The UNLV University Libraries Center for Gaming Research has announced that four researchers have been selected as 2018-2019 Eadington Fellows in the UNLV Center for Gaming Research.
NV Energy has donated $10,000 to support the UNLV University Libraries’ Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada project.
Tales from the Slot Floor, a new publication edited by David G. Schwartz, Director of the Center for Gaming Research, inside UNLV Libraries Special Collections and Archives (Cover design by Nikole Herrold and Erik Swendseid of Bergman Walls & Associates)
Rosemary Vassiliadis, Clark County Director of Aviation
The UNLV University Libraries Special Collections and Archives launched the Building Las Vegas collecting initiative in 2016 to collect and preserve evidence about this dramatic growth. This focused effort ensures future students and researchers -- urban planners, geographers, architects, historians, sociologists, and others -- can study and learn from our unique built environment. Stefani Evans, a UNLV doctoral student in history, is Project Manager.
Front page of the Las Vegas Age from April 1912
In our Secrets from Special Collections series, UNLV Libraries Special Collections and Archives staff members divulge what they consider to be the hidden gems of the library, sharing answers, based on their own experiences, to six intriguing questions. Here, Visiting Special Collections & Archives Technical Services Librarian Sarah Jones gives us a glimpse into life working among the rare treasures of the library.
UNLV University Libraries Special Collections and Archives’ new exhibit, The Robert Woodruff Collection, is located in the Flo Mlynarczyk Gallery on the third floor of UNLV’s Lied Library and will run through the end of the fall semester. The exhibit is filled with large scale reproductions of this original photographs, as well as original papers and other items from his collection.
The Las Vegas Centennial Commission has awarded UNLV University Libraries a $50,000 grant to support the Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada project. Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada is an oral history and community engagement project aimed at expanding the diversity of the voices that UNLV University Libraries Special Collections and Archives preserves.
The UNLV University Libraries Digital Collections department has received an $80,685 Library Services and Technology Grant to support a large-scale digitization project.
Crowd watching sporting event at park opening in Los Angeles, CA, c. 1911
Melise Leech is an archival processing assistant in UNLV Libraries Special Collections & Archives.
Among the many interesting, unique, and important photograph collections in the UNLV Special Collections and Archives there are also smaller collections holding photographs that – while perhaps not as historically important– offer a glimpse of the lives and times of the people who owned them. These small collections hold photographs that open a window into what their owners considered important; family, home, work, holidays . . . even poignant momento mori taken to preserve the memory of a lost child.
