Overview
UNT Libraries Welcomes Student-Parents!
- Services Desk - Check out course reserves, calculators, supply kits, accessibility items, sensory kits, desk lamps, and more!
- Family-Friendly Spaces - Willis offers social and collaborative floors, family-friendly workstations (first floor), a Lactation Room/Prayer Room with a changing table (152), a family restroom with a changing table (435), and soundproof study pods.
- Kids Activity Kits - Student-parents can check out activity kits for their kids. Kits include books, games, and activities for ages 1-9.
- Grab & Go's - Student-parents can pick up a Grab & Go for their kids to create a craft and partake in fun activities at Willis or Sycamore!
- Help Yourself Campaign - The Help Yourself Campaign is a library guide dedicated to connecting students with mindfulness, mental health, and self-advocacy resources available on campus.
- 2nd Floor - Media Library: The Media Library contains the UNT Libraries’ non-print, audiovisual, tabletop games, and video games collections.
- 3rd Floor - The 3rd Floor houses most of UNT's General Book Collection, Graphic Novels, and the Digital Libraries Department.
- 4th Floor - Special Collections & Music Library departments can be found here. Check out special items, records, CDs, and more!
Need accommodation? Have a request or feedback? We are happy to help! Please email AskUs@unt.edu or Madison.Brents@unt.edu.
Grab & Go 's
We know that entertaining kids can be a challenge. If you're trying to find some time to study and need to keep kids busy, come pick up a Grab & Go at the Library Services Desk on the 1st Floor of Willis and Sycamore Library!
Grab & Go's include all sorts of goodies such as a fun craft with all supplies included, a UNT Libraries coloring page, crayons, a tattoo sheet and brain activities! No ID required!
Decorate your own Snowflake or Bookmark!
Scholar Speak
Access Services: Scholar Speak Blog 
Run by graduate student employees, Scholar Speak hopes to bridge the gap between the library and its students through instruction on the use of library services and resources. Some highlights include:
1. Supporting Families at Willis Library
2. ADA-Compliant Equipment at UNT Libraries: Fostering Inclusivity and Independence
Help Yourself Campaign
What is the Help Yourself Campaign?
The Help Yourself Campaign (HYC) connects UNT students with library resources on topics that may be difficult and stressful for individuals to learn about or discuss openly. Topics include: Food & Housing Insecurity, Mental Health, Legal Resources, Adjusting to College, Work-Life-Balance, and many more.
HYC collections can be used in information-seeking and deeper self-guided bibliotherapy. For more information, visit: Help Yourself Campaign.
Vita Contemplativa by Call Number: BF637.M56 H36 2024ISBN: 9781509558018Publication Date: 2024-01-09
Books for Parents
Learn more about student-parents in higher education. Some highlights include:
The PhD parenthood trap: caught between work and family in academia by Call Number: LB2332.3 .C739 2021ebISBN: 9781647120672
Audiobooks for Nursing Mothers
Listen to an audiobook while you multi-task! Some highlights include:
Family-Friendly Fun
Located on the second floor of Willis Library, The Media Library offers a variety of films--perfect for a family movie night! You can request these for pickup through the catalog. Some highlights include:
- Spirited Away
Chihiro must save her parents after they are turned into pigs at a mysterious and abandoned amusement park inhabited by spirits.
Call Number: SPI 2001 DVD
MPAA rating: PG - Ratatouille
Experience Paris from a different perspective as a determined young rat dreams of becoming a renowned French chef. Remy and his pal Linguini set in motion a hilarious chain of events that turns the City of Lights upside down.
Call Number: RAT 2007 DVD
MPAA rating: G - Puss in Boots: The Last WishPuss has burned through eight of his nine lives, though he lost count along the way. Puss embarks on an epic journey into the Black Forest to find the mythical Wishing Star and restore his lost life. But with only one life left, Puss will have to humble himself and ask for help from his former partner: Kitty Soft Paws. In their quest, Puss and Kitty will be aided by a ratty, chatty, relentlessly cheerful mutt, Perro.
Call Number: PUS 2022 BLU
MPAA Rating: PG - The Lion King
Simba begins life as an honored prince, son of the powerful King Mufasa. The cub's happy childhood turns tragic when his evil uncle Scar murders Mufasa and drives Simba away from the kingdom. In exile, the young lion befriends the comically bumbling pair of Pumba and Timon. As he approaches adulthood, he is visited by the spirit of his father, who instructs him to defeat Scar and reclaim his rightful throne.
Call Number: LIO 1994 DVD c.2
MPAA rating: G
Located on the second floor of Willis Library, The Media Library offers a variety of board games--perfect for a family game night! You can request these for pickup through the catalog. Some highlights include:
- Candy Land
Each player advances along the rainbow path through the peppermint stick forest, the gingerbread plum tree and the gumdrop mountain.
Call Number: CAN 1949 GAME - Chutes and Ladders
Climb the ladder of success for good deeds and slide down the chute for naughty. Be the first player to reach square #100.
Call Number: CHU 200 GAME - Battleship: the original naval combat game
An updated version of the classic Naval combat game, players try to sink all enemy ships by calling out suspected hiding areas and keeping track of hits and misses.
Call Number: BAT 1931 GAME - The Game of Life
Object of game: to collect money and life tiles, and have the highest dollar amount at the end of the game.
Call Number: GAM 1960 GAME
Kanopy is an online video streaming service that offers easy to stream videos. From A24 collections to international films, you can stream any video available through Kanopy!
*Please note that most public libraries also offer Kanopy and have a bigger selection of films and kids programming. Contact your local library to learn more about Kanopy and what is available.
Some highlights include:
- The Big Bad Fox & Other Tales
The countryside isn’t always as calm and peaceful as it’s made out to be, and the animals on this farm are particularly strange: a fox who mothers a family of chicks, a rabbit who plays the stork, and a duck who wants to be Santa Claus. - Marona's Fantastic Tale
From award-winning director Anca Damian comes the poetic and life-affirming story of Marona, an optimistic stray dog who looks back on the human companions she has loved throughout her life. Born the last in the litter, little Marona’s adventures take her through a series of names and owners – a colorful acrobat, a sensitive construction worker, and a little girl – with dazzling style, pushing animation in bold new directions. - Ernest and Celestine
Deep below snowy, cobblestone streets, tucked away in networks of winding subterranean tunnels, lives a civilization of hardworking mice, terrified of the bears who live above ground. Unlike her fellow mice, Celestine is an artist and a dreamer – and when she nearly ends up as breakfast for ursine troubadour Ernest, the two form an unlikely bond. But it isn’t long before their friendship is put on trial. - Summer Days with Coo
One day, Koichi Uehara, a fourth-grader living in Tokyo, picks up a fossil that looks like a large stone while on his way home from school. To his surprise, he has picked up a baby Kappa (a Japanese mythical water creature), who has been asleep underground for the past 300 years. Koichi names this baby creature “Coo” and brings him to live with his family, and soon the two are inseparable friends.