Exhibit: GIS@ASU! Spatial Research Resources Are Available For YOU!

Location:  Noble Science and Engineering Library, First Floor

Available:  Spring 2012, during normal library hours

Description: For centuries, in order do spatial analysis, observe basic spatial patterns, or make a map of one’s study area, researchers needed to have cartographic skills or at least have access to printed base maps. The user-friendliness of modern Geographic Information Systems (GIS) interfaces has evolved rapidly in the past decade to become much more intuitive.

As a result, the number of researchers leveraging spatial tools and GIS in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences has grown exponentially during the past decade. Spatial resources allow one to visualize and analyze data patterns in order to explore topics in your branch of academia.

This exhibit focuses on the support of spatial analysis and map making by ASU Libraries through books, e-books, and the ASU GIS Data Repository. Information is also presented on self-paced training available to ASU Researchers and where one can learn to use a Geographic Information System.

Information about the resources highlighted in the exhibit can be found online on the companion LibGuide.  For further information, please contact Roger Knouff, Maps/GIS Librarian.

Image information:

• Source: Image created using Esri’s ArcGIS Explorer.
• Shapefile Hospital Layer: Retrived from ASU GIS Data Repository.  2009 hospital location data from the Arizona Department of Health Services. file://itfs1.asurite.ad.asu.edu/gisshare1$/spatial_data/AZ_Data_by_Topic/Cultural_Features/Hospitals/hospitals0209.shp
• Basemap Layers:  Esri Street, Esri World Physical, Bing Hybrid Road/Aerial Imagery, and Open Street Map.

Director Pamela Sterling, professor at the School of Theatre and Film, joins Host Fred McIlvain to talk about the play and how it was put together. Joining them is Curatorial Museum Specialist Karrie Porter Brace to talk about the tie-in exhibit, Tell Your Story, in the Hayden Library Rotunda on the ASU Tempe campus. Karrie also talks about the archival images used in the play.

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Untold Stories/Unsung Heroes tells the most poetic, comedic and iconic stories that were unearthed over the past year by a dedicated team of ASU theatre students the stories were culled from thousands of archival sources as well as interviews with contemporary Arizonans including a group of centenarians from the Pioneer Village in Prescott and the students’ friends, neighbors and relatives.

The stories were woven into the new play, which is part of the Arizona Centennial Project New  Works Series and is an official selection of the Arizona Centennial Commemoration Project.  People who will be pictured in Untold/Unsung include: Lozen, Apache warrior; Soto Vasquez, founder of Teatro Carmen in Tucson; Elizabeth Hudson Smith an African American woman who independently owned and operated a hotel in Wickenburg; George W. Parsons, lawyer, banker, and citizen of Tombstone who had a bird’s eye view of the gunfight at the OK Corral; and Borislav Bogdanovich, artist and relative of film director Peter Bogdonavich.

Students have established a a Facebook Page where people can learn more about the state’s colorful figures, and a video clip series, Arizona 100 Stories, where students recount the stories they have uncovered during their research. Pre-show activities include Living Statues that come to life to import the stories of Arizonans.

Untold Stories/Unsung Heroes
Where: Lyceum Theatre, 901. S. Forest Mall, ASU Tempe campus.
When: Feb. 10- 11, 16-18 at 7:30 p.m.; Feb 12 and19 at 2 p.m.
Cost: $8–$16; Seniors, ASU faculty, staff and students receive special rates. Special discounts for groups available.
Public Contact: Herberger Institute box office, 480.965.6447
School of Theatre and Film. 480.965.5337
Info and Online Tickets

Tell Your Story Exhibit
Where: Hayden Library Rotunda (Lower Concourse)
When: February 6 – May 2012

Host: Fred McIlvain
Guests: Pamela Sterling and Karrie Porter Brace
Episode 117
Running Time: 16:53

Entries will be judged on the extent to which the collection represents a well-defined field of interest – either focused on the works of one author or on a particular subject. For full contest details, including application forms and instructions, please see the Student Book Collecting Web page at lib.asu.edu/bookcontest.

You can read more about the contest in this State Press article from October 2011, which features an interview with a winner from last year’s contest.

In addition to this contest, the ABAA, Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America sponsors a national Collegiate Book Collecting Championship with a top prize of $2,500. First Prize winners of the ASU Libraries Student Book Contest will automatically be eligible enter this contest if those entries meet the criteria of the collegiate national championship contest.

For more information, contact Rosa González at (480) 965-3956.

