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Current Libraries News
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.
The Robert Scott Hooper Photograph Collection at UNLV preserves decades of celebrity portraiture, commercial imagery, and the changing visual culture of Las Vegas.
Libraries In The News
Las Vegas’ casino history isn’t just told in neon and nostalgia. It’s preserved in blueprints, sketches, and personal records housed inside UNLV’s Special Collections and Archives, where materials tied to some of the city’s most iconic resorts offer a window into how Nevada became what it is today.
The Nevada State Museum is celebrating the 90th birthday of photojournalist Clinton Wright, a man who spent decades documenting life on Las Vegas’ historic Westside. Thousands of Wright’s images are now preserved in UNLV’s Special Collections and featured in the exhibit “Rhythm and Resilience: Black Vegas.”
As America celebrates its 250th anniversary, Nevadans can peek at photo snapshots of pivotal moments in state history at the UNLV Special Collections and Archives. Photos in the collection range from the 1830s and beyond, documenting portraits of ancestors of Nevadans, pioneer life in the Old West, work on the Southern Pacific Railroad, and the Hoover Dam.
The 99th Air Base Wing History Office at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., has launched a collaboration with University of Nevada, Las Vegas to digitize its collection of more than 50,000 newspaper pages, some articles dating back to the base’s earliest days in World War II.
According to UNLV's Center for Gaming Research, gaming win on the Las Vegas Strip has fallen from 59% of total casino revenue in 1984 to just 35% in fiscal 2024, the most dramatic shift of any Nevada market. Statewide, gaming dropped from 62% to 43% over the same period, with room revenue nearly doubling its share. Today, non-gaming revenue makes up roughly two-thirds of Strip casino-resort revenue.
In this episode of The CFL Podcast, Joe Kennedy sits down with Maggie Farrell and Ingrid Ruffin from UNLV Libraries to discuss why the future of learning isn't just about what students know, but where and how they put that knowledge to work outside of the classroom. The library of the future isn’t just a space for quiet self-study among the bookstacks, it is a diverse ecosystem of physical and digital environments that connect learners through collaborative exploration. We examine how emerging learning environments like makerspaces and digital labs are being intentionally designed for access and flexibility with a focus on empowering learners to shift from passive consumers to active creators that can lead the conversation around their learning.
