Audio, Video & Photos from the Knowledge Center
Audio
Small Talk, Big Ideas
The following lectures were delivered as part of one of our Spring semester series of informal conversations with UNR professors hosted by the Knowledge Center.
- Radically Transparent: Monitoring and managing reputations online
- Are people talking about you online? Dr. Judy Strauss has developed a detailed blueprint for building, managing, and repairing your online reputation.
- Date of Recording: 21 April 2010
- Reno's Big Gamble: Image and reputation in the biggest little city
- Gambling, prostitution and the possibility of easy divorce put Reno on the map. Dr. Alicia Barber's book tells the story of how Reno has shaped its identity from a backward railroad town to a lively tourist mecca.
- Date of Recording: 18 April 2010
- Exploring Planetary Surfaces
- Dr. Wendy Calvin, a geophysicist and planetary explorer, has spent the last decade exploring the surfaces of Mars, Ganymede, and Pluto's satellite Charon. Her work with the NASA Mars Exploration Rover Mission has resulted in articles in Science and other prestigious journals.
- Date of Recording: 24 March 2010
- Fantastic Nevada
- As an award-winning fantasy author, Dr. Susan Palwick is known for her novels Flying in Place, Shelter and The Necessary Beggar. In this recording, Dr. Palwick considers the ways in which the state of Nevada lends itself to speculative fiction.
- Date of Recording: 7 March 2010
- Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon: The forgotten history of an American shrine
- Dr. Scott Casper of the Department of History discusses his book, which provides an intimate picture of Mount Vernon during the late 19th century, and explores the remarkable history of the lives and contributions of African Americans who played an essential part in creating and maintaining this American landmark.
- Date of Recording: 24 February 2010
Videos
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Small Talk, Big Ideas
The following lectures were delivered as part of one of our Spring semester series of informal conversations with UNR professors hosted by the Knowledge Center.
- Protest, Memory and Reenactment
- Joseph DeLappe, Professor of the Department of Art, discusses art and activism as realized in both virtual and real territories. As a media artist he has created a series of protests, interventions, and reenactments within computer games and online communities.
- Date of Recording: 16 February 2011
- The Polaris Project: Rising stars studying climate change in the Arctic and mountain lakes
- Sudeep Chandra, Associate Professor of Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, researches innovative ways to fight invasive species that are threatening Lake Tahoe’s ecology. He is also a principal investigator with the Polaris Project, an international team of scientists studying climate change in the Arctic. He will discuss global warming and lakes, focusing on his interests in Lake Tahoe and arctic lakes.
- Date of Recording: 27 April 2011
Special Collections
UNR Footage Circa 1930s
- Filmed by Ned Westover, footage includes the 1939 Reno Rodeo and other stock footage of ice skating, skiing, and locations around the UNR campus.
Special Collections of the University of Nevada, Reno
- A student-edited video designed for a journalism class project by Robin Bigda. Provides an overview of what you can expect to find in the Special Collections, from illustrated manuscripts to Western US art.
Miscellaneous
KTVN-TV Channel 2 Report
The Knowledge Center made the local news, featured for its vision of the 21st Century library. Video courtesy of KTVN-TV.
Download Options:- Streaming Video (Adobe Flash Player)
"Insight to Knowledge: Student Perspectives on the Knowledge Center"
A student directed welcome documentary produced by the Dynamic Media Center department.
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MARS Cam
Take a tour of the inner workings of the Mathewson Automated Retrieval System (MARS), from material request to pick-up to delivery, through the eye of the "Mars Cam".
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KC Construction Time Lapse
Time lapse video of the Knowledge Center construction project from grass lot to completion.
Download Options:- Large (Windows Media Video: 84 MB)
- Special Collections of the University of Nevada, Reno
A student-edited video designed for a journalism class project by Robin Bigda. Provides an overview of what you can expect to find in the Special Collections, from illustrated manuscripts to Western US art.
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Bonanza! How Virginia City has touched the world for 150 years
Part of the "Comstock Conversation" series in Fall 2009, held to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the discovery of the Comstock Lode. Lecture is by Ron James, Nevada Historic Preservation Officer
Download Options- Streaming Video (Adobe Flash Player)
UNR Libraries History in Photographs
A history of the UNR Libraries through a photographic slideshow.
Streaming Options- Streaming Video (Adobe Flash Player)
Photos
- Construction Photo Gallery. 13 pages of photos taken at various stages of building construction.
- Knowledge Center Photos from the University Digital Conservancy.
- Our Flickr Photostream
Send us your personal photos. The rules: they have to be somehow relevant to the Knowledge Center; they must not be inappropriate; and they have to be your photos. We'll upload them, tag them, give you credit, and just generally take care of the rest, letting you know when your snapshots have made it into the gallery. Use the contact information in the sidebar. - Other Flickr Photos Tagged "Knowledge Center"
University of Nevada Reno on iTunes U
iTunes U is a campus-wide repository and distribution system for educational multimedia content. The University Libraries have a corner of the virtual "Campus Community" from which you may download some of our video and audio files.
Upload them to your iPod or merely to listen at your computer. You can even subscribe and have new content delivered straight to your iTunes when it's uploaded.
In order to access these files through iTunes U, you must have Apple's free iTunes software installed to your computer.
Currently Available through iTunes U
- Lectures, Talks & Discussions
- "Exploring Planetary Surfaces." Dr. Wendy Calvin.
- "Fantastic Nevada." Dr. Susan Palwick.
- "Radically Transparent." Dr. Judy Strauss.
- "Reno's Big Gamble." Dr. Alicia Barber.
- "Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon." Dr. Scott Casper.
