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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.

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ASU Libraries Hidden Treasures: The Irene Corey Collection

July 10, 2012 · All locations, Hidden Treasures · Comments Off

In this episode Daphne Gill (Noble Science and Engineering Library Manager) meets with Child Drama Collection Curator Katherine Krzys and takes a peek into the collection of stage costumes from designer Irene Corey.


Irene literally changed the face of costume and makeup design. For over 50 years she designed costumes, sets and makeup for shows as varied as theatre classics to theme park characters. We would not have seen Lion King or Cats on Broadway without her initial animal makeup and costume work. Irene first became nationally known for the “Book of Job” in the 50′s. She also designed the costumes for the television show Barney and Friends and came up with his trademark purple color.

Join us and see the costumes and design materials representing from Irene’s entire theatrical career Kathy collected.

The Irene Corey Collection is part of the Child Drama Collection, the largest repository in the world documenting the international history of children’s theatre back to the sixteenth century.

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Get guided help with our library guide or schedule an appointment with Kathy.

Discover what you’ve been missing with ASU Libraries Hidden Treasures!

Each episode of Hidden Treasures explores the artifacts, images, collections and unique gems of the ASU Libraries you didn’t even realize were available.

Host: Daphne Gill
Guest: Katherine Krzys
Produced and Directed by Matthew Harp and Jennifer Duvernay

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.

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

Library Minute: Exhibits

August 22, 2011 · All locations, Library Minute · Comments Off

Need some culture or a slice of history? Want to take a study break? Visit an exhibit at one of our library locations.

In this Library Minute Anali gives you the scoop on our exhibits covering everything from art, photography, theater, history, archeology, TV and movie memorabilia. We bring in special traveling exhibits and feature works and artifacts from departments throughout ASU. No discipline is left behind! We even display rare items from private faculty collections. It’s like having a gallery in the library and it’s free!

We’re a library after all and we’ve got lots of great stuff!

Get some culture, see something new… go see a library exhibit!

Just click on the exhibits tag and stay up to date on our latest exhibitions.

Exhibit locations:
The Vault Gallery – Downtown Phoenix campus specializes in art from local artists
Hayden Library – Exhibits in the Rotunda, the Labriola Center, and on the Fourth Floor Luhr’s Gallery
Noble Library – Specializing in science, technology and engineering
Music Library – Features special collections, musical productions, or private collections loaned by faculty
Fletcher Library – @ the West campus features an assortment of art, sculpture and artifacts
Polytechnic Library – Local and regional art

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The Library Minute hosted by Anali Perry
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Schwemberger Photographs: An Exhibition (Podcast)

March 7, 2011 · All locations, podcasts · Comments Off

Over a hundred years ago a Franciscan friar and self-taught photographer, Simeon Schwemberger dramatically captured the life of Catholic clergy, Navajo people, and others in the Southwest.

Curatorial Museum Specialist Karrie Porter Brace,  Curator of the Labriola National American Indian Data Center Joyce Martin, and University Archivist Rob Spindler promote  Schwemberger Photographs, an exhibition of large format images taken between 1902 and 1909 by Brother Simeon Schwemberger of St Michael’s Mission in northeastern Arizona.

Karrie gives us background on Simeon from his time as a missionary at St Michael’s Mission, to his later life after he left the mission, which is still one of the highest rated Navajo Catholic schools in the southwest. Joyce discusses the natural settings of the  images and compares Schwemberger’s photographs to his contemporaries like Edward S. Curtis. Rob explains how ASU received and took curatorial charge over this large collection of glass plate negatives.  He also talks about the amazing trip moving 1700 pieces of 100 year old glass from the mission in Window Rock, Arizona to Tempe. We also hear about Katharine Drexel, the United States second canonized saint, who funded the mission.
 
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The true story of the Schwemberger Photographs is one of trust and collaboration. The fact that these photos have survived this long and are being preserved and made available here at ASU is really a testament to the beautiful trust relationship built between the Franciscans of St Michaels Mission and the Navajo Nation. – Rob Spindler

The exhibition will be on display in the Labriola National American Indian Data Center (2nd floor) and the Luhrs Gallery (4th floor) of the Hayden Library for the Spring 2011 semester.

Episode 112
Host: Fred McIlvain
Guests: Karrie Porter Brace, Joyce Martin, Rob Spindler
Running Time: 21:52

Image information:  Church, CP SPC 331.50: 578, Schwemberger Franciscan Southwest Mission Collection, Arizona Collection, ASU Libraries

Music: Chemma Chi (Disturbed)by DJ_Rkod
Noncommercial Sampling Plus Creative Commons License

ASU Generations: The Normal School Years, 1885-1900 (Podcast)

November 1, 2010 · All locations, podcasts · Comments Off

A single teacher in a four room school house started the nation’s largest public university? Take a trip back 125 years to 1885 and the founding of ASU as a tiny normal school. University Archivist Rob Spindler and Curatorial/Museum Specialist Karrie Porter Brace discuss the Fall 2010 Hayden Library exhibit TNS 125 ASU on the anniversary of the university’s founding as the Territorial Normal School.

