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Happy New Year, Sun Devils! Welcome to 2025 and a new semester. Whether you are new to ASU or ready to graduate this semester, here are a few resources to help you meet your goals. Power up your research skills Do you want to improve your skills when searching for scholarly research articles? Or l...

Basketball players from Arizona State University and the Valley Suns gathered on Jan. 6 to learn about Black history in Arizona and Martin Luther King Jr.’s visit to ASU's Tempe campus in 1964. The Valley Suns, one of 31 teams in the NBA’s developmental G League, participated in the event as part o...

ASU Library is excited to announce two recent Tomalee Doan LibAid for Student Success award recipients.  Elaine Pratt from the Music Library was awarded first place, and Harianth Kalavala from High Density Collections received second place.  With generous donor support, the Tomalee Doan LibAid for...

Copper, cattle, cotton, citrus and climate. The so-called “five Cs” of Arizona are an enticingly succinct tagline for the state’s historically best-known outputs.  But a revelatory repository at ASU Library demonstrates that there is much more to the Grand Canyon. In particular, it highlights the ...

On Friday, Nov. 22, the ASU Library’s Labriola National American Indian Data Center hosted an evening of Indigenous art in the center’s first-ever Indigenous Student Fashion Show at Hayden Library. The student-led show featured an all-Indigenous group of designers and models who crafted various mode...

Last month, we covered the 49th state in the union. This month, we’re heading to number 50: Hawai’i! This archipelago, an independent unified kingdom from 1810 to 1893, was annexed by the United States in 1898 after a coup d'etat by European-American businessmen in 1893. This led to the development ...

In 1944, while the world was watching D-Day, President Franklin Roosevelt’s fourth-term election and the adoption of the G.I. Bill, Arizona State University (ASU) Library was also making history. The institution was known as the Arizona State Teachers College, and the library became a newly designat...

From photos to video and audio recordings, administrative records, manuscripts, yearbooks, club information, and faculty and staff bios, the Arizona State University Archives chronicle approximately 140 years of school history — and at 7,200 linear feet, cover roughly the length of 24 Frank Kush Fie...

American Indian Studies at Arizona State University will host a panel event to celebrate the release of “From the Skin,” a collection over three years in the making centering stories, theories and practices from the field. The event will take place in Hayden Library on Wednesday, Nov. 20, at noon. ...