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Documenting COVID-19 in Las Vegas

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UNLV University Libraries Photographs of the Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Las Vegas, Nevada, PH-00428/ Photo by Aaron Mayes

Like many university libraries and archives across the country, UNLV Librari

Researcher Profile: Emily Budd

Submitted by SChung on Thu, 05/14/2020 - 13:41

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Emily Budd's Memorial for Queer Rhyolite, a temporary monument

Researcher Profile: Maribel Estrada Calderón

Submitted by SChung on Tue, 04/28/2020 - 10:28

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Researcher Profile: Aseem Inam

Submitted by SChung on Wed, 04/15/2020 - 15:58

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The Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918 in Nevada

Submitted by SChung on Fri, 04/10/2020 - 14:35

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“The success of this campaign against influenza depends upon your co-operation.” - Las Vegas Age, Nov. 9, 1918

UNLV Libraries and UNLV Film Receive NEH Grant to Process, Preserve Howard Hughes Motion Picture Papers

Submitted by SKennedy on Thu, 04/09/2020 - 13:59

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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.”

Researcher Profile: Karan Feder

Submitted by SChung on Wed, 04/01/2020 - 20:38

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

Researcher Profile: Larry Gragg

Submitted by SChung on Tue, 03/17/2020 - 12:43

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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

UNLV Libraries Datasets Open for Research with Pilot Project by Cory Lampert and Emily Lapworth

Submitted by SChung on Thu, 03/05/2020 - 10:42

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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 in Residence: March 2 - March 13

Submitted by SChung on Wed, 03/04/2020 - 11:19

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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.