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Introductions The Memory Keepers Fellowship program is a project partnered between ASU’s Community Driven Archive Initiative and the Labriola Center. The fellowship is geared for BIPOC students at local community colleges and for them to explore the field of Library Information Science early in the...

The Community Archivist Fellowship Program at the ASU Library is looking for community college students interested in becoming professionally trained archivists or librarians. Students will be introduced to community-driven archives and work closely with archivists and staff from the Community-Drive...

Sun Devil Giving Day is ASU’s biggest philanthropic event of the year! This day greatly impacts the causes you care about. Each gift, regardless of size, makes a difference.  Suhrud Parag Joglekar is enrolled in the master’s program in robotics and au...

What do Taliesin West, the “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign and the Hoover Dam have in common? They are all properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places.  “Frank Lloyd Wright's ‘Taliesin West,’ his winter home and architectural sc...

ASU School of Geographical Sciences & Urban Planning will be hosting Dr. Michael Gould for an hour-long talk:On the Evolution of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) Thursday, April 4 4 to 5 p.m. Coor Hall, Room #5536 Dr. Michael Gould is Global Education M...

A new Web App, 1918 National Parks and Monuments, is now live on ASU Geodata. This App digitizes a map of the National Park and Monument system in its infancy and overlays it across a modern map of the United States, allowing the user to explore the NPS two years after its creation. ...

The United States National Park Service (NPS) currently administers 63 National Parks and 85 National Monuments, among the astonishing 423 total areas managed by the agency. That scope wasn’t always so large. In the years after its 1916 inception, the NPS oversaw only a small fraction of the nationa...

March 4th to March 8th is Open Education Week, a global celebration of the open education (OE) movement and open educational resources (OER).  What is OER? Simply put, instructors design open educational resources to be used free of charge for teaching and learning. OER content is growing quickly, ...

As the seasons change, the month of March brings a special excitement to the air; 65 featured combatants are poised to enter “battle,” with only one to be crowned March Mammal Madness champion. The March Mammal Madness (MMM) tournament is back for 2024. Founded in 2013, this nature-based simulated ...