Friends of the University Libraries

Recent Events

Nevada Writers Hall of Fame

November 8, 2007
ArrowCreek Country Club, Reno
20th Annual Nevada Writers Hall of Fame to honor inductees Emma Sepulveda and Douglas Unger. Richard Moreno and Willy Vlautin received Silver Pen awards. Read the story in Nevada News, September 14, 2007.

 

Sweet Promised Land 50th Anniversary Celebration

June 5th, 2007
Getchell Library, University of Nevada, Reno
The Friends of the Library held a reception and readings to honor the 50th anniversary of Robert Laxalt’s much-beloved Nevada book, Sweet Promised Land. Story in Friends Newsletter, Summer 2007. Video: 50th Anniversary Celebration 5 June 2007, in Getchell Library (55:25)

 

Chair-i-ty Auction Artown Event

July 10, 2005, 4 p.m.
McKinley Arts & Culture Center, Reno
Guest Auctioneer: Mark Eastman
Music provided by jazz artist Hans Halt of the University's School of the Arts.
Over 60 University lecture hall chairs, retired from campus use, were adopted by Nevada artists, community leaders and celebrities and turned into art objects ranging from elegant to outrageous, classic to avant-garde. The event was covered by Lenita Powers of the Reno Gazette-Journal: "Artsy Chairs Take Front Seat in [Artown] Schedule." Photographs of the chairs after their adoption by Nevada artists

Giving to the University Libraries

Please direct questions to Millie Mitchell
Director of Development, University Libraries
Updated June 13, 2008