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Applications now open for 2024-2025 Community Archivist Fellowship

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...

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Make a difference on Sun Devil Giving Day

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...

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Database Discovery: Mapping demographic data with PolicyMap

Do you need to find demographic or statistical data for a research paper or thesis project?  If you are searching for data about population, ethnicity, income, housing, education, marital status, and many more topics, PolicyMap is the library database for you.  Here are five things to know about P...

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Celebrate Love Data Week 2024

Join the ASU Library Research Support Team and the Knowledge Enterprise Research Data Management Office as we celebrate all types of data during Love Data Week 2024  from Feb. 12 to the 16th.  Have you ever felt your data doesn't get the love it deserves? Have you found data you thought was worth b...

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ASU archivists hoping to learn more about early African American students

The eyes grab you first. They stare at you from the black-and-white photo, soft and, it seems, inquisitive. Zoom out, and you notice the man’s appearance. Well-dressed in a suit jacket, a white dress shirt and a tie that is knotted perfectly. His hair is short. His name is Benton James and, in 1924,...

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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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Honoring the legacy of David William Foster and Latin American scholarship

The legacy of renowned ASU professor and Latin American scholar David William Foster will be celebrated with an upcoming lecture and a new collection coming soon to the ASU Library.  The ASU Library received a donation of 4,000 books and papers from Foster’s personal collections. This donation crea...

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Welcome to fall 2023

The fall semester is here! The ASU Library is excited to welcome you into our spaces and all library locations are open for the fall 2023 semester. Whether you are a first-year student or you are preparing to graduate, the ASU Library is here to help you succeed.  Find your classes and grab a map ...

Continuing the legacy: the Taliesin Associated Architects collection

At the time of his death in 1959, Frank Lloyd Wright was working on around a hundred and twenty projects that were in various stages of development. Members of the Taliesin Fellowship, a group of apprentices and their families who lived, worked and studied with Wright at Taliesin in Wisconsin and Ta...