Publications of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries faculty.
Submissions from 2023
Inclusive Or Harmful? A Critical Content Analysis of Tutorial Offerings from R1 Academic Libraries, Carrieann Cahall, Rosan Mitola, Chelsea Heinbach, and Amber Sewell
Submissions from 2022
Librarians as Faculty Developers: Competencies and Recommendations, Melissa Bowles-Terry and Karen Sobel
Inclusive and Anti-Racist Collecting at UNLV: Draft Report and Recommendations, Annette Day, Sarah R. Jones, Amy Tureen, Susan B. Wainscott, Amanda Melilli, Thomas Padilla, and Aidy Weeks
Letter to NLM about MeSH, Violet Fox, Katie Lobner, Kelleen Maluski, Christian Minter, Chelsea Misquith, Stephanie Roth, Aidy Weeks, and Jamia Williams
Gathering Knowledge in Your Library: Community Mentoring for Academic Librarians, Lateka J. Grays, Xan Y. Goodman, and Andrea Wirth
Hot Topics Trade Publications Connect Research with Career Ambitions, Lateka J. Grays and Mark N. Lenker III
Digital Partnerships: Nontraditional Learning Opportunities at the Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship, Amanda Koziura and R. Benjamin Gorham
Hispanic/Latinx Inclusive Terminologies Projects Technical Report, Aidy Weeks and Katie Hoskins
Submissions from 2021
We Got You! Empowering BIPOC Information Professionals through Virtual Development Opportunities., Kelsa Bartley, Tamara Nelson, Beverly Murphy, Xan Y. Goodman, Shannon Jones, Tyler Moses, Aidybert Weeks, and Jamia Williams
We can make it better: Removing inequities and increasing compassion in academic hiring, Gail Betz, Hilary Kraus, Stephen G. Krueger, and Amy E. Tureen
Desperately Seeking Standards: Using Text Processing to Save Your Time, Halle Burns and Susan B. Wainscott
LibGuide Standards: Loose Regulations and Lax Enforcement, Darcy Del Bosque and Sara E. Morris
Engaging Student Employee Expertise to Improve Wikipedia Edit-a-Thons, Brittany P. Fiedler, Maggie Bukowski, Chelsea M. Heinbach, Eduardo Martinez-Flores, and Rosan E. Mitola
Accessibility and Discoverability. A Report on the ALCTS CaMMS Catalog Form and Function Interest Group Meeting, Kelsey George
A Path for Moving Forward With Local Changes to the Library of Congress Subject Heading “Illegal Aliens”, Kelsey George, Erin Grant, Cate Kellett, and Karl Pettitt
Metadata Remediation of Legacy Digital Collections: Efficient Large-Scale Metadata Clean-Up with a Sleek Workflow and a Handy Tool, Marina Georgieva
Developing a P-12 English Language Learner Collection in an Academic Library That Reflects Its Community, Samantha Godbey and Amanda Melilli
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Systematic Reviews: Elevating research support at your institution, Samantha Godbey, Ruby Nugent, and Aidy Weeks
Considerations of Providing Patent and Trademark Assistance Services at One’s Library, Patrick Griffis and Jared Hoppenfeld
Learning from Las Vegas: Adapting Workflows for Managing Born-Digital Design Records, Tammi Kim and Karla Irwin
Assessing Large-scale Digitization Using Web Analytics, Emily Lapworth
The Archives at the Tip of Their Fingers: Exploring User Reactions to Large-Scale Digitization, Emily Lapworth and Su Kim Chung
The Variability and Determinants of Testosterone Measurements in Children: A Critical Review, Jessa Rose Li, Xan Goodman, June Cho, and Diane Holditch-Davis
What came first the SPARQL or the egg?: Managing SPARQL informed Wikidata productions for special collections and archives, Darnelle O. Melvin
Rebuilding ORCID Campus Outreach During a Pandemic, Christina M. Miskey
Medical Library Association Diversity and Inclusion Task Force Report, Jane Morgan-Daniel, Xan Y. Goodman, Sandra G. Franklin, Kelsa Bartley, Matthew Nicholas Noe, and J. J. Pionke
Complications of Traditional Bonesetting in Contemporary Fracture Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review, Ndubuisi O. Onyemaechi, William Nii Ayitey Menson, Xan Goodman, Samantha Slinkard, Obinna E. Onwujekwe, Ugochukwu N. Enweani, Okechukwu E. Nwankwo, Benedict C. Nwomeh, Fiemu E. Nwariaku, and Echezona E. Ezeanolue
Starting with I: Combating Anti-Blackness in Libraries, Peace Ossom-Williamson, Jamia Williams, Xan Goodman, Christian I.J. Minter, and Ayaba Logan
Persian NACO Manual, Denise Soufi, Nora Avetyan, Shelton Henderson, Juliet Sabouri-Yaghoobi Nasab, Cyrus Ford Zarganj, and Neda Zeraatkar
