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Makerspace student recognized at Hacks for Humanity event

The 2023 Hacks for Humanity: Hacking for the Social Good event from Oct. 6-8 brought together undergraduates, high school students, professionals and community members from across the valley to innovate technology for the social good. Hosted by ASU’s Project Humanities, the event aims to address loc...

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Open Access Week 2023 next steps

For our Open Access Week 2023 series, we have covered a lot of ground on the benefits and challenges, context and opportunities around open research and scholarship. In the first post, we shared the definitions of open access and the meaning behind this year’s theme, Community Over Commercialization...

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Map of the Month: October 2023

Salt River Valley, Arizona, 1934. Cartography by T.A. Hayden. In 1934, the Phoenix valley was mostly farmland thanks to the incredibly successful damming of the Salt River with the Roosevelt Dam via the Salt River Project i...

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ASU honors Black Speculative Fiction Month with a multimedia exhibit at Hayden Library

What does the film “Black Panther” have in common with an exhibit that just opened at Arizona State University’s Hayden Library? Like the 2018 blockbuster, the multimedia exhibit focuses on the genre known as Black Speculative Fiction. “Griots and Galaxies: Unveiling the Multiverse of Black Speculat...

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Welcome to International Open Access Week 2023

International Open Access Week is a global, community-driven week of action to open up access to research. The event is celebrated by individuals, institutions, and organizations across the world. Each year, the ASU Library takes this opportunity to promote open access activities and initiatives. O...

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Labriola Blog: September 2023 Highlights

Highlights from the Labriola Center September's events at the Labriola National American Indian Data Center set the foundation for this fall 2023. We began with an Indigenous Comic Book Workshop with Kayla Shaggy, a Dine' zine creator and artist within the Phoenix Valley. Then we ended our month wi...

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ASU Library celebrates Black Speculative Fiction with new exhibit and featured collection

In celebration of Black Speculative Fiction Month in October, the ASU Library and Center for Science and the Imagination launch “Griots and Galaxies: Unveiling the Multiverse of Black Speculative Fiction,” a new exhibit at Hayden Library on ASU’s Tempe campus. The exhibit centers on the four primary...

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Honoring the legacy of David William Foster and Latin American scholarship

The legacy of renowned ASU professor and Latin American scholar David William Foster will be celebrated with an upcoming lecture and a new collection coming soon to the ASU Library.  The ASU Library received a donation of 4,000 books and papers from Foster’s personal collections. This donation crea...

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ASU Library welcomes first cohort of ‘memory keepers’ to a new fellowship

This fall the ASU Library welcomes seven students to the Community Archivist Fellowship Program, which seeks to inspire community and tribal college students to become professionally trained archivists or librarians. “This program is extremely crucial because Black, Indigenous, and People of Color ...