ASU celebrates the life and work of Charles Darwin with Darwinfest

Arizona State University celebrates Darwin‘s 200th birthday and commemorates the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species with Darwinfest – a creative scientific enterprise. Darwinfest includes a unique set of multifaceted events, contests, lectures, artistic performances, educational workshops, tea parties, and even a look-alike contest.

Upcoming event:  ASU Darwinfest continues  with Princeton Emeritus Professors Peter and Rosemary Grant, who will speak about their work with “Darwin’s Finches” and sign books: “The beak of the finch” by Jonathan Weiner (1995), which won a Pulitzer Prize. “How and why species multiply. The radiation of Darwin’s finches.” Princeton University Press, 2006.   This event will be held on Wednesday, October 28, 6:00pm – 7:30pm in the Turquoise Ballroom, Memorial Union 220.   Books can be purchased in advance and for a 20% discount from the ASU Bookstore.

Check out the entire event schedule on the Darwinfest web site.

Get More Information About Darwin: Our Life Sciences Librarians created a special “Darwin LibGuide” with links to relevant books, articles and selected information on the web about Charles Darwin, evolution and other related topics.  This timely LibGuide was created especially to coincide with ASU’s special celebration, Darwinfest:  Bold Ideas Change Worlds.

The evening will begin with a reading by Silko from her forthcoming memoir, Turquoise Ledge, followed by an informal discussion with the audience.

Silko is best known for her universally-praised novel Ceremony, which was first published in 1977 to rave reviews. It continues to be the American Indian novel most often set on college and university syllabi, and is one of the few individual works by any Native author to have received book-length critical assessments. Ceremony’s message of healing and reconciliation between races and people resonates with both Native and non-Native readers to this day.

Silko has won prizes, fellowships, and grants from such sources as the National Endowment for the Arts and The Boston Globe. She was the youngest writer to be included in The Norton Anthology of Women’s Literature for her short story “Lullaby.” In 1981 she won a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Grant. Silko has continued to be a force in American Indian literature in both the fiction and non-fiction genres.

The lecture series is sponsored by the Heard Museum and Arizona State University’s American Indian Studies Program, Department of English, Department of History, Labriola Center and Women and Gender Studies Program.

Book Arts Program
Join the West campus Community in creating original book art in recognition of Banned Book Awareness Week. Your Book Art will be on display in the Fletcher Library during Banned Book Awareness Week September 26-October 3, 2009

Date/Time:  Tuesday 9/29 4:30-6pm
Date/Time: Wednesday 9/30 11:30-1pm
Location:  West side Fletcher Patio

Banned and Challenged Books Reading
Listen to readings from banned and challenged books, and read from your favorite banned or challenged book.  Books will be provided, or bring your favorite.

Date:  October 1
Time:  4:30-6pm
Location:  Fletcher Lawn

Everyone is welcome to join us for these events and no registration is required.

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Event Details:

Date:  Thursday September 17

Time:  11:30am-1:00pm

Location:  On the stage in between the Hayden Library and Memorial Union, on the Tempe campus

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Event Details:

Date:  Thursday, September 17, 2009.

Time:  11:30 am – 1:00 pm

Location:  Outdoor stage between the Hayden Library and the Memorial Union, Tempe campus

What’s Involved:  Read a brief (less than one minute) section of the Constitution aloud.  We have divided the Constitution into one hundred sections, and you’ll be assigned one as you arrive.  Unfortunately readers are not able to reserve any specific section.

As a bonus, we will be distributing free pocket Constitutions to attendees.

More information about Constitution Day:

• Library Channel podcast interview:  What Is Constitution Day
• Constitution Center:  Constitution Day

Recorded March 23, 2009 at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, University of Victoria Professor of Indigenous Governance Gerald Taiaiake Alfred talks about the “Resurgence of Traditional Ways of Being: Indigenous Paths of Action and Freedom”

Taiaiake Alfred is known for his leadership and groundbreaking research in the fields of Indigenous governance, philosophy and history, and also for his incisive social and political criticism. He has been awarded a Canada Research Chair, a National Aboriginal Achievement Award in the field of education, and the Native American Journalists Association award for best column writing.

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About Gerald Taiaiake Alfred
The Simon Ortiz and Labriola Center Lecture on Indigenous Land, Culture, and Community
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NEW! The full event video is now available and will be coming soon to ASUtv.

