NATIONAL PRESERVATION WEEK
April 21 -27, 2013
This year, University Libraries will participating in National Preservation Week.
Libraries all over the country will present events, activities, and resources that highlight what we can do, individually and together, to preserve our personal and shared collections.
In honor of Preservation Week, University Libraries will be hosting a Preservation Open House, on the 3rd Floor of the Lied Library. April 27th, 2013; Saturday (2:00 -5:00 pm).
Our focus this year will be RARE BOOK COLLECTING, and our afternoon event will feature a Panel Discussion. Experts will be sharing stories and experiences about working with rare books. This local event is FREE and open to the public.
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UNLV Libraries and the History Department in the College of Liberal Arts are hosting the annual conference of The Southwest Oral History Association (SOHA) from Thursday, April 4 through Saturday evening April 6, 2013. Caryll Dziedziak, history professor, is conference chair and assumes the organization’s presidency this year. Under her leadership, SOHA is seeking to become a research entity on our campus sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts and UNLV Libraries. For more information please contact Claytee White.
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The Oral History Research Center has reached its Tenth Year of collecting the history of Southern Nevada! The party will be held on Sunday afternoon, May 5, 2013 at 3:00 to celebrate not only the art of collecting oral history but of training community groups to collect their history, conducting workshops throughout campus, working with researchers from the world community with a focused concentration on our students, and forming group projects to ensure that Las Vegas history is captured and preserved for future generations. The center also engages in writing and presenting the history of our region at conferences, panel discussions, presentations and as written documentation in books and journals. Over the next ten years, the center intends to engage our students at a new and exciting level, continue to present UNLV in individual and group settings throughout the city, and teach the value of the interviewing process as a critical primary source that allows the inclusion of all…Read More
The African American Collaborative Project is collecting oral interviews, photographs, and manuscript materials depicting the overarching, pivotal experiences of blacks in Las Vegas.
The project’s span is from 3 – 5 years with partners that include
- UNLV Libraries
- Vegas PBS
- Las Vegas Clark County Public Libraries
- Las Vegas National Bar Association
- Henderson Libraries
- Weiner-Rogers Law Library
- Nevada State Museum
- Las Vegas National Bar Association
- Clark County Museum
A group of community advisors that assisted in organizing a series of panels filmed by Vegas PBS and an ongoing Town Hall Meetings at the West Las Vegas library is comprised of Jarmilla McMillan-Arnold, Hannah Brown, Brenda Williams, Sonya Horsford, EdD, Clare Sampson, Courtney Mooney, and Todd Robinson, PhD.
For more information please contact the Director of the Oral History Research Center…Read More
The campus community is invited to join UNLV Libraries for a reception welcoming Michelle Light as the new director of Special Collections. The reception will be held in the Special Collections Reading Room on the third floor of Lied Library from 2-4 p.m. Wednesday, March 6.
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