The first is an exhibition in Hayden Library. The exhibition highlights the role of the dragon in Chinese culture, the importance of the New Year’s celebration which begins the Spring Festival, and describes the Lantern Festival which closes the Spring Festival.

This exhibition is located on the lower concourse/entrance level of Hayden Library, just outside of the library instruction room C41, and will be on display through February 7th.

Second, ASU Libraries and the Confucius Institute are sponsoring the screening of Shanghai Park (with English subtitles), on Friday January 27 at 12:30 in the Memorial Union, Pima Room 230. University Librarian Sherrie Schmidt and the ASU Confucius Institute Director Dr. Madeline Spring will give a brief welcome.

Shanghai Park is subtly and deeply moving, and honestly captures the transitional lives of urban 20-something college graduates, already nostalgic and unsure of the road ahead. Immediately after the screening the ASU Confucius Institute, the School of International Literature and Culture, and the Chinese Flagship Program are sponsoring the ASU Chinese New Year Celebration in the Memorial Ventena Ballroom. All are welcome to attend.

The Old Main pond and fountain first appeared in the 1912 school annual "The Fountain." Over the years the pond had a variety of uses, from growing water lilies to dunking freshman students. The pond was supposed to be enhanced with a new fountain featuring a Hopi flute player designed by the WPA artist Emory Kopta, but the flute player was never installed there. Kopta’s bronze mockup of the statue is on display at University Archives.

Event: Normal Education: Arizona State University in 1912

Date: Tuesday, February 14 (Arizona Statehood Day!)

Time: 5:00 – 6:00 pm

Location: Hayden Library, Room C6A/East; Tempe campus

Event Description: One hundred years ago, the largest public university in America was twenty-seven years old, a frontier institution devoted to training teachers to serve in the public schools of Arizona. On the Centennial anniversary of Arizona statehood join University Archivist Rob Spindler for an illustrated look at the tiny Normal School of Arizona and its struggle to improve public education in the desert southwest!

Class of 1912, Tempe Normal School of Arizona

On Tuesday January 24, 2012, the ASU Libraries will be participating in “Snapshot: One Day in the Life of Arizona Libraries,” as part of a state and nationwide event to recognize and celebrate the value that libraries provide their communities. We will be collecting statistics, customer comments and photographs from each of our locations to show how our libraries serve the needs of our community.

In addition to documenting the numbers of visitors, items checked out, assistance given, interlibrary loan/document delivery requests filled, etc, we will be asking for comments from library users.  If you visit us on the 24th, please take a moment and fill out a brief survey and leave us a comment on how we were able to serve your needs that day.

Photographs taken that day will be shared online through our Flickr site and our Facebook page.

We would like to thank all of our customers in advance for helping us in this effort to demonstrate the value of the library to our community.

The event is supported by the Arizona Library Association and the American Library Association. For more information, please contact Jennifer Duvernay at 480.727.7636.

Exhibit: Expressing Human Rights: All People Free & Equal: An Exhibition

Location:  Fletcher Library, West campus

Available:  January 20-March 16, 2012

Exhibition Mission: The Cultural Arts Coalition presents artwork by local artists; youth in detention, in rehabilitation, and on probation; and South Mountain High School students as a means to explore and inquire about rights.

Those featured organizations:

1. “The Thoughtful Warrior” program @ Lower Buckeye & Estrella jails with male and female juveniles, Project Director Melanie Ohm
2. “Release the Fear” for juveniles in Maricopa county detention sites facilitated by Robert Miley
3. Las Artes de Maricopa @ the Y, for disadvantaged youth age 16-21, struggling to overcome difficult circumstances, facilitated by Martin Moreno
4. ANYTOWN youth camps creative reflection programming, Director Deanie Wlodek @ the Y.

The United Nations defines human rights as “… rights inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, color, religion, language, or any other status. We are all equally entitled to our human rights without discrimination. These rights are all interrelated, interdependent and indivisible.”

What do these rights mean to a young person facing the criminal justice system? What is security when incarcerated? Freedom when on probation? Or the right to privacy when in rehabilitation? This exhibition of work by youth and teaching artists challenges us to come to a deeper understanding of the 30 Universal Human Rights (www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml#a29), and in particular Article 29, which describes our responsibility to protect the rights and freedoms of all.

People may create conditions in their lives that diminish their CIVIL rights, but they still have rights because they are HUMAN. Everyone has rights.

This is the third year the Cultural Arts Coalition has mounted an exhibition that spans a two month period at Fletcher Library, Arizona State University West campus. This kind of collaboration and honoring of our youth and the journeys they are on to make well informed decisions that benefit self and community members could not occur without the support of the Fletcher Library Staff: Dennis Isbell, Director, and Margaret Rodriquez, administrative staff member. We are very thankful for their support of these youth and the facilitators who assist them.