Episode 96
Running Time: 1:15:04

Speaker:

Gerald Taiaiake Alfred

Professor Simon Ortiz opens the presentation.

Opportunity for Public Comment

Date: Thursday April 2nd, 2009
Time: 5:30 – 6:30 pm
Location:  University Center Building, 411 N. Central Ave
Information Commons Computer Lab, Lower Level
Arizona State University at the Downtown Phoenix campus

You are invited to help us build Why Arizona? The Arizona Migration Digital Library, a freely accessible digital library of archival materials that tell us stories about why people chose to come to Arizona, why they stayed, and why they left. Through the lens of thousands of archival photos, audio recordings, videos and texts we will connect individuals and families of the past and present who chose Arizona for employment, religious freedom, ethnic communities or recreation.

We invite anyone to participate in this project by offering their stories, suggesting topics or events they would like to see documented here, or simply cheering us on! At this meeting the public will be invited to learn about the progress of the project, see samples and descriptions of materials nominated for digitization and public access and add their voice to our work! If you can’t attend the meeting, please visit our website at www.whyarizona.org and email your comments!

Why Arizona is a multi-year collaboration of archivists, librarians and technology professionals from the University of Arizona, Northern Arizona University and Arizona State University that will be formally unveiled in time for the Arizona Centennial in 2012. In the meantime, watch us grow! The project is supported with funds granted by the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records Agency under the Library Services and Technology Act, which is administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Why Arizona? The Arizona Migration Digital Library is grateful to the Arizona Historical Advisory Commission for designation of Why Arizona? as an Arizona Centennial Legacy Project.

Arizona archives collect, preserve and make accessible millions of resources for your use. Please visit:

• Arizona Memory Project
• Arizona Archives Online
• Arizona Cultural Inventory Project

The third installment of the ASU Indigenous speaker series, the Simon Ortiz and Labriola Center Lecture on Indigenous Land, Culture, and Community will take place Monday March 23rd, 2009.

Professor of Indigenous Governance at the University of Victoria, Gerald Taiaiake Alfred, will deliver a lecture entitled “Resurgence of Traditional Ways of Being: Indigenous Paths of Action and Freedom” at the Heard Museum Steele Auditorium at 7PM with a reception and book signing to follow at 8PM.

The Labriola National American Indian Data Center will host a reception on the ASU Tempe Campus from 3:00-4:00PM in the Labriola Center, Hayden Library room 209 .

All events are free and open to the public.

About Gerald Taiaiake Alfred

Professor of Indigenous Governance at the University of Victoria (Canada), Gerald Taiaiake Alfred is known for his leadership and groundbreaking research in the fields of Indigenous governance, philosophy and history, and also for his incisive social and political criticism. He has been awarded a Canada Research Chair, a National Aboriginal Achievement Award in the field of education, and the Native American Journalists Association award for best column writing.

Educated at Concordia and Cornell, Taiaiake lectures at universities and colleges in Canada, the United States, England and Australia, and serves as an advisor on land and governance issues for his own and many other Indigenous governments and organizations. His writing includes numerous scholarly articles and contributed essays in newspapers and journals, as well as three books: the influential and best-selling Peace, Power, Righteousness (2008), now in its second edition; Wasáse (2005), a runner-up for the McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year in 2005; and Heeding the Voices of Our Ancestors (1995).

About the Simon Ortiz and Labriola Center Lecture Series

The Simon Ortiz and Labriola Center Lecture on Indigenous Land, Culture, and Community at Arizona State University brings notable scholars and speakers to Arizona for public lectures twice a year. These speakers address topics and issues across disciplines in the arts, humanities, sciences, and politics. Underscoring Indigenous American experiences and perspectives, this series seeks to create and celebrate knowledge that evolves from an Indigenous worldview that is inclusive and that is applicable to all walks of life.

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Stories:

Reduced Spring Break hours: Hours and closures for March 8 – 14

LibGuides! A handy tool for the resources you need.

Gerald Taiaiake Alfred lecture at the Heard Museum: The third Simon Ortiz and Labriola Center Lecture on Indigenous Land, Culture and Community on March 23rd.

Interlibrary Loan: Possibly the best library service you may never have tried!

