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A selection of handmade zines displayed on a table

Students’ zines make a creative impact with library resources

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...

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Perks of open access publishing

The standard process of academic publishing is pretty predictable: the researcher develops their idea and conducts a study, submits their article to their dream journal, gets rejected, makes edits and incorporates feedback to their article, and sends it to the next journal until someone says yes– an...

Photo of Dr. Valerie Lambert presenting in front of audience for the Annual Labriola Center Book Award

Annual Labriola Book Award with Dr. Valerie Lambert

Annual Labriola Book Award with Dr. Valerie Lambert This November, the Labriola Center hosted Dr. Valerie Lambert to speak about her book that won this year's Annual Labriola Book Award. Photo of Dr. Valerie Lambert presenting her book, Native Agency...

Group photo of participants who finished their journals at the Coptic Bookbinding workshop.

Labriola Blog: November 2023 Highlights

Highlights from the Labriola Center  This past November, the Labriola Center hosted and partnered on various events that touched on the duality and diversity of Indigenous peoples for Native American Heritage Month. We also hosted the winner of the Labriola Center's Annual Book Award, Dr. Valerie L...

close up of one of the linguistic maps with the concentrations of the speakers of the Maya/ Maaya T'aan language depicted by the various shapes. The yellow color of the shapes signifies a 5-25% margin of the local population that is fluent in the given language.

New Web Index: 2005 Indigenous Languages of Mexico

The Map and Geospatial Hub is pleased to present a new web map index: 2005 Indigenous Languages of Mexico. View of Cancun in the Maya/ Maaya T'aan language. Geographic Coverage: Mexico Date: 2005 Scale(s): 1:50,000 &...

Logos for ArcMap and ArcGIS Pro stand juxtaposed.

ArcGIS Desktop (ArcMap) Retirement and Discontinuation of Support: Spring 2024

As many of you know, Esri is formally retiring ArcGIS Desktop (ArcMap) for Education programs in March 2024. ArcGIS Desktop (ArcMap) will no longer be available to members of the ASU enterprise, which is an Esri Education program customer. Starting next calendar year (Jan...

A screenshot of the Rapids Application showing three of the ten total red rectangles that represent the rapids along the Colorado River within the Grand Canyon. Black and white topography that visualizes the stunning canyon walls and landscapes are seen, with the blue of the Colorado River running left to right in the center of the image. A descriptive box is open for the rightmost of the three.

New Web Index: 1988 Hydraulic Maps of Major Grand Canyon Rapids

Our latest web index, 1988 Hydraulic Maps of Major Grand Canyon Rapids, is now live and available to the public.   Geographic Coverage: Arizona Date: 1988 Scale: 1:1,000 Physical Availability: in-house only Digital Availability: scanned (600 dpi) This application depi...

Rosa Lee Scoot teaching a movement course

Rosa Lee Scott: Actress, Artist and Educator

The Child Drama Collection is the world's most comprehensive archival repository of manuscripts, ephemera, and educational materials related to the history of theatre for youth and drama in education. The collection contains over 2600 linear feet of manuscripts and over 700 print materials of plays ...

Illustrated artwork and drawings on cartographic materials displayed on a table

ASU Library, School of Art collab celebrates 10 years with new student exhibition

“Time and Change” is the title for a new art exhibition on display from Nov. 11–27 at Noble Library on the Tempe campus showcasing the creative problem-solving by students using cartographic materials. The exhibition includes both two-dimensional and three-dimensional original works of art on topogr...