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Marie McMillan: Las Vegas’ Pioneering Female Aviator by Christina Lamoureux

Left:  Marie McMillan in 1990 posing with one of her airplanes. Right:  Marie McMillan in 1994. From the Marie and James B. McMillan Papers (MS-00482).

Archival processing assistant Christina Lamoureux is a PhD…Read More

Digital Collections Hosts Nevada Statewide Large-scale Digitization Workshop

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. All attendees will leave the workshop with concrete plans customized for their organization. Some of the topics to be covered:

  • Prepare a collection for digitization using a planning document that will walk participants through the key questions and decision points to execute a successful project
  • Check out different scanning and digital capture equipment and consult in small groups to decide on appropriate equipment for grant applications or…Read More

Latinx Voices: Maribel Estrada Calderón

Maribel Estrada Calderón
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 connect with fellow students and learn from oral historians in the UNLV Oral History Research Center.

"I have learned so much from every single member of the team. Our distinct backgrounds and fields of study have helped us create a thorough set of questions and concepts that narrators could answer and discuss in their interviews," said Estrada Calderón. "Our different talents and…Read More

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