Featured Exhibit: Shelter in the Storm: Agnes Smedley at Yaddo (related Podcast)

Host: Fred McIlvain

Episode 91
Running time:4:42

Join us at the ASU Libraries on Tuesday January 20 to watch Barack Obama be inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States.  We will be showing the televised coverage of the Inauguration Ceremonies at the following libraries:

As part of this year’s Homecoming celebration, four faculty from the Emeritus College will participate in a panel discussion regarding the 1958 name change to Arizona State University, and the development of the university since that seminal event. Event details:

Date: Friday November 14
Location: Carson Ballroom, Old Main , Tempe campus
Time: 3-4pm

The panel will include four of the founding members of the ASU Emeritus College: Founding Dean Dick Jacob, Associate Dean Charles Elliott, Emeritus College Newsletter Editor and Council member Winifred Doane, and University Archivist Robert Spindler.

All members of the ASU community are invited to attend the panel session itself. For those unable to attend, the ASU Libraries will be recording the sessions and will be released via The Library Channel (in both audio and video formats) later in the month.

The ASU West campus is participating in Homecoming as part of the campus’s role as a vital part of one university in many places by hosting a variety of events enabling members of the West campus community to get together, have fun, and show their Sun Devil spirit. This year’s celebration is special because it marks the 50th anniversary of ASU achieving university status.

The events build momentum and enthusiasm for the big university-wide celebration on Saturday, November 15, including the football game against Washington State.

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Episode 85
Running Time: 10:09

Host:
Fred McIlvain

Guests:
Kevin Cook
Ryan Caracciolo

On Wednesday October 29 we’ll be at the Accessibility Resource Fair on the Student Services Lawn from 11am-1pm on the Tempe campus. Come meet Jodie Milam, supervisor the ADA Services room in the Hayden Library, and find out what kinds of services and adaptive technology available to users of the ASU Libraries.

Recently Jodie sat down with Library Channel host Fred McIlvain for a conversation about our services for users with disabilities:

• More information about Accessibility and Diversity Awareness Week from the Campus Environment Team

Recorded on October 2, 2008 at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Wilma Mankiller, former principal chief of the Cherokee Nation and internationally known Native rights activist talks about “Challenges Facing 21st Century Indigenous People.”

Mankiller talks of the diversity and uniqueness of the over 300 million Indigenous Peoples of the world. She also talks of indigenous duty and sense of responsibility to conserve and protect the natural world and how cultures with no memories of their origins have little understanding of their place in the world.

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Wilma Mankiller’s work as principal chief, consultant and speaker on Native issues has been acknowledged by numerous awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, one of the two highest civilian awards in the United States. She has also been recognized as American Indian Woman of the Year, received the Indian Health Service Award and entered into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.

She co-edited A Reader’s Companion to the History of Women in the U.S., published by Houghton-Mifflin, co-authored, Mankiller: A Chief and Her People, published by St. Martin’s Press, and her newest book, Every Day is a Good Day was published by Fulcrum Press in the fall of 2004.

A video of the full event including opening remarks by Frank Goodyear and Wayne Mitchell will be coming soon on the Library Channel and ASUtv.

Episode 84

Running Time: 46:00

Speaker:
Wilma Mankiller

Professor Simon Ortiz opens the presentation.

Are you a student? Do you collect books? If so, you have the chance to win up to $600 in the Student Book Collection Contest sponsored by the ASU Libraries. Prizes are awarded in both undergraduate and graduate student categories. The top prizes are $600 for best collection and $250 for best essay. Students from all ASU campuses are encouraged to apply.

The contest runs from October 2008 to February 2009. The deadline is Thursday February 12, 2009. Winners willl be announced the week of March 9, 2009, and the awards will be made at a special Donor Reception on April 8, 2009.

For more information pick up a brochure in any ASU Libraries Or see http://lib.asu.edu/bookcontest.

All are invited to attend this year’s Simon Ortiz and Labriola Center Lecture on Indigenous Land, Culture and Community, featuring Wilma Mankiller and titled Challenges Facing 21st Century Indigenous People. The lecture will take place on Thursday October 2, 2008, at 7pm at the Heard Museum. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Wilma Mankiller served for ten years as the first female Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. Her work as a consultant and speaker on Native issues has been acknowledged by many honors and awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom—one of the two highest civilian awards in the United States. Mankiller has 18 honorary university doctorates, and has been a Chubb Fellow at Yale and a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth. She served as the Morse Chair Professor of Law and Politics at the University of Oregon in the fall of 2005, and has presented more than 100 lectures at universities, and published more than a dozen papers in journals and newspapers. Among Mankiller’s books are the autobiography, Mankiller: A Chief and Her People (1993), which became a national best-seller, and A Reader’s Companion to the History of Women in the U.S. (1998), co-edited with Barbara Smith, Gloria Steinem, Gwendolyn Mink, and Marysa Navarro. Her book, Every Day is a Good Day (2004), a collection of “profound yet simple words from strong women” (Booklist), contains essays by contemporary Native women on issues of Indigenous spirituality, sovereignty, and culture.

