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Photograph of Laralee Nelson, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, May 1992
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Archival Collection
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Cataloging Librarian Laralee Nelson at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Libraries.
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#64779: Nelson, Wendy, 2005 August 23
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (2000s)
Box/Folder: N/A
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#60961: Nelson, Jim, 1995 November 16
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (1990s)
Box/Folder: N/A
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Nelson Riddle Orchestra, 2002 August 03
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Stardust Resort and Casino Records
Box/Folder: Box 346
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Film transparency of Nelson's Landing, Nevada, after September 14, 1974
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Archival Collection
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Photograph of Eldorado Canyon and Nelson's Landing after the September 1974 flood
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Archival Collection
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Eldorado Canyon and Nelson's Landing at the end of the cleanup after the 14 September 1974 Flood.
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Machinery, Nelson, Nevada, approximately 1930-1949
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: L. F. Manis Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Box 05
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Transcript of interview with Dorothy Engel Andre by Elizabeth Nelson Patrick, October 17, 1980
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Archival Collection
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Film transparency showing a car on a road in Nelson, Nevada, circa 1930s-1940s
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Archival Collection
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Transcript of interview with Laralee Nelson by Claytee White, April 20, 2010
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Archival Collection
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Laralee Nelson and her four sisters were born and raised in Provo, Utah. She was raised in a Mormon household, her parents worked at Brigham Young University and she attended BYU She was .nearly thirty years old when she moved to Las Vegas with her husband. The move was the first real move away from her Utah home base. She fondly recalls summers at an archaeological dig in Israel while studying for her undergraduate degree. But these were nothing compared to relocating to Las Vegas. Laralee's mother was a librarian at BYU and an obvious inspiration to her career choice. Once she arrived in Las Vegas, she applied for a cataloging position at UNLV. From 1982 to 2010, it was her first and only position. From that span of years, she witnessed monumental changes in the library. Changes in leadership, a move from the old Dickinson Library to the new Lied Library, and the impact of technology. Laralee's anecdotes, especially one about the professor with the red wagon and another about her father clearing a rocky path on a family trip, reveal core success of a library built to serve the university community.
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