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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

For years, the UNR Libraries has purchased doctoral dissertations and master theses for individuals from ProQuest/UMI through Document Delivery Services. But in October 2008, the Knowledge Center reallocated the funds used to purchase these materials to upgrade our subscription from Dissertation Abstracts (an abstracting and indexing database that provided full-text access only to UNR material [...]