Hosted by: Fred McIlvain

Guests:
Karrie Porter Brace
Zac Humphrey
Episode 101 Running Time: 23:02

Take a minute with librarian Anali Perry to learn about the great online tutorials from the ASU Libraries. These short handy tutorials are available wherever you are and whenever you need them – day or night.  From the very basics to more advanced lessons, we have you covered. Check them out!

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Anali Perry hosts a discussion with three ASU professors about Open Access issues, their own open access activities, and the Open Access Week exhibit at the Tempe campus October. 12-23.  The Open Access movement encourages providing access to scholarly literature that is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.

 
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For more information about Open Access please visit the Scholarly Communication LibGuide.

Dr. Jane Maienschein is a Regents’ Professor, President’s Professor, and Parents Association Professor,  and Director of the Center of Biology & Society in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University and Director of the Embryo Project Encyclopedia.  Dr. Maienschein is also featured on another Library Channel Podcast where she goes into more detail about the Embryo Project.

Dr. Claudia Mesch is an Associate Professor of Art History in the School of Art at Arizona State University and founding editor of the Journal of Surrealism and the Americas.

Dr. Michael Smith, Professor of Archaeology in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at ASU, also blogs about archaeology and scholarly publishing at Publishing Archaeology.

Host:
Anali Perry

Guests:
Dr. Jane Maienschein
Dr. Claudia Mesch
Dr. Michael Smith

Running Time: 35:32

In this Library Minute we introduce you to some new tools we have rolled out this fall. Learn about the the New ASU Libraries’ toolbar, RefMobile, and how to use our express checkout machines! Take a minute and get ahead of your game!

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We want your feedback! Anali Perry invites students to join the ASU Libraries Student Advisory Committee, which connects students to the libraries administration.  Students on this committee have the opportunity to make suggestions, provide feedback and influence decisions about library services and resources.  Plus it can be fun!

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Take a minute and let Anali tell you about some of the great features of EBSCOhost Academic Search™ Premier.

Don’t know what it is?

Academic Search™ Premier is a great place to start your research for almost any subject.  Academic Search Premier is a research database – like a specialized search engine –  that provides fast access to the full text of over 8,450 journals when you need results now!  You can also directly export your citations into your favorite bibliographic management software.

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On August 11, 2009 the ASU Libraries hosted a special event in the Luhrs Reading Room to celebrate the US Postal Service issuance of a Steve Allen commemorative postage stamp.

Steve Allen, the original host of “The Tonight Show,” is on one of the 20 Early TV Memories collection commemorative stamps. Allen started his broadcasting career in Phoenix and has donated memorabilia from his life to ASU. The Phoenix Postmaster donated a 30×38 replica of the stamp to ASU to accompany Allen’s archival collection that is preserved by our Special Collections. University Librarian Sherrie Schmidt received the stamp replica on behalf of the ASU Libraries.

University Librarian Sherrie Schmidt and Phoenix Postmaster Alvaro A. Averez

For more information about special Steve Allen items in the ASU Libraries Archives and Special Collections, please visit the Luhrs Reading Room on Level 4 of Hayden Library on ASU’s Tempe campus.  Or contact Luhrs at 480-965-4932.

Image information:  University Librarian Sherrie Schmidt and Phoenix Postmaster Alvaro Alvarez unveil the commemorative Steve Allen Stamp on August 11, 2009

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Anali gives you the scoop on finding, checking out, and returning any number of our 4 million library books.
She shows you how the location and request links work; explains the grace period; and how to recall items!

Checking Out Books with Anali Perry, an easy peasy recipe for successful research at ASU Libraries!

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Facts:
No limit on books, just as many as you can carry.
30 day grace period in addition to normal checkout.
Use your Sun Card at the desk or one of our express machines.
You can renew online as many times as you like.
You can recall books checked out by someone else.

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On Friday evening from 8pm – 4am, Exlibris managed Services engineers will be performing the following activities:

Replacement of one of the border switches for added port capacity.

The “Get it @ ASU” service will be down during that time. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Photographer, amateur radio operator, politician, adventurer, outdoorsman, humanitarian, presidential candidate, and father are just a few things to describe the life and career of Senator Barry M. Goldwater.

In this episode Fred McIlvain talks with Arizona Historical Foundation archivists Linda Whitaker, Susan Irvin and Rebekah Tabah on the debut of the Personal and Political Papers of Senator Barry M. Goldwater after 5 years of heavy lifting (literally and figuratively) processing the collection.

When Barry Goldwater founded the Arizona Historical Foundation nearly 50 years ago, the last thing he would have expected is to find his papers in disarray. It is the ultimate irony, that a man who saved everything for posterity, would leave a collection requiring tough interventions so that it could be fully processed and cataloged. For all practical purposes this collection had remained largely unprocessed and hidden confounding researchers worldwide.

 
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Collection Vital Statistics:
• 1180 linear feet (970 boxes)
• 8,000 un-mounted photographs, 1,500 negatives, 5,000 slides, 110 photo albums
• 107 news clipping scrapbooks (many digitized to searchable CDs)
• 480 reels of microfilm (all digitized to searchable CDs)
• 1,028 film reels, cassettes, and tapes
• 896 pages (finding aid)
• 1.14 million documents
• 125+ years (1880s-2008) of Arizona and U.S. History

Host:
Fred McIlvain

Guests:
Linda Whitaker
Susan Irvin
Rebekah Tabah

Episode 99
Running Time: 25:48