The Fletcher Library will host reception for all 125 participating youth on Friday, March 2, from 0930-11:00. Martin Moreno, 2011 Governor’s Artist award winner will be the key note speaker.

Co-curators: Judy Butzine (jhb6@mindspring.com; (602) 375-9553 ) and Melanie Ohm (Melanie@conceptsconsultinggroup.com)

Exhibit

Artist: Olivia Timmons

Location: Polytechnic campus Library

Available: November 12, 2011 – February 11, 2012 during normal library hours

Description: Printmaker Olivia Timmons began her exploration of the printmaking medium at the California College of Arts in Oakland and San Francisco where she received her BFA in 2002. She obtained her MFA from ASU’s Herberger Institute of Design in 2009. Her current body of work deals with social, political, environmental, and physical issues concerning the planet today. She uses creatures of light in contrast with the deep and murky oceanic atmosphere, as a metaphor for one of the most prominent concerns of humanity: the sustainability of natural resources and the consequence of human actions on the world.

Our libraries have lots of different study spaces where you can focus and get your work done. We can provide a coffee shop atmosphere or a traditional library setting. We have comfy chairs, mobile white boards, private study carrels and rooms, free Wi-Fi, cafes, and laptop mediascapes. And don’t forget our helpful librarians to help you with all your research needs!

The Library Minute is hosted by Anali Perry

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Please see lib.asu.edu/hours for full hours listings for all locations.

Downtown Phoenix campus Library, Polytechnic campus Library, Fletcher Library on the West campus

Tempe campus

Hayden Library: Open 24/7 from Sunday December 4 through Thursday, December 15 (closes at 7pm 12/15)

Noble Science and Engineering Library

• December 7 – 8 (Wednesday-Thursday):  2am
• December 9  (Friday): Midnight
• December 10 (Saturday): Midnight
• December 11 – 13 (Sunday): 2am

*The Music and Architecture Libraries will both be open during normal library hours during finals.

We wish all ASU students good luck on your finals!

The image is composed of details of the following, from left to right: Orlando Mendoza, Aves Gloriosa, Graphite and Colored Pencil; Allison Davis, His Chair, Charcoal; Courtney Larson, Teacup II, Graphite and Colored Pencil

Exhibit: “…with my little eye”

Artists: Allison Davis, Courtney Larson and Orlando Mendoza

Location: Polytechnic campus Library

Available: November 12, 2011 – February 11, 2012 during normal library hours

Description: This exhibition features work by three senior BFA Drawing majors from the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University. As the title of the exhibition suggests, their work is heavily influenced by careful observation of natural and manmade forms. A variety of approaches to the creative process are presented, including representation, abstraction, and visualized imagery. The students collaborated on the selection of work, deciding to focus on two extended class projects. In the Hybrid Object drawings a pair of singular forms emulate both animate and inanimate structures and textures. Imaginative approaches to the figure and still life can be seen in the Thematic Development project, in which the students created two drawings connected by content and imagery. The opportunity for a three-person exhibition inspired a collaborative triptych in which each student created a unique variation of the same concept and visual vocabulary. The faculty advisor for this exhibition is Professor Janice Pittsley.

Arlinda Locklear (Lumbee) has a particularly distinguished career in federal Indian law. During her thirty five years’ experience in the field, Locklear has represented tribes throughout the U.S. in federal and state courts on treaty claims to water and land, taxation disputes with states and local authorities, reservation boundary issues, and federal recognition of tribes. In particular, she is a nationally recognized expert in federal recognition of tribes and Indian land claims. Locklear began her career as an attorney at the Native American Rights Fund in Boulder, CO, and later transferred to the Washington DC office. As directing attorney for seven years in the Washington, DC office, Locklear supervised significant litigation of Indian issues as well as the legislative work of the office. Locklear was a member of the board of Advisors for the Encyclopedia of Native Americans in the 20th Century and is a member of the Board of Trustees for the University of North Carolina, Pembroke. Locklear was awarded the Outstanding Woman of Color Award, given by the National Institute of Women of Color in 1987; the Julian T. Pierce Award, given by Pembroke State University in 1994; the 1995 Carpathian Award for Speaking Out, given by North Carolina Equity; the Parks Award for Community Service, given by North Carolina State University in 2003; the 2008 Kate Stoneman Award for outstanding achievement in the legal profession, given by Albany Law School; and the 2009 Distinguished Alumna Award, from the College of Charleston. Locklear earned her law degree from Duke University School of Law and is a member of the Bars of Maryland, North Carolina, and the District of Columbia. She also holds honorary doctorates from State University of New York, Oneonta, and North Carolina State University.

