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Seek and Find: creative cartography exhibition at Noble Library

In its ninth year, Noble Library will host the creative cartography exhibition, a collaboration between the ASU School of Art and the ASU Library. The 2022 exhibit, “Seek and Find” is on display at No...

Historic map of Africa north of the equator from the 1919 “Map of Africa to Illustrate the Progress of Surveys and Explorations”. Regions are colored red or blue to denote different topographic surveys with several unshaded regions representing areas of the Sahara and Kalahari Desert which were unsurveyed. Small black text labels towns or cities, while large bold text denotes location names. Surrounding Africa is the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, and the South Atlantic Ocean.

Map of the Month: November 2022

Our November Map of the Month is this 1919 British War Office map titled “Map of Africa to Illustrate the Progress of Surveys and Explorations”. Originally published in 1914 and updated in this editio...

Portraits of David Martinez and Lourdes Pereira

The forgotten history of the Hia-Ced O’odham

During her first year at ASU, Lourdes Pereira became connected with the Labriola National American Indian Data Center, ASU’s Indigenous-led library, and became a student archivist. Learn how Pereira i...

Employees stand behind a welcome table draped with Labriola National American Indian Data Center banners.

Labriola Center celebrates Native American Heritage Month with events, exhibit

November is Native American Heritage Month, and while this annual celebration brings a heightened awareness, at ASU, the recognition does not end after the month is over. "Here at the Labriola Cent...

debris and litter in the ocean with the open access padlock logo in blue

Publishing Open Access

by Jordan Claire, Scholarly Communication Intern During International Open Access Week, we are connecting you with information that supports open access publication endeavors. There are many reasons ...

Hands wearing gloves handling photographs

ASU program aims to add more diversity to library field

Less than 3% of librarians and archivists in the United States are Black. Less than 2% are Indigenous peoples. It’s not hard, says Jessica Salow, to figure out why. “The reason why we don’t have a h...

Open Access Week spotlights climate justice

How do we solve the enormous environmental challenges facing our planet? A good first step is to increase access to information and research. Open Access Week, an annual week promoting equitable and ...

Map and Geospatial Hub student workers Giovanni Catanzaro (left), Paityn Schlosser and staff member Eric Friesenhahn (right) discuss aspects of the "Dutton Atlas" exhibit on Tuesday, Oct. 18, in the lobby of the Hayden Library on ASU's Tempe campus. Photo by Charlie Leight/ASU News

ASU Library exhibit celebrates 140-year anniversary of Dutton's Atlas

Oh, people might have read John Wesley Powell’s 1875 book, ultimately titled “The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons,” but the book wasn’t so much a deep dive into the size, beauty and ...

An interior view of Noble Library with people sitting, reading and studying on the first, second, third floor

Noble Library, your 24/5 library

Starting on Sunday, October 23, Noble Library on the Tempe campus will be open twenty-four hours a day, five days a week. Students, faculty and staff will need to use their Sun Card between the hour...