For those unable to attend the lecture, it will be recorded and available at a future date via the Library Channel.

September 24, Noon – 1:00pm

ASU Libraries’ Archives and Special Collections
Hayden Library, Level 4
Tempe campus

ASU Celebrates its 50th anniversary! Students, faculty, administrators, and alumni all worked together to put the historic Proposition 200 on the November 1958 ballot. Drawn from the University Archives, come see the images, documents, artifacts, and ephemera retell the story of the name change from Arizona State College to Arizona State University. Also get a special behind-the-scenes look at the Archives and Special Collections area at Hayden Library.

Polytechnic campus

In celebration of Banned Books Week, students from Angela Giron’s Acting Introduction course have joined the Polytechnic campus library in presenting a Reader’s Theater Adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House.” All are invited to attend!

Banned Books Week – Celebrating the Freedom to Read

Readers’ Theater Adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House.”

Wednesday, October 1, 2008.

9:30am – 10:30 am

Student Union – South Patio

Also, visit the Banned Books Week Display in the Polytechnic campus library from September 27th-October 4th for more information regarding banned and challenged books.

West campus

The recognition of Banned Books Awareness Week acknowledges the library profession’s commitment to democracy by celebrating the “freedom to read freely”. Recognizing the relationship between the freedom to read and the freedom to create, the Amnesty International student club has joined the Fletcher Library Diversity Initiative Team in co-sponsoring events held on ASU’s West campus. All are invited to participate!

Events

Books Behind Bars – Book Art Workshop
Thursday September 25th, 2008.
3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Fletcher Library Front Porch (west of the entrance)

Join library employees, club members, and the campus community as we create book-art for the Books Behind Bars art exhibit to be displayed in the library during Banned Books Awareness Week.

Banned and Challenged Book Reading
Wednesday October 1, 2008.
4:30 pm to 6:30 pm
In front of the Fletcher Library

Amnesty International members will organize readings of banned and challenged books and provide information regarding prisoners of conscience and those imprisoned for their work in the publishing industry. Library employees will offer information regarding banned and challenged books. Audience members may participate by reading from any banned or challenged texts. Bring your own book or borrow one from the library!

The ASU Libraries will be hosting a lecture by Robert McWhirter of the Maricopa County Legal Defenders Office on Wednesday September 17 to mark the annual celebration of Constitution Day. The lecture, titled “Baby Don’t Be Cruel: What’s So “Cruel and Unusual” About The Eight Amendment?” will begin at 1:30pm in the Hayden Library, Room C6A/East, on the Tempe campus.

Lecture information: Crime and punishment and what is “cruel and unusual” is the prevailing theme of legislatures across the country. Also, nearly every term of the modern United States Supreme Court has a case involving the Eighth Amendment’s Cruel and Unusual Clause. This is a dynamic and engaging presentation on the history of the Eighth Amendment to the American Bill of Rights. This talk explores the real “intent” of the Bill of Right’s framers and the culture that produced the Eighth Amendment. From antiquity through the middle ages, this presentation has implications for today.

Mr. McWhirter’s lecture from last year’s Constitution Day event, How the Constitution Guarantees You a Trial, a Lawyer and a Chamber Pot! A Multimedia History of the 6th Amendment, is now available from iTunes U via the Library Channel.

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Stories:

New Library Web URL: The ASU Libraries can now be found at the new address lib.asu.edu.

Upgraded Chat Service: ASU Libraries launched a new version of our popular “Ask a Librarian Chat” service.

New Lecture: Matthew Harp interviews Labriola Center Curator Joyce Martin about about the upcoming lecture with Wilma Mankiller – “Challenges Facing 21st Century Indigenous People” 7:00 p.m. on October 2, at the Phoenix, Heard Museum Steele Auditorium.

ASU China Book Drive Meets Goal:

Host: Fred McIlvain

Running time: 7:20

In this first episode, we are joined by former editor of the State Press and former director of the Alumni Association Don Dotts and University Archivist Rob Spindler to set the scene and illustrate Arizona State College and student life in 1958. Don will also talk about the students’ support of the initiative process, their march on the capitol, the roll of the State Press, opposition to the process and much, much more.

