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Holiday and Winter Break Hours
Special Collections will be closed Thursday and Friday, December 25th and 26th and January 1st. Regular hours during the Winter Break and Wintermester will be 9:00 to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, closed Saturdays.

Photo Curator Kathryn Totton Retires
After working in the library for 33 years, Kathy retired from Special Collections on November 5th. She leaves behind an impressive body of work in the form of an exceptionally well-organized and accessible photo collection. She was responsible for the active digitization of the more than 10,000 Special Collections photographs that are now available in online exhibits.

Special Collections Moves to the Knowledge Center
On Friday, August 8, 2008, the 46-year old Getchell Library closed its doors. The following Monday a beautiful Special Collections Reading Room opened in the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center. The new location offers temperature and humidity control for collections and a preservation lab as well as two enclosed rooms for viewing videos and DVDs and listening to audio tapes from the collection.

"Great Basin Indians: Views and Points of View"
Items from the Great Basin Indians collections are featured in the exhibit hall at the entrance of Special Collections and the exhibit cases in the third floor hallway at the top of the stairs in the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center. The exhibit includes baskets from the UNR Anthropology museum and videos about local tribes.

Collection of Photographs Now Available
A photographic collection from John Albert Marshall II (1910-1976) was recently made available. The 479 images in this collection (UNRS-P2006-04) document activities at Marshall's Sutcliffe, Nevada, dude ranch, known variously as the Desert Inn, Pyramid Lake Club, Pyramid Lake Dude Ranch and Pyramid Lake Ranch. Marshall, an architect in Oakland and Berkeley from 1921 until 1931, acquired  the Desert Inn at Pyramid Lake in late 1931 or early 1932. On July 30, 1936 he sold the ranch and returned to California. Clark Gable was one of the visitors to the ranch during these years.

"Behind the Doors of Special Collections"
is the cover story in the Summer 2007 issue of the Friends of the Library Newsletter.

Exhibit Celebrating Mackay Centennial
selected from the holdings of the University Archives documenting the history of the Mackay School of Mines to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the school.

The exhibit will run through May and can be viewed from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m in the Special Collections Department. The shiny new coin shown above was made possible by a generous contribution from Coeur d'Alene Mines Corporation. Photo by Jean Dixon.

Working in Getchell Library 1962-2008
Photographs and artifacts from the opening of Getchell Library through the present are now on display in Special Collections. Catalog cards and electric erasers are some of the quaint reminders of a non-digital past, when researchers had to visit the building to find information.

New Access to Black History Photographs
Photographs from the Black History Project are now listed and searchable through the Special Collections Photograph Database. These 1,107 photos were collected and organized in the 1990s to document the achievements of African Americans in Nevada in the last half of the twentieth century. The online guide provides brief descriptions. Search the entire database and order copies of photos through the Special Collections Photos page.

Digital Collections

Photograph Collection

Images of Lake Tahoe

Sagebrush Vernacular

Just Passin' Through

Art Collection

Reifschneider Photos

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