James Luna surveys 30 years of his exhibitions and performances with examples of visual presentations and performance works. His entertaining and painful anecdotes tackle issues of strife, misconceptions, and commodification of all ethnicity and expose issues faced by Native Americans. This presentation is unique among the Simon Ortiz and Labriola Center lecture series as James Luna notes, “Performance isn’t something that you talk about. It’s something you do. The visuals talk for themselves.”

View more videos from the series on YouTube.

Download Presentation (mp4)
Lecture Video available for download at the Internet Archive.

Recorded Thursday, Mar. 21, 2013

Bio: Internationally renowned performance and installation artist James Luna (Puyukitchum/Luiseño) resides on the La Jolla Indian Reservation in North County San Diego, California. With over 30 years of exhibition and performance experience, Luna has given voice to Native American cultural issues, pursued innovative and versatile media within his disciplines, and charted waters for other artists to follow. His powerful works transform gallery spaces into battlefields, where the audience is confronted with the nature of cultural identity, the tensions generated by cultural isolation, and the dangers of cultural misinterpretations, all from an Indigenous perspective.

Since 1975, he has had over 41 solo exhibitions, participated in 85 group exhibitions and has performed internationally at venues that include the Museum of Modern Art (NYC), Whitney Museum of American Art, New Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Canada, and Museum of Contemporary Native Art, Santa Fe, NM.

He has received numerous grants and awards throughout his career and most notably in 2005, he was selected as the first Sponsored Artist of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian presented at the 2005 Venice Biennale’s 51st International Art Exhibition in Venice, Italy. In 2012 Luna received an honorary doctorate from the Institute of American Indian Arts, IAIA, the premier institute for Native Americans art of all kinds.

“It is my feeling that artwork in the media of performance and installation offers an opportunity like no other for Indian people to express themselves in traditional art forms of ceremony, dance, oral traditions and contemporary thought, without compromise. Within these (nontraditional) spaces … there is no limit to how and what is expressed.”—JAMES LUNA

ASU Sponsors: American Indian Policy Institute | American Indian Studies Program | Department of English | Faculty of History in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies | Women and Gender Studies in the School of Social Transformation (all units in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences) | Indian Legal Program in the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law | Labriola National American Indian Data Center

Community Partner: Heard Museum 

Exhibit: TRAnSFoRmATion

Artists: South Mountain High School, Center for Visual Arts

Location: Fletcher Library, at the West campus: second and third floors

Available: May 6 – June 1, 2013 during normal library hours

Description:

A marked change, as in appearance or character, usually for the better, Transformation is the theme for South Mountain High School’s annual art exhibition at the ASU West’s Fletcher Library for 2013. Art students in all of the visual arts classes including the magnet program interpreted the idea of transformation through the lens of their various disciplines: ceramics, digital arts, drawing, painting, fiber arts, jewelry and photography. They used it to express their own spirit, observations and idea.

For further information: http://phoenixunion.schoolwires.net//site/Default.aspx?PageID=2306

Student Book Collecting Contest

W. Daniel Holcombe – Graduate Student, Spanish Literature and Culture, School of International Letters and Cultures - Best Collection – $600

Title of the collection: Queer evolutions: from gay and lesbian studies to queer Hispanic analyses

Lindsay McEuen – Graduate Student, Masters in Theatre for Youth, School of Theatre and Film - Best Essay – $300

Title of the collection: Theatre for Children: Kid Stuff or Theatre?

Alyssa Hansen – Undergraduate Student, Filmmaking practices, School of Theatre and Film – Best Collection – $600

Title of the collection: Between the Lines: Favorite Books and The People Who Created Them.

Contest winners have been invited to a luncheon later this month where they will be recognized.

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Downtown Phoenix campus Library

Please note:  The Cronkite Building on the Downtown Phoenix campus is open for computing and studying 24/7 from Monday April 29 through Friday May 3, when it closes at 6pm.

• April 29-May 2 (Monday – Thursday):  7am-11pm
• May 3 (Friday): 7am -7 pm
• May 4 (Saturday): 10am-6pm
• May 5 (Sunday): 1pm-9pm
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• May 8 (Wednesday): 7am-8pm 
• May 9 (Thursday): 9am-5pm

Polytechnic campus Library

• April 22-25 (Monday-Thursday): 8am-1am
• April 26 (Friday): 8am-9pm
• April 27 (Saturday): 10am-6pm
• April 28 (Sunday): 2pm-1am
• April 29-May 2 (Monday-Thursday):  8am-1am
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Tempe campus

• Hayden Library

• Open 24/7 from Sunday April 28 at 10am through Thursday May 9 at 7pm
• May 10 (Friday) 8am – 5 pm

• Noble Science and Engineering Library

• May 1-2 (Wednesday-Thursday): 7am-2am
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• May 8 (Wednesday): 7am-9pm
• May 9 (Thursday): 7am-7pm

• AED Library

• May 1-8 open during normal library hours
• May 9 (Thursday) 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
  
• Music Library

• May 1-7 open during normal library hours
• May 8 (Wednesday) 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
• May 9 (Thursday) 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

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• May 1-2 (Wednesday-Thursday):  8am-1am
• May 3 (Friday): 8am-9pm
• May 4 (Saturday): 10am-6pm
• May 5 (Sunday): Noon-1am
• May 6-7 (Monday-Tuesday): 8am-1am
• May 8 (Wednesday): 8am-5pm
• May 9 (Thursday): 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM

We wish all ASU students good luck on your finals!

Panelists describe the results of the recent collection survey completed by Stephanie Crowe, the nature of collecting and collections, museum preservation concerns, and the importance of this collection in advancing scholarship in the history of science.