We're Down With IED, Yeah You Know Me....Or Do You?, Brittani Sterling
Unlatching Knowledge: Preparing New Subject Librarians for Collection Development, James Cory Tucker and Matt Torrence
The Role of the Supervisor in Creating and Maintaining an Emotionally Healthy Workplace, Amy Tureen
Proving the Proverbial Gadfly: Situating the Historical and Racial Context of Southern Medical Works by Mary Louise Marshall, Aidybert Weeks
¡Presente!: Affirming Latinx Voices Within Health Sciences Library Scholarship, Aidybert Weeks, Adela V. Justice, Ruby Nugent, Bredny Rodriguez, and Brenda Linares
Submissions from 2020
Archives and Special Collections Linked Data: Navigating Between Notes and Nodes, Erin Blake, Itza Carbajal, Regine Heberlein, Sarah Horowitz, Jason Kovari, Vanessa Lacey, Cory Lampert, Darnelle Melvin, Holly Mengel, Cory Nimer, Maria Oldal, Merrilee Proffitt, Nathan Putnam, Arielle Rambo, Elizabeth Roke, Eric de Ruijter, Dan Santamaria, Karen Smith-Yoshimura, Weatherly Stephan, Bruce Washburn, and Chela S. Weber
Regeneration Dynamics of Great Basin Bristlecone Pine in Southern Nevada, Philip J. Burton, Jesy Simons, Steve Brittingham, Daniel B. Thompson, Darin W. Brooks, and Lawrence R. Walker
Librarians and Administrators on Academic Library Impact Research: Characteristics and Perspectives, James Cheng and Starr Hoffman PhD
Dismantling Deficit Thinking: A Strengths-Based Inquiry Into the Experiences of Transfer Students In and Out of Academic Libraries, Brittany Fiedler, Chelsea Heinbach, Rosan Mitola, and Emily Pattni
Responding to Hate: How National and Local Incidents Sparked Action at the UNLV University Libraries, Brittany Paloma Fiedler, Rosan Mitola, and James Cheng
DisService: Disabled Library Staff and Service Expectations, Kelsey George
Designing a Collaborative Learning Experience around the Framework, Samantha Godbey and Xan Y. Goodman
Teaching Cultural Competence and Cultural Humility in Dental Medicine, Xan Y. Goodman and Ruby L. Nugent
Reimagining Career Collections to Increase Usage and Engagement, Lateika Grays and James Cory Tucker
Lisa K. Traditi, AHIP, Medical Library Association President, 2020–2021, Brittany R. Heer and Ruby L. Nugent
University of Nevada, Las Vegas: Liaisons and Teaching Librarians—Navigating Overlapping Responsibilities and Identities, Chelsea Heinbach and Susan B. Wainscott
US Academic Libraries' Staffing and Expenditure Trends (1996–2016), Starr Hoffman and Samantha Godbey
Balancing the Art and Science of Archival Processing Metrics and Assessment, Sarah R. Jones, Cyndi Shein, Tammi Kim, and Karla Irwin
All Outrage, All the Time: Anger and Political Media, Mark Lenker
Collaborative Planning for Outreach Priorities, Mark Lenker
Open-Mindedness is an Achievement: Prototyping a New Threshold Concept for Information Literacy, Mark Lenker
Student Perceptions of the Library during Times of Terror: Exploratory Research Surveying Students Affected by the October 1 Shooting and Their Impressions of Safety in the Academic Library Community, Kelsey Lupo Mazmanyan
Banned Books Buffet, Amanda Melilli and Rosan Mitola
Reporting the Spanish Influenza Epidemic in Nevada, Peter Michel
Integrating Student Assistants into Digital Repository Workflows: Challenges and Best Practices, Christina M. Miskey, Kelsey Lupo Mazmanyan, Cory K. Lampert, and Andrea Wirth
Ebook Collection Development in Academic Libraries: Examining Preference, Management, and Purchasing Patterns., John Novak, L. Angie Ohler, and Annette Day
Cultivating Digitization Competencies, Gayle O'Hara, Emily Lapworth, and Cory Lampert
Digital Sources and Digital Archives: Historical Evidence in the Digital Age, Thomas Padilla and Trevor Owens
Venomous in the Extreme: Understanding Frank Sinatra's Acrimonious 1963 Exit From Nevada Gaming, David G. Schwartz
Perspectives and Practices: Archival Processing Metrics Survey Findings, Cyndi Shein, Sarah R. Jones, Tammi Kim, and Karla Irwin
Faculty-Librarian Collaborations: Integrating the Information Literacy Framework into Disciplinary Courses, Michael Stopel, Livia Piotto, Xan Y. Goodman, and Samantha Godbey
The Role of the Supervisor In Creating and Maintaining an Emotionally Healthy Workplace, Amy Tureen
Virtual Cohorts: Peer Support and Problem-Solving at a Distance, Amy Tureen, Erick Lemon, Joyce Martin, Starr Hoffman, Mindy Thuna, and Willie Miller
Assessing Generational Preferences in Characteristics of an Admired Leader Among Career Library Professionals, Amy Tureen and Susie Skarl
