News: Special Collections and Archives

A gallery exhibition featuring David Schwartz, director of the UNLV Center for Gaming Research, appears in videos at National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement
Arts and Culture |

UNLV experts and the Libraries' unique public resources help make The Mob Museum more than a novelty attraction.

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Research |

Six scholars have been selected to complete residencies at UNLV Special Collections as part of its Gaming Research Fellows Program for the 2012-2013 academic year. More than two dozen fellowships have been awarded since the program began in 2007.

Old Sahara on the Vegas Strip sometime in the mid-1950s with cars lined up in parking lot.
Arts and Culture |

New UNLV digital collection offers look at history of resort architecture in Las Vegas.

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Research |

Small-town life during the rise and fall of Southern Nevada's mining industry is chronicled through rarely seen newspaper clippings, photos, and letters in a digital library collection, Southern Nevada: The Boomtown Years 1900-1925.