Recorded on March 21st as part of the opening celebration of the Lucy’s Legacy Exhibit

Download Lucy’s Legacy (MP4)

Opening Remarks:

• Dan Gilfillan Acting Director of the Institute for Humanities Research
• Bill Kimbel Institute of Human Origins Director
• Donald  Johanson Institute of Human Origins Founding Director

Panelists:

• Nancy Dallett Assistant Director, Public History Program School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies
• Richard Toon Director, Museum Studies Program School of Human Evolution and Social Change
• Jane Maienschein Director, Center for Biology and Society School of Life Sciences
• Rob Spindler University Archivist and Archives and Special Collections ASU Libraries

About the Exhibit:

Lucy’s Legacy: Preserving the Search for Human Origins, a public exhibition from the collection will be available for public viewing through Spring 2013 in the Hayden Library Rotunda and Luhrs Gallery on the 4th floor of Hayden Library, during normal library hours. Discovered in Hadar, Ethiopia, November 24, 1974, by a young paleoanthropologist, Donald Johanson, and determined to be a new species—Australopithecus afarensis—Lucy was the first example of an upright walking, bipedal human ancestor, living 3.2 million years ago. Other examples of this species have been found, but none as complete as this specimen.

The Institute of Human Origins is a research center of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change.

“African Stars” by Janice M. Parson

Exhibit: Imagine This

Artists: Cocoa Quilters

Location: Polytechnic campus Library

Available: April 6, 2013 –June 30, 2013 during normal library hours

Description: An exhibit of six African American quilts is currently on display at the Arizona State University Polytechnic Campus Library. The exhibit features the works of Sharon Hudson-Clinton, Pamela Howard, Kim James, Janice Parson, Gwendolyn Smith, and Sheila Woods Stokes. These quilters are members of a group called Cocoa Quilters. There will be a mix of old and new quilts that reflects the tradition and the art of modern quilt making.

Dan Mayer and John Risseeuw of the Pyracantha Press and Robert Spindler of Special Collections celebrate the gift of "Moon Journey". Photo by Dreylon Vang.

Dan Mayer and John Risseeuw of ASU’s Pyracantha Press donated their most recent work entitled Moon Journey to the ASU Libraries Special Collections. Created by Claudia Smigrod with Jake Dingman and Sam Dingman in 2012, the gift is a stunningly complex book of photo imagery, text, embossments, and music. The attractive volume includes 17 pinhole photographs digitally printed and complemented by embossments and text written by Jake Dingman. A compact disc presented on the colophon page offers music composed by Sam Dingman that responds to the text and photos. Each page is printed in handset Baskerville type on Somerset paper; with digital photos printed on Moab Entrata paper.

This limited edition has also been acquired by distinguished libraries of Yale University, Swarthmore College and the Rochester Institute of Technologies.

Moon Journey, along with many other artistic works of the Pyracantha Press, is available for viewing at the Luhrs Reading Room, fourth floor of Hayden Library, 9-6 Monday-Friday until commencement. Contact Special Collections at 480.965.4932 for information about Saturday appointments this spring, or for summer hours at the Luhrs Reading Room.

Contact:        Robert Spindler
University Archivist and Head
Archives and Special Collections

rob.spindler@asu.edu
480.965.9277

Available: Week of April 1st

Location:  Fletcher Library Atrium (West campus)

Description: In honor of National Autism Awareness Month and World Autism Awareness Day on April 2, Fletcher Library in conjunction with the Disability Resource Center has created a display highlighting Autism.

Special Event: A lecture will also be presented in the Kiva Lecture Hall on April 2 from 4 – 5:30, entitled Autism Speaks, ASU Listens. Experts will discuss Autism and Aspergers. Everyone is also encouraged to wear blue on April 2nd. These events are part of Autism Awareness week 2013.

Exhibit:

Available: April 1 through April 30^th during normal library hours

Location: Fletcher Library, second floor, West campus

Description: With a total of 27 photographic pieces of liquid, all created over a two year span, Chace’s Liquid Project give us insight into the many colours, textures, tones, and forms liquid can take. From the simplicity of “Flicker” to the intricacy of “Gi”, these vivid images are meant to show the extremes of liquid and perhaps reveal the beauty of something we see almost every day…something so typical yet vital, something so basic but fundamental, and something so flexible yet strong. Not many substances can claim these features and not many photographers have taken such a fresh approach to capturing liquid.

Special Event: An opening reception is scheduled for Thursday, April 4^th from 6 – 8 pm, Fletcher Library second floor atrium.

For more information please go to www.chacephotography.com or email: ctaylor@chacephotography.com or

Event

Date/Time:  Date Change:  Monday April 1, 12 Noon

Location:  Labriola Center, Hayden Library, Room 209, Tempe campus

Awardee:  Dr. Daniel Herman, professor of history at Central Washington University, is the winner of the 5th annual Labriola Center National Book Award for his 2012 book Rim Country Exodus: A Story of Conquest, Renewal, and Race in the Making published by the University of Arizona Press.  ASU Distinguished Professor of History Dr. Donald Fixico will interview Dr. Daniel Herman about his award winning book and writing process in the Labriola Center.

About the Labriola Center:  Dedicated in 1993, the Labriola National American Indian Data Center in the Arizona State University (ASU) Libraries is one of the only repositories within a public university library devoted to American Indian collections. The Labriola Center holds both primary and secondary sources on American Indians across North America. The Center’s primary purpose is to promote a better understanding of American Indian language, culture, social, political and economic issues. The Labriola National American Indian Data Center has been endowed by Frank and Mary Labriola whose wish has been that “the Labriola Center be a source of education and pride for all Native Americans.”

About the Labriola Center American Indian National Book Awards:  Arizona State University is committed to American Indian scholarship and offers several academic programs led by noted American Indian faculty including a Bachelors of Science degree in American Indian Studies, an Indigenous Teacher Preparation Program, an American Indian nursing program, and the Indian Legal Program.  Books submitted for consideration for the Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award  cross multiple disciplines or fields of study, are relevant to contemporary North American Indian communities, and focus on modern tribal studies, modern biographies, tribal governments or federal Indian policy.

