The 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.

Host 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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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.

The ASU Libraries are pleased to announce that Dr. Ann Dutton Ewbank, Education Liaison Librarian at the Fletcher Library, has been honored by Library Journal, the national library trade publication, as one of their 2009 Movers and Shakers.  Her profile “Ann Dutton Ewbank: Activists” was published in conjunction with the March 15, 2009 issue of Library Journal and is now available online.  The article highlights Ann’s work educating “everyone—especially city, state, and national legislators—about the role librarians play in developing 21st-century literacies in today’s students.”

Movers and Shakers is an annual Library Journal supplement ” identify librarians, vendors, and others who are shaping the future of libraries.”   Since 2002 Library Journal has identified over 400 innovators in the field of librarianship who … and who “comprise the coming generation of library leadership.”

Ann joined the ASU Libraries in July 2006, and also served as teacher librarian for five years at Cholla Middle School in Phoenix, Arizona.  She has a PhD in education from Arizona State University, an M.A. in information resources and library science from the University of Arizona, and a B.S. in secondary education from Northern Arizona University.

The ASU Libraries have had two other librarians named “Movers and Shakers”:  Katherine O’Clair, in 2007, and Jennifer Duvernay, in 2005.

The Library Channel bids a fond farewell to Marilyn Wurzburger, who retired from ASU Libraries on January 23rd, 2009 after 48 years of service.

Host Fred McIlvain, who’s career spans nearly 30 years himself, reflects with Marilyn on her years with ASU Libraries discussing the move from the cramped Matthews Library to spacious Hayden Library and the unique collections she helped build. She talks about her tutelage under Assistant Librarian Jay Dobkin and her career growth from cataloger to Head of Special Collections.

She also talks about the building and acquiring of many collections including the Peter Lawford papers, the Doris and Marc Patten Collection of Herbals and Early Gardening Books, the William S. Burroughs collection, the Alan Dean Foster papers and much more.

Please read the ASU news article about Marilyn’s career and visit ASU Libraries Special Collections to learn about Marilyn and the specialized collections held at ASU.

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HOST:
Fred McIlvain

Guest:
Marilyn Wurzburger

Episode 89
Running Time: 58:20

Helping to close out this eventful year for ASU Libraries, The Library Channel presents a glimpse into the ASU Labriola National American Indian Data Center highlighting the center’s collections, services and partnerships.

This video highlights the Labriola Center’s outstanding services and collections and includes information for how to become a Friend of the Labriola Center. You’ll hear from notable faculty, members of the ASU community, and librarians about how the center is expanding its community involvement and partnerships through such activities as the Simon Ortiz and Labriola Center Lecture on Indigenous Land, Culture and Community and important new programs such as collecting contemporary film and video critical to meeting ASU’s instructional needs and the Labriola Center’s commitment to the American Indian community.

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Episode 88
Running Time: 17:30

Student teams from the College of Teacher Education and Leadership on ASU’s West campus recently swept the top prizes of the iCademy video competition at the 2008 Microcomputers in Education Conference held at the Tempe campus. Students from these teams utilized LibGuides (ECT313 and TEL313) and library instruction crafted for them by Education Liasion librarian Ann Ewbank, of the Fletcher Library. In recognizing the students’ achievement Ewbank said, “I’m very proud of our innovative students and faculty, and even prouder that they incorporated ASU Libraries resources that led to their success!”

We are happy to extend our congratulations to this talented group of students.

Marilyn Myers talks with Tammy Allgood about the 20th anniversary of the Fletcher Library at the ASU West campus.

 
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On March 31, 2008, the ASU Libraries will celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Fletcher Library, on ASU’s West campus. In honor of this milestone, host Tammy Allgood and director Marilyn Myers sit down for a conversation including the role of Fletcher Library as the foundation of the newly developed West campus, the challenges of creating an academic library with complete services and collections from the ground up, how Fletcher has transformed over the years, and the need to develop new strategies for expanding library services to meet the needs of a rapidly growing campus population.

Host: Tammy Allgood Guest: Marilyn Myers Running Time: 19:09 Episode 71

In June 2007, Jeanne Davidson joined the ASU Libraries as Head of the Noble Science and Engineering Library. In the ensuing eight months the science librarians have expanded their services, highlighting cross campus collaboration efforts as well as new approaches to supporting interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research. Utilizing her experience with instruction and information literacy in the sciences, she helped form a workgroup coordinating cross discipline instruction on Tempe campus. She serves on the One Library Instruction Council which will facilitate information fluency efforts across all ASU campuses.

Jeanne joins us in this interview to talk with us about her beginnings as a librarian, working with students, sharing resources across campuses and the new instruction workgroup.

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Host: Fred McIlvain Guest: Jeanne Davidson Episode 69 Running Time: 12:49

Tammy Allgood welcomes Allison Leaming, business librarian, and Dr. Ralph Gabbard, associate director, of Fletcher Library at the West campus for a travelogue about their trip to China in late spring of 2007. Ralph and Allison visited Chinese libraries and met people interested in developing international partnerships with the ASU Libraries. Many outstanding institutions were toured including the National Library of China, Tsinghua University Library, Liaoning University Library, Sichuan University Library and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. They will also discuss their experiences with the people, places and culture of China.

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Host:
Tammy Allgood

Guests:
Ralph Gabbard
Allison Leaming

Episode 67
Running Time: 14:51