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Happy New Year! Our January Map of the Month is this map titled “North America Drawn from the Latest and Best Authorities” that is believed to be from the 1780s. It was made by Thomas Kitchin, an English cartographer and engraver, and displays the entirety of the North American continent as had been...

Happy New Year, Sun Devils! Welcome to the spring 2023 semester. Did you make New Year’s resolutions for what you want to accomplish this year? Here are five library goals to make the most of your semester. Reach out to Ask a Librarian Get your questions answered via chat...

The exhibition, “Seek and Find” is on display at Fletcher Library on the West campus, from Jan. 9, 2023 until March 4, 2023 during regular library hours. Visitors can plan their visit at lib.asu.edu/fletcher. This is the ninth year that the ASU Library will host the creative cartography exhibition, ...

Arizona State University President Michael Crow honored staff and faculty members during the 2022 President’s Awards ceremony, held Dec. 8 in the Ventana Ballroom of the Memorial Union on the Tempe campus. The annual event recognizes collaborative initiatives that have demonstrated excellence in adv...

On Thursday, December 8, the Map and Geospatial Hub team was awarded the 2022 ASU President’s Award for Innovation for its custom-designed, custom-built Map and Geospatial Hub 3D Explorer application. The Map and Geospatial Hub 3D Explorer is a new online tool for scaling the accessibility of libr...

The Dutton’s Atlas project was recently featured on KJZZ’s The Show radio program. KJZZ is the local National Public Radio (NPR) affiliate station for the greater Phoenix region.  Listen to project director Matthew Toro speak with The Show’s host, Mark Brodie, ab...

  This past November, the Labriola National American Indian Data Center hosted a plethora of events for Native American Heritage Month to celebrate the diversity within our Indigenous communities and provide support and resources to American Indian students attending Arizona State University. Our e...

Our December Map of the Month is this 1970 map of Antarctica area stations that was prepared for the 1969 expedition of the U.S. Navy Operation Deep Freeze called “Deep Freeze 70”. It is a complete map of the Antarctic continent that features extensive detail on the locations of all operating and re...

Renée Palting, Research Data Intern The 2023 National Institute of Health (NIH) Data Sharing Policy and requirements have generated great discussions on how the policy will impact researchers and what they should expect.  Whether or not you are currently receiving NIH funding, you should be aware t...