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William Morris In what reads like a piece of advice from a 19th-century version of Marie Kondo, British textile designer William Morris once wrote, “Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beau...

Dylan Robinson’s 2020 book Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies (U of Minnesota Press) is the winner of the 13th Annual Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award. “Robinson’s 'Hungry Listening' is a superb work of original scholarship, w...

Two student employees at the ASU Library have been awarded the library’s spring 2021 Tomalee Doan LibAid for Student Success award.  Raquel Salas, who has worked at the library for nearly four years, has been awarded the first-place prize of $1,000 for delivering exceptional customer service as a L...

Hayden Library will extend its hours of operation for final exams. The extended hours are as follows: Weekday hours: Monday, April 19 – Friday, April 23: 7 a.m. – 10 p.m.  Monday, April 26 – Friday, April 30: 7 a.m. – 10 p.m. Weekend hours: Saturday, April 24: 9 a.m. – 10 p.m.  Sunday, April 2...

Finals week is almost here and we know you might need every bit of help the ASU Library can offer. Here are some of the extraordinary resources you have access to through the ASU Library. Ask a Librarian If you get lost or confused, or just don’t know where to start, our Ask a Librarian online cha...

National Library Week is celebrated each year to bring awareness to the critical role libraries play in society contributing to Americans’ happiness and well-being. As an academic library, the ASU Library connects students, faculty and staff to millions of information resou...

Sacramento Knoxx There’s something new this year for Indigenous Culture Week. It’s the word “Indigenous.” Previously known as Native American Culture Week, and before that, American Indian Culture Week, the new name can be accredi...

Is there anything more experimental than a seed? Planting something in the ground and seeing what grows there? The practice of experimentation with a focus on native plants is helping to grow the daily give-and-take activities of the seed library at Arizona State Universi...

Freedom is a word that comes to mind when describing the unmediated self-publishing space of zines, short for “fanzines” or “magazines,” a creative space that Rachel Leket-Mor, an associate librarian at Arizona State University, discovered for herself about a decade ago. “...