Previous winners of the Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award are:

• 2008 Daniel Cobb, inaugural winner for his book Native Activism in Cold War America: The Struggle for Sovereignty
• 2009 Paul Rosier, Associate Professor of History at Villanova for Serving Their Country: American Indian Politics and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century
• 2010 Malinda Lowry, Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for Race, Identity , and the Making of a Nation: Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South 
• 2011:  Cathleen Cahill, assistant professor of history at the University of New Mexico, for Federal Fathers and Mothers: A Social History of the United States Indian Service, 1869-1933

Exhibit

Location:  Hayden Library Rotunda, Luhrs Gallery (4th Floor)

Available:  Through Spring 2013, during normal library hours

Special Event:  Panel Discussion and Opening Reception, March 21, Hayden Library Room C6A/East, 3:30pm

Opening Presentation and Recption Event Photographs

Description:  “LUCY”—named the “Queen of the Fossil Skeletons” by the journal Science—has become the milestone by which all other discoveries in human origins are measured.

Discovered in Hadar, Ethiopia, November 24, 1974, by a young paleoanthropologist, Donald Johanson, and determined to be a new species—Australopithecus afarensis—Lucy was the first example of an upright walking, bipedal human ancestor, living 3.2 million years ago. Other examples of this species have been found, but none as complete as this specimen.

In 1981, Johanson created the Institute of Human Origins in Berkeley, California. The institute moved to ASU in 1997 and has become one of the preeminent research centers in the world for the study of human origins.

Over the past 30 years, the institute has continued its founding mission focused on multidisciplinary research to understand how we “became human,” educating the next generation of scientists and extending its research into the public arena. Johanson’s career as a scientist and champion of public awareness for the science of human origins represents the history and, sometimes controversial and contentious, evolution of ideas about human origins.

This exhibition—here in the Hayden Library Rotunda and on the 4th floor in the Luhrs Gallery—is a first step in assessing and preserving a collection that encompasses the largely intact life’s work of one of the most important field scientists of the 20th century and the creation and growth of a research institute that continues forward-thinking research into the course and timing of human development. The collection will provide scholars with a resource for understanding the historical, social, and cultural progress of scientific ideas about our human origins.

This project was funded through a Seed Grant from Institute for Humanities Research, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.  It was created in partnership with Institute of Human Origins, School of Human Evolution and Social Change; Museum Studies Program, School of Human Evolution and Social Change; Public History Program, School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies, and University Archives, ASU Libraries.

Do you use the Fletcher Library? Would you like to have a voice in shaping our future?

Please join Fletcher Library Director Dennis Isbell for lunch on Wednesday March 27, 2013, from Noon – 1:00 PM

This is your opportunity to offer insights on issues, share suggestions about library programs and services and to voice your concerns.

To sign up please email janice.kasperski@asu.edu or call Fletcher Library Administration at 602-543-8518

We appreciate working with the Undergraduate Student Government Downtown (USGD) on this expansion of service.

See the full schedule of hours for the Downtown Phoenix campus Library.

Exhibit

Location:  Hayden Library, Rotunda on the entrance level

Available:  Through March 3, 2013, during normal library hours

Description:  Sandow Birk provides a 21^st  century adaptation of Dante’s 14^th century epic poem of the descent into Hell, set in contemporary urban America.

About the artist: “Los Angeles artist Sandow Birk is a well traveled graduate of the Otis/Parson’s Art Institute. Frequently developed as expansive, multi-media projects, his works have dealt with contemporary life in its entirety. With an emphasis on social issues, frequent themes of his past work have included inner city violence, graffiti, political issues, travel, war, and prisons, as well as surfing and skateboarding. He was a recipient of an NEA International Travel Grant to Mexico City in 1995 to study mural painting, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1996, and a Fulbright Fellowship for painting to Rio de Janeiro for 1997. In 1999 he was awarded a Getty Fellowship for painting, followed by a City of Los Angeles (COLA) Fellowship in 2001. In 2007 he was an artist in residence at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC, and at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in 2008. His most recent project involves a consideration of the Qur’an as relevant to contemporary life in America.” (from the artist’s web page at   http://www.sandowbirk.com/)

Exhibit

Location:  Vault Gallery, Downtown Phoenix campus Library. (Located in UCENT Lower Level)

Available: Through end of February 2013, during normal library hours

Artist’s Statement:  About five years ago I began to explore photography more seriously than simply taking snapshots. I was intrigued by the possibility of capturing emotions as well as recording my travels. Through photo classes I found I was seeing shapes, colors, textures in new ways. I began to be more sensitive to the world around me, from large (the majesty of the Grand Canyon, the colors of the sky at sunset) to small (the stamens of a flower, the shadows cast by a lace curtain).

Great photographers say that what they exclude from their pictures is as important as what they include.
I will be curious to know what you see in these photographs. What do you think I should have included that I didn’t? What in these pictures could have been excluded?

In deciding which photos to exhibit, I discovered that I gravitate toward a series of broad themes, among them color, reflections, windows, and faces. Do you see other themes in this selection of photographs?

While color is not essential for a great photograph, color is often what catches my eye first. The riot of color in our world makes “looking” an inspiring and exciting activity.

Reflections appeal to me because the viewer gets multiple images, not just one version of reality. In this exhibit, reflections take several forms including mirrors, water, and windows, even green glass balls.

I think of windows as a way to gain a glimpse of another world. Some of these photos frame a slice of nature through a window frame, while others give a glimpse from the outside of a shady interior.

And of course we humans are instinctively drawn to faces, to images of the wide variety of people who inhabit our world. For a long time I was afraid to take pictures of people, not wanting to be an intruder, but I discovered that many people are flattered to be photographed. Children often ask to have their pictures taken so they can see themselves in the back of the camera. Convulsive giggles often follow.

