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If you are a student unable to register for summer classes due to a MyUNLV hold applied to your account by the library, you can get the hold temporarily lifted by filling out a Fee Appeal Form from the library website. 

Holds will be lifted on individual accounts by request through Saturday, May 16, 2020. Please allow up to one business day for Fee Appeal Form to be acted upon.

Due to the current COVID-19 situation, University Libraries facilities are closed and access to the physical collections is unavailable. The Libraries is committed to maintaining services and providing needed resources through virtual access. 

If you need materials that are held in the Libraries please request them through the Libraries Inter-Library Loan (ILL) services. You will need an ILLiad account to make a request. If you do not have one, instructions for creating an account can be found online.

Images courtesy of Missouri University S&T and Larry Gragg.

This inaugural post in our Researcher Profile series will highlight researchers and who have used resources in Special Collections & Archives for a variety of proj

Las Vegas City Commission minute books Las Vegas City Commission Records, 1911-1960. MS-00237. This is part two of a two-part article on Collections as Data research at the UNLV Libraries.

Eadington Fellow Scott Boylan with the Charles J. Hirsch Papers.

Scott Boylan, Professor of Accounting, Washington & Lee University, is our first Eadington Fellow of 2020.

Ethics: a set of moral principles : a theory or system of moral values

March is National Ethics Awareness Month. What better way is there to celebrate the strong values of UNLV and every Rebel than to showcase the excellent research being produced by UNLV faculty, staff, students, and journal authors. 

Closeup of Las Vegas City Commission minute book dating from 1911

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.

An overwhelmingly positive response from UNLV students, along with a reduction in safety incidents, has led the University Libraries to permanently implement Rebel Hours at Lied Library during the spring and fall semesters.

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: