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Lucy’s Legacy: Preserving the Search for Human Origins (Video)

April 23, 2013 · All locations, podcasts · Comments Off

A panel of experts discusses the significance, utility and preservation of the Donald C. Johanson/Institute for Human Origins Collection. This archival collection documents the career of one of the most important field scientists of the 20th century and the founding and development of the Institute of Human Origins (IHO).

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

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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.

National Autism Awareness Week (Event)

April 2, 2013 · West campus · Comments Off

Event: National Autism Awareness Week

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.

“Anxiety and Creation” Photography Exhibit at Fletcher Library

November 12, 2012 · West campus · Comments Off

Exhibit: Anxiety and Creation: An applied project photography exhibit by Layne Baumgardner

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.

Celebrate Open Access Week With Us

October 18, 2012 · All locations · Comments Off

Join us next week for the 6th International Open Access Week, where we raise awareness and celebrate open access to information. Open Access is free, immediate access to scholarly information online, along with the right to use and reuse that information however you need.

 

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

“Who Owns Our Food (Seeds)?” Lecture with Bill McDorman

October 16, 2012 · Noble Library · Comments Off

Event:  ”Who Owns Our Food (Seeds)?” with Bill McDorman
Location:  Noble Science and Engineering Library Lobby, Tempe campus
Date:  Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Time:  7:30 pm

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.

End of the Golden Age: Science Fiction Before and After the Atomic Bomb (Podcast)

September 7, 2012 · All locations, podcasts · Comments Off

The new Center for Science and the Imagination is launching its exhibit , End of the Golden Age: Science Fiction Before and After the Atomic Bomb, with a grand opening on September 12th at 1 PM at the Noble Science and Engineering Library.  This event will feature an introduction by Author Alan Dean Foster. The exhibit presents stories published during and after World War II, and examines the growing recognition within the optimistic ranks of Golden Age writers that some of our greatest scientific mysteries were not technological but cultural.

Center director ASU Assistant Professor Edward Finn and Research and Operations Coordinator Joey Eschrich join ASU Libraries’ Fred McIlvain and explore the concepts the Golden Age of Science Fiction and the fascinating exhibit. They also talk about how the Center for Science and the Imagination brings writers, artists and other creative thinkers into collaboration with scientists, engineers and technologists and serves as an exciting place to reignite humanity’s grand ambitions for innovation and discovery.

 
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About the Golden Age of Science Fiction

During the late 1930s and early 1940s, the genre we now recognize as science fiction was born in the pages of a handful of pulp magazines. One magazine in particular, Astounding Science Fiction, and its iconoclastic editor, John W. Campbell, pushed science fiction beyond its reliance on the familiar tropes of romance and adventure pulps to define a distinctive new kind of narrative.

The crucible of World War II drove the intellectual architecture of new labs at MIT, Stanford and other institutions. The breathtaking pace of discovery led to the invention or refinement of a host of new technologies from radar to the atomic bomb. In short, it was an era when the human imagination was stretched in both terrifying and wonderful ways. This was the era of Science Fiction’s Golden Age, spanning the decade of modern humanity’s transition from technological innocence to experience.

The Golden Age of Science Fiction
Noble Science and Engineering library at ASU Tempe Campus
September 12, through October 2012

Episode 119
Running Time: 19:32

Guests:
Ed Finn is the director of the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University, as well as an assistant professor with a joint appointment between the School of Arts, Media + Engineering and the Department of English.

Joey Eschrich is Coordinator Senior, Research and Operations for the Center for Science and the Imagination.

(Episode Transcript)

Constitution Day Presentation: “Are You Talking to Me?: Who Are Those “People” in the Tenth Amendment?”

September 4, 2012 · All locations · Comments Off

Event:  ”Are You Talking to Me?: Who Are Those “People” in the Tenth Amendment?”

Date: September 17, 2012

Time: 12noon

Location:  Great Hall, Armstrong Hall, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law on the Tempe campus

Description:  Did you know that the original Constitution didn’t protect your vote? In fact, the original Constitution didn’t give you many rights at all? So where do we get them?

Let’s look at the 10th Amendment!

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

THE TENTH AMENDMENT  Are you one of “the People” or not?

Robert J. McWhirter will present an engaging and informative illustrated presentation on the history of the Tenth Amendment for Constitution Day, September 17, 2012, beginning at 12:00 pm in the Great Hall, Armstrong Hall, Room 114, in the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law on the Tempe campus. Taken from his soon to be published book on the History of the Bill of Rights (ABA Press), Mr. McWhirter’s talk will focus on what it means to have rights in America – all them more relevant in this election year!

About the presenter:

Robert J. McWhirter is a nationally and internationally known speaker and author on trial advocacy, immigration law, and the history of the bill of rights. He is a Certified Specialist in Criminal Law with the State Bar of Arizona and first chair qualified to defend capital cases by the Arizona Supreme Court.

During 2010-2011, Mr. McWhirter served for a year in El Salvador administering an $11 million USAID contract to reform the justice system. He successfully developed and oversaw programs and trainings for the Salvadoran courts, police, prosecutors, and public defenders.

The American Bar Association will publish Mr. McWhirter’s upcoming book BILLS, QUILLS, AND STILLS: THE EPIC STRUGGLES (AND PARTIES) THAT GAVE US THE BILL OF RIGHTS (working title) in 2012. The American Bar Association has published his books THE CRIMINAL LAWYER’S GUIDE TO IMMIGRATION LAW: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS, 2nd Ed. 2006 and THE CITIZENSHIP FLOWCHART, 2007. In 2010, in Padilla v. Kentucky Justice Alito extensively quoted from his book.

