Jennifer Culley, Annette Day, Cory Tucker, and Andrea Wirth (all Libraries) recently presented at the virtual Charleston Library Conference 2020. They presented the paper, "Change is Constant: Managing and Evolving Acquisitions Environment". Cully also presented a poster, "Overview of the Future of Academic Library Acquisitions: Things to Think…

Peter Michel (Libraries) has published an article, "Reporting the Spanish Influenza Epidemic in Nevada" on the Nevada Digital Newspaper Project's blog.  https://nvdnp.wordpress.com/blog/. The Spanish Influenza epidemic of 1918-19 is the only modern precedent for the current COVID-19 pandemic. The article describes how that pandemic, which…

Francesca Marineo (Libraries) presented a talk, Supporting Students Through a Flexible Instruction Model During a Pandemic and Beyond, at the Distance Library Services Conference. The conference provides a rich forum to discuss, demonstrate, and champion the techniques, trends, and theories of providing library services at a distance and…

Cory Lampert (Libraries) was part of a tutorial presentation, "Designing for Labor Equity," during the 2020 Digital Library Federation Forum & Learn@DLF. As one of the members of the Institute of Museum and Library Services-funded "Collective Responsibility: National Forum on Labor Practices for Grant-Funded Digital Positions"…

Iesha Jackson (Teaching and Learning), Doris L. Watson (Educational Psychology and Higher Education), Marcie Gallo (History), and Claytee White (Oral History Center) gave their second of two peer review presentations on their collaborative project, Digging Deep and Branching Out: Using Oral History and Collaborative Inquiry to Explore Candidate…

Cyndi Shein, Sarah Jones, Tammi Kim, and Karla Irwin (all Libraries) had an article, "Perspectives and Practices: Archival Processing Metrics Survey Findings," published in The Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies.

Aidy Weeks, Kathryn Houk, Ruby Nugent, Mayra Corn, and Mellanye Lackey (all Libraries) had an article, "UNLV Health Sciences Library’s Initial Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: How a Versatile Environment, Online Technologies, and Liaison Expertise Prepared Library Faculty in Supporting Its User Communities," published in the journal Medical…

Cory Lampert and Darnelle Melvin (Libraries) presented "Linked Data for the Perplexed Librarian: Q&A with the Authors" with Anne Washington from the University of Houston Libraries, for the Linked Data Users Group. Lamper, Melvin, Washington, and Scott Carlson are authors of Linked Data for the Perplexed Librarian, …

Tammi Kim (Libraries) authored a case study, "Rethinking Record Groups and University Archives Classification at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas," for the Society of American Archivists. 

Susan B. Wainscott and Richard J. Zwiercan (Libraries) presented a conference paper, "Improving Access to Standards," at the 2020 American Society for Engineering Education. This paper describes the development and assessment of the process the University Libraries use to make standards documents available to faculty, staff, and students…

Peter Michel (Libraries) has been awarded a City of Las Vegas Historic Preservation Commission Annual Award for Excellence in Historic Preservation. He was selected for the award for his "tireless efforts to curate and preserve historical collections of manuscripts, architectural renderings, maps, and other materials that document the…

Su Kim Chung (Libraries) was interviewed for the recent Vegas PBS documentary "The Showgirl: A Las Vegas Icon." She will be giving a presentation, "History and Legacy of the Las Vegas Showgirl," for the Rebel Recharge Webinar series. Also, her work as a "showgirl archivist" was the subject of a recent episode of the podcast series "…