Of course these four themes overlap in the photos in this exhibit. There are windows with reflections, faces in windows, colorful reflections, and colorful faces. The combinations make it fun!

About the Artist:  Kathryn Mohrman is Professor of Practice in the School of Public Affairs; she also directs ASU projects in China and Vietnam.

Exhibit

Sponsorship:  This event is sponsored by the Cultural Arts Coalition

Location: Fletcher Library, west campus

Available: January 18 – March 8, 2013 during normal library hours

Description:
Echoes —-a mixed-media visual arts exhibit—will be displayed at Arizona State University West campus, Fletcher Library (2nd and 3rd floors), January 22 – March 8, 2013. The exhibit features the work of previous South Mountain High School visual arts students and teachers, and artists-in-residence who have all collaborated on community projects.

This exhibit is an “echo” of the SMHS art program (1995 – 2010) and is curated by Marc Arvallo (SMHS class of 2009) and Janet Broyles, SMHS Visual Arts teacher (1992 – 2010). According to Marc, “this exhibit has tapped into each of the participating artists’ lives. Through the process of making art, we are reminded of who we are, where we came from and where we have yet to go. But ultimately this exhibit has shown us how closely connected and united we truly are as students, as artists and as humans.”

An opening reception is scheduled for Thursday, February 7, 2013, 6:00 – 8:00 pm, in the Fletcher Library Conference Room, 4701 Thunderbird Road, Glendale, AZ 85306.

This event is sponsored by the Cultural Arts Coalition. Judy Butzine, co-founder of the Coalition states: “The South Mountain teachers and students have routinely exhibited within our community, and in so doing, have expanded the students’ creativity and have allowed them to visualize the realities of their present and their hopes for the future.” For more Information about the Cultural Arts Coalition, go to: http://www.artsCare.org/cac.intro.shtml

Mexican Gold Poppy, © Susan E. Ashton

Exhibit: Portraits of Nature – Blending Science and Art

Artists: Southwest Society of Botanical Artists

Location: Polytechnic campus Library

Available: Jan. 4, 2013 – March 30, 2013 during normal library hours

Description: Join in a celebration of the beauty of nature at this juried exhibition by the Southwest Society of Botanical Artists (SWSBA). Examine the works close-up to explore the intricacy and beauty of flora and fauna.
SWSBA is the Arizona chapter of the American Society of Botanical Artists (ASBA). SWSBA’s members have backgrounds in fine arts, graphic arts, business, technology, and education, but they all share a love of the natural world, especially plants.

Botanical art combines science and art. Artists seek to understand the structure of plants and to communicate this knowledge in an aesthetically pleasing manner. The range of styles includes scientific illustration, usually in pen and ink, as well as realistic drawing and painting of botanical subjects in watercolor and other media. Centuries of notable botanical art created for botanists, physicians, plant collectors, horticulturists, and connoisseurs continue to inspire today’s botanical artists.

This exhibit includes a variety of artworks by local artists and includes native plants of Arizona, plants of other locales, and creatures of the natural world.

For more information about ASBA, see http://asba-art.org/

Alianza Hispano Americana was established in 1894 and was the first Mexican American Mutual Aid organization. The main goal of this organization was to provide health and life insurance to the community, and its members also promoted civic virtues and acculturation and provided social activities. The Alianza Hispano Americana Records collection includes membership files, which have rich information for genealogical research, as well as some photographs and artifacts, which we see samples of in the video.

The Alianza Hispano Americana Records Collection is part of the Chicano/a Research Collection, the largest Mexican-American archival collection in the state of Arizona.

The project is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon foundation and administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)

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Interested in learning more about the Chicano/a Research Collection? Get guided help with our library guide or schedule an appointment with Nancy. You can also connect with the Chicano/a Collection on Facebook.

Discover what you’ve been missing with ASU Libraries Hidden Treasures!

Each episode of Hidden Treasures explores the artifacts, images, collections and unique gems of the ASU Libraries you didn’t even realize were available.

Host: Xaviera Flores
Guest: Nancy Godoy
Produced and Directed by Matthew Harp and Jennifer Duvernay
Editor: Mindy DuPonte

To encourage students to discover the great pleasures and satisfaction of book collecting, the ASU Libraries are sponsoring a book collecting and essay contest. The contest is open to all ASU undergraduate and graduate students. Cash prizes of up to $600 will be awarded for the best collection and the best essay in both categories.  The deadline for submissions is Friday February 8, 2013 at 5pm.

Entries will be judged on the extent to which the collection represents a well-defined field of interest – either focused on the works of one author or on a particular subject. For full contest details, including application forms and instructions, please see the Student Book Collecting Web page at lib.asu.edu/bookcontest.

You can read more about the contest in this State Press article from October 2011, which features an interview with a winner from the 2010 contest.

In addition to this contest, the ABAA, Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America sponsors a national Collegiate Book Collecting Championship with a top prize of $2,500. First Prize winners of the ASU Libraries Student Book Contest will automatically be eligible enter this contest if those entries meet the criteria of the collegiate national championship contest.

Have questions about if your collection qualifies? Check the Book Contest FAQ at lib.asu.edu/bookcontest#faq or email ASULib.BookContest@asu.edu.

Beginning December 30, all pre-2005 bound journals currently housed on the Lower Level will be taken to the High Density Collection.  Articles from those journals may be requested through Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery (ILLIAD request form).  If you need the complete volume of a journal published before 2005, please consult with the Information and Check Out Desk on the entrance level of the library.  Journals from 2005 – present bound will be moved into the “Current Journals” area and shelved with the current issues.

The video collection remains on the Lower Level, but has been moved to the back of the current journals area.

The East Asian Collection and South East Asian Collection will both remain on the lower level, but will be shifted to a slightly different location.