Mr. McWhirter has served on the American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section and on the Standard Committee writing the CRIMINAL JUSTICE STANDARDS. In 2009, Mr. McWhirter was named a Southwest Super Lawyer, a rare instance for a public defender. Mr. McWhirter is also the 2009 recipient of the Phoenix Saint Thomas More Award and the immediate past president of Arizona Attorney’s for Criminal Justice.

A Conversation With Dr. Cathleen Cahill, Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award Recipient (Video)

June 6, 2012 · All locations, podcasts · Comments Off

Arizona State University Libraries presents the 4th Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award winner Dr. Cathleen Cahill, assistant professor of history at the University of New Mexico.  Dr. Cahill was honored for her 2011 book Federal Fathers and Mothers: A Social History of the United States Indian Service, 1869-1933 (University of North Carolina Press)

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Introduction by Joyce Martin Curator, Labriola American Indian Data Center
American Indian Studies Assistant Professor Dr. David Martinez interviews Dr. Cahill

(Recorded April 16, 2012)

The Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award encourages scholarship which crosses multiple disciplines or fields of study, is relevant to contemporary North American Indian communities, and focuses on modern tribal studies, modern biographies, tribal governments or federal Indian policy. The judging panel is comprised of Dr. Donald Fixico and Dr. Katherine Osburn from the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies and Dr. David Martinez from American Indian Studies. Each year the winner of the book award is invited to the Labriola Center for an award presentation and to speak about his or her book.

Redefining Indigenous Perspectives Through Art and Dialogue (Video)

April 13, 2012 · All locations, podcasts · Comments Off

The Library Channel is pleased to present the ninth installment of The Simon Ortiz and Labriola Center Lecture on Indigenous Land, Culture, and Community with Redefining Indigenous Perspectives Through Art and Dialogue.  Sculptor Bob Haozous sets the stage with a discussion of his family, and then shares his motivations, descriptions, and circumstances surrounding the creation of many of his most renowned pieces. Mr. Haozous’ talk is wonderfully illustrated with power point slides of his work.

View more videos from the series on YouTube.

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

Bob Haozous is one of the most important Native sculptors of the Native American Fine Art Movement. His innovation and experimentation with materials push the boundaries of “Indian” art – the boundaries that his father, Allan Houser, helped to define. He is best known for his monumental cut steel pieces which often deal with poignant topical issues. He approaches these issues with a bit of a bite and a good dose of humor. His injection of humor allows the serious issues to be more palatable and to have a universal presence.

Visit Bob’s work at: bobhaozous.com

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 | Indian Legal Program in the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law | Labriola National American Indian Data Center | Women and Gender Studies in the School of Social Transformation

Recorded on March 15, 2012 at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona.

Untold Stories/Unsung Heroes (Podcast)

January 31, 2012 · All locations, podcasts, Tempe campus · Comments Off

Event promo ImageOn February 14, 2012 Arizona celebrates 100 years of statehood. ASU School of Theatre and Film
presents the play Untold Stories/Unsung Heroes as part of the Arizona Centennial Project New  Works Series  beginning February 10 at 7:30 in the Lyceum Theatre.

Director Pamela Sterling, professor at the School of Theatre and Film, joins Host Fred McIlvain to talk about the play and how it was put together. Joining them is Curatorial Museum Specialist Karrie Porter Brace to talk about the tie-in exhibit, Tell Your Story, in the Hayden Library Rotunda on the ASU Tempe campus. Karrie also talks about the archival images used in the play.

 
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Untold Stories/Unsung Heroes tells the most poetic, comedic and iconic stories that were unearthed over the past year by a dedicated team of ASU theatre students the stories were culled from thousands of archival sources as well as interviews with contemporary Arizonans including a group of centenarians from the Pioneer Village in Prescott and the students’ friends, neighbors and relatives.

The stories were woven into the new play, which is part of the Arizona Centennial Project New  Works Series and is an official selection of the Arizona Centennial Commemoration Project.  People who will be pictured in Untold/Unsung include: Lozen, Apache warrior; Soto Vasquez, founder of Teatro Carmen in Tucson; Elizabeth Hudson Smith an African American woman who independently owned and operated a hotel in Wickenburg; George W. Parsons, lawyer, banker, and citizen of Tombstone who had a bird’s eye view of the gunfight at the OK Corral; and Borislav Bogdanovich, artist and relative of film director Peter Bogdonavich.

Students have established a a Facebook Page where people can learn more about the state’s colorful figures, and a video clip series, Arizona 100 Stories, where students recount the stories they have uncovered during their research. Pre-show activities include Living Statues that come to life to import the stories of Arizonans.

Untold Stories/Unsung Heroes
Where: Lyceum Theatre, 901. S. Forest Mall, ASU Tempe campus.
When: Feb. 10- 11, 16-18 at 7:30 p.m.; Feb 12 and19 at 2 p.m.
Cost: $8–$16; Seniors, ASU faculty, staff and students receive special rates. Special discounts for groups available.
Public Contact: Herberger Institute box office, 480.965.6447
School of Theatre and Film. 480.965.5337
Info and Online Tickets

Tell Your Story Exhibit
Where: Hayden Library Rotunda (Lower Concourse)
When: February 6 – May 2012

Host: Fred McIlvain
Guests: Pamela Sterling and Karrie Porter Brace
Episode 117
Running Time: 16:53

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