Need quality information fast? Our librarians can get you started right away.  This week Anali introduces you to the ASU Libraries’ LibGuides.

LibGuides are resources handpicked by our subject librarians covering a wide variety of subjects and courses taught at Arizona State University.  Because they list only the best items for your subject, they can save you lots of time sorting by getting you right to what you need.  They also provide quick contact information for the subject librarian for each one — so you can quickly get help from an expert in that area.

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Check out our LibGuides online by choosing the “Find Subject and Course Guides” link from the library’s web site.

In this week’s Library Minute Anali Perry introduces ASU’s Ask a Librarian service.   Ask a Librarian provides options to get you quickly in touch with our knowledgeable and experienced reference librarians.  These librarians are here to help you succeed in your scholarship and research at ASU.   You’ve got four ways to Ask a Librarian:  Chat, email, phone, and in person.

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For more information visit ASU Ask a Librarian:  http://lib.asu.edu/help

For technical help with library systems contact our helpdesk: http://lib.asu.edu/systems/helpstar

The Library Minute is a weekly program telling you about the resources and services at all of the ASU Libraries in one minute.

Visiting Subject Librarian William Dansoh from the University of Kwazulu-Natal, Edgwood Library in South Africa sits down with Fred to talk about his time at ASU. William visited Arizona as a participant in a librarian exchange program that is part of the Carnegie Corporation sponsored Research Libraries Consortium project.  The purpose of this project is to obtain insights into research libraries within the United States, especially focusing on how academic librarians collaborate with and support research faculty and post-graduate students.  William also expressed an interest in seeing how technology supports research in the libraries.

During the discussion we will learn how William was selected for the internship, what he hoped to learn, his internship experiences, and a comparison between research libraries in the United States and South Africa.

 
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Host:
Fred McIlvain

Guest:
William Dansoh

Episode 97
Running Time: 12:19

Host Fred McIlvain welcomes special guest Dr. Ann Dutton Ewbank, Education Liason Librarian, to talk about being named one of fifty Library Journal ”Movers and Shakers.”  She is joined by Jennifer Duvernay, ASU Libraries Marketing and Outreach Officer, also named a Mover and Shaker in 2005, who reflects on the significance of this honor.

Ann talks about her continued work to promote and educate the public, especially lawmakers, on the value of teacher-librarians in K-12 schools. Ann is a founding member of Fund Our Future Arizona which was originally organized in response to the proposal by Mesa Public School District to eliminate all certified teacher-librarian positions in the district, replacing them with lower qualified resource center specialists who would manage the library space and collections. Their well publicized initiative ultimately failed as the Mesa Public School District chose to continue with their planned budget reduction, but group’s goal to “to create strong school libraries for every child in the state” continues.

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For more information please see:

ASU librarian earns national recognition (ASU News)
Librarian introduces students to facility’s resources (Arizona Republic)
Librarian Earns “Movers and Shakers” Award (State Press)
Library Channel News article
Ann Dutton Ewbank-Activists-2009 Movers & Shakers (March 15, 2009 Library Journal)

Host:
Fred McIlvain

Guests:
Ann Dutton Ewbank
Jennifer Duvernay

Episode 93
Running Time: 23:15

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You can also listen to Library Channel Episode 40 featuring Life Sciences Librarian Katherine O’Clair, after being named a Mover and Shaker in 2007.

The ASU Libraries are pleased to announce that Dr. Ann Dutton Ewbank, Education Liaison Librarian at the Fletcher Library, has been honored by Library Journal, the national library trade publication, as one of their 2009 Movers and Shakers.  Her profile “Ann Dutton Ewbank: Activists” was published in conjunction with the March 15, 2009 issue of Library Journal and is now available online.  The article highlights Ann’s work educating “everyone—especially city, state, and national legislators—about the role librarians play in developing 21st-century literacies in today’s students.”

Movers and Shakers is an annual Library Journal supplement ” identify librarians, vendors, and others who are shaping the future of libraries.”   Since 2002 Library Journal has identified over 400 innovators in the field of librarianship who … and who “comprise the coming generation of library leadership.”

Ann joined the ASU Libraries in July 2006, and also served as teacher librarian for five years at Cholla Middle School in Phoenix, Arizona.  She has a PhD in education from Arizona State University, an M.A. in information resources and library science from the University of Arizona, and a B.S. in secondary education from Northern Arizona University.

The ASU Libraries have had two other librarians named “Movers and Shakers”:  Katherine O’Clair, in 2007, and Jennifer Duvernay, in 2005.