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About the Collection
This collection contains faculty research from the UNLV University Libraries. Records are organized by Year, Author, and Title. To view the entire collection of UNLV faculty research across all programs, visit the All Faculty Research collection.
Submissions from 2026
The Evolving Roles of U.S. Academic Librarians: A Snapshot of Job Responsibilities in 2023, Russell Michalak, Laura Rose Taylor, Michelle Reed, Amanda Koziura, and Devon Ellixson
Submissions from 2025
Don’t Do More With Less: Sustainable Work as a Management Value, Amanda Koziura
I Have to Pay to Keep My Job: Examining Financial Barriers to Promotion and/or Tenure, Amanda Koziura, Faith Bradham, and Maura Seale
Introduction, Amanda Koziura and Amy Tureen
Reading the Rainbow: Exploring Themes and Identities in LGBTQIA+ Picture Books, Amanda Melilli, Alicia G. Vaandering, and James W. Rosenzweig
Relational Database Schema to Support Research Profiling Studies, Natural Language Processing, and Bibliometric Analysis, Darnelle Melvin
Reframing Information Seeking in the Age of Generative AI: A Critical and Humanistic Approach, Joseph Kevin Sebastian
Adapting Publishing Principles and Best Practices for Repository-Hosted Journals: Sustainable Ideas for Enhancing Local Open Access Publishing, Andrea A. Wirth
Improved Open Access Support through a Popular Open Access Fund, Andrea A. Wirth
Submissions from 2024
Maintenance as a Core Value Recommendations for Increasing Gender Equity on Digital Scholarship Teams, Amanda Koziura and Stephanie Becker
Disrupting Vocational Awe: Strategies for Supervisors to Identify, Counter, and Prevent Unsustainable Workloads and Unreasonable Expectations, Amanda Koziura and Amy Tureen
Developing Recommendations for More Inclusive Academic Librarian On-Site Interviews, Christina M. Miskey, Kathryn M. Houk, and Jason Aubin
Beyond the Library: The Role of Academic Libraries’ Chat Reference in Answering Campus Questions, Erin Owens, Vanessa Acre, Darcy C. Del Bosque, Robin Fowler, and Silvia Sheffield
Power, Labor, and Hierarchies: Deconstructing Work in Speculative Fiction, Joseph Kevin Sebastian
Crafting a Queer Information Literacy (QIL) Framework: An Exploration of Embodiment, Digital Learning, and Information Literacy in Academic Spaces, Joseph Kevin Sebastian
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
Is it for Me? Alienation, Assimilation, and Ambition in Academia, Niki Fullmer and Brittany Paloma Fiedler
Fostering UDL-Informed Library Instruction Practices Developed from the COVID-19 Pandemic, Niki Fullmer and Katie Strand
Dwindling Trust in Experts: A Starting Point for Information Literacy, Mark N. Lenker III
Teaching Information Literacy in Untrusting Times: Prioritize Research for Understanding (Not Just Knowledge), Mark N. Lenker III
Library of Congress Classification Monthly Approved Changes Lists: Implementing an Ongoing Reclassification Workflow at UNLV, Katherine Manifold
Stories to Empower Our Communities: Promoting Diverse LGBTQIA+ Narratives in Picture Book Collections, Amanda Melilli, Alicia G. Vaandering, and James W. Rosenzweig
Criticality as our Anvil: Assessing Video Tutorials for Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility, Joseph Kevin Sebastian and Amber Sewell
Information Privilege Exploring an Interdisciplinary Barrier, Amber Sewell
Designing and Implementing an Instructional Triptych for a Digital Future, Erin Sweeney Smith, Amanda Koziura, Elizabeth Meinke, and Evan Meszaros
A Recipe to Gauge Success: Using Repository Data to Assess a Faculty Bibliography, Andrea Wirth and Christina Miskey
Cataloging Middle Eastern Non-Book Materials Using RDA and MARC21: Objects, Cyrus Ford Zarganj
Submissions from 2022
Librarians as Faculty Developers: Competencies and Recommendations, Melissa Bowles-Terry and Karen Sobel
State of Inclusivity in Tutorials: a Critical Content Analysis of Tutorials Provided by R1 Academic Libraries, Carrieann Cahall, Rosan Mitola, Chelsea Heinbach, and Amber Sewell
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
LibParlor Online Learning: Shared Knowledge for the Library Research Community, Hailley Fargo, Nimisha Bhat, Chelsea Heinbach, and Charissa Powell
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
Choose Your Own Instruction Adventure: Giving Students Agency and Choice with Twine, Amber Sewell
Crafting Contemporary Indigenous Studies Collections in the Age of Algorithms: A Case Study, Amy Tureen and Brittani Sterling
Hispanic/Latinx Inclusive Terminologies Projects Technical Report, Aidy Weeks and Katie Hoskins
Hispanic/Latinx Inclusive Terminologies Project: Recommendations to Improve and Expand Medical Subject Headings, Aidy Weeks, Ruby Nugent, Stephanie Fell, Katie Hoskins, Jesse Vidales, and Tracy Shields
Racial and Ethnic Categories: Impact on Medical Subject Headings, Jamia Williams and Aidy Weeks
Cataloging Middle Eastern Streaming Media Using RDA and MARC21 Workshop 2nd Session: Streaming Media, Cyrus Ford Zarganj
Cataloging Middle Eastern Video Recordings using RDA and MARC21 Workshop First Session: Video Recordings, Cyrus Ford Zarganj
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
Inclusive and Anti-Racist Collecting at UNLV Libraries, Annette Day, Sarah R. Jones, Amy Tureen, and Aidy Weeks
LibGuide Standards: Loose Regulations and Lax Enforcement, Darcy Del Bosque and Sara E. Morris
Conference Critique: An Analysis of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Programming, Brittany Paloma Fiedler and Brittani Sterling
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
Beyond the Las Vegas Strip: Assessing Archival Diversity at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Sarah R. Jones, Tammi Kim, and Emily Lapworth
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
Rocks Roll Downhill: The Role of the Supervisor in Creating and Maintaining a Healthy Workplace, Amy Tureen
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
Metadata for Compound Objects, Marina Georgieva
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
Collection Management in the Age of Hospital Mergers, Elizabeth Laera, Aidy Weeks, Heather Martin, Jean Gudenas, and Angela Spencer
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
Open-mindedness is an achievement: Prototyping a New Threshold Concept for Information Literacy, Mark N. Lenker III
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
A Graphic Novel Tasting: Develop Your Professional Palate for Young Adult Comics, Amanda Melilli
Recommended Practices for Library Collections for English Language Learners, Amanda Melilli, Samantha Godbey, and Hee Yeon (Ashley) Park
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
UNLV Libraries’ Peer Mentor Cohort: A Model for Successful Allyship and Support amongst Womxn Faculty, Ruby Nugent, Aidy Weeks, Mayra Corn, Jennifer Culley, Stephanie Fell, Brittani Sterling, Rebecca Orozoco, Sarah Jones, Christina M. Miskey, and Halle Burns