Hosted by: Fred McIlvain

Guests:
Karrie Porter Brace
Zac Humphrey
Episode 101 Running Time: 23:02

Libraries have been some of the loudest voices in the Open Access movement – after all, providing access to information is one of our primary responsibilities. Here, Diane Graves, a librarian at UC Santa Barbara, covers some of the reasons librarians are so involved.

Diane Graves, Librarian from Open Access Videos on Vimeo.

Open Access Week builds on the momentum started by the student-led national day of action in 2007 and carried by the 120 campuses in 27 countries that celebrated Open Access Day in 2008. 2008 organizers SPARC(the Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition), the PLoS (The Public Library of Science), and Students for FreeCulture welcome new key contributors for 2009: OASIS (the Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook); Open Access Directory (OAD); and eIFL.net (Electronic Information for Libraries), which will again spearhead events in developing and transitional countries.

Students, if you are interested in further fun open access activities, IssueLab is sponsoring a Research Remix Contest.  Contestants will be asked to remix facts from one or more of the 300+ Creative Commons licensed reports on IssueLab with openly licensed video footage or openly licensed images and music. We prefer one minute pieces but will accept all submissions under three minutes. Entries are due by December 31st.  There are some very cool prizes, so check it out! Go to Research Remix Contest for complete details about rules, prized, and how to enter.

Thanks to everyone who participated in setting up the exhibit, and special thanks to our three ASU faculty, who joined us for a podcast to discuss open access issues and projects here at ASU!

For more information about Open Access, check out our Scholarly Communication LibGuide.

If you missed the Library Channel earlier this week, see below for more Open Access Week videos!

• Monday - Welcome to Open Access Week!
• Tuesday - Open Access Week Continues
• Wednesday - Open Access for Students
• Thursday - Open Access in the Real World

This wraps up this year’s Open Access Week activities at ASU Libraries!  See you next year!

Open Access doesn’t just affect faculty or researchers – it has a great impact on students as well. All students need to be able to access the information they need to succeed in their classes. In this video, graduate student Andre Brown talks about why open access is important to him.

André Brown, Grad Student from Open Access Videos on Vimeo.

There are some student organizations interested in the Open Access movement: SPARC Students and Students for Free Culture.

Open Access Week builds on the momentum started by the student-led national day of action in 2007 and carried by the 120 campuses in 27 countries that celebrated Open Access Day in 2008. 2008 organizers SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition), the PLoS (The Public Library of Science), and Students for FreeCulture welcome new key contributors for 2009: OASIS (the Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook); Open Access Directory (OAD); and eIFL.net (Electronic Information for Libraries), which will again spearhead events in developing and transitional countries.

The ASU Libraries are celebrating Open Access Week through exhibits at both Hayden and Noble Libraries on the Tempe campus. We were also excited to have three ASU faculty join us for a podcast to discuss open access issues and projects here at ASU!

For more information about Open Access, check out our Scholarly Communication LibGuide.

Stay tuned to the Library Channel this week for more Open Access Week videos!

• Monday: Welcome to Open Access Week!
• Tuesday - Open Access Week Continues

OUR FATHERS, OUR GRANDFATHERS, OUR HEROES… The Navajo Code Talkers of World War II

The largest, most comprehensive exhibition on the Navajo Code Talkers of World War II will be on display at the Labriola National American Indian Data Center, from October 19th to November 13th, 2009.

The Labriola Center will host a reception featuring two former Navajo Code Talkers and “Our Fathers, Our Grandfathers, Our Heroes…” book signing on Thursday November 5th from 4PM-6PM.

This exhibit traces the story of the famed United States Marine Corps Navajo Code Talkers. It begins with the original pilot group of first twenty-nine volunteers, who in 1942, developed and tested the original Navajo code. Proven fast and accurate, the Marine Corps recruited nearly 400 more Navajos who utilized the code sending and receiving encrypted messages throughout the Pacific island hopping campaign. The ingenuity of the Navajo Code Talkers baffled Japanese cryptographers and greatly helped in the effort to win the war in the Pacific.

