What's New in Special Collections

Laurie Arnold

Claytee White, Director of the Center for Oral History Research Center in Special Collections, will be speaking and moderating at a number of events in February in celebration of Black History Month. 

We are pleased to welcome Emily Lapworth who has been appointed Visiting Special Collections Librarian and will serve as an archivist for the Southern Nevada Jewish Community Digital Heritage Project. 

Special Collections and the Center for Gaming Research welcome Eadington Gaming Fellow, Catherine Borg.

Von Tobel Family Papers, 19051997. MS-00589. Special Collections, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.  (Box 09 folder 02)

The Center for Gaming Research in Special Collections has announced its 2014-15 class of Eadington Fellows. A description of each Fellow, with a summary of their intended research and the date and title of their talk, follows. They will be in residence in Special Collections beginning in January and continuing through June. Their talks are free and open to the public. 

Special Collections Director, Michelle Light is a Las Vegas native, and was recently named a fellow of the Society of American Archivists and a Distinguished Alumni of the University of Michigan's School of Information.

Special Collections faculty members Peter Michel, Head of Exhibits, and Cory Lampert, Head of Digital Collections, were part of the successful grant writing team effort that received some $311, 000 in NEH funding for the digitization of over 100,000 pages of historic Nevada newspapers as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program.

This summer, the UNLV University Libraries provided multiple fellowship opportunities for UNLV graduate students. Faculty librarians in three departments hired and directed graduate students to work on a variety of key projects.

Partially funded by the Library Advisory Board, graduate students worked as information literacy fellows and in Special Collections.

In August Special Collections launched the Southern Nevada Jewish Community Digital Heritage Project.  With assistance from a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the UNLV Libraries will collect historical primary sources (e.g., photographs, documents, newspapers, and more) about the Southern Nevada Jewish community, conduct oral histories to capture first hand testimony about Jewish life in Las Vegas, and create a digital collection to provide online access to these historical resources.