library workers' contributions, and promote library use and support. The theme for National Library Week 2023 is 'There's More to the Story,' illustrating the fact that in addition to the books in library collections, available in a variety of formats, libraries offer so much more. Many libraries now lend items like museum passes, games, musical instruments, and tools. Library programming brings communities together for entertainment, education, and connection through book clubs, story times, movie nights, crafting classes, and lectures. And library infrastructure advances communities, providing internet and technology access, literacy skills, and support for businesses, job seekers, and entrepreneurs.

The American Library Association (ALA) kicks off National Library Week with the release of its State of America's Libraries Report, including the list of Top Ten Most Challenged Books of 2022."

via American Library Assocation (ALA)

National Library Week events include Right To Read Day (Monday), National Library Workers Day (Tuesday), National Library Outreach Day (Wednesday), and Take Action for Libraries Day (Thursday).

UNT Dallas Library - Winter Break Hours

12/12/2022

Zachary Brown

Library