This exhibit is a tribute to these men. Originally done as an oral history project by Wingate High School students, this exhibit speaks volumes of the pride young Navajos have for their heroes.

This traveling exhibit displays more than 33 historic photographs with text; facsimiles of original, military WW II documents; a c.1940 map of the Navajo Reservation; and the (now de-classified) Navajo Code itself.

In addition, the full-length documentary, “Navajo Code Talkers” produced by the Arts & Entertainment/History Channel will be running throughout open gallery hours for additional enrichment to the exhibition.

The Southwest Inaugural Tour 2007- 2010 of “Our Fathers, Our Grandfathers, Our Heroes…The Navajo Code Talker of World War II” has been made possible with grants from the New Mexico Humanities Council; PNM, and APS corporations; Arizona Humanities Council, and the Navajo Generating Station/Salt River Project, AZ.

This traveling exhibition is produced and circulated by the Circle of Light Navajo Educational Project, Gallup, New Mexico (505) 726-8030 or travelexhibits@yahoo.com.

Welcome to the first international Open Access Week! This week allows us the opportunity to broaden awareness and raise interest in the movement towards of open, public access to scholarly research results.

To kick off our Open Access Week celebration, here’s a brief introduction to Open Access:

Open Access 101, from SPARC from Karen Rustad on Vimeo.

Open Access Week builds on the momentum started by the student-led national day of action in 2007 and carried by the 120 campuses in 27 countries that celebrated Open Access Day in 2008. 2008 organizers SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition), the PLoS (The Public Library of Science), and Students for FreeCulture welcome new key contributors for 2009: OASIS (the Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook); Open Access Directory (OAD); and eIFL.net (Electronic Information for Libraries), which will again spearhead events in developing and transitional countries.

The ASU Libraries are celebrating Open Access Week through exhibits at both Hayden and Noble Libraries on the Tempe campus. We were also excited to have three ASU faculty join us for a podcast to discuss open access issues and projects here at ASU!

For more information about Open Access, check out our Scholarly Communication LibGuide.

Stay tuned to the Library Channel this week for more Open Access Week videos!

Exhibit:  Mighty Marching Sun Devils

Location:  Luhrs Gallery and Reading Room, Hayden Library, 4th Floor, Tempe campus

Available:  Fall 2009 Semester, during Luhrs Reading Room hours

Description: With photographs and artifacts drawn from the University Archives, the exhibit tells the story of the ASU Marching Band, from its first days in the Territorial Normal School to today.

Exhibit: Native Sounds: Selections from the Canyon Records Collection

Location:  Music Library, Tempe campus

Available: October 1 through November 30, 2009, during normal library hours

Description: In celebration of this year’s Native American Heritage Month (November, 2009) the ASU Music Library will be displaying sound recordings and cover art from the Canyon Records Collection. The exhibit also features poster art and other artifacts on loan from Canyon Records. Turned over to the Music Library by the Arizona Historical Foundation in 2004, the Canyon Records Collection contains over 450 sound recordings in a variety of formats – from 78 RPM records to compact discs.

Founded in 1951, by Ray and Mary Boley, Phoenix-based Canyon Records was the first company to market Native American music to the Indian people. The exhibit features their first commercial recording, Natay, Navajo Singer, which was released at the 1951 Arizona State Fair. The exhibit also showcases recordings by Native American flute virtuoso N. Carlos Nakai as well as recordings of the work of ASU professor and composer James DeMars, including his 2008 opera-oratorio Guadalupe: Our Lady of Roses.

The Music Library would like to thank Robert Doyle, President of Canyon Records, and Kathy Norris, Director of Promotions, for their assistance in the realization of the exhibit through their generous loan of Canyon Records artifacts. The library would also like to thank Dr. Richard Haefer of the School of Music for his loan of Native American musical instruments. The exhibit, created by Rodale Cooley, will be on display in the Music Library from October 1 through November 30, 2009.