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They will also talk about the founding fathers of ASU such as Charles Trumbull Hayden, John Armstrong, James McClintock, and George Wilson. Discover the boundaries of the original twenty acre campus shown on a hand drawn plat map. See the courses taken and the grades achieved by students in 1896. Karrie and Rob reveal where the first unofficial student dormitory stands, how Old Main was on the cutting edge of technology in the Old West, and how ASU began it’s 125 year journey to become the New American University.
The exhibit TNS 125 ASU runs through December 2010.

For more information on the history of Arizona State University visit The New ASU Story.

(MP3 and other formats also available)

Host: Fred McIlvain
Guests: Rob Spindler, Karrie Porter Brace
Episode 109
Running Time: 22:49

Dane Coolidge’s Wild Wild West (Podcast)

April 28, 2010 · All locations, podcasts · Comments Off

Arizona Historical Foundation Photo Preservationist Rebekah Tabah joins host Fred McIlvain on-location at Hayden Library to discuss the 2010 exhibit  ”Dane Coolidge’s Wild Wild West.”  This exhibit features historic Arizona photographs taken by scientist, artist, explorer,  and author Dane Coolidge. Coolidge, a relative of President Calvin Coolidge, started his career as a biologist hired by the Smithsonian to take pictures of western animals. He fell in love with western people, places and photography and began creating a pictorial history of the southwest. He also authored over forty western novels in addition to his non-fiction works.

 
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The 35 photographs in the exhibit were chosen from 2,000 original 5×7 glass plate negatives dating from 1906 to 1917. The exhibit features his favorite themes: cowboys on the range, cattle and horses, border and mining towns, Pancho Villa and lawmen, prospectors and people of the Old West going about their business. These images were not only chosen for their superior aesthetics but also for the activity, the landscape and the characters that could come out of a movie set. Each image is one of a kind.

The Dane Coolidge Glass Plate Negative Collection is part of project that has been accepted as an Arizona 2012 Centennial Legacy Project. The 2,000 plates will be cleaned, re-housed, scanned, and available for viewing on the Arizona Memory Project website by 2012.

The full exhibit can be viewed on the 4th floor of Hayden Library at Arizona State University on the Tempe campus. The exhibit is open to the public during normal library hours. For more information, a map and directions to AHF visit them at: http://www.ahfweb.org

Host: Fred McIlvain
Guest: Rebekah Tabah
Episode 105
Running Time: 10:00

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The Mighty Marching Sun Devils (Podcast)

November 9, 2009 · All locations, Architecture Library, Downtown Phoenix campus, Hayden Library, Noble Library, podcasts, Polytechnic campus, West campus · 2 comments
Curator Karrie Porter Brace and student Zac Humphrey, an active member of the ASU Sun Devil Marching Band, join us for an entertaining exploration of the marching band as we highlight the re-opening of the Mighty Marching Sun Devil exhibit at Hayden Library.  The discussion traces the history of the marching band, including great band directors of the past and includes an interesting look at the evolution of the band uniform.

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Explore the exhibit featuring photographs and other band related artifacts from the University Archives, in the Luhrs Gallery and Reading Room, Hayden Library, 4th Floor, Tempe campus through the Fall 2009 Semester, during Luhrs Reading Room hours
For More Information:

Exhibit Information

ASU Generations (ASU History)

Official Sun Devil Marching Band page (School of Music)

Hosted by: Fred McIlvain

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

The Personal and Political Papers of Senator Barry M Goldwater (Podcast)

August 12, 2009 · All locations, Architecture Library, Downtown Phoenix campus, Music Library, Noble Library, podcasts, Polytechnic campus, Tempe campus, West campus · Comments Off

Goldwater PapersPhotographer, amateur radio operator, politician, adventurer, outdoorsman, humanitarian, presidential candidate, and father are just a few things to describe the life and career of Senator Barry M. Goldwater.

In this episode Fred McIlvain talks with Arizona Historical Foundation archivists Linda Whitaker, Susan Irvin and Rebekah Tabah on the debut of the Personal and Political Papers of Senator Barry M. Goldwater after 5 years of heavy lifting (literally and figuratively) processing the collection.

When Barry Goldwater founded the Arizona Historical Foundation nearly 50 years ago, the last thing he would have expected is to find his papers in disarray. It is the ultimate irony, that a man who saved everything for posterity, would leave a collection requiring tough interventions so that it could be fully processed and cataloged. For all practical purposes this collection had remained largely unprocessed and hidden confounding researchers worldwide.

 
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Collection Vital Statistics:
• 1180 linear feet (970 boxes)
• 8,000 un-mounted photographs, 1,500 negatives, 5,000 slides, 110 photo albums
• 107 news clipping scrapbooks (many digitized to searchable CDs)
• 480 reels of microfilm (all digitized to searchable CDs)
• 1,028 film reels, cassettes, and tapes
• 896 pages (finding aid)
• 1.14 million documents
• 125+ years (1880s-2008) of Arizona and U.S. History

Host:
Fred McIlvain

Guests:
Linda Whitaker
Susan Irvin
Rebekah Tabah

Episode 99
Running Time: 25:48

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