Library Privacy Policies, Jason Vaughan
Improving Access to Standards, Susan B. Wainscott and Richard J. Zwiercan
A Review of LWW Health Library for Clerkship/Clinical Rotations, Aidybert Weeks
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, Aidy Weeks, Kathryn M. Houk, Ruby L. Nugent, Mayra Corn, and Mellanye Lackey
Submissions from 2019
Leadership Reflections: It is Not About the Perks, Karl Bridges
Linked Data for the Perplexed Librarian, Scott Carlson, Cory Lampert, Darnelle Melvin, and Anne Washington
Metadata Revisited Updating Metadata Profiles and Practices in a Vendor-Hosted Repository, A. L. Carson and Carol Ou
The Subject Specialist is Dead. Long Live the Subject Specialist!, Annette Day and John Novak
Leadership Reflections: Organizational Culture, Maggie Farrell
Leadership Reflections: Organizational Language, Maggie Farrell
Leadership Reflections: Who Are Your Peeps?, Maggie Farrell
Digitization Workflows: Streamlining the Digitization Process and Distinguishing the Peculiarities in Capturing Various Archival Materials, Marina Georgieva
Successful Management of an Outsourced Large-scale Digitization Newspaper Project, Marina Georgieva
Career Exploration at the Middle School Level: Barriers and Opportunities, Samantha Godbey and Howard R. D. Gordon
Investigating Public Health Indexes, Xan Goodman
Assessing Mastery Learning Nursing and Pharmacy Students' Preferences for e-Book and Print Books: A Case Study, Xan Goodman and Suzanne Fayle
Impact of Traditional Bonesetters on Contemporary Fracture Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs): A Systematic Review, Xan Goodman, Ndubuisi Onyemaechi, William N. A. Menson, Samantha Slinkard, Obinna E. Onwujekwe, Ugochukwu N. Enweani, Okechukwu E. Nwankwo, Benedict C. Nwomeh, Fiemu E. Nwariaku, and Echezona E. Ezeanolue
The Librarian Parlor: Demystifying the Research Process through Community, Chelsea Heinbach, Charissa Powell, Hailley Fargo, and Nimisha Bhat
On Their Own Terms: First-Year Student Interviews about Everyday Life Research Can Help Librarians Flip the Deficit Script, Elizabeth Kocevar-Weidinger, Emily Cox, Mark Lenker, Tatiana Pashkova-Balkenhol, and Virginia Kinman
Building the Systematic Review Core in an Academic Health Sciences Library, Mellanye J. Lackey, Heidi Greenberg, and Melissa L. Rethlefsen
Microfilm, Manuscripts, and Photographs: A Case Study Comparing Three Large-Scale Digitization Projects, Emily Lapworth, Sarah R. Jones, and Marina Georgieva
Information Literacy: What's the Question?, Mark Lenker
Indignation in Political Discourse Thoughts toward an Information Literacy Curriculum, Mark N. Lenker III
Engaging Student Veterans as Researchers: Libraries Initiating Campus Collaborations, Mark N. Lenker III and Melissa Bowles-Terry
From Responsible Custody to Responsible Stewardship, Michelle Light
Use and Reuse of Visual Resources in Student Papers and Presentations, Krystyna K. Matusiak, Anna Harper, and Chelsea Heinbach
Visual Literacy in Practice: Use of Images in Students' Academic Work, Krystyna K. Matusiak, Chelsea Heinbach, Anna Harper, and Michael Bovee
Creating an Outreach Story: Assessment Results, Strategic Planning, and Reflection, Rosan Mitola and Amy Wainwright
Should We Flip the Script?: A Literature Review of Deficit-Based Perspectives on First-Year Undergraduate Students’ Information Literacy, Tatiana Pashkova-Balkenhol, Mark Lenker, Emily Cox, and Elizabeth Kocevar-Weidinger
Reframing Library Student Employment as a High-Impact Practice: Implications from Case Studies, Erin Rinto, Rosan Mitola, and Kate Otto
Book Review: Gambling Under the Swastika: Casinos, Horse Racing, Lotteries, and Other Forms of Betting in Nazi Germany, By Robert M. Jarvis, David G. Schwartz
1,000,001 Rules For Being a Librarian of Color, Brittani Sterling and Jennifer Brown
Library Subscriptions and Open Access: Highlights from the University of California Negotiations with Elsevier, Cory Tucker, Andrea Wirth, and Annette Day
Submissions from 2018
ORCID Integration at the UNLV Libraries, A.L. Carson, Matthew Murray, and John Novak
Best Practices for Cataloging Streaming Media Using RDA and MARC21 Version 1.1, Erminia Chao, Rebecca Culbertson, Jennifer Eustis, Cyrus Ford Zarganj, Annie Glerum, Ngoc-My Guidarelli, Mary Huismann, Stacie Traill, Donna Viscuglia, and Jeannette Ho