Researcher Profile: Aseem Inam
The Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918 in Nevada
“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
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
Researcher Profile: 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
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
Scott Boylan, Professor of Accounting, Washington & Lee University, is our first Eadington Fellow of 2020.
What do we mean by “Collections As Data” (CAD)? by Cory Lampert & Emily Lapworth
New Online Oral Histories - February 2020
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:
Nevada History through Calendars of the Past by Ryan DiPaolo
The Rhyolite Bottling Works from Rhyolite, Nevada calendar depicting Cascade Falls in Yosemite Valley, California, 1909, UNLV University Libraries Collection of Nevada Calendars, MS-00990