John Watts (Libraries) gave an invited talk titled “Assessment and Academic Library Value” at the 35th annual Charleston Conference in November. 

David Schwartz (Libraries) gave a presentation titled “Las Vegas Stories: The Remarkable Life of Kirk Kerkorian, Father of the Las Vegas Megaresort” at the Clark County Library in November.   

Heidi Johnson (Libraries) was selected as one of three first-year academic librarian bloggers for the Association of College & Research Libraries’ blogging site, ACRLog. Read her first entry.  

Michelle Light (Libraries) co-presented a paper titled "The Evolving Archival and Scholarly Record" at the Society of American Archivists’ annual meeting. The paper shows how archival practices and expertise may help in the long-term management of new forms of scholarly communication.  

Susan Wainscott (Libraries) has been a key partner in a year-long, federally funded, multidisciplinary review conducted by the UNLV College of Engineering faculty of available literature and data on renewable energy and water resource projects in central Africa. She trained the research team in search strategies, assisted with hard-…

Karla Irwin and Emily Lapworth (both Libraries) presented Growing Pains: Implementing ArchivesSpace at UNLV Libraries Special Collections at the Amigos Library Services virtual conference. They described how ArchivesSpace, a open source collection management application for archival collections, was implemented in 2014 and has helped improve…

Doctoral student Erick B Lopez and professor Takashi Yamashita (Sociology) published their paper, "Acculturation, Income and Vegetable Consumption Behaviors Among Latino Adults in the U.S.: A Mediation Analysis with the Bootstrapping Technique" in the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health.

Michelle Light (Libraries) delivered the keynote address, “Liberate Your Content,” at the annual meeting of the Society of California Archivists. In her keynote, she encourages cultural heritage institutions to re-examine their practices for duplication, permissions, and publishing fees to encourage broader use of their materials, compliance with…

David Schwartz (Libraries) is the author of Boardwalk Playground: The Making, Unmaking, & Remaking of Atlantic City, which was published recently by Winchester Books.

Melissa Bowles-Terry (Libraries) wrote a chapter titled "Proving and Improving the Value of the Academic Library" in the book Reviewing the Academic Library.

Barbara Tabach (Libraries) gave presentations about the Southern Nevada Jewish Community Heritage Project at meetings of Hadassah and the Sunday Assembly. Through the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project, University Libraries ensures that the unique historical contributions of our region’s Jewish population are preserved and shared. …

Susan Wainscott (Libraries), along with Craig Palmer, formerly of the Harry Reid Center for Environmental Studies, and three other colleagues co-authored “Practical Guidance for Integrating Data Management Into Long-term Ecological Monitoring Projects.” This peer-reviewed lead article appeared in Wildlife Society Bulletin’s …