Hosted by: Fred McIlvain

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

Stressed out by research demands?  Worried about MLA, APA, and other citation demands?  In this week’s Library Minute, Anali shares a hidden secret to achieve research Zen:  attending timely and informative library workshops.

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• Full workshop descriptions and schedule

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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

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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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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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

Did you know plenty of Library resources are available to you from your My ASU dashboard?

In this installment of The Library Minute Anali Perry tells us about the handy library links found on My ASU. You’ll see how you can utilize your My ASU dashboard to directly search Google Scholar or one of five other important databases, without leaving My ASU. You can also search inside the library catalog for books and other materials, log into your library account to renew books and check on your holds, and much more!

Watch the streaming video or download it to learn about all of these dynamic features.

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Need quality information fast? Our librarians can get you started right away.  This week Anali introduces you to the ASU Libraries’ LibGuides.

LibGuides are resources handpicked by our subject librarians covering a wide variety of subjects and courses taught at Arizona State University.  Because they list only the best items for your subject, they can save you lots of time sorting by getting you right to what you need.  They also provide quick contact information for the subject librarian for each one — so you can quickly get help from an expert in that area.

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Check out our LibGuides online by choosing the “Find Subject and Course Guides” link from the library’s web site.

In this week’s Library Minute Anali Perry introduces ASU’s Ask a Librarian service.   Ask a Librarian provides options to get you quickly in touch with our knowledgeable and experienced reference librarians.  These librarians are here to help you succeed in your scholarship and research at ASU.   You’ve got four ways to Ask a Librarian:  Chat, email, phone, and in person.

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For more information visit ASU Ask a Librarian:  http://lib.asu.edu/help

For technical help with library systems contact our helpdesk: http://lib.asu.edu/systems/helpstar

The Library Minute is a weekly program telling you about the resources and services at all of the ASU Libraries in one minute.