Community Archives news
ASU Library welcomes first cohort of ‘memory keepers’ to a new fellowship
This fall the ASU Library welcomes seven students to the Community Archivist Fellowship Program, which seeks to inspire community and tribal college students to become professionally trained archivist...
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. ...