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Matthew Harp: Mover and Shaker (Podcast)

June 11, 2010 · All locations, podcasts · 1 comment

Matthew Harp Mover and ShakerHost Fred McIlvain and Librarian Mimmo Bonanni welcome Library Channel director Matthew Harp to talk about Matt’s selection as one of Library Journal’s Movers and Shakers for 2010.  Matt was profiled in the Library Journal March 15, 2010 article, “Lights, Camera, Library.”

 

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In this interview, Matt talks about leading the multimedia production efforts published by the ASU Libraries’ Library Channel.  Examples of these productions include audio and video programs such as the Simon Ortiz and Labriola Center lectures and the Library Minute series. He also discusses his enrollment as a digital information management student and the Informatics and Cyberinfrastructure Services department in the libraries.

Matt is the fourth individual from the ASU Libraries to be selected for this prestigious honor. Listen to our interviews with previous winners Ann Dutton Ewbank (2009) and Katherine O’Clair (2007).

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Interview group

Host: Fred McIlvain

Guests: Matthew Harp, Mimmo Bonanni
Episode 108
Running Time: 18:38

Luhrs Reading Room Open Weekends During Summer By Appointment Only

May 13, 2010 · Hayden Library · Comments Off

Beginning June 5, 2010, the Luhrs Reading Room, Department of Archives and Special Collections, will be open on Saturdays during the summer sessions by appointment only.

Appointments for access to the Luhrs Reading Room on Saturday during the summer sessions can be made either by contacting the reference desk at (480) 965-4932 or by email at archives@asu.edu. Appointments will be accepted until the Friday before by 10am.

Regular weekend hours will resume the weekend of August 21, after the fall semester begins.

Student Book Collecting Contest Winners Announced

April 16, 2010 · All locations · Comments Off

bookstack_smallerThe ASU Libraries are pleased to announce the following winners of the 2010 Student Book Collecting Contest:

Graduate Student Division:

Steve Elliott: Best Collection, First Place – $600
Ph.D. Student , Biology and Society: History and Philosophy of Science
“The Received View Received Again” Logical Positivism/Empiricism, 1920-1966.

John Southard: Best Collection, Second Place – $300
Graduate Student, History
Arizona History, Culture and Politics

Craig Kosnik:  Best Collection, Third Place – $200, Best Essay, First Place – $250
Ph.D. Student, Theater for Youth
Finding a Way to Grow Up: A Look at Youth and Adolescent Protagonists in Comic Books, Graphic Novels, Picture Books, Plays and Novels.

Daniel Maxey: Best Collection, Honorable Mention – $100
Master of Education candidate in Higher and Postsecondary Education
Higher Education Reform and Articulation of Institutional Commitment to the Public.

Briana Stapleton Welch: Best Essay. Second Place – $100
MFA Theater for Youth candidate, School of Theater and Film Graduate Student
“Pages of Childhood: Brianna Stapleton Welch’s Picture Book Collection.”

Undergraduate Division

Heather Tompkins: Best Collection, First Place – $600
Undergraduate Student, Microbiology
Shojo Manga: More than falling in Love.

Jenny Brundage: Best Collection, Second Place – $300;  Best Essay, First Place – $250
Undergraduate Student, English: Creative Writing
Hopeful Outcomes for Queer Youth.

John Tyler Cox: Best Collection, Third Place – $200
Undergraduate Student , Mechanical Engineering
“The Magic, Memories, and Making of the Disney Parks”

Emily Cole: Best Collection, Honorable Mention – $100
Undergraduate Student in English Literature, and Women and Gender Studies
“Exalting Virginity, Despoiling Maidens, and Trading Women: Male Control of Female Bodies In the Middle Ages and Contemporary Society.”

Emily Reynolds: Best Essay, Second Place – $100
Undergraduate Student, English Literature, History and Psychology Major
“Nancy Drew: Teen Detective”

The winners will be recognized and receive their prize money at the annual ASU Libraries Donor Reception on April 21, 2010.

We thank all the student entrants for their participation in this contest.

ASU Libraries’ Matt Harp Named “Mover and Shaker” by Library Journal

March 23, 2010 · Architecture Library, Downtown Phoenix campus, Hayden Library, Music Library, Noble Library, Polytechnic campus, West campus · Comments Off

untitledThe ASU Libraries are delighted to announce that Matt Harp, digital library production manager, has been honored by Library Journal, the leading national library trade journal, by being selected on of their “Movers and Shakers” for 2010. His profile, “Lights, Camera, Library,” recognizes Matt’s  groundbreaking work on the ASU Libraries video productions, especially the hit new series the Library Minute. Matt uses “his expertise to create an outstanding multimedia presence for the libraries on campus, online, and nationwide … bringing ASU’s libraries (and its librarians) into the spotlight.”

