Community Archives news
Community college students invited to apply for Community Archivist Fellowship
Become a memory keeper for your community! The Community Archivist Fellowship Program at the ASU Library seeks to inspire community college students to become professionally trained archivists or libr...
ASU student-produced podcast focuses on community history, memory, healing
Looking for a new podcast to listen to this summer? The Community-Driven Archives Initiative at the ASU Library recently launched a new podcast series titled "Archives Glow" about community history, m...
Japanese American family’s history now part of ASU Library archives
A new archival collection donated by a Japanese American family is now part of the ASU Library. The Ohnick Family Papers document the lives and experiences of a Japanese American family living across...
Fighting the Silence: Understanding the Japanese-American Student Experience during World War II
Group of young Japanese-American ladies at Poston War Relocation Center, circa 1942. CP AWHC 126, Greater Arizona collection, ASU Library. I met Astha in the Fall semester of...
ASU Black Collections symposium reimagines, centers communities in archives
A new archival repository within Arizona State University's Community-Driven Archives (CDA) Initiative will host a two-day hybrid symposium on Thursday, April 20, at Hayden Library on the Tempe campus...
ASU Library exhibit honors work of former ASU art professor
In September 2019, Shannon Walker got a phone call from two faculty members in the Arizona State University Art Building. They told Walker there were boxes collecting dust in a storage area, and aske...
Contribute to the preservation of Black history and stories in Arizona
Jessica Salow, assistant archivist of Black Collections More than a decade ago, the Arizona Archives Matrix Project showed that Arizona’s Latino, Black, Asian and Pacific Isl...
Black Collections exhibit celebrates Dr. J. Eugene Grigsby Jr. and Arizona Black artists
A new exhibit at Hayden Library on the Tempe campus is shining a light on the history of Black artists in Arizona. ...
Supporting the next generation of BIPOC community archivists
The ASU Library is embarking on a three-year project to nurture the next generation of community archivists currently attending community and Tribal colleges. With support from the Institute of Museum...