As School of Medicine Library (SOML) faculty, we share the university’s and Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV’s goals and contribute to the fulfillment of their mission in the areas of instruction, research, and service. We undertake research and produce scholarship in our areas of expertise and are partners in the scholarly enterprise of the school of medicine.
We define research as the creation of knowledge through curiosity, discovery, and synthesis to generate new concepts and methodologies that further our understanding of others and the world around us.
We encourage research that values reflection, critical inquiry, and the understanding that other ways of knowing and being are valid and important.
Library consultations are an opportunity to engage in conversation with library faculty on topics related to research, scholarship, or partnering with the library. These meetings provide an opportunity to ask multiple questions and gain in-depth, advanced help as you learn about library resources, best practices, and methodologies to support your projects.
At UNLV, Library faculty are considered educators and are not designated to complete research tasks or assignments on behalf of faculty, staff, students, residents or fellows.
Consultation guidelines:
The guidelines below are provided to help prepare faculty, staff, students, residents and fellows for having a productive experience during their consultations.
- Be prepared for your consultation. Library faculty may request information to effectively help you with your project. As non-subject matter experts, we need to know in advance your topic, proposed research question, and studies you may have found related to your research interest.
- Be on time to your consultation. We understand that things may come up and ask that you communicate any delays with library faculty.
- Exhibit positive interprofessional conduct. Professionalism is a critical part of academic health. Working interprofessionally is important in both the academic and health care setting.
Reasons for cancellations:
- Consultee does not show after 15 minutes from the start of the meeting.
- Consultee has not provided librarian requested information at least 3 business days prior to the start of the session for research consultations.
- Library faculty observe repeated cancellations and "no shows".
- Library faculty observe poor interprofessional conduct, this may include but is not limited to repeated disregard of library faculty guidance and expertise, repeated requests to prepare prior to the consultation, exhibiting abusive language/communication or conduct, etc.
- Consultation privileges may be revoked if repeated infractions occur.
Request instruction:
- If your consultation includes 3 people or more, or is not focused on one specific project, please contact us by email to discuss requesting an instruction session.
Evidence synthesis consultations
Evidence synthesis consultations are for seeking guidance on systematic, scoping, or related synthesis reviews. Due to the technical and time-intensive nature of evidence synthesis projects, librarian faculty have more specific goals and guidelines for these types of consults.
- The librarians’ goal is to help project teams complete a protocol
- We limit to 4 hours of consultation time per project
- Librarians will ask for more information and likely ask you to complete tasks between consults to ensure effective meetings with continued progress
We highly encourage meeting with a librarian before starting the search formation process.
For all other inquiries, we provide general library assistance during regular business hours, Monday-Friday, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm. We can be reached by:
- Visiting the Service Desk on the 3rd floor of the MEB
- Phone: 702-545-2005
- Email: medlib@unlv.edu
- Chat with us
Research guides
Research guides are created and managed by library employees to bring together related resources for a particular topic or group of people. They are created to help supplement curriculum content, gather tools for student learning and success, and highlight important topics of interest. Each guide is unique but all contain a mix of links to databases, books, websites, and other sources of information.
Curricular Support
The School of Medicine Library faculty can provide curricular support in several ways by:
- Becoming embedded into your class curriculum through instruction during a single class or series of classes
- Helping design projects or assignments that target specific research, information literacy, and evidence-based medicine skills
- Designing online tutorials, guides, or videos to support your courses
- Creating extra-curricular events or classes students are encouraged or incentivized to attend that target specific skills required for students to be successful in the course
- Locating resources for teaching and placing them on reserve if needed
- Provide guidance on Copyright & Fair Use
The University Libraries faculty are practiced in developing learning outcomes, active learning activities, and learning assessments. Please contact them in advance to schedule time to discuss needs and how best to integrate information literacy, evidence-based practice, and research into your course(s).
SOML faculty can assist and partner with members of the school of medicine in various research and scholarship endeavors. Accepting project partnerships is up to the discretion of the library faculty member.
SOML faculty and staff do not create and conduct searches or retrieve and deliver articles on behalf of individuals or research groups. We are happy to trouble-shoot hard-to-find articles and educate on how to build and conduct searches using our resources.
Request instruction:
- If your consultation includes 3 people or more, or is not focused on one specific project, please contact us by email to discuss requesting an instruction session.
- Katie Houk - Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine, UME
- Ana Corral - Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine, GME
- Aidy Weeks - Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine, Department of Brain Health, SOML Makerspace
The School of Medicine Library provides technology services that support the teaching, learning and research needs of the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine. This is made possible through support from University Libraries and the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine. The library provides both onsite technologies and lendable technologies for Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine faculty, staff, medical students, residents and fellows.
Interlibrary Loans
Interlibrary Loan (ILL) is a UNLV Libraries’ service that obtains materials from libraries around the world. Interlibrary Loan supplements the resources directly owned or licensed by the UNLV Libraries and is available only to UNLV students, faculty and staff.
ILL and Document Delivery requests are made through the ILLiad software system. All users MUST have a library account (same as your ACE account) to register and use ILLiad.
Please see the guidelines and instructions for requesting Interlibrary Loans.
Document Delivery
Document Delivery provides pdf scans of article and book chapters from the UNLV Libraries' collections (journals, books and other materials) to UNLV students, faculty and staff.