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To honor this heritage, and the vast progress that has been made in the last half century, ASU will be celebrating throughout the year at a variety of events. The university as a whole will also look back and reflect on that special moment in 1958 and what it means for the university in 2008.

Dr. Grady Gammage atop the Memorial Union announces the 1958 election returns changing Arizona State College to Arizona State University

For more information please visit:
The official ASU 50th anniversary site and blog
ASU Generations (Streaming Video).

Host: Guests: Episode 79

The Arizona State University Libraries are calling on local schools, individuals, and organizations to donate new and used English-language materials to help rebuild school libraries in Sichuan Province, site of the 8.0 earthquake that shook that region on May 12. As of May 22, the death toll stood at 51,151 and another 288,431 people were injured. The quake destroyed many schools and thousands of other buildings.

A partner of leading Chinese university libraries, the ASU Libraries plans to send the books to Juyuan Middle School in Dujiangyan City, Sichuan. That school, now operating in tents, lost 278 students and six teachers in the quake. Arizona State University’s sister institution and strategic partner Sichuan University is located only 60 miles away from the epicenter of the earthquake.

The ASU Libraries are partnering with the University of Pittsburgh Library System (ULS) on this drive. University Librarian Sherrie Schmidt and ULS director Rush Miller will travel to China in September to present some of the books to school officials.

Donated materials, English language books, CDs, and DVDs in literature, history, science, and the arts, must be in good condition and appropriate for children in grades 7 through 12.
“Rebuilding School Libraries, Sichuan Earthquake” and can be brought to any of the following ASU Libraries: Hayden Library, Noble Science and Engineering Library, and Music Library, on the Tempe campus, the Library at the Downtown Phoenix campus, the Library at the Polytechnic campus, and Fletcher Library at the West campus. Donations will be accepted from July 21 through August 15, 2008.

Those needing more information or assistance with their donation may call 480-965-3417.

We’ve gathered a small group to talk about ASU’s activities and your chance to meet us in person at the conference. We’ll be sharing what we are looking forward to and the presentations we’ll be hosting and attending.

Tammy Allgood will talk about her joint presentation on library gaming. Dan Stanton discusses the Association for Research Libraries meeting he will be attending and the ClimateQual survey ASU Libraries employees participated in. Matt Harp and Fred McIlvain will discuss the Library Channel’s conference poster session and Mimmo Bonanni will talk about other presentations ASU Librarians will be hosting.

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ASU Libraries activities at the 2008 annual conference include:

ALA Advocacy Institute, on Friday, June 27 from 8:30am to 3:30pm
Are You in the Game? Harnessing Millenial Learning Strategies to Market Your Library on Saturday June 28 from 8:00 am -10:00 pm (Note: the ALA wiki has this time incorrectly posted)
The Library Channel: Syndicating News, Views, and Collections to the World Poster Session Monday, June 30, 2008 from 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm

Be sure to find us at the conference and leave your feedback. See you there!

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Episode 78

In part two Dr. Keith Kintigh the associate director of the School of Human Evolution and Social Change show the evolution and history intellectual threads and activities of his work that have gotten including archaeological fieldwork, southwest biocomplexity, the development of quantitative and formal methods, his involvement with the Society for American Archaeology, and tDAR – The Digital Archaeological Record. Keith will also talk about needs for broad-based information infrastructure and his collaboration with the library and how this relationship forms new analogies.

The program concludes with questions from the audience and closing remarks by Associate University Librarian Dr. John Howard. Dr. Howard discusses what this exciting research at ASU means to the library in capturing dynamic scholarly research, maintaining them over time and making research available to diverse communities.

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Dr. Keith Kintigh is the associate director of the School of Human Evolution and Social Change. Dr. Kintigh’s career-long commitment to understanding political organization in middle-range societies has focused on the Cíbola area along the Arizona-New Mexico border near Zuni Pueblo. Kintigh’s other major research focus has been on the development and application of quantitative methods in archaeology. Part 1 features Dr. Jane Maienschein discussing The Embryo Project and its partnership with the ASU Knowledge Network. Speaker: Keith Kintigh Introduction: Vicki Coleman Closing Comments: John Howard

Episode 74
Running Time 44:30

In part one Dr. Jane Maienschein discusses The Embryo Project and its partnership with the ASU Knowledge Network.

