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Beyond the Bookshelf event highlights the journey to discovering your purpose

On February 8, the ASU Library hosted its third installment of the “Beyond the Bookshelf” event series. The event featured Foundation and Regents Professor Lindy Elkins-Tanton in conversation with STEM Librarian Karalyn Ostler.  Elkins-Tanton is the principal investigator of the NASA Psyche Mission...

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Fair Use Week: Fair use matters

Emily Rocha, Open Scholarship Intern February 20-24 marks the annual celebration of the important doctrine of fair use. Fair use impacts our day-to-day activities, often without being noticed. We encounter fair use materials by watching a YouTube game review, reading content in school, watching par...

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Love Data Week: Meeting your data sharing requirements at ASU

Matthew Harp, Research Data Initiatives Librarian; Kathryn Claypool, Health Research Data Manager, Knowledge Enterprise It’s Love Data Week, and many folks have been discussing the 2023 NIH data sharing policy and asking if datasets shared in the ASU Research Data Repository are available to people...

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Workshop: Harnessing the Power of Near-Daily Satellite Imagery

Join us at Hayden Library on February 16th for a hands-on, 2-hour workshop to learn more about your Planet access, Planet’s web applications, and our visualization tools.  Thursday, February 16th 2:00pm-4:00pm Hayden Library Room 332 Event Registration   Take a deep d...

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Love Data Week: How to Love Your Data

Abbie Thacher, Open Scholarship Intern and Emily Rocha, Open Scholarship Intern Dearest Data, Will you be my valentine? I promise to love and cherish you and brag about you to all my peers. February 13-17, 2023 is a week dedicated to sharing tips and shining the spotlight on best practices to man...

Labriola Blog: Indigenous Poetry and Open Mic Book Display Spring 2023

    Importance of Poetry Works from Indigenous People    So much can be said about why works of poetry are key to understanding who we are as Indigenous people. These specific works are a reclamation of our lived experience. They serve as a testament to who we are and ...

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Map of the Month: February 2023

Our February Map of the Month is this 1945 map of the “Papago Park Prisoner of War Camp” that was used to hold German P.O.W.s during the Second World War. The map provides a detailed overview of the entire camp, including the various compounds, officer areas, guard towers, and even the canal that th...

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ASU Library recognizes outstanding library student workers

The ASU Library is pleased to highlight recent recipients of the Tomalee Doan LibAid for Student Success award. Travis Daniel received the first-place award for his work in the Makerspace. Second place was awarded to Becky Salazar, for her work in the Course Resource Services department. LibAid for ...

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Labriola Center receives $1M from Mellon Foundation for 'Firekeepers' initiative

A new project to build archives partnerships with Arizona’s tribal nations has found support from the nation’s largest arts and humanities foundation. The Labriola Center was recently awarded a $1 million grant from the Mellon Foundation for “Firekeepers: Building Archival Data Sovereignty through I...