Movers and Shakers is an annual Library Journal supplement  that  identify librarians, vendors, and others who are “making libraries better and taking them into the future.”   Since 2002 Library Journal has identified over 450 innovators in the field of librarianship from “all corners of the library world and several nations.”

Matt is the fourth individual from the ASU Libraries to be selected for this presitigious honor.  Previous winners were Ann Dutton Ewbank (2009), Katherine O’Clair (2007) and Jennifer Duvernay (2005).

Fletcher Library Invites West campus Students to Participate in Student Advisory Committee

March 8, 2010 · West campus · Comments Off

Do you use the Fletcher Library?  Would you like to have a voice in shaping our future?  If so, you are invited to join  Interim Director Dennis Isbell for lunch on Wednesday, March 31, 2010, from noon-1pm.

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

To sign up, email janice.kasperski@asu.edu or call the Fletcher Library administration office at 602-543-8518.

Hayden Library Exterior Elevator Out of Order

March 2, 2010 · Hayden Library · Comments Off

The exterior elevator in the Hayden Library courtyard that leads to the entrance of the library is temporarily out of order.  We do not currently have a date for completion, but it is being addressed as quickly as possible.

Library visitors needing an accessible entrance should contact library staff at 480-965-3605 and we will arrange to meet you at an alternative entrance to the library.

A Very Special Library Minute: Protecting Your Stuff

March 2, 2010 · All locations, Downtown Phoenix campus, Hayden Library, library, Library Minute, Music Library, Noble Library, Polytechnic campus, West campus · Comments Off

We interrupt our regularly scheduled Library Minute to bring you this special report about stolen items in the libraries and how only you can prevent forest fires (whoops strike that)… the loss of your “stuff.”

Unfortunately there are unscrupulous people out there who take things who don’t belong to them, even in libraries. Please keep an eye on your belongings at all times.

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Library Minute: Student Book Collecting Contest

February 9, 2010 · All locations, Library Minute · Comments Off

Great news for all you book lovers out there.  If you have a book collection of any kind, it could earn you money!   In this week’s Library Minute Anali tells us all about the ASU Libraries Student Book Collection Contest, which awards cash prizes to undergraduate and graduate student collectors.     The deadline for the 2010 contest is February 18:  Enter today!

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Student Book Collecting Contest: Your books can earn you cash prizes!

January 29, 2010 · All locations · Comments Off

bookstack_smallerThe ASU Libraries is looking for ASU undergraduate and graduate students who are book collectors to participate in an annual Student Book Collecting Contest which will run from October 2009 to February 18, 2010.  Undergraduate and graduate student winners of the contest receive cash prizes, with the top prize in each category being $600.

Entries will be judged by a panel of judges 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.  Judge/student interviews will be held March 25 and 26, 2010. Contest winners will be notified the week of March 29, 2010.   Cash prizes will be awarded at a donor reception April 21, 2010.

In addition to this contest, Fine Books & Collections Magazine sponsors a national Collegiate Book Collecting Championship with a top prize of $2,500 (date for 2010 to be announced.) Top ASU book contest winners that meet the criteria of the collegiate national championship contest will automatically be eligible to compete.

For more information, pick up a brochure at any of the ASU Libraries, the Memorial Union, the Graduate College, Barratt Honors College, and campus bookstores, see the Student Book Collecting Web page at lib.asu.edu/bookcontest or call Rosa González at (480) 965-3956.

Ann Ewbank: Mover and Shaker (Podcast)

April 3, 2009 · All locations, podcasts, West campus · 1 comment

Ann EwbankHost Fred McIlvain welcomes special guest Dr. Ann Dutton Ewbank, Education Liason Librarian, to talk about being named one of fifty Library Journal ”Movers and Shakers.”  She is joined by Jennifer Duvernay, ASU Libraries Marketing and Outreach Officer, also named a Mover and Shaker in 2005, who reflects on the significance of this honor.

Ann talks about her continued work to promote and educate the public, especially lawmakers, on the value of teacher-librarians in K-12 schools. Ann is a founding member of Fund Our Future Arizona which was originally organized in response to the proposal by Mesa Public School District to eliminate all certified teacher-librarian positions in the district, replacing them with lower qualified resource center specialists who would manage the library space and collections. Their well publicized initiative ultimately failed as the Mesa Public School District chose to continue with their planned budget reduction, but group’s goal to “to create strong school libraries for every child in the state” continues.

 

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For more information please see:

ASU librarian earns national recognition (ASU News)
Librarian introduces students to facility’s resources (Arizona Republic)
Librarian Earns “Movers and Shakers” Award (State Press)
Library Channel News article
Ann Dutton Ewbank-Activists-2009 Movers & Shakers (March 15, 2009 Library Journal)

Host:
Fred McIlvain

Guests:
Ann Dutton Ewbank
Jennifer Duvernay

Episode 93
Running Time: 23:15

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You can also listen to Library Channel Episode 40 featuring Life Sciences Librarian Katherine O’Clair, after being named a Mover and Shaker in 2007.

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