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Dr. Jane Maienschein, Regents’ Professor, President’s Professor, and Parents Association Professor, serves as the director of the Center for Biology and Society in the School of Life Sciences. Dr. Maienschein specializes in the history and philosophy of biology and the way that biology, bioethics, and biopolicy play out in society.

Next time: Part 2 features Dr. Keith Kintigh the associate director of the School of Human Evolution and Social Change with closing remarks from Associate University Librarian Dr. John Howard.

Speaker:
Jane Maienschein

Introduction:
Vicki Coleman

Episode 73
Running Time 40:51

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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

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Winner of the 2007 Frederick Jackson Turner Award and the 2006 William P. Clements Prize for the Best Non-Fiction Book on Southwestern America, Violence Over the Land “begins with the premise that too many histories written about the United States downplay the violence perpetrated by its citizens on native peoples.” (Harvard University Press) Dr. Blackhawk teaches in the History and American Indian Studies Departments at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His areas of specialization and teaching interest include North American Indian history, culture, and identity from U.S. colonial to the 21st century; race and multiculturalism; comparative colonialisms; borderlands studies; and race and violence. The series is sponsored by the ASU American Indian Studies Program, ASU Department of English, ASU American Indian Policy Institute, ASU Labriola Center, and the Heard Museum. Recorded on January 28, 2008 at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona. A video of the presentation, including Dr. Simon Ortiz’s introduction, is available from The Library Channel at ASU on iTunes U, Google Video and the Internet Archive. Speaker: Dr. Ned Blackhawk Episode 68 Running Time: 55:31

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This year the Flinn Foundation Centennial Lecturer is Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author Anna Quindlen. Her lecture, “The Value of Reading and Writing in a Democratic Society” will be presented on November 13, 2007 at 7:00pm at the Gammage Auditorium on the Tempe campus. Tickets are free but are required and will be available at Barrett, the Honors College, the ASU Bookstores, Changing Hands Bookstore and Borders Books throughout the Valley.

The exhibit is on display in the lobby of Hayden Library and is available during normal library hours through December 14, 2007.

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Host: Fred McIlvain Guest: Mark Jacobs Episode 57 Running Time: 27:48

In conjunction with the opening of the Confucius Institute, the ASU Libraries will host the Confucius Institute Exhibition debuting Oct. 8 on the Tempe campus in the Noble Science and Engineering Library. The Confucius Institute Exhibition will contain artifacts from China, as well as display photos and information about Confucius and his influence on Chinese history and culture, and showcase the Sichuan province and its capital city, Chengdu. It will also convey the importance of the Confucius Institute collaboration between the two universities, feature Sichuan University and its libraries, and highlight ASU’s Center for Asian Research.

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The group explains why Banned Books Week is important to libraries and how it came about. They include a member of the Amnesty International student club and members of the Fletcher Library Diversity Initiative Team who worked together organizing the events.

The Amnesty International student club has joined the Fletcher Library Diversity Initiative Team in co-sponsoring the celebration on ASU’s West campus, emphasizing human rights and freedom of conscience while addressing the real-life cases of people imprisoned for their expression.

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For more information about Banned Books Week please see this related article: Fletcher Library Celebrates Banned Books Week and you can also checkout the 2006 podcast on the event.

Host:
Allison Leaming – Member, Fletcher Library Diversity Initiative Team
Panelists:
Camden Forgia – Student, Amnesty International Club member, ASU’s West campus

Smita Joshipura – Chair, Fletcher Library Diversity Initiative Team

Sandra Ley, Member, Fletcher Library Diversity Initiative Team

Kelly Tedeschi – Member, Fletcher Library Diversity Initiative Team

Episode 52
Running Time: 11:03

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On February 23, 2007 Alberto Ríos, Regents’ Professor of English, Arizona State University, gave the closing keynote to FORO 2007. He asks, “In the next century, so hungry for answers and so fearful of ideas, how do we move forward? And more than that, how do we move forward together?”

Along with self-reflective anecdotes, Alberto sends out six hopeful challenges to librarians as caring and thinking people:

1. Diversity: It is not a goal but a means by which we will arrive at something greater than we currently understand.
2. Invisible Populations: We need solutions not laws
3. Economics: We must move from a money economy to an idea economy.
4. Dialogue: We need to move back to true conversation. Half of language is listening. Are libraries listening and do they know how to listen?
5. Languages: With many languages come many answers. Languages are a richness and a solution, not a problem. Words are ideas, and ideas lead to vital and evolving solutions.
6. Education: It never fails us. An educated person learns how to solve problems. We will pay for education, but it always pays us back.