The ESL Reader Collection and the Curriculum/Children’s Books Collection have both been moved to Level 2 (floor plan).

If you experience any difficulties finding the materials you need, please come to the Information and Check Out desk on the entrance level of Hayden Library and our staff will assist you.

Please see lib.asu.edu/hours for full hours listings for all locations.

Fletcher Library on the West campus

• December 12-13 (Wednesday-Thursday):  2am
• December 14 (Friday): 9pm
• December 15(Saturday): 6pm
• December 16– 18 (Sunday – Tuesday): 2am
• December 19 (Wednesday):  5pm

Tempe campus

Hayden Library: Open 24/7 from Sunday December 9 through Thursday, December 20 (closes at 7pm 12/20)

Noble Science and Engineering Library

• December 12-13 (Wednesday-Thursday):  2am
• December 14  (Friday): Midnight
• December 15 (Saturday): Midnight
• December 16-18 (Sunday-Tuesday): 2am
• December 19 (Wednesday): 9pm

Polytechnic campus Library

• December 10 – 13 (Monday-Thursday):  2am
• December 14 (Friday):  9pm
• December 15 (Saturday):  6pm
• December 16-18 (Sunday-Tuesday): 2am
• December 19 (Wednesday): 8pm

*The Downtown campus Library will be open during normal library hours during finals.  The Cronkite Building will be open for students use 24/7 from 7am Monday December 10 – 6pm Friday December 14.

** The Music and Architecture Libraries will both be open during normal library hours during finals.

We wish all ASU students good luck on your finals!

In this presentation, Ofelia Zepeda  talks about the languages of the tribes of Arizona. As the title suggests, Zepeda describes how language has become both a gift and a responsibility. She interweaves her poetry, adapting it to her discussion as she talks about the chain which holds people together: t-ni’oki, t-cegitodag, t-jewd – language, memory, and land.

View more videos from the series on YouTube.

Download Presentation Audio (MP3)
Lecture Video available for download at the Internet Archive.

Running Time: 1 hour

Ofelia Zepeda is a Regents’ Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship for her work in American Indian language education, maintenance and recovery. She is a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation of southern Arizona, born and raised in Stanfield, Arizona. Zepeda’s work in linguistics includes the first pedagogical grammar of the Tohono O’odham language, A Tohono O’odham Grammar, as well as other topics on the O’odham language, Native American language shift, language endangerment and documentation. In addition Zepeda is a poet with publications in both Tohono O’odham and English. She has three books of poetry, Ocean Power: Poems from the Desert, Jewed I-hoi/Earth Movements and Where Clouds are Formed. In 2009 she collaborated on a public arts project that included engraving of some of her poems on boulders north of the University of Arizona campus. Other public art includes work in Passages at South Mountain Community College Library in South Phoenix. Zepeda is currently the director of the American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI), one of the longest running Indigenous language training institutes in the country. She is also the series editor of Sun Tracks, a book series publishing Native American writers at the University of Arizona Press.

“BEING ABLE TO FULLY APPRECIATE the richness and uniqueness of languages is a good place to start when considering language efforts for the future.—OFELIA ZEPEDA

ASU Sponsors: American Indian Policy Institute | American Indian Studies Program | Department of English | Faculty of History in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies | Women and Gender Studies in the School of Social Transformation (all units in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences) | Indian Legal Program in the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law | Labriola National American Indian Data Center

Community Partner: Heard Museum 

Vietnam War protestors on Cady Mall, Arizona State University,1969. University Archives Photographs, Arizona State University Libraries.

Exhibit:  Civil Rights as Agents of Change

Location:  Luhrs Gallery & Luhrs Reading Room, 4th Floor Hayden Library; First Floor, Interdisciplinary B, School of Transborder Studies

Available:  Through March 1, 2013

Description:  Americans have debated the scope and meaning of civil rights since 1789, when James Madison submitted to Congress the legislation that eventually formed the Bill of Rights. While the Bill of Rights asserted fundamental protections from discrimination or repression, precise definitions regarding the scope of those protections have been elusive. Our perceptions of civil rights have changed over time through a variety of judicial tests and decisions, often in response to political actions or events.

This exhibit seeks to begin remembrances of one of the most creative and divisive periods in American political and legal history, starting with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, leading to the war, labor, and civil rights protests of the later 1960’s; the American Indian Movement of the 1970’s, and the American Indian Religious Freedom Act in 1978. While these monumental legislative efforts established principles of freedom, citizens continued to define, defend and exercise those freedoms through activism, political action, legislation and litigation. These defenders of freedom often made substantial personal sacrifices and sometimes risked arrest, injury or financial ruin.

Several events and activities presented here through archival texts, photographs, publications and research illustrate the challenges of reaching a common social and legal understanding of civil rights. Several events from the 1970’s and the present day reveal similarities and differences in how we have perceived and exercised rights of free speech, freedom of assembly, and freedom of religion. Archival materials selected from the Chicano/a Research Collection, the University Archives, the Labriola National American Indian Data Center, the Child Drama Collection and Special Collections offer a glimpse of the drama and complexity surrounding civil rights in America. Materials loaned to us by the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona place specific events in the context of their work over the last fifty years. We hope our materials can serve as suggestions for further research and discussion that will help us honor and remember all those who have worked to defend our most basic rights.

Exhibit

Available: November 19 – December 3, 2012,  during normal library hours

Location: Fletcher Library, Second Floor

Event:  Exhibit opening on November 19th from 5:00 – 6:00 PM

Description: This project seeks to explain that anxiety can be understood by looking through multiple theoretical lenses; namely sociology, psychology and philosophy, to create a holistic view of the phenomenon.