ASU Sponsors: American Indian Policy Institute | American Indian Studies Program | Department of English | Faculty of History in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies | Indian Legal Program in the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law | Labriola National American Indian Data Center | Women and Gender Studies in the School of Social Transformation

Recorded on October 6, 2011 at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona.

View more videos from the series on YouTube.

Exhibit

Location: Hayden Library, Rotunda (Lower Concourse/Entrance level)

Available:  November 14 – December 16, 2011, during normal library hours

Description: Manifold Greatness: The Creation and Afterlife of the King James Bible, a national traveling exhibition for libraries, tells the story of the origins, creation, and impact of one of the most influential books in history. The exhibition opens at the Hayden Library on November 14.

The year 2011 marks the 400th anniversary of the first printing of the King James Bible in 1611. The exhibition not only highlights the dramatic tale behind the making of this great book, but also includes its influence on English and American literature, and its multifaceted impact on culture and society to the present day. This chronological narrative focuses on the human side of this major cultural landmark and explores the book’s social, cultural, literary, and religious influence over four centuries, from Handel’s Messiah, Melville’s Moby-Dick, and Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon to the reading of Genesis—in the King James Bible version—by astronauts orbiting the Moon.

The ASU Libraries, collaborating with the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies (SHPRS), the Department of English, and the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS), are sponsoring several free programs for the public in connection with the exhibition during the week of November 14.

Manifold Greatness: The Creation and Afterlife of the King James Bible was organized by the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., and the American Library Association Public Programs Office. It is based on an exhibition of the same name developed by the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, with assistance from the Harry Ransom Center of the University of Texas. The traveling exhibition was made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Image credit:  Manifold Greatness Traveling Exhibition. Photo by Lloyd Wolf. Folger Shakespeare Library

Exhibit

Location:  Noble Science and Engineering Library, 1st Floor

Available:  Through the end of 2011, during normal library hours

Description: The International Year of Chemistry 2011 (IYC 2011) is a worldwide celebration of the achievements of chemistry. As an initiative of the IUPAC (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry) and UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization), IYC 2011 promotes the contributions of chemistry to society and seeks to inspire a new generation of chemists.

The exhibit in the Noble Science and Engineering Library at the Arizona State University Tempe campus features chemically related research and resources from the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, the Biodesign Institute, College of Technology and Innovation (Polytechnic campus), New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences (West campus) and the ASU Libraries, celebrating various aspects of the International Year of Chemistry.

The online component features videos from researchers as well as supplementary online resources. http://libguides.asu.edu/iyc2011

Exhibit Partners: ASU Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Tempe campus and the Biodesign Institute

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“Open Access literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. What makes it possible is the internet and the consent of the author or copyright-holder.

Open access is entirely compatible with peer review, and all the major open access initiatives for scientific and scholarly literature insist on its importance. Just as authors of journal articles donate their labor, so do most journal editors and referees participating in peer review.

Open Access literature is not free to produce, even if it is less expensive to produce than conventionally published literature. The question is not whether scholarly literature can be made costless, but whether there are better ways to pay the bills than by charging readers and creating access barriers.” – from A Very Brief Introduction to Open Access by Peter Suber.

The Open Access movement grows more and more each year:

• In the past year, the Directory of Open Access Journals has added close to 2000 new titles, from just over 5000 to 7182.
• More than 300 universities, consortia,  institutes, and individuals have signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities
• More than 300 universities and institutes worldwide have some form of open access mandate

Want more information about Open Access?

• See our Scholarly Communication LibGuide
• Listen to our 2009 podcast: Open Access @ ASU
• Open Access Week 2009 and 2010 on the Library Channel!

ASU is celebrating the third international Open Access Week, which brings an opportunity for the academic and research community to learn about the benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to inspire wider participation in making Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research.

The Impact of Open Access on Science and Scholarship
Dr. Brian Smith, Director – School of Life Sciences

When: Wednesday, October 26. 3:30-4:30
Where: Hayden Library Room C6 East

On Wednesday, October 26, join Dr. Brian Smith, along with ASU Librarians Anali Perry and Rene Tanner for a presentation on the Impact of Open Access on Science and Scholarship. During this interactive discussion we’ll give an introduction to Open Access, talk about its impact and discuss the challenges and opportunities it presents for sharing knowledge.

