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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 ...

Understanding fair use is a very daunting task for most of us– and for good reason. When it comes to fair use, there are no clear answers. The doctrine is intentionally open and flexible, and without it, every time anyone wanted to use even a portion of copyrighted material...

Arizona’s Black and African American community has woefully been underrepresented in the telling of the state’s history. However, a repository at Arizona State University that has been quietly taking shape aims to properly acknowledge the influence and rich history of Black and African American com...

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 i...

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...

On Monday, Feb. 19 Byan Newland, assistant secretary of Indian affairs at the U.S. Department of the Interior, visited Arizona State University’s Tempe campus Monday to talk with students and tour the Labriola Center. Newland spoke about the importance of Native voices being part of policy discussio...