James Cheng, Brittany Paloma Fiedler, and Katherine Keller (all Libraries) presented at the Nevada Library Association 2019 Annual Conference, "Libraries Building Bridges," earlier this month in Reno.  Cheng presented "Librarians and Researchers on Academic Library Impact: Characteristics and Perspectives," which detailed the results of a…

Mark Lenker (Libraries) wrote a chapter for Libraries Promoting Reflective Dialogue in a Time of Political Polarization, a new book published by the Association of College and Research Libraries.  In "Indignation in Political Discourse: Thoughts toward an Information Literacy Curriculum," Lenker proposes starting…

Marina Georgieva (Libraries) presented a webinar, "In-house vs. Outsourced Digitization: Similarities, key differences and pitfalls to avoid," organized and hosted by Library and Information Technology Association Online Learning. 

Monserrath Hernández, Elsa Lopez, Nathalie Martinez, Rodrigo Vazquez, and Barbara Tabach (all Libraries) presented a roundtable, "Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada: Birth of an Oral History Project," at the 53rd annual Oral History Association Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City. Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada is the latest oral history project…

Christina Miskey (Libraries) was a panelist on a panel titled "The Best Ways to Get Experience During Library School" along with Stacey Akahoshi (Santa Barbara Public Library), Danny Thien Le (Santa Clara City Library), Alexander Garcia (Ontario City Library), and Alice Erickson (San Mateo County Libraries) at the 2019 California Library…

Ruby Nugent and Aidy Weeks (both Libraries) will be presenting during a webinar, "Tips and Tricks for Successful Onsite Academic Interviews," sponsored by the African American Medical Librarians Alliance Caucus of the Medical Library Association on Oct. 30 at 2 p.m. The free webinar is the second part of a series focused on empowering current…

In celebration of International Open Access Week, the University Libraries has announced five winners of the 2019 UNLV Open Access Awards. This year winners include: Brookings Mountain West in the category Non-Academic Departments With The Most Materials in the Institutional Repository William F. Harrah College of Hospitality in the…

Su Kim Chung (Libraries) chaired a session, "Glitter in the Dust: The Transformation of Nevada", at the Western History Association 59th Annual Conference in Las Vegas earlier this month. 

Cory Lampert (Libraries) was a member of a panel, "Digital Double Bind?: Exploring the Impact of More Product, Less Process (MPLP) on Digital Collections," at the Digital Library Federation 2019 Forum in Tampa, Florida. 

Thomas Padilla (Libraries) served as a U.S. delegate to UK-US Collaboration for Digital Scholarship in Cultural Institutions. The two-day workshop in Washington, D.C.. focused on fostering transatlantic collaborations in the area of digital scholarship between the United States and the United Kingdom. 

Mellanye Lackey (Libraries) co-authored an article, "Building the Systematic Core in an Academic Health Sciences Library," published in the Journal of the Medical Library Association. She is director of the Health Sciences Library.

Mark Lenker (Libraries) contributed "Information Literacy: What's the Question?" to ACRLog, the professional blog of the Association of College and Research Libraries. This guest post invites librarians and other educators to think about information literacy not just as a set of skills that they impart to students, but also as a subject…