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Current Libraries News
Nearly 160 issues of publication offer researchers a look at the businesses, culture, and connections that shaped the gentlemen’s club industry.
Howard Hughes’ legacy lives on at UNLV, from artifacts and photographs in the Special Collections & Archives to the Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering.
Leadership Coaching Essentials helps UNLV employees give colleagues the space and support to self-navigate professional challenges.
A new project explores careers of Nevada bookmakers who helped shape the evolution of sports betting.
Historic Hoover Dam image, selected for national initiative, showcases the role of UNLV Special Collections & Archives in preserving history.
Through games and hands-on learning, this teaching and learning librarian helps faculty slay instructional design.
Libraries In The News
UNLV University Libraries points to the Mirage as a pivotal part of the city’s transformation. Its “Building Las Vegas” project notes that Southern Nevada’s population increased sevenfold between 1970 and 2010, with the Mirage’s 1989 opening pushing Las Vegas’ growth into overdrive.
The community will gather across southern Nevada on Friday to mark 25 years since the Sept. 11 terror attacks that changed the course of the nation.
Veterans and employees gather at New York-New York in Las Vegas.
The shirts, still creased from wherever they’d been folded away for years, were laid out flat on a long table near the replica Statue of Liberty at New York-New York on the Strip.
Thousands of shirts, flags, stuffed animals, and handwritten notes left outside the New York-New York Hotel and Casino after the Sept. 11 attacks are being preserved at UNLV as a lasting tribute to those lost and the people who mourned them.
Twenty-five years ago, people began leaving T-shirts, flags, flowers, photographs and handwritten messages outside the Statue of Liberty replica at New York-New York hotel-casino. What began spontaneously in the days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks eventually grew into a collection of more than 6,000 pieces.
