Accomplishments: University Libraries

Thomas Padilla (Libraries) was a panelist at the Institute for Museum and Library Service's National Digital Platform at Three event in Arlington, Virginia, in October. He spoke on the greatest funding impacts and opportunities on the "Expanding Cultural Heritage Capacity" panel with speakers from the Internet Archive, WGBH, and the University of…
Su Kim Chung, David G. Schwartz, and Claytee White (all Libraries) were appointed to the Advisory Council for The Mob Museum, The National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement.  The council assists The Mob Museum with advancing the public understanding of organized crime’s history and impact on society. The…
Melissa Bowles-Terry (Libraries) gave an invited presentation at the Association of Research Libraries fall meeting in Washington, D.C., regarding library impact on student success. Along with Jade Winn from University of Southern California Libraries, she reported on the results of a project launched by the Greater Western Library Alliance…
Michelle Light and Cory Lampert (University Libraries) recently received two grants totaling $54,900 from the Commission for the Las Vegas Centennial to fund digitization projects in Special Collections and Archives. The first grant for $49,400 will fund the digitization of the Las Vegas Age, which ran from 1905-1947, and the region’s first…
Cyndi Shein, Carol Ou, Karla Irwin, and Carlos Lemus (all Libraries), published "Open-Source Open Doors: A Case Study on Extending ArchivesSpace Code at UNLV Libraries" in the Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies. Libraries is in its third year of implementing an open-source archival collection management application, ArchivesSpace, and is…
Claytee White (University Libraries) has been selected to receive the Humanitarian Award at the TMG Entertainment Network's 21st Silver State Awards - Women Awards. The ceremony, which benefits Susan G. Komen, will take place Nov. 18. White is director of the Libraries' Oral History Research Center.
Melissa Bowles-Terry, John Watts, and Pat Hawthorne (all Libraries), along with the recently retired Patricia Iannuzzi  (Libraries) published "Collaborating with Teaching Faculty on Transparent Assignment Design," a book chapter in Creative Instructional Design: Practical Applications for Librarians. The chapter explores the…
Katherine Keller and Matthew Murray (both Libraries) were featured on panels during “Talking Comics with America’s Educators: The Comic Conference for Educators and Librarians” hosted at the San Diego Central Library in conjunction with San Diego Comic-Con in July. Keller, a Comic Book Legal Defense Fund board member, was a panelist on “Library…
Mark Lenker (University Libraries) contributed “Information in the Indignation Age” to ACRLog, the blog for the Association of College and Research Libraries. The post discusses the increasingly indignant tone of political discourse and suggests ways higher education can respond.
Erin Rinto and Melissa Bowles-Terry (both University Libraries) are the authors of an article selected by the Library Instruction Round Table as a top 20 article on library instruction for 2016. “Assessing the Scope and Feasibility of First-Year Students’ Research Paper Topics,” co-authored with former UNLV Information Literacy Fellow Ariel…
Howard Gordon (Teaching and Learning) and Samantha Godbey (University Libraries) are co-editors of the Journal of Research in Technical Careers, a new peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by the department of teaching and learning and hosted by UNLV Libraries. The journal published its inaugural issue in May.
Karla Irwin was recently certified as a digital archives specialist by the Society of American Archivists. Irwin, Special Collections and Archives librarian, earned the DAS certificate after completing a two-year program of coursework and passing comprehensive examinations this spring. A total of 325 people have earned digital archives…