“Every pencil is filled with a book. It’s my job to know that, to believe it, and to act on it.” – Alberto Ríos

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Alberto Ríos is the author of eight books and chapbooks of poetry, three collections of short stories, and a memoir. His memoir about growing up on the border, called Capirotada, was published by University of New Mexico Press in 1999. Ríos is the recipient of the Arizona Governor’s Arts Award, fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Walt Whitman Award, the Western States Book Award for Fiction, five Pushcart Prizes in both poetry and fiction, and inclusion in The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, as well as over 150 other national and international literary anthologies. His work is regularly taught and translated, and has been adapted to dance and both classical and popular music. Ríos is presently Regents’ Professor of English at Arizona State University.

For more information about the Transborder Library Forum please visit FORO 2007.

Introduction: Fred McIlvain Opening Statements: University Librarian Sherrie Schmidt Speaker: Alberto Ríos Regents’ Professor of English

Episode 44

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Adams has created a unique musical world grounded in the Northern wilderness landscapes and indigenous cultures, and in natural phenomena from the songs of birds to elemental noise of crashing glaciers. Much of his music is contemplative, expansive and pictorial. But he also composed percussive and rhythmically vigorous works inspired by Inuit drumming. Adams’ works for orchestra, ensembles, percussion and electronic media have been widely performed and recorded by prominent musicians.

Adams came to classical music through a fascination with progressive rock. After music studies at the California Institute of the Arts, he moved to Alaska where he worked as an environmentalist fighting for the preservation of pristine wilderness areas. These experiences led him to explore the ideal of “Sonic Geography,” a music of place deeply resonating with the philosophies of Deep Ecology and Bioregionalism.

Free concerts, a sound installation, roundtables, workshops and an exhibit run April 23-27.

For more information on Adams and his residency at ASU please visit:

John Luther Adams in the ASU Library Catalogue
ASU Music Library
Herberger College of the Arts Events
Sonic Geography Press Release (PDF)
John Luther Adams Homepage

You can also download his music on iTunes!

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Episode 43

Dr. David Schildkret, chair of the choral program at the school of music and religion and philosophy bibliographer Rachel Leket-Mor join Fred McIlvain and Tammy Allgood to discuss a month long celebration of Jewish musical heritage at ASU:

Ways of Happiness, Paths of Peace

The series focuses on the music of Leonard Bernstein and Ernest Bloch, culminating in a performance of Bernstein’s Jeremiah Symphony and Bloch’s Sacred Service on April 26 featuring the combined forces of three ASU choirs, the ASU Symphony, and faculty soloists. The series includes chamber music concerts, lectures, films, a library exhibition, and a symposium in addition to the final concert.

Each year the School of Music puts on a concert combining the choir and symphony. This year the focal point of the events are Bloch and Bernstein.

In the podcast we discuss items in the exhibit such as traditional and popular “living” items provided by David from his own family including his father’s prayer shawls and falacteries. We also hear about the music of Bloch and Bernstein and provide and interesting mini-biography on Ernest Bloch (1880-1956). This highly entertaining conversation not only talks about the events here at the music library but also the practices of daily worship.

For more information visit the Ways of Happiness, Paths of Piece information page.

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On Thursday March 22, 2007 the ASU Libraries and the Jewish Studies Program at ASU hosted a special event: An evening with Dr. Ann Kirschner, author of Sala’s Gift: My Mother’s Holocaust Story, in the Hayden Library on the ASU Tempe campus.

It was not until Sala (now 82) was scheduled for heart surgery in 1991 that she showed Ann a priceless collection of more than 350 letters and a diary from her years in the Nazi work camps, documents that she had kept carefully hidden in a cardboard box. She had risked her life to preserve these letters, hiding them from Nazi guards during line-ups, handing them off to friends, throwing them under a building, even burying them, but always managing somehow to take them with her from camp to camp. Scholars have declared this collection to be one of the great treasure troves of its kind. As the letters pass from the Kirschner family to history, they are becoming the genesis of many creative and scholarly works.

In the hands of Ann Kirschner, they form the basis of one of the most moving, inspiring, and eye-opening Holocaust stories in decades. SALA’S GIFT: My Mother’s Holocaust Story (Free Press: Fall 2006; $26.00) captures the horror of Sala’s astonishing odyssey through the Nazi labor camps—which are far less understood than the extermination camps—and deftly weaves the letters into a compelling narrative.

