Special Collections & Archives (Libraries) has received a significant donation from Mark and Marianne Haley to support the Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada project and to hire a graduate student to work on processing the menu collection. 

Hilla Sang (Libraries) was selected to present a study, "The Relationships Among Enrollment Characteristics and Charter School Closure: A Longitudinal Analysis of Ohio's Urban Counties Between 1998-2015", that she co-authored with Elizabeth Gilblom from the College of Southern Nevada, later this month during the third annual Conference on…

Chelsea Heinbach (Libraries) recently had a paper, "Visual Literacy in Practice: Use of Images in Students' Academic Work," published in College & Research Libraries, the research journal of the Association of College & Research Libraries, which is a division of the American Library Association. She co-authored the paper with colleagues…

Richard Zwiercan (Libraries) has received the Winberta Yoa Travel Award from the Mountain West Chapter of the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA). The travel awar, established in honor and recognition of Art Librarian Winberta Yao, is used to cover travel expenses for ARLIS/NA conference participation. Zweircan, who has…

Brittany Paloma Fiedler and Chelsea Heinbach (Libraries) received the 2018 Innovative Solutions Award from the UNLV University Libraries for a pilot program to expand Libraries services to English 102 students.

David G. Schwartz (Center for Gaming Research) accepted an invitation to join the European Science Foundation's College of Expert Reviewers. Because of his record of outstanding scholarship and strong credentials in the history of gaming, gambling, and games, he was asked to assist the foundation in its mission of facilitating research…

Alan Simmons (Anthropology), along with A. Jadjikoumis, J-D Vigne,  J. Guilaine, D. Fiorillo, and M. Balasse, published "Autumn/Winter Births in Traditional and Pre-Pottery Neolithic Caprine Husbandry in Cyprus:  Evidence from Ethnography and Stable Isotopes" in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology.

Marina Georgieva (Libraries) is the author of "The digital librarian: the liaison between digital collections and digital preservation", which was published on the Digital Library Federation website. 

Carol Ou and Kristen Costello (Libraries) received the Fall 2018 Inspirational Customer Service Award from the University Libraries for their work to implement and troubleshoot the Primo system at UNLV. 

Azhlee Costa, Starr Hoffman, and James Cheng (Libraries) presented a research poster titled "Graphs in the Library Assessment Conference proceedings: A review of design, practices, and quality" at the 2018 Library Assessment Conference in Houston Dec. 5-7. Azhlee is a student assistant at the University Libraries and is in the Health Care…

David G. Schwartz (Center for Gaming Research) gave a presentation to Leadership Henderson called "Where Is Las Vegas Now?" about how the city's tourist industry recovered from the Great Recession and the latest moves casino companies are making to stay ahead of the curve.

Marina Georgieva (Libraries) presented "Building websites and leading librarians to a new level of project engagement" at the 2018 Library and Information Technology Association Library Technology Forum in Minneapolis.