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Welcome to spring 2024

Happy New Year, Sun Devils! Welcome to 2024 and a new semester beginning January 8, 2024. Whether you are new to ASU or ready to graduate, here are five library goals to start the new year. Power up your research skills Do you want to improve your skills when searching for research articles? Or le...

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Outstanding Naturespace students honored by ASU Library

The ASU Library recently announced the fall 2023 semester recipients of the Tomalee Doan LibAid for Student Success award. First place was awarded to Suhrud Parag Joglekar and second place to Kailey Kruse, both student employees in Naturespace.  Suhru...

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Students’ zines make a creative impact with library resources

At the end of the fall semester, Alana de Hinojosa’s “Mexican-American History to 1900” class met for the last time, to share their final projects and reflections on the class.  As a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Transborder Studies, de Hinojosa challenged her students to investigate que...

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Perks of open access publishing

The standard process of academic publishing is pretty predictable: the researcher develops their idea and conducts a study, submits their article to their dream journal, gets rejected, makes edits and incorporates feedback to their article, and sends it to the next journal until someone says yes– an...

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Annual Labriola Book Award with Dr. Valerie Lambert

Annual Labriola Book Award with Dr. Valerie Lambert This November, the Labriola Center hosted Dr. Valerie Lambert to speak about her book that won this year's Annual Labriola Book Award. Photo of Dr. Valerie Lambert presenting her book, Native Agency...

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Labriola Blog: November 2023 Highlights

Highlights from the Labriola Center  This past November, the Labriola Center hosted and partnered on various events that touched on the duality and diversity of Indigenous peoples for Native American Heritage Month. We also hosted the winner of the Labriola Center's Annual Book Award, Dr. Valerie L...

close up of one of the linguistic maps with the concentrations of the speakers of the Maya/ Maaya T'aan language depicted by the various shapes. The yellow color of the shapes signifies a 5-25% margin of the local population that is fluent in the given language.

New Web Index: 2005 Indigenous Languages of Mexico

The Map and Geospatial Hub is pleased to present a new web map index: 2005 Indigenous Languages of Mexico. View of Cancun in the Maya/ Maaya T'aan language. Geographic Coverage: Mexico Date: 2005 Scale(s): 1:50,000 &...

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ArcGIS Desktop (ArcMap) Retirement and Discontinuation of Support: Spring 2024

As many of you know, Esri is formally retiring ArcGIS Desktop (ArcMap) for Education programs in March 2024. ArcGIS Desktop (ArcMap) will no longer be available to members of the ASU enterprise, which is an Esri Education program customer. Starting next calendar year (Jan...

A screenshot of the Rapids Application showing three of the ten total red rectangles that represent the rapids along the Colorado River within the Grand Canyon. Black and white topography that visualizes the stunning canyon walls and landscapes are seen, with the blue of the Colorado River running left to right in the center of the image. A descriptive box is open for the rightmost of the three.

New Web Index: 1988 Hydraulic Maps of Major Grand Canyon Rapids

Our latest web index, 1988 Hydraulic Maps of Major Grand Canyon Rapids, is now live and available to the public.   Geographic Coverage: Arizona Date: 1988 Scale: 1:1,000 Physical Availability: in-house only Digital Availability: scanned (600 dpi) This application depi...