In August 2008, with the grand opening of the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center, we went live with a brand new website meant to reflect the changing face of the UNR Libraries. As a container for the many aspects of and services offered by the library, it has served us well, but the time has come to [...]

On November 12, starting at 6:00 p.m., the Friends of the University Library will induct Nevada author H. Lee Barnes into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame. Barnes’ fiction focuses largely on working-class characters of the west and southwest, many of whom are war veterans. His narratives often deal with external events that subsume his [...]

Take a study break on Prep Day, December 9! The University Library is hosting a mini-marathon of episodes from the TV series “Bonanza” in the Wells Fargo Auditorium, 1st Floor.
The three featured episodes are based on fact. In “Death on Sun Mountain” (8:00pm), a greedy opportunist stirs up trouble between the Paiute tribe and the [...]

KTVN-TV Channel 2 recently aired a news report extolling the virtues of the Knowledge Center as a hub for campus learning and collaboration, as well as a shining example of the university library in the 21st Century. They were kind enough to send over a tape, and our Teaching and Learning Technologies department turned it [...]

For those who missed the first lecture in the “Comstock Converstions” series, “Bonanza! How Virginia City has touched the world for 150 years”, a video of the lecture by Ron James, Nevada State Historic Preservation Office, is now available for download.
As usual, and for future reference, you should be able to find this video and [...]

This blog has already reported on the new Knowledge Center exhibit celebrating 150 years since the discovery of the Comstock Lode in Nevada. The Nevada News has also taken up the story of Comstock and what our Special Collections department is doing to both educate and commemorate.
Read the article here.

It’s official–UNR has itself an award-winning library. The Knowledge Center was awarded for “Best Education AV Project”, a national-level commendation and part of the PRO AV Spotlight Awards. This is in recognition of the 168-seat Wells Fargo Auditorium, featuring surround-sound, three-screen HD projection, and video capture and streaming, as well as our digital classrooms and, [...]

The Knowledge Center has gotten some press recently on UNR’s Nevada News site for its pioneering work with the Microsoft Surface–described as “a giant, table-sized iPhone”–available, for the amusement and education of our customers, down on the @One level by the Dynamic Media Lab and in the second floor atrium by the Library Services desk. [...]

Wednesdays this fall, commencing on October 7, the UNR Department of Music and Department of Art will be jointly organizing a free, weekly music and art series called L-Cubed, and the UNR Libraries are happy to supply the venue. These lunchtime (noon through 1:00 p.m., BYO lunch) exhibitions and performances will take place in the [...]

Tasked with creating a viral advertisement for a class competition, a UNR journalism student, Robin Bigda, cooked up this peek into the UNR Libraries’ Special Collections (for future reference, you can find it, as well, on the Knowledge Center’s downloads page). Hopefully, this whets your appetite for the full Special Collections experience, and you are [...]

In October, Special Collections will be installing exhibits both in the Special Collections exhibit area on the third floor, and in the Whittemore Gallery on the first floor. These exhibits will portray life in the Virginia City area through writings, business records, photographs, and other materials, and will showcase rare items from Special Collections that [...]

On Wednesday, 16 September, from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m., the Book Nook (the Knowledge Center’s used book store) will hold a book sale in the second floor lobby by the South entrance (view the floor plan). Hardbacks will sell for $1.00, paperbacks for $0.50, and during the final hour of the sale, a paper [...]

Commencing Tuesday, September 15, the Knowledge Center will be hosting three days of hands-on workshops spanning a variety of topics meant to aid instructors and researchers alike by highlighting useful tools and best practices. In order to register, please visit the Instructional Design website.
This marks the second Knowledge Center a la Carte slate of [...]

The UNR main site has posted an article detailing the development of the University’s first fully online capstone course. That course in Women’s Studies, “Gender and Society”, has been awarded an international distinction by Blackboard Inc for innovation in online learning. Click here to read about how this course came to fruition and the role [...]

Ever run across something unfamiliar on our website that you’d like to use?  There’s a good chance we’ve created a tutorial about it!  Our librarians have been hard at work creating tutorial videos and handouts about everything from finding videos to check out from the Multimedia Center to getting articles that you find in Google [...]

Stay current by familiarizing yourself with the most authoritative information available online, hand selected by a UNR Libraries subject specialist.
Life and Health Sciences Librarian Amy Shannon has been busy updating our Pandemics page, primarily with current resources pertaining to H1N1 Influenza (Swine Flu). Here you will discover websites dealing with the specifics of the aforementioned [...]