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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 rese...

Map of the Month: January 2025
First populated almost 70,000 years ago by Indigenous Australians, Australia is a diverse and beautiful land. Large interior deserts span the majority of the continent, while Eucalyptus forests domina...

Exhibit to feature artwork inspired by oral histories from Arizona's oldest botanical garden
Though it is Arizona's largest botanical garden and has been an established touchstone of the community for more than 100 years, many students in Arizona State University Professor Ellen Meissinger's ...

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 V...

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 D...

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...

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. Th...

Map of the Month: December 2024
Last month, we covered the 49th state in the union. This month, we’re heading to number 50: Hawai’i! This archipelago, an independent unified kingdom from 1810 to 1893, was annexed by the United State...

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 ...