Hosted by: Fred McIlvain

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

Photographer, 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

Fred McIlvain, Mimmo Bonnani, Curator Karrie Porter Brace and Professor Emily Umberger of the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts discuss the summer exhibit of Mexican Codex Manuscripts on display at the Hayden Library’s Luhrs Gallery.

This engaging conversation tackles the background of the collections, and how the codices depict life of historic and Pre-Hispanic Mesoamericans. Karrie and Emily describe what these codices look like and how they were used by priests for consultation on state events, family decisions, and war.  We’ll learn about a an interesting Mexico City map produced in the 1550’s for Charles V (Holy Roman Emperor of Spain), Montezuma, and the beliefs and practices represented in the manuscripts.  Well also learn about the calendar stone, Mesoamerican hieroglyphs, Diego de Landa’s alphabet, the destruction of manuscripts, and the status of the actual texts today.

The exhibit is on display in the Hayden Library’s Luhrs Gallery through Summer 2009.

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Additional exhibit information

The Dresden codex

Search for Mesoamerican codices (ASU Library Catalog) (Open Worldcat) (Google Scholar – Requires Authentication)

Hosts:
Fred McIlvain
Mimmo Bonanni

Guests:
Karrie Porter Brace
Emily Umberger

Episode 98
Running Time: 35:50

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

Curator Karrie Porter Brace talks with Fred about the new exhibit Shelter and the Storm: Agnes Smedley at Yaddo located on the 4th floor of Hayden Library. The exhibit, drawn from University Archives material, reviews the life and the controversy of ASU Alumna Agnes Smedley, advocate for the oppressed, radical, war correspondent, and spy. Agnes Smedley had the longest residency at the artists’ colony Yaddo in Saratoga springs, NY.

Highlights of the program include information on Yaddo, Agnes’s travels to China and South Asia, her failed attempt at Chinese citizenship, accusations of espionage by General Charles A. Willoughby, and her burial in Beijing.

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The exhibit is on display through the end of the Spring 2009 semester and concurrent exhibits about Yaddo and its other notable artists-in-residence can be found at the New York Public Library, Harvard University’s Houghton Library, University of Maryland Library, and Stanford University Library.

For more information please see:

Daughter of Earth: Agnes Smedley Online Exhibit
The Lives of Agnes Smedley by Ruth Price
Agnes Smedley, the life and times of an American radical by Janice R. MacKinnon and Stephen R. MacKinnon
Agnes Smedley manuscript collection
Daughter of earth: a novel by Agnes Smedley

Host:
Fred McIlvain
Guest:
Karrie Porter Brace

Episode 90
Running Time: 24:38

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

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

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

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

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HOST:
Fred McIlvain

Guest:
Marilyn Wurzburger

Episode 89
Running Time: 58:20

Exhibit: Migration: Immigration, Giving Honor to Latina(o) Cultures and Communities

Location: Fletcher Library, West campus

Available:January 5 – April 30, 2009

Description:A colleague, Kathryn Coe, from U of A shares, “…DNA studies verify that everyone living today shares a common distant ancestor. All of us have ancestors who were migrants. The journeys of our ancestors can often be read in our DNA profile. Over time, the paths of migration moving away, and then folding back, have led to a significant mixing not only of DNA, but also of cultures…” This statement frames the dialogue around the significant artworks contributed to this exhibition. The intention is that these visual expressions create conversations, shared understanding and increase participants’ knowledge.

The exhibition expands opportunities for students, staff, faculty, elected officials and community guests to exchange ideas in both the classroom and in the public arena through the arts: to establish, strengthen and sustain partnership between ASU’s West campus and community organizations and members and serve as a vehicle to increase the university’s social embeddedness in the community at large. The mounting of these artworks through a partnership with the Cultural Arts Coalition, serves not only to showcase the works of artists from the community but provides an opportunity to reach into the classroom and share a timely story concerning immigration reform and social justice. This exhibition is presented in conjunction with ASU at the West campus’s Border Justice Event to be held from March 31 to April 2, 2009, under the guidance of William Paul Simmons, Director, MA in Social Justice and Human Rights, Social and Behavioral Sciences.

Engagement in this exhibition allows ASU West campus and the community to explore the concept of migration and community, while honoring the human story. Our intention is that these visual expressions will call upon our humane need to dialog and create conversations and therein create shared understanding- causing us to pause for meaningful conversations around critical issues and public policies. This art exhibition further expands opportunities for student achievement and success, and the exchange of ideas both in the classroom and in the public arena.

This exhibition is on view in conjunction with ASU at the West campus’s Border Justice Event to be held from March 31 to April 2, 2008.

The exhibit is sponsored by the Border Justice Committee, Social and Behavioral Sciences, New College

Image information: Cesar Chavez by Francisco Garcia

Exhibit: Marching Throughout History

Location: Music Library, Tempe campus

Available: November 2008 – January 2009, during normal Music Library hours

Description: Marching Throughout History offers a glimpse into the long tradition of wind ensembles at Arizona State University.

The exhibit, realized by Karrie Porter-Brace and Rodale Cooley, features historic photographs and artifacts from the ASU archives spanning a eighty year period beginning with the second decade of the last century. Located in the lobby and the east wing of the Music Library, the exhibit will remain in place until the end of January 2009.

Image information: ASU marching band uniform from the 1970s featured in the exhibit “Marching Through History”; Photo by Karrie Porter Brace.

For information about exhibits in the ASU Libraries, please contact the Exhibits Committee at libraryexhibits@asu.edu.

As part of the 50th anniversary celebration of the historic transformation of Arizona State College into Arizona State University we our proud to present a panel discussion featuring the ASU Emeritus College.  The panel includes four of the founding members of the Emeritus College:  Founding Dean Dick Jacob, Associate Dean Chuck Elliott, the Emeritus College Newsletter Editor and Council member Winifred Doane, and current Emeritus College Dean Len Gordon.

Our distinguished panel members discuss the founding of the College and the College newsletter, the College literary journal, Emeritus Voices, and the impact of ASU becoming a university 50 years ago, setting the stage for ASU becoming a comprehensive research university.

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Also of interest:

• 1958 Arizona State Becomes a University:  Looking Back with Alumnus Don Dotts

Episode 86
Running Time: 43:07

Exhibit: Oaxaca:  Popular Movement & Visual Resistance, featuring photos by Courtney Anderson

Location:  Second and third floors of Fletcher Library at the West campus

Dates:  November 5 – November 30, 2008

Hours:  Available during the hours the Fletcher Library is open

This exhibit includes framed and matted photos of political graffiti art.  These are photos of graffiti art from the recent popular movement in Oaxaca, Mexico.  The art contains images of political figures, revolutionary heroes, ideas for political change and important symbols for the people of Oaxaca.

The exhibit is sponsored by the Masters program in Social Justice and Human Rights, New College.