Lateka Grays and Cory Tucker (both Libraries) had an article, "Reimagining Career Collections to Increase Usage and Engagement" (ACE account login required) published in Collection & Curation. The scholarly journal provides well researched and authoritative information on the rapidly changing conceptions of what collection…

Lauren Paljusaj (English), along with Anne Savage and Susanna Newbury (both Art) wrote an essay that was published in Nevada Humanities' inaugural Double Down post on distance — part of its COVID-response series on human connection. The essay considers how to interpret photographs as meaningful points of time-lapsed contact. Using UNLV Special…

Thomas Padilla (Libraries) has been named one the Movers & Shakers 2020 by Library Journal. 

Kathryn Houk (Libraries) will co-present a webinar, "Drawn to Graphic Medicine: Bringing Comics into Medical Librarianship," for the Medical Library Association later this month. The webinar will discuss where graphic medicine came from and why it is valuable, how to start collecting graphic medicine at a library, and how it can integrate…

Thomas Padilla (Libraries) is co-author of an article, "Digital Sources and Digital Archives: Historical Evidence in the Digital Age," published in the International Journal of Digital Humanities.  

Cory Lampert, Darnelle Melvin, and Seth Shaw (all Libraries) will be presenting "Three’s a Charm: System Migration as a Collaboration Case Study," this week during The Exchange, a virtual conference for sharing professional library ideas and experiences. 

Lauren Paljusaj (English) and Anne Savage (Art) have been jointly awarded the University Libraries Lance & Elena Calvert prize for "Intimate Nevada," their research in photography in the UNLV Special Collections. This research reflected on concepts of the vernacular and the everyday in Southern Nevada. Mentors in Special Collections…

Cyndi Shein, Sarah Jones, Tammi Kim and Karla Irwin (all Special Collections and Archives) recently published a paper in the Journal of Western Archives. "Balancing the Art and Science of Archival Processing Metrics and Assessment" demonstrates how metrics are used to support value propositions, project proposals, project management, and…

Amy Tureen and Starr Hoffman (Libraries) are co-authors on an article, "Virtual Cohorts: Peer Support and Problem-solving at a Distance," published in College & Research Libraries News. The article was co-authored with Erick Lemon, Medical University of South Carolina Libraries; Joyce Martin, Arizona State University…

Aidy Weeks, Ruby Nugent, and Katie Houk (all Libraries) collaborated with colleagues around the country to develop a collection of Spanish language COVID-19 resources. Weeks, Nugent, and Houk are health sciences librarians.

Chelsea Heinbach and Rosan Mitola (both Libraries) received a $2,000 Library Census Equity Fund mini-grant from the the American Library Association and Capital One to bolster University Libraries' effort to support census efforts in hard-to-count communities and help achieve a complete count in the 2020 census.  

Aidy Weeks (Libraries) had an article, "I Don’t Think It Means What You Think It Means: How COVID-19 Systematic Reviews Don’t Fit the Mold," published in MLAConnect from the Medical Library Association. The article discusses how the rush of systematic reviews, normally a lengthy process and the highest standard of evidence, about COVID-…