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ASU Library archives initiative receives prestigious Archival Innovator Award
The Community-Driven Archives Initiative has been named a 2022 recipient of the Archival Innovator Award by the Society of American Archivists. The award recognizes creative approaches by archivists, repositories or organizations that have an extraordinary impact on a community through archives prog...
Students learn about technology, support at ASU Library's Makerspace
Every summer, around 200 high school students from metro Phoenix spend time at Arizona State University in the Upward Bound program, where they learn what it’s like to be on a college campus — and what it takes to get there. ...
Map of the Month: June 2022
Our June Map of the Month is a 1905 “Map of the Denver & Rio Grande System” depicting the extent of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad at the time as well as its connecting lines and variation in rail type throughout the system. The Denver and Rio Grande was one of the largest and most significa...
ASU Library hosts inaugural data science conference
The data science field is rapidly expanding, but is often driven by the private sector, which monetizes data. On Wednesday, June 8, nearly 50 people from three dozen academic institutions across the country virtually attended the inaugural meeting of data science in libraries, hosted by Arizona Sta...
'Tempe Sister Cities: Fifty Years of Citizen Diplomacy' at the Downtown Phoenix campus Library
The ASU Library, in collaboration with the Tempe Sister Cities program and The Melikian Center: Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies, celebrates 50 years of citizen diplomacy in the Sister Cities program. Visitors to the Downtown Phoenix campus Library can explore stories and photographs docu...
What’s happening at the library this summer
Taking a summer session class or looking for a new book to read? The ASU Library is open and here for you. Find your library With eight libraries across four campuses, discover your campus library. Now that summer session hours are in place, be sure to check library hours before you visit. ...
'Print and Ink' exhibit features Chicano, Indigenous artists
In collaboration with CALACA Cultural Center, the ASU Library announces the opening of a new exhibit at the Vault Gallery. “Print and Ink: Expressions through Images” features artists drawing upon Chicano and Indigenous life experiences, cultural expressions and identities....
Map of the Month: May 2022
Our May Map of the Month is this 1930s “Map of the World with Flags of the Leading Nations”. It shows the various complicated international borders of the interwar period as well as illustrations of the flags of the world’s leading nations and a plethora of related information on its reverse side. ...
Workshop offers students the opportunity to study rare documents from New Spain
On a cold and rainy spring Chicago day, students inside the famed Newberry Library accessed an array of rare manuscripts and materials for study and discussion. The workshop, titled “New Spain at the Newberry Library: Demystifying Colonial Documents from the Ayer Collection,” took place April 22 a...