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Find your freedom to read
Banned Books Week: Sept. 27-Oct. 3 It’s that time of year again, when we celebrate the power of books and our right to read them. Banned Books Week is both a joyous celebration and a stark reminder of the dangers of censorship. Banned Books Week began in the 1980s, a time...
ASU announces funding support for library initiative that gives voice to historically underrepresented
Sustained funding support for the Community Driven Archives initiative at the ASU Library is among 25 actions that Arizona State University has committed to launching in the 2020-21 academic year in an effort to “accelerate meaningful change” and “contribute to a national a...
Libraries to re-open with new hours, ASU-only access
Arizona State University is set to resume on-campus, in-person classes on August 20, 2020. In preparation, the ASU Library has begun a phased re-opening of its eight libraries: August 6: Music Library August 10: Fletcher Library and Noble Library August 13: Downtown Phoe...
Conference to connect faculty research with library support
GRASP virtual conference slated for Sept. 1 Whether you’re looking to improve the quality of your data or the accessibility of your research, the ASU Library has your back. As a presenter at this year’s ASU GRASP virtual conference (Grants, Research and Sponsored Projects...
Library professional named ALA Spectrum Scholar
ASU Library’s Alex Soto is among this year’s Spectrum Scholars, a class of 61 exceptional graduate students in the field of library and information studies. The scholarship award, given by the American Library Association (ALA) Office of Diversity, Literacy and Outreach Se...
Student wins spring 2020 LibAid for Student Success award
ASU student worker Jeet Patel has been awarded the ASU Library’s spring 2020 LibAid for Student Success award. Over the last two years, Patel has delivered exceptional customer service while working as a Library Student Aide III in monographic processing at CLRB, on ASU’s Polytechnic campus, under ...
Get certified in data science
Gain knowledge and learn how to solve problems with data. Now available through the ASU Library’s Unit for Data Science and Analytics, a free, new digital learning experience offers credentialing to students, faculty and staff of all levels and disciplines in need of an in...
More than words: Acknowledging Indigenous land
“The ASU Library acknowledges the 22 Native Nations that have inhabited this land for centuries.” Thus begins the Arizona State University Library’s first-ever Indigenous land acknowledgement – a five-sentence, 116-word statement about the place that the library and the un...
Agnes Smedley exhibit opens in China
Most Americans, today, might not recognize the name Agnes Smedley. That’s because the American journalist made a name for herself in China, where she lived and worked between 1929 and 1941, and rose to national fame as a writer of China’s revolution, deeply opposed to the ...