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.
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
This material is made available to facilitate private study, scholarship, or research. It may be protected by copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity rights, or other interests not owned by UNLV. Users are responsible for determining whether permissions are necessary from rights owners for any intended use and for obtaining all required permissions. Acknowledgement of the UNLV University Libraries is requested. For more information, please see the UNLV Special Collections policies on reproductions and use or contact us at special.collections@unlv.edu.
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. http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/f1x31w
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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. Files were not transferred off of one optical disc due to data corruption. The optical disc remains in its original format and is described in the inventory. In 2025, Olivia Rodriguez created access copies of digital files following UNLV Special Collections and Archives Digital Preservation guidelines and updated the descriptions in the finding aid.