Exhibit:  Vault Gallery Presents Annie Walters & Jerry Jacobson

Location: Downtown Phoenix campus Library

Available: Through October 30 2009, during normal library hours

About the Artitsts:

Annie Waters , September 2009 — My present work is all about color and line. I am intrigued with the cast off, the thrown away object, the imperfect and broken, the blighted leaf, the discarded silk flower. The work in this exhibition was done over the past year. During this time I have been concentrating on drawing, working primarily with prismacolor pencil, wax china marker pencil and oil pastel on paper prepared with images manipulated with commercial photocopiers.

Annie has a BFA in Painting and Drawing from Auburn University and a MFA in Painting and Drawing from Arizona State University. She is represented in corporate and private collections in Arizona, California, Georgia, North Carolina, and Alabama. She maintains a studio on 1st Avenue in downtown Phoenix.

See more of Annie’s work at anniewaters.com

Jerry Jacobson is a painter presently living and working in Tempe, AZ. He received a BFA in printmaking from North Texas State University (now UNT) in Denton, TX. His work has been shown in local and national exhibitions including the Arizona Biennial and Texas National. Jacobson was a recipient of a Contemporary Forum Artists Material Grant in 1998.

For more information see intrepidart.net

Exhibit:  Hand Fans: Historical Perspective

Location: Fletcher Library, Third Floor Glass Display

Available: Through December 2009, during normal library hours

This small show will be presented in three parts:
September 15th – October 14th Hispanic Heritage Fans
October 15th – November 14th American World Fair Fans
November 15th – December 14th International Exhibition Fans

All fans are displayed by kind permission of Ms. Marjorie Moote and friends.

Scepters of Feminine Beauty to the Ancient Greeks, deflectors of negative chi for the Ancient Chinese, the likelihood of fans having been used since the dawn of humanity is very strong. Fans waving cool breezes against the heat of the day, wafting fires into flame, distracting insects, instruments of the complex language of love in theatre and life, in gamesmanship, and even in warfare, many societies have turned to the hand fan for a variety of uses.

Silks, fine linens, peacock feathers, leaves, paper, exotic woods and animal shells, vinyl and plastics, fan materials might provide an interesting and varied research topic in itself. Tutankhamen’s tomb included fans embossed with precious metals and gems indicating the symbolic majesty and authority of Egypt. From the Oriental silks used by the Greeks before Christian times, to the vellum and stiff cloth of Middle Age church fans, materials expressed the times, values and uses of the deceptively simple fan.

The mechanical operation of hand held fans has a complex history, too. Closed or open, showing the back or front, covering the face, or mouth, or used to indicate pushing or pulling, the language of fan operation is also complex and evocative. True folding fans were most likely first seen in the Western World in Italy, imported from the Far East by Venetian traders. Metal contraptions were used generations ago by warriors in the East, but versions were still in use in military engagements last century. Simple, sometimes non-folding, fans have often been used to advertise products, events and exhibitions, and the fan has become a design element in itself, in three-dimensional architecture, landscape, and two-dimensional visual arts. The period of the sixteenth century French court provides many examples. Louis XIV courtiers would never experience a day without fans as an essential accessory and fashionable accoutrement.

Fans have often been used as gifts, especially to monarchs. Queen Elizabeth I was an avid fan, of fans. Her collection was probably large and fabulous, and apparently dominant. The etiquette of fan language dictated that fans must remain closed in the presence of the monarch, which led to the guard sticks (the ends of the fan) becoming more and more elaborately decorated, perhaps to determine individual status.

The hand fan is a complex and beautiful artistic tool.

Image information:  Chicago Hand Fan from the 1893 Columbia Exposition

Exhibit:  The Vault

Artist:  Jake Fischer

Location:  Polytechnic campus Library

Available:  Through November 2009, during normal library hours

Description:  ASU Polytechnic campus Library is pleased to present the work of Gilbert artist Jake Fischer to celebrate its first art exhibit.   Jake graduated from ASU Tempe with a degree in art with a concentration in drawing.   His latest collection done in charcoal on paper is titled “The Vault”.  The collection of 9 drawings based on early German Expressionist film is an exploration of methods used to convey narratives on a two-dimensional picture plane.   His work has been featured in various galleries including ASU Downtown campus, Urban Outfitters and multiple Tempe campus galleries.  Please stop by to enjoy this intriguing work on display through Nov. 2009.