I've been quite busy here at gaming.unlv.edu. While revamping the main page, I decided to add more content to the site. Sitting on one of the world's greatest collections of gambling material, I've added a featured resource and featured book section.
The featured resource is a primary source found within the Gaming Collection, online, or both. It's something that will be helpful to people doing research into gambling. For example, the Nevada Gaming Abstract, the first featured resource, is one of the essential tools for tracking the financial performance of the state's casino industry. Each featured resource entry will explain the resource in question's context, what it does, and where to find it.
The featured book is a publication about gambling that, because of its age, influence, or both, I consider important enough to spotlight. This is not a book review section: rather, I just talk a little about the book and its place in the gaming research pantheon.
I'm going to keep the inaugural editions up for a little while. Once I spread word of mouth about the site's new capabilities, I'll start changing them once a week or so.
The featured resource is a primary source found within the Gaming Collection, online, or both. It's something that will be helpful to people doing research into gambling. For example, the Nevada Gaming Abstract, the first featured resource, is one of the essential tools for tracking the financial performance of the state's casino industry. Each featured resource entry will explain the resource in question's context, what it does, and where to find it.
The featured book is a publication about gambling that, because of its age, influence, or both, I consider important enough to spotlight. This is not a book review section: rather, I just talk a little about the book and its place in the gaming research pantheon.
I'm going to keep the inaugural editions up for a little while. Once I spread word of mouth about the site's new capabilities, I'll start changing them once a week or so.
