Special Collections is the repository for the permanent records of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Besides keeping files of university publications and reports, the University Archives contain the records of the administrative offices including the President, Provost, Vice Presidents and Deans, as well as of the academic colleges, schools, departments, and other university agencies and entities.
The archives also contain architectural drawings and plans for the campus, records of the Board of Regents and other selected records of the University of Nevada System.
The University Archives also houses copies of all theses and dissertations submitted by UNLV students. These are indexed by name and academic department, and can be accessed via index cards for those papers submitted prior to 1996, and via an electronic database within the department for those written from 1996 to the present.
The University Archives
date from when higher education was first introduced to Las Vegas as
a series of extension courses from the University of Nevada, Reno for Clark County school teachers
in 1951, and as the Southern Regional Division of the University of Nevada
in 1957.
The records within the University Archives are divided into five series. Click here for a list of the University Archives Series.
Please note that full-text versions of all UNLV theses and
dissertations from 1996 to the present can be accessed via the
library's website under Indexes and Databases at Digital
Dissertations/UMI Current Research and are available free
to UNLV students, faculty, and staff.
For further information
on the University Archives at UNLV Special Collections,
please contact the Manuscripts Librarian, Su Kim Chung at skchung@unlv.nevada.edu.