Terry Deem (Libraries) was the winner of the University Libraries' spring Inspirational Customer Service Award, which recognizes individual staff efforts to provide and/or support excellent customer service to library patrons. Her inspirational spirit, her work for the faculty orientation group, and her role in the student employment leadership…

Cory Lampert and Silvia Southwick (both Libraries) have had a book chapter, "On the Brink of Linked Open Data: Evolving Workflows and Staff Expertise," recently published in the book Cutting-Edge Research in Developing the Library of the Future: New Paths for Building Future Services by Bradford Lee Eden (editor). The book was published this year…

Su Kim Chung (Libraries) earned her Ph.D in Information Studies from UCLA in March and will receive her doctoral hood this month at the UCLA graduation ceremony. Chung's dissertation, "'We Seek to Be Patient': Jeanne Wier and the Nevada Historical Society, 1904-1950," explores how Wier shaped a public historical culture in the state of Nevada.

Nancy Fawley, Samantha Godbey, Sue Wainscott, and Xan Goodman (all Libraries) contributed book chapters to Teaching Information Literacy Threshold Concepts: Lesson Plans for Librarians, edited by Hazel McClure, Gayle Schaub, and Patricia Bravender. Fawley wrote "Determining the Relevance and Reliability of Information Sources." Goodman penned "…

Michael Frazier, UNLV University Libraries Library Technician II, was named the UNLV Classified Employee of the Month for April 2015. Frazier was originally recognized for the invaluable role he played in creating a successful partnership between the Preservation Lab and the Libraries Acquisition and Resource Sharing units, which resulted in the…

Melissa Bowles-Terry (head of Educational Initiatives at UNLV University Libraries) and Erin Rinto (UNLV University Libraries undergraduate learning librarian) recently presented at the Library Orientation Exchange (LOEX) Conference, the premier national conference for those interested in library instruction. Their presentation, "Taste Testing…

Katie Cannata (Journalism and Media Studies), Lee Hanover (History), Bella Victoria Smith (Interdisciplinary Studies), and Manuela Bowles (English) recently received the Lance and Elena Calvert Undergraduate Research Award. Given by UNLV's University Libraries, the award recognizes original research and sophisticated critical thinking skills…

Xan Goodman, Samantha Godbey and Sue Wainscott (all Libraries) led a workshop at the 2015 Association of College & Research Libraries Conference titled "Crossing the Threshold with Threshold Concepts: Redesigning a Library Instruction Lesson Plan." Participants learned and put into practice strategies to incorporate threshold concepts from…

Rosan Mitola and Amanda Melilli (both Libraries), along with former Libraries employee Amy Hunsaker, gave a pre-conference workshop titled "If You Built It, They Will Come ... and Succeed: Developing a Co-Curricular Workshop Series to Add Value to the Student Employee Experience" at the 2015 Association of College & Research Libraries…

Erin Rinto (Libraries) participated in a panel at the 2015 Association of College & Research Libraries Conference titled "Integrating Information Literacy Into the Core Curriculum: Creating Sustainable Models," which discussed the integration of critical thinking and inquiry into general education programs.

Cyndi Shein (Libraries) received the inaugural Best General Interest Article Award from the Journal of Western Archives (JWA) for her article "From Accession to Access: A Born-Digital Materials Case Study." This award honors the article published in the journal during the previous year that the JWA review board has determined to be most innovative…

Rosan Mitola, Erin Rinto, and John Watts (all Libraries) gave a presentation at the 2015 Annual Conference on The First-Year Experience titled "Partners in Teaching: A Strategic Training Program for Peer-Assisted Learning."