As the new Director of the School of Life Sciences, Dr. Smith pursues initiatives that advance awards of large multidisciplinary research grants; new technologies to enhance education; and innovations in graduate student training. Dr. Smith’s own recent scientific venture combines insects and human health, neuroscience and national security, funded by the Department of the Navy. He is an author of more than 80 journal publications, including several with the open access journal, PLoS ONE. Dr. Smith is also an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has received a Fulker Award from the Behavior Genetics Association and a National Institute of Mental Health Nation Research Service Award.

Exhibit

Location: Hayden Library, Rotunda (Lower Concourse/Entrance level)

Available:  November 14 – December 16, 2011, during normal library hours

Description: Manifold Greatness: The Creation and Afterlife of the King James Bible, a national traveling exhibition for libraries, tells the story of the origins, creation, and impact of one of the most influential books in history. The exhibition opens at the Hayden Library on November 14.

The year 2011 marks the 400th anniversary of the first printing of the King James Bible in 1611. The exhibition not only highlights the dramatic tale behind the making of this great book, but also includes its influence on English and American literature, and its multifaceted impact on culture and society to the present day. This chronological narrative focuses on the human side of this major cultural landmark and explores the book’s social, cultural, literary, and religious influence over four centuries, from Handel’s Messiah, Melville’s Moby-Dick, and Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon to the reading of Genesis—in the King James Bible version—by astronauts orbiting the Moon.

The ASU Libraries, collaborating with the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies (SHPRS), the Department of English, and the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS), are sponsoring several free programs for the public in connection with the exhibition during the week of November 14.

Manifold Greatness: The Creation and Afterlife of the King James Bible was organized by the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., and the American Library Association Public Programs Office. It is based on an exhibition of the same name developed by the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, with assistance from the Harry Ransom Center of the University of Texas. The traveling exhibition was made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Image credit:  Manifold Greatness Traveling Exhibition. Photo by Lloyd Wolf. Folger Shakespeare Library

Exhibit

Location:  Fletcher Library, West campus

Available:  October 20 – November 31, 2011, during normal library hours

Description:  This project was created by Tracy Rasinski, a local professional photographerwho served as Artist in Residence for the Arizona Women’s Partnership. The exhibition depicts thefaces of the women and children assisted by AZWP grants awarded to grassroots non-profits.

The Arizona Women’s Partnership, Inc. is an all volunteer philanthropic non-profit which awards grants to grass roots charities that assist underserved women and children at risk in Arizona.  For more information visit azwp.org or call 602.863.9744.

Please join Fletcher Library Director Dennis Isbell for lunch on Wednesday November 2, 2011, from Noon – 1:00 PM

This is your opportunity to offer insights on issues, share suggestions about library programs and services and to voice your concerns.

To sign up please email janice.kasperski@asu.edu or call Fletcher Library Administration at 602-543-8518

Exhibit

Location:  Hayden Library, rotunda (lower concourse/entrance level)

Available:  October 1 – November  11, 2011, during normal library hours

Description: For centuries, in order do spatial analysis, observe basic spatial patterns, or make a map of one’s study area, researchers needed to have cartographic skills or at least have access to printed base maps. The user-friendliness of modern Geographic Information Systems (GIS) interfaces has evolved rapidly in the past decade to become much more intuitive.

As a result, the number of researchers leveraging spatial tools and GIS in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences has grown exponentially during the past decade. Spatial resources allow one to visualize and analyze data patterns in order to explore topics in your branch of academia.

This exhibit focuses on the support of spatial analysis and map making by ASU Libraries through books, e-books, and the ASU GIS Data Repository. Information is also presented on self-paced training available to ASU Researchers and where one can learn to use a Geographic Information System.

Information about the resources highlighted in the exhibit can be found online on the companion LibGuide.  For further information, please contact Roger Knouff, Maps/GIS Librarian.

Image information:

• Source: Image created using Esri’s ArcGIS Explorer.
• Shapefile Hospital Layer: Retrived from ASU GIS Data Repository.  2009 hospital location data from the Arizona Department of Health Services.  file://itfs1.asurite.ad.asu.edu/gisshare1$/spatial_data/AZ_Data_by_Topic/Cultural_Features/Hospitals/hospitals0209.shp
• Basemap Layers:  Esri Street, Esri World Physical, Bing Hybrid Road/Aerial Imagery, and Open Street Map.

