Abstract
The Bruce Turner Collection on Transportation and Water in Southern Nevada contains reports, publications, legal files, project proposals, journal articles, financial reports, photographs, and maps concerning transportation policy and water usage in Southern Nevada from 1980 to 2014. The collection contains documents from organizations including the Regional Transportation Commissions of Clark County and Southern Nevada, the Clark County Department of Air Quality and Environmental Management, Clark County Comprehensive Planning, the Urban Land Institute, the City of Las Vegas Neighborhood Services Department, the Southern Nevada Water Authority, and the Las Vegas Valley Water District.
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Scope and Contents Note
The Bruce Turner Collection on Transportation and Water in Southern Nevada contains reports, publications, legal files, project proposals, journal articles, financial , photographs, and maps concerning transportation policy and water usage in Southern Nevada from 1980 to 2014. The collection contains documents from organizations including the Regional Transportation Commissions of Clark County and Southern Nevada, the Clark County Department of Air Quality and Environmental Management, Clark County Comprehensive Planning, the Urban Land Institute, the City of Las Vegas Neighborhood Services Department, the Southern Nevada Water Authority, and the Las Vegas Valley Water District. Some of the files in the collection have corresponding digital files and were transferred off optical discs.
Access Note
Collection is open for research. Arrangements must be made in advance in order to access digital files; please contact UNLV Special Collections and Archives for additional information.
Publication Rights
Materials in this collection may be protected by copyrights and other rights. See
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Arrangement
Materials are arranged by topic.
Biographical / Historical Note
Bruce Turner acted as the Director of Planning Services for the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada between February 1990 and June 2010. He also served as a commander in the United States Navel Reserve between August 1968 and June 1995. Turner received a Ph.D. in Sociology in 2012 from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas after defending his dissertation titled "Cooperation, Competition and the Development of Institutional Capacity: Civil Rights and Public Transportation in Southern Nevada." To do so, Turner collected research material while working for the Transportation Commission. Turner previously taught sociology part time at the College of Southern Nevada, and has since taught sociology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, beginning in 2017.
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Turner, Bruce Edwin,
Preferred Citation
Bruce Turner Collection on Transportation and Water in Southern Nevada, 1980-2014. MS-00648. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Acquisition Note
Materials were donated in 2014 by Bruce Turner; accession number 2014-039.
Processing Note
The collection was minimally processed by Tom Sommer, while the biographical and scope and contents notes were written by Lindsay Oden in 2015 at the time of accessioning. In 2019, as part of an archival backlog elimination project, Jimmy Chang rehoused the collection and revised the collection description to bring it into compliance with current professional standards. In 2020, Sarah Jones processed the born-digital material and transferred files off the optical discs.