An astounding 18% of adults 18 and older in the United States suffer from an anxiety disorder. It is a least uncomfortable and at most debilitating, but, where anxiety has the ability to isolate, art has the ability to bring together. Nicolas Bourriaud calls art “a site that produces specific sociability,” and I argue that art has the potential to support exchanges that may not occur in modern daily life.

How This Works:

1. If you can’t open the PDF full text of an article, click on the “Login” hyperlink in the upper right corner of the article summary page.
   
2. From the “Login via an institution” section on the right-side of the screen, choose “Arizona State University, Tempe” from the listed options or use the “Search by name” feature to retrieve the ASU entry.
   
3. Then click on the “Login” link and log in with your ASURITE ID and password.
   
4. Upon successful login, you will be authenticated as an ASU subscriber and automatically redirected back to the JSTOR article summary page where you will be able to access the full-text content.
   

Please contact our Ask a Librarian service if you experience any difficulties with this process.

Exhibit

Available: November 2 – November 30th, 2012, during normal library hours

Location: Fletcher Library, third floor

Description: Faces of Hope Exhibition showcases the faces of the under-served women and children who have been assisted through grants that are awarded annually to qualified grass roots charities by the Arizona Women’s Partnership.

These small non-profits address critical issues dealing with domestic violence, child abuse and exploitation, youth programs, elder care, health awareness and medical exams, homelessness, recovery, animal therapy for special needs children, education, ESL, literacy, refugees, job training, foster and adoptive parenting, youth leadership, musical instruments for under-served youth, etc.

The Arizona Women’s Partnership, an all volunteer philanthropic 501 (C) non-profit created by Paula Cullison, has awarded over $235,000 to over 45 nonprofits, many of which are multiple year grant recipients.  For more information visit: www.azwp.org

For more information about the Chinese White Cloud Abbey Daoist Delegation visit, and the associated events (listed below), please see Rare Daoist canon comes to ASU Libraries (via ASU News)

Associated Events:

Round Table Discussion: Chinese Religion
Thursday, Nov. 8 2–4:45 p.m.
Hayden Library Room C-6

ASU students will have opportunities to meet with Chinese White Cloud Abbey Daoist Delegations and have a face-to-face discussion regarding the White Cloud Abbey Daoist Practitioners’ lives, religious practices, and the relationship between religious organizations and government.

Chinese White Cloud Abbey Delegation Musicians Performance
Friday, Nov. 9 7–9 p.m.
Armstrong Hall Great Hall

Chinese White Cloud Abbey Delegation official presentation of Daoist canonical texts to ASU Lecture
Tuesday, Nov. 13 10 a.m.–12 p.m.
Hayden Library Room C-6

Official presentation to the ASU Libraries of a string-bound Daoist canon containing 1,476 works and reprinted after the original 1445 woodblock edition. Lecture by Professor Zhang Jiyu, Vice-President of the China Daoist Association.

Co-sponsored by School of International Letters and Cultures, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies: Faculty of Religious Studies and Center for Asian Research—academic units
of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the ASU Libraries.

Exhibit

Location:  Noble Science and Engineering Library

Available:  Through January 2013, during normal library hours

Description: The Seeds of Change exhibit celebrates desert adapted seeds and ancient crops of the American Southwest and northwest Mexico. View chiltepines, a tiny, round, hot, wild chile, which is native to North America and was cultivated to produce most of the chile varieties sold today. Marvel at Glass Gem corn, a multi-colored heirloom with vivid translucent kernels. This corn variety was developed in Oklahoma and is so remarkable that images of it have gone viral over the Internet. Learn about the tepary bean, a small bean, which holds the distinction of being the world’s most drought-adapted domesticated bean. And see a variety of gourds, so useful and versatile, that they’ve earned the title “earliest-known domesticated plant.”

All this and more will displayed at Noble library through January 2013.

Research Databases

• Alternative access to the most used electronic resources is available via this E-Resources page

My Library Account

• Library users will not be able to renew books, or see what is checked out
• Library users may check out books in person, but must use their university ID (SunCard or Pitchfork Card).

My Illiad Account (for Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery)

• Library users will not be able to place new requests, nor retrieve documents

ASU Libraries Catalog

• Note:  All Electronic Journals are fully accessible through the “Journals” tab on the main library web page

Course Reserves

We apologize in advance for any inconvenience.

One aspect of The ASU Libraries’ commitment to open access has been the development of the ASU Digital Repository to serve as a central place for sharing and preserving the scholarly and creative work of Arizona State University.  ASU faculty and researchers now have a tool that preserves their research and also provides international exposure through commercial search engines, such as Google and Bing, as well as the ASU Libraries web site. The ASU Digital Repository is now online and open for business.

“Our goal with the ASU Digital Repository is to advance research and learning here at ASU,“ said Phil Konomos, Associate University Librarian and Chief Technology Officer at ASU Libraries.  “The ASU Digital Repository will provide broader access to important digital collections, as well as articles, data, and other works by ASU’s world class faculty.”

Many studies have demonstrated that open access articles have increased citation rates and impact. Additionally, providing free, online access to ASU scholarship benefits the local community as well, allowing teachers in K-12 schools to use reliable and cutting edge references in their lesson plans. The ASU Digital Repository also encourages transdisciplinary research by engaging scholars and researchers worldwide, increasing impact globally through the rapid dissemination of knowledge.

The ASU Digital Repository also functions as a tool to help faculty meet public access policies and archival requirements specified by many federal grants. “Researchers are now faced with new requirements in order to secure grant funding. The ASU Digital Repository is there to help them,” Konomos says.

For more information, visit the ASU Digital Repository or email digitalrepository@asu.edu.

Want more information about Open Access?

• See our Scholarly Communication LibGuide
• Listen to our 2009 podcast: Open Access @ ASU
• Previous Open Access Weeks on the Library Channel!