Entries will be judged on the extent to which the collection represents a well-defined field of interest – either focused on the works of one author or on a particular subject. For full contest details, including application forms and instructions, please see the Student Book Collecting Web page at lib.asu.edu/bookcontest.

In addition to this contest, the ABAA, Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America sponsors a national Collegiate Book Collecting Championship with a top prize of $2,500. First Prize winners of the ASU Libraries Student Book Contest will automatically be eligible enter this contest if those entries meet the criteria of the collegiate national championship contest.

For more information, contact Rosa González at (480) 965-3956.

The Simon Ortiz and Labriola Center Lecture on Indigenous Land, Culture, and Community

ARLINDA LOCKLEAR | Thursday, October 6, 2011

“Tribal Land Claims: A Generation of Federal Indian Law on the Edge”

MEET & GREET: 10 a.m., Labriola Center, 2nd floor, Hayden Library (LIB).
All are welcome. Refreshments served. Hosted by the Labriola National American Indian Data Center. Please contact Joyce.Martin@asu.edu for more information.

PRESENTATION & RECEPTION: 2 p.m., Faculty Center Rm 266, Armstrong Hall (LAW).
All are welcome. Hosted by the Indian Legal Program in the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. Please contact Kathlene.Rosier@asu.edu for more information.

LECTURE: 7 p.m., Heard Museum Downtown. 2301 N. Central Avenue (Central & Encanto) Phoenix, AZ 85004 .  602.252.8848  On the Encanto & Central Light Rail stop

WE ARE ACCUSTOMED to the notion that tribal communities are protected under federal law in the permanent and peaceable possession of their lands. While white contact left tribal communities with precious little, we were left with this invaluable barrier against the dominant society. Now, we may be witnessing the unraveling of this federal protection—not from an act of Congress or the repudiation of treaties, but through judicial activism.—ARLINDA LOCKLEAR

Arlinda Locklear (Lumbee) has a particularly distinguished career in federal Indian law. During her thirty five years’ experience in the field, Locklear has represented tribes throughout the U.S. in federal and state courts on treaty claims to water and land, taxation disputes with states and local authorities, reservation boundary issues, and federal recognition of tribes. In particular, she is a nationally recognized expert in federal recognition of tribes and Indian land claims. Locklear began her career as an attorney at the Native American Rights Fund in Boulder, CO, and later transferred to the Washington DC office. As directing attorney for seven years in the Washington, DC office, Locklear supervised significant litigation of Indian issues as well as the legislative work of the office. Locklear was a member of the board of Advisors for the Encyclopedia of Native Americans in the 20th Century and is a member of the Board of Trustees for the University of North Carolina, Pembroke. Locklear was awarded the Outstanding Woman of Color Award, given by the National Institute of Women of Color in 1987; the Julian T. Pierce Award, given by Pembroke State University in 1994; the 1995 Carpathian Award for Speaking Out, given by North Carolina Equity; the Parks Award for Community Service, given by North Carolina State University in 2003; the 2008 Kate Stoneman Award for outstanding achievement in the legal profession, given by Albany Law School; and the 2009 Distinguished Alumna Award, from the College of Charleston. Locklear earned her law degree from Duke University School of Law and is a member of the Bars of Maryland, North Carolina, and the District of Columbia. She also holds honorary doctorates from State University of New York, Oneonta, and North Carolina State University.

Community Partner: Heard Museum

Location: Luhrs Gallery, 4th Floor, Hayden Library

Available: Fall 2011, during normal library hours

Description: Learn the very local history of the Valley’s Fiesta Bowl. Suggested first by President Homer Durham in 1968, the Fiesta Bowl became one of ASU’s greatest football victories! The displayed Images, documents, and artifacts all relate to the bowl’s origins and early games that put the Sun Devils into the national spotlight. On display Fall 2011 in the Luhrs Gallery, Hayden Library 4th Floor.

For more information contact Karrie Porter Brace (480) 965-4925 or archives@asu.edu

We will be discussing  The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean and Marie Curie: A Life by Susan Quinn. Kean’s book delves into the mysteries of the periodic table and successfully combines history, science and entertainment. The second book by Quinn charts the discovery of radium through Marie Curie’s personal story of hardship, persistence and triumph.

The book discussion will be held at 7:30-900 pm in the Noble Library, Room 105, on the following days:

September 8: The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean, pages 3-199 (Introduction and Parts I-III)
October 13: The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean, pagest 203-346 (Parts IV – V)
November 10: Marie Curie: A Life by Susan Quinn

This event is free and open to the public.

For more information, please contact Rene Tanner (rene.tanner@asu.edu; 480/965-7190).

