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Every month, Special Collections and Archives will highlight some of our newly processed collections. Here are some of the highlights for April.

A billboard advertising the Vegas Golden Knights Hockey team looms over the Allegiant Stadium construction site on May 29, 2019.

Every month, Special Collections and Archives will highlight some of our newly processed collections. Here are some of the highlights for March.

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Nathalie Martinez

Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada is an oral history project collecting the stories of our regions diverse Latinx citizens.

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"Paris Dreams, City Scenes: Joel Berman and the Themed Resort" is a new exhibit curated by Peter Michel in the Flo Mlynarczyk Gallery on the third floor of Lied Library, pulling from the collection of Bergman Walls & Associates and the Paris design drawings.
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Please join the UNLV University Libraries and cultural heritage colleagues from across Nevada on Friday, May 10 for a day of small group learning and nuts and bolts information-sharing including sessions on preparing to digitize, equipment specifications for capturing digital images, creating metadata, and finding funding for projects. The Nevada Statewide Large-Scale Digitization Workshop is geared toward organizations who have collections in mind to digitize, but need a crash course to develop a project plan.

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Maribel Estrada Calderón

For UNLV senior Maribel Estrada Calderón, working on Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada in UNLV University Libraries' Special Collections and Archives has been an opportunity to

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Green Shack appraisal document from the Elmo C Bruner Architectural and Real Estate Appraisal Records 

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Marina Georgieva, Project Manager for the National Digital Newspaper Project (NDNP) at UNLV

If you're curious about some of the work UNLV Libraries Special Collections staff me

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Elsa Lopez is a senior UNLV elementary education major working on the Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada project.
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Mark and Marianne Haley have donated to support the Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada project (pictured above) and Special Collections & Archives in the University Libraries.
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Seven UNLV faculty members were recently selected participate in a University Libraries faculty retreat on Jan. 15 and 16 to learn more about how to integrate Special Collections & Archives materials into their courses.

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