Topics include:

• What it was like for Ann to discover her mother as a beautiful, brave teenager and how it changed their relationship.
• The day-to-day moments of hope, despair, and details of wartime Poland, told from a unique perspective.
• What happened to the rest of Sala’s family and why Sala kept the letters a secret for so many years.
• Sala’s close friendship with Ala Gertner, who was hanged publicly at Auschwitz in the final days of the war for helping to organize the camp’s only armed uprising.
• Why the letters, diary, photographs, and keepsakes are such a valuable part of survivor history.
• What the letters reveal about the elaborate system of Nazi slave labor camps.

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Part 2 of The Library Channel’s special three-part video series from FORO 2007: The Transborder Library Forum held in 2007 at Arizona State University.

Dennis S. Karjala, the Jack E. Brown Professor of Law at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, considers the basic notion of “intellectual property” and problems with its legal protection:

• Why too much protection is a bad idea
• Why enforcement is sometimes difficult
• Why the scope and duration of intellectual property rights are limited in comparison with rights in tangible property

He describes how copyright subject matter has traditionally been distinguished from patent subject matter and how our treatment of computer software has blurred the issue and undermined attempts to make sensible information policy decisions with respect to digital works.

Karjala then considers the enforcement problems for copyright-protected works that the internet has posed, such as P2P networks and the liability of internet service providers for infringements that occur on or through their systems. He also talks about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which potentially gives vastly expanded rights to copyright owners with little or no quid pro quo to content users. He considers the adequacy of the notion of “copying” as a measure of the protected property right, using the Google Library Project as an example. Finally, he outlines the Berne Convention and the WTO TRIPS agreement as the current source of international copyright law.

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For the next few weeks The Library Channel presents a special three-part video series from FORO 2007: The Transborder Library Forum held this year at Arizona State University.

Part 1: Janice R. Lachance, Special Libraries Association CEO, a member of the US delegation to the World Summit on the Information Society 2005 and the UN Internet Governance Forum 2006, discusses her role with the SLA and the role technology and the Internet play in a global library network.

FORO began in 1989 at a local Arizona library conference where librarians from United States and Mexico discussed the need to create a network where they could meet and discuss issues of common interest while exchanging information and resources across borders.

The theme for this years conference is, “Bridging the Digital Divide-Crossing All Borders.” Each episode includes one of the three keynote speeches which address how libraries can facilitate access and exchange of information, resources, and culture through technology, “… crossing all borders.”

For more information please visit:

• The Official FORO 2007 Home Page
• The Library Channel Interview with Jeanette Mueller-Alexander and Rosa Gonzalez
• Library News Article about FORO
• The Special Libraries Association (SLA)

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A Diversity Horizons Presentation sponsored by the Diversity Team at Fletcher Library

Leandro Soto, Senior Lecturer and Artist-in-Residence at ASU’s West campus, presented an intimate curator/artist talk inside the Interdisciplinary Arts and Performance Gallery at ASU at the West campus on Tuesday October 10, 2006.

This exhibit, “Shared Visions: India, Mexico, & Cuba” honored and celebrated Hispanic Heritage Month – but in a totally new way. Attendees took off their shoes, sat on the floor, listened to stories, and explored the elaborate imagery on hand-painted silk.

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Recorded by Tammy Allgood in the Interdisciplinary Arts and Performance Gallery – University Center Building – ASU West campus

Introduction by Sylvia Frost

View images of Leandro’s presentation: Image 1, Image 2, Image 3, Image 4, Image 5, Image 6, and Image 7
Photos by Alison Hake

Join Fred McIlvain, University Archivist Rob Spindler, and Jennifer Duvernay from Library Marketing and Outreach as they discuss the events and history of ASU Homecoming.

Homecoming is an opportunity for alumni to come back and remember “the good old days,” share their experiences with old friends and faculty, and see what has changed at their alma matter. Rob Spindler will talk about the purpose and history of the event, including the very first homecoming celebration back in 1926. We will also hear how the archives, acting as a repository for homecoming memorabilia and stories, are preserving the student perspective of ASU history and about the library’s participation in the event.

You can watch a video produced by the libraries about homecoming here and click here to view the first archival video, ASU Generations.

The 2006 ASU Homecoming is the longest in history beginning on October 13 and running through the 22nd. For more information visit Homecoming FestDevil 2006.

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