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Gaming management and operational control files, 1965 to 2009
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Materials contain manuals, statistics, reports, publications, research files, pamphlets, and newspaper articles created and collected by Gary W. Royer as a Nevada Gaming Control Board auditing agent, gaming consultant, and researcher (1965-2009). The series is primarily comprised of research files about various gaming facilities, mainly in Nevada, that include management and operational control procedure manuals, reports, and statistics. Also included are files about Native American gaming that include management and operational control procedure manuals, reports, and gaming compacts. The series also contains publications and reports created by Royer’s company, Casino Control Corporation (CCC). The series also includes manuals and reports about various aspects of casino management and operational control including accounting, auditing, lottery, automatic data processing, keno, and slots.
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Collection Name: Gary W. Royer Collection on Gaming
Box/Folder: N/A
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Hernando Amaya oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Hernando Amaya conducted by Laurents Banuelos-Benitez, Marcela Rodriguez-Campo, and Barbara Tabach on October 18, 2018 and December 3, 2018 for the Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada Oral History Project. In this interview, Hernando Amaya talks about his childhood and education in Bogota, Colombia. He discusses his start in journalism as a young man and working for El Espectador, the Colombian national newspaper. He discusses his experiences reporting on the narco-terrorism occurring in Medellin, Colombia and how this eventually led to his immigration to the United States. Amaya moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 2001 and continued his career in journalism by working for local Spanish speaking papers and websites. He relates his civic involvement in the Las Vegas area, his work as the president of the Colombian Association of Las Vegas, and various other civic engagements. As a journalist, he asserts the importance of knowing one's culture, storytelling, learning history, and being active in the community.
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UNLV Libraries Collection of American Advertising Federation ADDY Award Submissions
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The UNLV Libraries Collection of American Advertising Federation: ADDY Award Submissions Collection is compromised of Las Vegas, Nevada ADDY award submissions dating from approximately 1980 to 1999. The collection contains submissions by many artists to the ADDYS competition.
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Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate University of Nevada, Las Vegas, March 4, 1985
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Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, November 8, 1983
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Nevada Federation of Women's Clubs Records
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The Nevada Federation of Women's Clubs (NFWC) Records date from 1907 until 1999 and document the administration, activities, and publications of the NFWC. During the twentieth century, the NFWC included member clubs from throughout the state of Nevada including the Mesquite Club in Las Vegas, the Reno Women's Civic Club, and the Lamoille Women's Club. The collection includes meeting minutes and agendas, correspondence, publications, reports, and newspaper clippings.
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Stand OUT for Equality Records
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The Stand OUT for Equality Records (2008-2011) contain correspondence, lobbying materials, press kits, promotional materials, expense reports, meeting agendas and minutes, certificates, and notes pertaining to the 2009 and 2011 lobbying efforts by Stand OUT for Equality for gay and straight domestic partnership benefits and transgender rights held in Carson City, Nevada. The collection also contains photographic prints of the 2009 and 2011 Equality Days in Carson City, copies of legislation related to domestic partnerships in Nevada, event invitations, newspaper clippings, and optical discs with digital copies of fliers, posters, logos, manuals, training videos, and photographs, as well as templates and budgeting information.
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Question 2 debate: Richard Ziser and Liz Moore, 2002 September 26
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Question 2 was an anti-same-sex marriage constitutional amendment passed by popular referendum in Nevada in 2000 and 2002. This video records a debate between Richard Ziser, director of the referendum's sponsoring organization, the Coalition for the Protection of Marriage in Nevada [CPM], and Liz Moore, director of Equal Rights Nevada [ERN], an organization established by the Nevada queer community to fight Question 2. The program which hosted this debate, moderated by announcer Nancy Byrne, was Day One Vegas, a call-in half-hour public affairs program sponsored by the Las Vegas Sun newspaper and broadcast on Las Vegas ONE, a 24-hour local news network which was a collaboration among the Las Vegas Sun, KLAS-TV Channel 8, and Prime Cable [Prime was purchased in 1998 by Cox Cable/Cox Communications], on channels 1 and 39. The general manager of Las Vegas ONE was Robert "Bob" Stoldal. The network operated from April 6, 1998 through January 9, 2010. For the story of Question 2, see Out of the Neon Closet: Queer Community in the Silver State, by Dennis McBride [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016], pp. 103, 257, 273, 277-302, 309-312. [00:00:00 - 00:31:11]
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Collection Name: Las Vegas, Nevada LGBTQ Collection
Box/Folder: Box 19, Digital File 00
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