Accomplishments: University Libraries

Kathryn Houk (Libraries) will co-present a webinar, "Drawn to Graphic Medicine: Bringing Comics into Medical Librarianship," for the Medical Library Association later this month. The webinar will discuss where graphic medicine came from and why it is valuable, how to start collecting graphic medicine at a library, and how it can integrate…
Thomas Padilla (Libraries) is co-author of an article, "Digital Sources and Digital Archives: Historical Evidence in the Digital Age," published in the International Journal of Digital Humanities.  
Cory Lampert, Darnelle Melvin, and Seth Shaw (all Libraries) will be presenting "Three’s a Charm: System Migration as a Collaboration Case Study," this week during The Exchange, a virtual conference for sharing professional library ideas and experiences. 
Lauren Paljusaj (English) and Anne Savage (Art) have been jointly awarded the University Libraries Lance & Elena Calvert prize for "Intimate Nevada," their research in photography in the UNLV Special Collections. This research reflected on concepts of the vernacular and the everyday in Southern Nevada. Mentors in Special Collections…
Cyndi Shein, Sarah Jones, Tammi Kim and Karla Irwin (all Special Collections and Archives) recently published a paper in the Journal of Western Archives. "Balancing the Art and Science of Archival Processing Metrics and Assessment" demonstrates how metrics are used to support value propositions, project proposals, project management, and…
Amy Tureen and Starr Hoffman (Libraries) are co-authors on an article, "Virtual Cohorts: Peer Support and Problem-solving at a Distance," published in College & Research Libraries News. The article was co-authored with Erick Lemon, Medical University of South Carolina Libraries; Joyce Martin, Arizona State University…
Aidy Weeks, Ruby Nugent, and Katie Houk (all Libraries) collaborated with colleagues around the country to develop a collection of Spanish language COVID-19 resources. Weeks, Nugent, and Houk are health sciences librarians.
Chelsea Heinbach and Rosan Mitola (both Libraries) received a $2,000 Library Census Equity Fund mini-grant from the the American Library Association and Capital One to bolster University Libraries' effort to support census efforts in hard-to-count communities and help achieve a complete count in the 2020 census.  
Aidy Weeks (Libraries) had an article, "I Don’t Think It Means What You Think It Means: How COVID-19 Systematic Reviews Don’t Fit the Mold," published in MLAConnect from the Medical Library Association. The article discusses how the rush of systematic reviews, normally a lengthy process and the highest standard of evidence, about COVID-…
James Cheng and Starr Hoffman (both Libraries) recently published "Librarians and Administrators on Academic Library Impact Research: Characteristics and Perspectives" in College & Research Libraries April special issue. Funded by the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Academic Library Impact…
Interim Executive Vice President and Provost Chris Heavey congratulates faculty who have received tenure commencing July 1. The tenure recommendations were approved at the Board of Regents meeting on March 5. Those faculty are: Scott Abella, College of Sciences Stephen Benning, College of Liberal Arts Maile Chapman, College of…
Amanda Melilli, Samantha Godbey and Hee Yeon "Ashley" Park (all Libraries) presented a poster, "Recommended Practices for Library Collections for English Language Learners," at the 2020 Conference for Academic Research in Education. The presentation covered the results of a research study on English Language Learners…