University Libraries Library facilities at the University of North Texas function as the nerve center for teaching and academic research. Four campus facilities house just under 2 million cataloged holdings, including books, periodicals, maps, documents, microforms, audiovisual materials, music scores and electronic media. Library Collections Willis Library holds one of the country's largest music libraries, extensive phonographic disc and tape collections, a broad humanities and social sciences collection, the University Archives, and the Rare Books and Texana collections. Other unique library collections include the private jazz collections of Stan Kenton, Don Gillis, Whit Ozier and Leon Breeden; the private library of Anson Jones, president of the Republic of Texas; Texas county histories; miniatures; and examples of important early publishing, printing and binding styles. The library is also a depository for U.S. and Texas government documents. The Media Library in Chilton Hall houses a large collection of audiovisual materials, including motion pictures, tapes, recordings and videodiscs. The Science and Technology Library, housed in the Information Sciences Building, emphasizes physics, chemistry, biology, computer sciences and library science and includes an outstanding collection in mathematics. The Library Annex houses over 300,000 lesser used materials, sections of the University Archives, and the preservation and technical services departments of the University Libraries. Items located in the annex are so noted in the libraries' on-line catalog and a reading room is available for users in the annex. The Library Annex, located just off Airport Road on Precision, is near the main campus. Special Services of the Libraries Through the university's membership in the Alliance for Higher Education (AHE), students with an AHE identification card may borrow materials at over twenty academic libraries in the area. Contact library staff for details. Active participation in the AMIGOS Bibliographic Council provides access to a variety of computerized library services, including interlibrary loans, bibliographic database searching and shared cataloging. The libraries have a large number of electronic databases available for public use both on and off campus via computer linkage. The UNT Libraries are members in the Center for Research Libraries. The center, which functions as an extension of the local collections, is dedicated to acquiring and lending materials that complement and supplement the collections of the major research libraries of North America. The University Library has recently been designated a major research library by the U.S. Department of Education. Computer Services Centralized computing services that support instruction and research are provided through Academic Computing Services, a division of the Computing Center, located in Room 119 of the Information Sciences Building. These services support a wide range of hardware and software resources as well as training, consulting and information services. In addition to the services directly supported by Academic Computing Services, additional computer services also are available from the University Libraries as well as many college, school and departmental computer support centers. Examples include the libraries' on-line card catalog and CD-ROM databases; general access as well as instructional microcomputer laboratories in the College of Arts and Sciences, College of Business Administration, School of Community Service, Department of Computer Sciences, College of Education, School of Library and Information Sciences, and numerous other departments; and UNIX- based minicomputers in the Department of Computer Sciences. Computer networks also are installed in most academic departments, providing connectivity with a variety of general-purpose and specialized computing equipment. Hardware and Operating Systems The primary central computing resources for academic computing at the University of North Texas consists of an IBM-compatible Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) Model 8083 dual processor mainframe computer, a Solbourne Model 6/904 minicomputer, and a Sun SparcServer 1000 minicomputer. The HDS machine supports two operating systems for instruction and research: VM/CMS and OS/MVS, as well as COMPLETE, a teleprocessing monitor. OS/MVS provides batch processing while CMS is used for interactive computing under VM. The Solbourne minicomputer runs an extended version of SUN Microsystems' SunOS UNIX operating system. The Sun SparcServer runs Sun Microsystems' Solaris UNIX operating system. Access to these and other computers is gained through an extensive fiber optic and cable television-based local area network (LAN) on campus or, from off campus, through telephone modems connected to the LAN. The general access microcomputer laboratories, strategically housed in seven buildings across campus, are available for general use by all students for access to central mainframe and minicomputer systems. Students using these laboratories also have access to both IBM-compatible and Macintosh personal computers as well as both draft and laser-quality printing. Software Academic Computing Services provides support for most major programming languages on the HDS, Sun, and UNIX systems. Several statistical analysis packages are supported on the various host systems, including SAS, SPSS, and BMDP. Electronic mail facilities are available on all systems for intra-campus communications as well as for communications with several thousand other organizations through the Internet. In addition, access to other Texas governmental, educational and research institutions is provided via a high-speed connection to the THEnet, the Texas Higher Education Network. The Computing Center also serves as a repository for a substantial body of machine-readable data including the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) data archives, Standard and Poor's COMPUSTAT, and the Center for Research in Security Prices' CRSP data sets. The university libraries also maintain a number of databases and other research materials on CD-ROM servers that are accessible through the campus network. Academic Computing Services provides support for a variety of microcomputer- based software applications. Site licenses are maintained for microcomputer versions of SPSS and SAS, both of which provide statistical analysis capabilities. The general access microcomputer laboratories are open to all students and offer a variety of microcomputer applications accessible over a high-speed LAN. Software from CD-ROM-based public domain/shareware libraries, containing several thousand programs and utilities for IBM-compatible and Macintosh microcomputers, also is available. Consulting, Training and Information Services Consulting and training services are provided by Academic Computing services to facilitate the use of both microcomputer and host computing facilities by students. A series of short courses is offered each semester to allow students to gain the expertise necessary to use campus computer systems effectively. An extensive local library of documentation also is available for self-study, and a number of computer-based training programs are accessible on host systems and from within student laboratories. Should problems arise, experienced consultants are available to assist students. Students wishing to participate in computer-based conferences on a wide variety of computer-related and non-computer-related subjects can take advantage of USENET news bulletin board systems. Finally, BENCHMARKS, the Computing Center's newsletter, is published on a regular basis and serves as an excellent resource for current information systems at UNT.