Grolier Online is Back!

The State Library added Grolier Online to the group of state databases.  Currently, Gene has only linked under Databases A-Z (letters F-H).  Jon is working with him to get it on the Search by Topic page and Homework Help website. There are two databases under Grolier Online – New Book of Knowledge and Multimedia Encyclopedia. [...]

EBSCOHost Update

EBSCOhost Enhancements: Additional Authorities Available in Related Information, for example, Related Business Videos and Company Information. MP3 Downloads are available for content that supports the Text-to-Speech function, from the Detailed Record view. The Date Slider reflects the Result List date range unless manually adjusted by the user.  Changes made to the Date Slider are sticky–its usage is reflected in the breadbox as [...]

New Digital Projects @ UNLV

At the Wiener-Rogers Law Library at UNLV, we’ve inaugurated our digital repository – the Scholarly Commons (http://scholars.law.unlv.edu/). So far, we’ve included the full text of recent issues of the two law journals published at the law school – the Nevada Law Journal and the UNLV Gaming Law Journal – and we’re working our way backwards [...]

New Digital Collections @ UNR

You or your patrons may find these new digital collections interesting.  Be sure to take a look at the historical Facebook page and the Reno 1910 blog. Margaret M. Wheat Collection Our first foray into providing online access to our audio Paiute and Shoshone oral histories.  The collection currently includes just a sampling of 50 [...]

Ten Famous Cases of the Nevada Supreme Court

The Nevada Judicial Historical Society sponsored a project called Ten Famous Cases of the Nevada Supreme Court, 1865-1937.  The cases were chosen because they were legally important or unique.  They were researched by attorneys and historians, scripts were written by the late Norm Nielson, and narration was by 10 eminent Nevadans. This has been added [...]