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Memory Keepers Fellowship 2024: Janine Nelson
Introductions: The Memory Keepers Fellowship program is a project partnered between ASU’s Community Driven Archive Initiative and the Labriola Center. The fellowship is geared for BIPOC students at local community colleges and for them to explore the field of Library Information Science early i...
Database Discovery: Mapping demographic data with PolicyMap
Do you need to find demographic or statistical data for a research paper or thesis project? If you are searching for data about population, ethnicity, income, housing, education, marital status, and many more topics, PolicyMap is the library database for you. Here are five things to know about P...
Assistant secretary of Indian affairs visits with students at Labriola Center
On Monday, Feb. 19 Byan Newland, assistant secretary of Indian affairs at the U.S. Department of the Interior, visited Arizona State University’s Tempe campus Monday to talk with students and tour the Labriola Center. Newland spoke about the importance of Native voices being part of policy discussio...
New Book Arts Studio opens at Hayden Library
ASU Library has a new book arts space for the ASU community! The new Book Arts Studio is located on the third floor of Hayden Library on the Tempe campus. This unique studio space offers a variety of materials the community can use for projects like books and printmaking. “From printmaking to crea...
Celebrate Love Data Week 2024
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...
ASU archivists hoping to learn more about early African American students
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,...
New Web Index: 1959 World Less Polar Regions
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. ...
Theatre for Youth and Community Collection still in spotlight after all these years
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...
‘Unlock your curiosity’ at ASU Open Door
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...