Elmer Curley is known simply as Curley. He came to Las Vegas to work in the area of public service for the UNLV library in August 1967. Thus he launched a lifelong move from a smaller community north of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Las Vegas. He only imagined it would be a four to five year move. To his amazement he continue to live here and retired shortly before this interview after a successful career at the library. During this narrative he talks about moving into the University Park Apartments, working with a small budget in the earlier years of the "round building" library, and the humor of receiving book donations that could result in multiple copies of a title. Over the years since 1967, Curley worked with a long list of the various directors observed many changes to the city and experienced the inspiring growth of UNLV.

Edith Warren Corliss at 18 years old in 1882. Family history with image reads: "Later married and became Mrs Edwin Giles. [Edith Warren Corliss Giles] is the mother of Edith Corliss Giles... who married and became Mrs John Lucas Cadogan. [Edith Corliss Giles Cadogan and John Lucas Cadogan] had daughter Jane Alice Cadogan, who was born in Mazatlan, Mexico in the year 1931."