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New from the School of Medicine Library

New Virtual Exhibit!

The Special Collections houses one of the largest menu collections in the United States. The menus date as far back as the 19th century and come from some of the finest restaurants in Europe. The Menu Collections virtual exhibit contains over 60 scanned menus for your enjoyment. This exhibit includes menus from various Las Vegas restaurants, as well.

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Preservation/Conservation Laboratory Open House

Hey, it's been a long time since we've seen you. We want to fix that!

The Preservation/Conservation Laboratory is having an open house, for all library staff.

Date: Friday, September 12th, 2008.

Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Place: Special Collections at the Lied Library, on the 3rd floor.

Refreshments will be served.

And, we'll be conducting tours of THE LAB throughout the afternoon.

If you have never seen THE LAB, this is your chance.

If you haven't been up in a while, let us reintroduce you to preservation and conservation.

We are going to answer your questions about what we do and how we do it.

Everyone is welcome! So, if you have a few minutes, please stop by.

We hope to see you there.

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University Archives Pages Updated

Web pages for the University Archives within UNLV Special Collections have been completely revamped and updated just in time for UNLV's 50th Anniversary.  The site now includes descriptions of the various record series that make up the University Archives including a complete list of publications.  Other new parts of the site include FAQs about the university, a university history timeline, a buildings timeline, a president's timeline, and a bibliography of published works on UNLV. This page will continue to grow as we celebrate this momentous occasion in the university's history.
 

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Collection Guides Online

Guides to over 30 individual manuscript and archival collections held in Special Collections are now available online in EAD (Encoded Archival Description) the emerging professional standard for archival finding aids. Like the Library MARC record, EAD enables the standardization in controlled fields of collection information allowing searching within and across repositories.

Click on a link below to take you to an online guide:

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Hurricane Katrina Project

Submitted by Claytee White, Director of the Oral History Research Center

As we locate Katrina survivors who have found their way to Las Vegas, we are engaging them in conversation with hopes of contacting these same people two to three years in the future. The devastation is mind boggling and becomes even more apparent as we gather these interviews. As soon as Katrina occurred, the Oral History Research Center was interested in collecting stories. A few weeks later, I conducted a workshop for a class in the University College, and a student had the same desire. So we are working with this student volunteer, Hillary Pichon, as he learns to conduct oral interviews that will be used in his capstone project.

Maureen Lewis
Audio Transcript .mp3 format
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