Location: Downtown Phoenix campus Library, Vault Gallery

Available: August 27 – December 10, 2011, during normal library hours

Description: Phoenix Transect is a collaborative art project that focuses on growth and change in Phoenix metropolitan area. The project began in 2007 and involves an unusual mix of faculty, undergraduate, MFA and PhD students working together from arts, sciences and humanities programs at Arizona State University. Initiated by Regents’ Professor Mark Klett as a way to merge his own research with a studio art class, the project stresses collaborative fieldwork in addition to individual efforts. The project is interdisciplinary and horizontally collaborative, with participants at varying degree levels having equal say in the direction of the project and working alongside faculty. The project stresses professional work practices with the goal of creating exhibitable and publishable products. Phoenix Transect maintains a website and print archive.

This exhibition is chosen from work made by participants Edgar Cardenas, Bryon Darby, Stephen Gittins, Mark Klett, Daniel Leivick, Jane Lindsay, Jason Roehner, Lara Shipley, Adam Thorman, and Joe Trevino.

The participants are tied by the literal and metaphoric idea of a transect line used in conducting a land survey. Each artist looks at a different slice of Phoenix both geographically and conceptually, and together the work forms an evolving portrait of a city in transformation. The photographs in this exhibition comes from several contributing projects that address: Phoenix’s water needs as represented by rivers and canal systems; infrastructure such as transportation systems and architecture; residential neighborhoods from the historic urban core to pre-manufactured homes; the sustainability of the backyard; Phoenix residents in the process of recovery; and the transformation of rural farming and mining communities outside of Phoenix as seen in the towns of Buckeye and Ajo. This is only a small fraction of the work done by the total group, which includes photographs, audio interviews and video. More can be seen on the project’s website:

www.phoenixtransect.org

For more information contact Mark Klett: mklett@asu.edu

Event

Date:  Friday September 16, 2011

Location:  Hayden Library, Room C6A/East (Upper Concourse Level)

In honor of  Constitution Day 2011, and in connection with the current Freedom Riders exhibit, we will be hosting two discussions by ASU professors and a public viewing of the Freedom Riders American Experience documentary:

In addition, a book display on the lower concourse/entrance level of Hayden Library highlights the themes of the Freedom Riders and these discussions, and includes materials written by both Dr. Whitaker and Dr. Davis. Please browse and enjoy this selection of the collection. All materials may be checked out at the Information/Check Out desk across from the entrance of Hayden Library.

Related information:

• Constitution Day (National Constitution Center)
• Library Minute: Constitution Day
• What is Constitution Day? (Library Channel Audio Podcast)

Exhibit

Location:  Hayden Library, Rotunda (Entrance/Lower Concourse Level)

Available:  August 18 – September 19, 2011, during normal library hours

Description:  The Arizona State University Libraries is pleased to announce that it is hosting the national traveling exhibition “Freedom Riders”, which looks at six months in 1961 when more than 400 courageous Americans — old and young, black and white, men and women, Northern and Southern — risked their lives to challenge segregated facilities in the South. The exhibition, which will be on display from August 18 – September 16, 2011, is a companion to the May 2011 PBS broadcast of the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE film Freedom Riders, directed by Stanley Nelson.

The “Freedom Riders” exhibition combines powerful photography and news coverage of the 1961 Freedom Rides and examines the movement from many perspectives —that of the Riders, the Kennedy administration, and the international community. To enhance the experience, visitors can use their cell phones to access powerful first-hand audio accounts of this dangerous experiment in the fight for civil rights.

The Freedom Riders had a simple but daring plan: to board buses in small interracial groups to test and challenge segregated facilities in the South. The Freedom Riders endured savage beatings, humiliation, and imprisonment, but ultimately, their brave actions and commitment to nonviolence changed American forever. “Freedom Riders” explores this little-known chapter in civil rights history, and explains how the selfless actions of the Freedom Riders laid the groundwork for some of the most important civil rights legislation in our nation’s history.

The exhibition, created by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and PBS’s flagship history series, AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, is funded through a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The ASU Libraries is one of twenty sites nationwide selected to host the “Freedom Riders” exhibition.

About AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
Television’s most-watched history series, AMERICAN EXPERIENCE has been hailed as “peerless” (Wall Street Journal), “the most consistently enriching program on television” (Chicago Tribune), and “a beacon of intelligence and purpose” (Houston Chronicle). On air and online, the series brings to life the incredible characters and epic stories that have shaped America’s past and present. Acclaimed by viewers and critics alike, American Experience documentaries have been honored with every major broadcast award, including twenty-four Emmy Awards, four duPont-Columbia Awards, and fourteen George Foster Peabody Awards, one most recently for Two Days in October.

