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Join the ASU Library Research Support Team and the Knowledge Enterprise Research Data Management Office as we celebrate all types of data during Love Data Week 2024  from Feb. 12 to the 16th.  Have you ever felt your data doesn't get the love it deserves? Have you found data you thought was worth b...

The eyes grab you first. They stare at you from the black-and-white photo, soft and, it seems, inquisitive. Zoom out, and you notice the man’s appearance. Well-dressed in a suit jacket, a white dress shirt and a tie that is knotted perfectly. His hair is short. His name is Benton James and, in 1924,...

A new web map, 1959 World Less Polar Regions, is now live on ASU GeoData. The web map indexes a newly digitized series of maps produced by the Army Map Service in 1959. The maps depict the world at the small scale of 1:11,000,000, while featuring many interesting features and some peculiarities. ...

As far as performing arts collections go, Arizona State University has been a star attraction for more than four decades. Its Theatre for Youth and Community Collection is the largest, most utilized and internationally renowned youth-theater repository in the world, according to university official...

Visit the ASU Library at Open Door 2024! This annual open house is where visitors of all ages can participate in hands-on activities and explore laboratories, living collections, museums and advanced learning spaces.  When you open the door to one of our ASU Library locati...

A recent name change is bringing new energy to a renowned ASU Library collection. The ASU Library’s Child Drama Collection was renamed the Theatre for Youth and Community Collection. Founded in 1979, the collection is the world's largest archival repository of manuscripts, ephemera and educational m...

Happy New Year, Sun Devils! Welcome to 2024 and a new semester beginning January 8, 2024. Whether you are new to ASU or ready to graduate, here are five library goals to start the new year. Power up your research skills Do you want to improve your skills when searching for research articles? Or le...

The ASU Library recently announced the fall 2023 semester recipients of the Tomalee Doan LibAid for Student Success award. First place was awarded to Suhrud Parag Joglekar and second place to Kailey Kruse, both student employees in Naturespace.  Suhru...

At the end of the fall semester, Alana de Hinojosa’s “Mexican-American History to 1900” class met for the last time, to share their final projects and reflections on the class.  As a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Transborder Studies, de Hinojosa challenged her students to investigate que...