Patrick Griffis (Libraries) has been elected vice president/president-elect of the Patent & Trademark Resource Center Association. The PTRCA supports Patent and Trademark Resource Centers across the country and advises the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on staffing and services. Griffis is the Business Librarian and supports the UNLV…

Amber Sewell, Chelsea Heinbach, and Rosan Mitola (all Libraries) have each been elected to a leadership position within the American Library Association and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). Sewell, Teaching and Learning Librarian, was selected as president-elect of the Games & Gaming Round Table of the American…

Anjanette Jones (Libraries) is the winner of the 2024 Library Service Award. She received the award for her work revising website content across the Libraries for accessibility standards as part of the university-wide audit from the U.S. Office of Civil Rights. Jones worked with dozens of faculty and staff across the Libraries to help identify and…

Noah Price (Libraries) is the winner of the Innovative Solutions and Customer Service Award. Price received the award for providing excellent customer service to internal and external stakeholders in the Libraries, at UNLV, and in the Southern Nevada community, developing and managing events and programming that support the Libraries’ mission. In…

Brittani Sterling (Libraries) is the winner of the UNLV Libraries inaugural Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award. She was nominated for the major contributions she has made to diversity, equity, and inclusion in the areas of job performance, scholarship, and service in addition to honors that have been bestowed upon her like being the…

Sean Kennedy (Libraries) is the 2024 recipient of the Libraries' Administrative Faculty Award. He was nominated for his leadership and collaborative work to bring acclaim on the UNLV campus and throughout Southern Nevada to the collections, programs, initiatives, and the individuals that make up UNLV Libraries including the We Need to Talk…

Samantha Godbey and Starr Hoffman (both University Libraries) recently published "Characteristics of United States Academic Libraries in 2020 and Regional Changes from 1996 to 2020" in College & Research Libraries, the official scholarly research journal of the Association of College & Research Libraries. This paper provides a snapshot of…

Darnelle Melvin (Libraries) is the 2024 recipient of the McPhee Librarian of the Year Award. Melvin was nominated for his extraordinary contributions to the UNLV Libraries and global community of information professionals through work on Wikidata and recognition from the 2023 Search Industry Awards for Best Open-Source Project. He is the Special…

Amber Sewell (Libraries) is the 2024 recipient of the Libraries' Outstanding Faculty Scholarship Award. She was nominated for her groundbreaking research on podcasts as a form of scholarship and her research agenda on games-based learning. Sewell is a Teaching & Learning librarian in the University Libraries.

Iwimbong Kum Ghabowen (Healthcare Administration and Policy), Jay Shen (Healthcare Administration and Policy; Center for Health Disparities Research), and Xan Goodman (University Libraries) recently published a paper, "Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Financial Impact of 30-Day Readmissions for Selected Medical Conditions: A…

Joseph Kevin Sebastian (Libraries) was appointed to the Stonewall Book Awards Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award committee. Sponsored by the American Library Association's Rainbow Round Table, the Stonewall Awards are given annually to books of exceptional merit that feature LGBTQIA+ experiences. Sebastian is the teaching and learning…

Christina Miskey (Libraries) is a member of the Open Research Funder's Group (ORFG) PID Strategy Working Group, which has recently published a report, "Developing a U.S. PID National Strategy," which outlines the desirable characteristics of Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) and sets the foundation for a cohesive US national strategy. Christina, along…