Hayden Library news
Welcome to spring 2025
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...
Local athletes get crash course on Black history in Arizona
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...
Library student workers honored with Tomalee Doan LibAid for Student Success Award
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...
ASU Library collection captures robust history of Arizona
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 ...
Indigenously designed: Labriola Center hosts student fashion show
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...
From WWII documents to digital downloads: ASU Library celebrates 80 years with the Federal Depository Library Program
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...
University Archives chronicles more than 140 years of Sun Devil history
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...
Labriola Center book award shines 'bright light' on Indigenous scholars
Kaitlin Reed couldn’t believe it when she learned she had been named the 2024 recipient of the Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award. The award, handed out by the Labriola National American Indian Data Center inside Arizona State University’s Hayden Library, is a national competition ...
ASU collections offer Indigenous perspective through traditional storytelling, innovative methodology
Cultural archives are usually organized in a way that reflects the perspective of those who administer the collection. With Arizona State University’s Native-led Labriola National American Indian Data Center, the archival team is working to change long-held practices by incorporating Indigenous way...