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The National Endowment for the Humanities announced today that the UNLV University Libraries and the UNLV Department of Film have received a $271,580 National Endowment for the Humanities’ (NEH) Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Award for their project, “Inventing Hollywood: Preserving and Providing Access to the Papers of Renegade Genius Howard Hughes.” 

Why do plants hate math? Because it gives them square roots!

In celebration of Mathematics Awareness Month, the University Libraries invite you to learn more about the research and practice of UNLV faculty, and graduate and undergraduate students.  

Image of Nevada State Museum exhibit Les Folies Bergère: Entertaining Las Vegas, One Rhinestone at a Time.

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. 

Lied Library is turning 20! Help us celebrate by designing our 20th Anniversary logo.

Current UNLV students are invited to submit original logo designs that best capture the spirit of Lied Library.

Prize

The winner will receive a $500 cash prize and the logo may be used to promote the 20th anniversary of Lied Library in various media – including online, print, on merchandise, advertisements, educational materials, and other visual collateral.