This year, we hope you’ll join us for these events:

SPARC and the World Bank Open Access Week Kickoff Event Webcast

Monday, Oct 22, 2012 at 1:00 PM
Hayden Library Upper Concourse Room C6A (map)

The following speakers will discuss why Open Access is an imperative to them, and to their work:

• Michael Carroll, Professor of Law, American University and founding Board Member, Creative Commons
• Matt Cooper, President, The National Association of Graduate-Professional Students
• Maricel Kann, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland and member, PubMed Central National Advisory Committee, NIH
• Carlos Rossel, Publisher, The World Bank
• Neil Thakur, Special Assistant to the Deputy Director, Extramural Research, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

The 90-minute panel will be moderated by Heather Joseph, Executive Director, SPARC, with ample time for questions from audience members.

Open Access and Your Publications: What’s Copyright Got to Do with It? Webcast

Wednesday, Oct. 24 at 11:30 AM
Hayden Library Upper Concourse: Room C6A (map)

For librarians, researchers, and many other library users, the open access movement has enabled easy and reliable access to a wide range of new publications. However, the success of open access hinges on the terms in the agreements between authors and publishers. The copyright language that spells out whether the public will have access to specific material might be buried in a cryptic, pro forma email attachment or even a click-through agreement. Don’t let your materials stay hidden under a rock; facilitate access by learning to be proactive with the expert advice of copyright authority Kenneth D. Crews. In this ALA Editions workshop you will learn to:

• Be a good steward for your institution’s rights
• Scrutinize the publication contracts for your projects and advise faculty and researchers
• Identify key language for a range of publishing agreement provisions
• Negotiate the copyright clause of agreements
• Increase usage of new publications by facilitating access for the wider community

Open Access: What You Should Know – brown bag presentation

Friday, Oct. 26 at 12:00 Noon
Hayden Library Upper Concourse: Room C6A (map)

Open Access especially impacts students in their education and in their future careers. For this presentation, ASU’s Graduate and Professional Student Association partners with the ASU Libraries to educate students about the importance of open access. Bring your lunch and join librarians Anali Perry and Alexandra Humphreys as they explain what open access means, discuss its effect on students, and offer suggestions on how to get involved. There will be time for discussion and questions.

For more information, see http://libguides.asu.edu/OAweek

Event

Description:  To kick-off the Seeds of Change exhibit at Noble Library, Bill McDorman will discuss food and the implications of having ten companies own and control 75% of the world’s seeds. How does this affect local food security and the health of our region? More importantly what does this have to do with the nationwide drought and the treasure trove of seeds in the Native Seeds/SEARCH Seed Bank?

Since 1983, Native Seeds/SEARCH (Southwestern Endangered Aridland Resources Clearing House) has become a major regional seed bank and a leader in the heirloom seed movement. The seed bank is a unique resource for both traditional and modern agriculture. It includes nearly 2000 varieties of aridland adapted agricultural crops and wild relatives representing over 100 plant species and the agricultural legacy of more than 50 indigenous groups in the American Southwest and northwest Mexico. NS/S promotes the use of these ancient crops and their wild relatives by distributing seeds to Native American communities and to gardeners worldwide.

Join NS/S Executive Director Bill McDorman for a discussion on this vital topic and hear about the solutions as close as your own backyard!
Bill will also be instructing at the Seed School in Phoenix Oct 28-Nov 2. Registration details for the seed school are located at http://www.nativeseeds.org/index.php/events/seed-school/112-last-seed-school-of-2012.

For more information about information security, please visit ASU’s official security site at getprotected.asu.edu.

The Library Minute is hosted by Anali Perry

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Exhibit

Location:  Music Library, Tempe campus

Available:  Through December 15, 2012, during normal library hours

Description: Based on the slightly earlier Italian literary verismo, influenced by French naturalism, operatic verismo flourished in the last decade of the 19th century into the first part of the 20th century and was marked by melodramatic, often violent plots with characters drawn from everyday life. Musical devices included passionate declamations by solo voices and emotionally charged harmonies and melodies.

This exhibit features a collection of thirteen first and early edition opera scores by composers representative of the era including Giacomo Puccini, Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Umberto Giordano, Pietro Mascagni, and Gustave Charpentier.

All scores are from the collection of Dr. Robert Mills. Any questions or comments about the display can be sent to Dr. Robert Mills at Robert.mills@asu.edu

Workshop Description:  It’s difficult to understand Fair Use through the obscuring cloud of Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. This workshop will dispel common misperceptions about fair use, focusing specifically on teaching and publishing situations. You will receive an overview of copyright, discuss how to make an evaluation on whether a use might be considered fair, and learn about other copyright exemptions that may be applicable. This workshop is primarily intended for faculty, researchers, and graduate students engaged in teaching and/or scholarly writing for publication.

Presenter:  Anali Perry is an Associate Librarian for Collections and Scholarly Communication, specializing in open access, scholarly publishing, and copyright and fair use issues. However, she is not a lawyer – no direct legal advice will be provided.

More information:  http://libguides.asu.edu/FairUseFUD

Artist: Max Chandler

Exhibit: Form Follows Software: Robot Painting Exhibit at The Vault Gallery

Artist: Max Chandler, Ben Grosser, Jack Tait, Pindar Van Arman

Location: Downtown Phoenix campus Library

Available: October 5 – December 15, 2012 during normal library hours

Description: It is often said there are two cultures: one artistic and one scientific. In many ages there are artists whose imagination, creativity and skills function in both cultures.

The artists in this exhibit, have all made and programmed machines that make paintings. Many painting machines do not really produce interesting art. That is not the case here. Each of these artists produce art work with their machines and processes that stand alone as individual works.

Knowledge of the artists processes and machines enriches one experience of the art work, but this knowledge is not required to experience and enjoy the paintings as works of art.

Phoenix based independent curator, Annie Waters says, “The ideas and practices introduced in this exhibition can be a stimulating way to consider content, contexts, and approaches that may not fit within traditional definitions of art or display venues.” “This is a terrific show – beautifully complex and immensely satisfying,” remarks artist Jon Haddock.

