Kristen Costello (Libraries) is the Libraries' Spring 2022 Inspirational Customer Service Award recipient. She was nominated in recognition of the outstanding customer service she provides in her multiple roles, both as the interim head of access services and the systems librarian, going above and beyond to problem-solve and improve processes…

Brittani Sterling, Aidy Weeks, Halle Burns, Mayra Corn, Jennifer Culley, Christina Miskey, Stephanie Fell, Sarah Jones, Ruby Nugent, and Rebecca Orozco (all Libraries) published the article "Working Towards Tenure Together: Creating an Intersectional Peer Supported Cohort Model" in the peer-reviewed journal In the Library with the Lead Pipe …

Kathryn Houk (Libraries) has been elected vice president/chair elect for the Northern California and Nevada Medical Libraries Group, the regional chapter of the Medical Library Association. Houk is the undergraduate medical education librarian at the School of Medicine Library serving the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV. 

Sarah Jones (Libraries) is the recipient of the Conference of Inter-Mountain Archivists Mentor Award. The CIMA Mentor Award recognizes members who both strive to cultivate career development in the archival community and who help the next generation to build archival knowledge and expertise in connection with the CIMA Mentorship Program. CIMA…

Richard Saladino (Libraries) presented a lightning talk on behalf of himself and co-author Christina Miskey (Libraries) at the Art Libraries Society of North America 2022 Annual Conference. The lightning talk, "Research Impact in the Visual Arts," discussed preliminary results of a recent survey of art faculty and how they demonstrate the impact…

Cory Lampert (Libraries) gave a presentation, "Looking Through the Portal: The Nevada Test Site Oral History Project and Perspectives on Partnership," at the Southwest Oral History Association Annual Conference on April 1. The presentation focused on a project collaboration between digital collections, the UNLV Oral History Research Center, and…

Barbara Tabach (Oral History Research Center) received the Mink Award at the Southwest Oral History Association (SOHA) annual conference. The Mink Award is SOHA's highest honor and recognized Tabach's nearly 15 years of preserving local history through oral history interviews.   

Chelsea Heinbach (Libraries) is the recipient of the 2022 Outstanding Library Faculty Scholarship Award. Heinbach was nominated for her outstanding and significant scholarly efforts in 2021 that will have a long and lasting impact on the field of librarianship. In 2021, she co-authored a book, co-authored two book chapters, gave a…

Amanda Melilli (Libraries) is the 2022 recipient of the Outstanding Library Faculty Service Award. Melilli was nominated for her remarkable dedication and leadership across her service commitments within the University Libraries and nationally at the American Library Association. During the award period, she served as the Libraries' deputy faculty…

Cyrus Zarganj (Libraries) is a co-author of the 2022 update of the "Persian NACO Manual" published by the Middle East Librarians Association Committee on Cataloging. The guidelines in this manual are used by libraries to create authority records for names that appear in the Perso-Arabic script on a manifestation written in the Persian…

Amy Tureen (Libraries) is the author of a chapter, "Dear Colleagues, [Insert Joke Here]: Using Humor in Written Communication in the Workplace" published in the book, Lead Your Library With a Sense of Humor: Why (and How to) Be a Funnier and More Effective Leader and Laugh All the Way to Your Library (Vol. 1).

Amber Sewell (Libraries) has had a proposal, "An Investigation into Responsible and Effective Data-Gathering of Diverse Student Narratives for an Information Privilege Instructional Game", accepted in the 2022 Institute for Research Design in Librarianship (IRDL). The proposal focuses on responsibly collecting diverse personal narratives…