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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
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
Green Shack appraisal document from the Elmo C Bruner Architectural and Real Estate Appraisal Records
Archival processing assistant Angela Moor is a PhD candidate in the UNLV History Department and is currently completing her dissertation. She is the co-author, with Dorothy Wright, of Clark County Commissioners 1909-2009: A Century of Service.
If you're curious about some of the work UNLV Libraries Special Collections staff members are doing in the archives, our Staff Highlight feature answers commonly-asked questions about their projects and perspectives. Here, Marina Georgieva, Project Manager for the National Digital Newspaper Project, offers a look into her current activities with this ongoing effort to provide permanent access to a national digital resource of…Read More
Elsa Lopez is a senior UNLV elementary education major working on the Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada project.
When you ask Elsa Lopez how she prefers to be identified, the senior UNLV elementary education major finds herself a bit indecisive on what term best encompasses her life.
“I like the term “Chicana” right now, because it refers to individuals like me who have Mexican parents and were born in the U.S.,” says Lopez. “In a couple of years, I may identify differently. My indecisiveness is not unique, for this is the experience of many Latinx people. As of today, I identify as a Latina/Chicana and as a future Teacher of Color.”
Seven UNLV faculty members were recently selected participate in a University Libraries faculty retreat on Jan. 15 and 16 to learn more about how to integrate Special Collections & Archives materials into their courses.
The selected faculty include Ying Bao, Associate Professor of Chinese; Benjamin Burroughs, Assistant Professor of Emerging Media; Carlos Dimas, Assistant Professor of History; Vanessa Fenley, Assistant Professor of Public Policy; Carlos Flores, Assistant Professor in Residence of Communication Studies; Margarita Jara, Associate Professor of Spanish; and Magdalena Martinez, Assistant Professor of Public Policy.
During the retreat, faculty members will be working with Su Kim Chung, Head of Special Collections Public Services, Priscilla Finley, Humanities Librarian, and Susie Skarl, Urban Affairs Librarian, to discover Special Collections & Archives resources and develop lesson plans for incorporating the materials into their courses…Read More
As the Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada project gets underway, this series highlights the UNLV students who are working as oral historians on this UNLV University Libraries Special Collections & Archives project.
Fans of KUNV Radio may recognize Laurents Bañuelos-Benitez's voice. The UNLV alumnus and current UNLV graduate student developed his first passion at UNLV while working at the campus radio station. Now as one of the students working on the Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada project in the University Libraries, Bañuelos is embracing his passion and…Read More
As the Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada project gets underway, this series highlights the UNLV students who are working as oral historians on this UNLV University Libraries Special Collections & Archives project.
Born in Cali, Colombia, Marcela Rodriguez-Campo and her family immigrated to the United States when she was five years old. Attending elementary and middle school in Florida, Rodriguez-Campo moved to Las Vegas at the start of high school in 2008. After completing an undergraduate degree at Washington State University, she returned to Las Vegas to serve as a public school teacher, specializing in teaching secondary…Read More
Curator Peter Michel reflects on the collection of Artists' Books held in UNLV Special Collections and Archives. Photography by Aaron Mayes, Curator of Visual Materials.
The book as an object designed for the transmission of text persists as a significant artifact even in a culture increasingly digital. Not all books are created as works of art, but those that are have been collected by connoisseurs, bibliophiles, and Special Collections librarians for as long as there have been libraries. Book art is a collaborative art form created by artists in small but thriving studios…Read More