Events:

Friday October 5, 2012 Opening Reception 6 – 8:30 pm

Friday October 12, 2012: Artist Talk: Exhibit Overview; 7 – 8:30 pm

This includes a walk through the exhibition with stops at highlights for each artists to discuss process, technology and content with some “back story” on some of the paintings. Questions welcome.

Friday October 19, 2012: Artist Talk: One hour, one painting; 7 – 8:30 pm

The average visitor viewing time of a painting in a museum in the USA has fallen below six seconds. This talk will discuss a methodology for seeing a painting more deeply. A lively discussion will follow, but be limited to a single painting.

 
Saturday October 20, 2012: Artist Talk: Building Art Robots; 2 – 3:30 pm

After a review of the technology of the robots of each artist, we will discuss in depth building and programming Lego robots for drawing and painting.

 
Artist Information:

Max Chandler from Scottsdale, AZ make smal autonomous mobile robots that walk or roll across the canvas carrying brushes loaded with acrylic paint. The end result is an acrylic painting. The robots are made from popular robot kits and programmed in Java. He limits his machines to cost less than a kolinsky watercolor brush because he hopes this will lead people to believe his process is accessible to any artist.

Ben Grosser uses a CNC machine tool like painting table that has been engineered to respond to sound and produce oil paintings. The sound sources from paintings shown here are as varied as human voices or jazz instrumentals.

Jack Tait makes machines that are digital cameras or work with digital sensors and cameras to produce works that greatly expand the possibilities of photography.

Pindar Van Arman also uses CNC machine tool like painting table. His images are created from a package of very sophisticated software he has written to examine photographs, text of vector drawings and combine some or all of these sources into an acrylic painting. His robot is capable of operating on line where visitors can watch a painting develop in real time or even have input into the painting process.

Exhibit

Artist: Kathy McClure

Location: Polytechnic campus Library

Available: Oct. 1, 2012 – Jan. 3, 2013 during normal library hours

Description: The Polytechnic campus Library is pleased to display the photography of local artist Kathy McClure. Kathy is a photojournalist who has traveled extensively and captured everything from Mayan Ruins, Machu Picchu, and the Grand Tetons to the beauty of Arizona. She has exhibited widely throughout the Phoenix area, is a member of the Mesa Art League and has authored 3 books. One hundred of her photos are on display at Poly Library through December. To see more of her work please check out her website at http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/kathy-mcclure.html

To celebrate the opening of the new Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University and the ASU Libraries’ exhibit End of the Golden Age: Science Fiction Before and After the Atomic Bomb , Fred McIlvain and Assistant Professor Ed Finn, director of the Center, interview author Alan Dean Foster about his career in Science Fiction, film novelizations, and his world travels.

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Alan and Ed talk about meeting John W. Campbell, how science fiction authors actually predicted the coming of the atomic bomb, and sci-fi as social commentary. Alan then opens up about his experiences working in Hollywood, meeting famous directors and turning movie scripts such Star Wars, Alien, Star Trek, and Transformers into novels. Did you know Alan talked about Warner Brothers Cartoons with singer Alice Cooper while waiting to see Star Wars…before anyone else had seen it.

Other topics include Alan’s current projects, the Alan Dean Foster Papers at the ASU Libraries, Alan’s scrapbooks, radio scripts, and the preservation of media.

• Photographs from the exhibit opening with remarks by Alan Dean Foster

Recorded September 12, 2012

Host: Fred McIlvain
Guests: Edward Finn, Alan Dean Foster

The Simon Ortiz and Labriola Center Lecture on Indigenous Land, Culture, and Community

OFELIA ZEPEDA   |   Thursday, October 11, 2012

“Legacies of the Tribal Languages of Arizona: Gifts or Responsibilities”

CAMPUS MEET AND GREET
10 a.m., Labriola Center
2^nd floor Hayden Library (LIB).
Information: Joyce.Martin@asu.edu.

LECTURE (PDF Flyer):
7 p.m., Heard Museum Downtown.
2301 N. Central Avenue (Central & Encanto) Phoenix, AZ 85004.
602.252.8848  On the Encanto & Central Light Rail stop!.  

Ofelia Zepeda is a Regents’ Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship for her work in American Indian language education, maintenance and recovery. She is a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation of southern Arizona, born and raised in Stanfield, Arizona. Zepeda’s work in linguistics includes the first pedagogical grammar of the Tohono O’odham language, A Tohono O’odham Grammar, as well as other topics on the O’odham language, Native American language shift, language endangerment and documentation. In addition Zepeda is a poet with publications in both Tohono O’odham and English. She has three books of poetry, Ocean Power: Poems from the Desert, Jewed I-hoi/Earth Movements and Where Clouds are Formed. In 2009 she collaborated on a public arts project that included engraving of some of her poems on boulders north of the University of Arizona campus. Other public art includes work in Passages at South Mountain Community College Library in South Phoenix. Zepeda is currently the director of the American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI), one of the longest running Indigenous language training institutes in the country. She is also the series editor of Sun Tracks, a book series publishing Native American writers at the University of Arizona Press.

“BEING ABLE TO FULLY APPRECIATE the richness and uniqueness of languages is a good place to start when considering language efforts for the future.—OFELIA ZEPEDA

ASU Sponsors: American Indian Policy Institute | American Indian Studies Program | Department of English | Faculty of History in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies | Women and Gender Studies in the School of Social Transformation (all units in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences) | Indian Legal Program in the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law | Labriola National American Indian Data Center

Community Partner: Heard Museum 

Free of charge and open to the public. More information: http://english.clas.asu.edu/indigenous

Students needing to study or do research during this closure are welcome to visit any of the other ASU library locations, all of whom will have normal hours that day.