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Did you know UNLV undergraduate students can win up to $1,000 for your final research paper or class project? Applications are now being accepted for the 2020 Lance and Elena Calvert Award for Undergraduate Research offered annually by the University Libraries.

Digital Collections, part of Special Collections and Archives in the University Libraries, has digitized 10 oral histories and made them available on our website this month. These stories, collected as part of several projects from the UNLV Oral History Research Center, provide a detailed look at the many people different people who call Las Vegas and Southern Nevada home.

Our new online oral histories include:

Are you familiar with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library?

We offer UNLV students, faculty and staff this access to this database resource, which allows you to search citations and full text of ACM journal and conference proceedings.

Late in October, at the end of International Open Access Week, University Libraries faculty voted to approve an open access policy for their own scholarly articles.

UNLV students, faculty, and staff are invited to utilize the new drop-in consultation hours being offered by our Research, Innovation, and Creation staff.

For the Spring Semester, drop-in consultations will be offered in the Makerspace on the first floor of Lied Library on Tuesdays from 10:00 am to noon and Wednesdays from 1:00 - 3:00 pm. 

The Rhyolite Bottling Works from Rhyolite, Nevada calendar depicting Cascade Falls in Yosemite Valley, California, 1909, UNLV University Libraries Collection of Nevada Calendars, MS-00990

This past year saw the establishment of several major endowments to support the work of UNLV students, faculty, and staff through the UNLV University Libraries. The largest gift, the $5 million Beverly Rogers Rare Book Curator Endowment, will establish the first named curator position in the University Libraries, while also enhancing the rare books collection in Special Collections and Archives.

Thanksgiving Dinner menu, Don the Beachcomber, Sahara Las Vegas, approximately 1963, UNLV University Libraries Menu Collection, MS-00436

This collection highlight blog post was written by Jimmy Chang, an archival processing assistant on the Archival Backlog Elimination Project. Jimmy Chang received his bachelor's and master's degrees in architecture from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Architecture with a tract in hospitality design.

Join Dr. Sheila Bock (Department of Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies), Student Diversity and Social Justice, and the University Libraries on Wednesday, Oct. 30 from 5-6:30 p.m. in the Goldfield Room at Lied Library. This hauntingly fun event will give visitors the opportunity to learn about the significance of Halloween and its connection to the supernatural.