About the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Founded in 1994, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is a nonprofit organization improving and enriching American history education through a wide range of programs and resources for students, teachers, scholars, and history enthusiasts throughout the nation. Gilder Lehrman creates and works closely with history-focused schools; organizes summer seminars and development programs for teachers; produces print and digital publications and traveling exhibitions; hosts lectures by eminent historians; administers a History Teacher of the Year Award in every state and U.S. territory; and offers national book prizes and fellowships for scholars to work in the Gilder Lehrman Collection as well as other renowned archives. Gilder Lehrman hosts www.gilderlehrman.org, serving as the gateway to American history online and featuring the quarterly online journal History Now, designed specifically for K-12 teachers and students.

About the National Endowment for the Humanities
Created in 1965 as an independent federal agency, the National Endowment for the Humanities supports learning in history, literature, philosophy, and other areas of the humanities. NEH grants enrich classroom learning, create and preserve knowledge, and bring ideas to life through public television, radio, new technologies, museum exhibitions, and programs in libraries and other community places. Additional information about the National Endowment for the Humanities and its grant programs is available on the Internet at www.neh.gov.

In this Library Minute Anali gives you the scoop on our exhibits covering everything from art, photography, theater, history, archeology, TV and movie memorabilia. We bring in special traveling exhibits and feature works and artifacts from departments throughout ASU. No discipline is left behind! We even display rare items from private faculty collections. It’s like having a gallery in the library and it’s free!

We’re a library after all and we’ve got lots of great stuff!

Get some culture, see something new… go see a library exhibit!

Just click on the exhibits tag and stay up to date on our latest exhibitions.

Exhibit locations:
The Vault Gallery – Downtown Phoenix campus specializes in art from local artists
Hayden Library – Exhibits in the Rotunda, the Labriola Center, and on the Fourth Floor Luhr’s Gallery
Noble Library – Specializing in science, technology and engineering
Music Library – Features special collections, musical productions, or private collections loaned by faculty
Fletcher Library – @ the West campus features an assortment of art, sculpture and artifacts
Polytechnic Library – Local and regional art

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Members of the public are welcome to visit the Downtown Phoenix campus Library from 7:30am – 8pm on Monday-Thursdays, 7:30am-6pm Fridays, 9am-5pm on Saturdays and 1pm-8pm on Sundays.

Find information about library hours for all ASU libraries here at lib.asu.edu/hours.

If your favorite study location is not available during this time, visit the Information Desk and we’ll be happy to help you find an alternative study location.

We apologize for any inconvenience this causes.

For research assistance during this time, please contact Ask a Librarian – 24/7 chat.

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Exhibit

Location: Polytechnic campus Library

Available: July 10, 2011 through Nov. 4, 2011 during normal library hours

Description: “Arte Dell Acquarello” or Art of the Watercolor is the name given by New Mexican artist Gindy Farmer to her passion for creating beautiful art. A collection of twenty of her works are currently on display at the Polytechnic campus Library. Catch her brightly colored original watercolor’s and giclee’s at www.gindyfarmer.com.

“My love for watercolor began with the attraction to its fluid clarity, its demanding nature, and its resistance to control. It created a challenge for me. One painting led to another, one idea led to another and at this point, I will never have enough time to complete all that I would like to accomplish with watercolor.”

Culture Passes can be checked out at Hayden Library -Tempe campus,Polytechnic campus Library, Downtown Phoenix campus Library and Fletcher Library – West campus, for admission to the following participating institutions:

• Arizona Historical Society Museum at Papago Park
• Arizona Museum of Natural History
• Arizona Science Center
• Cave Creek Museum
• Children’s Museum of Phoenix
• Deer Valley Rock Art Center
• Desert Botanical Garden
• Desert Caballeros Western Museum
• Phoenix Art Museum
• Phoenix Zoo
• Pueblo Grande Museum
• Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art

To find a Culture Pass, go to the new Culture Pass kiosks located near the Information and Check Out desk at the selected library locations .  Then take it to the check out desk and check it out like any other material with your SunCard. (The passes are not available to be checked out to Community card holders). Each pass grants admission for two people to the selected institution, and are valid for seven days. Passes do not need to be returned and may only be used once during the seven day period.  Passes are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

In addition to receiving free admission, Culture Pass users can take advantage of other offers, such as discounts at Museum gift shops and memberships.

The Culture Pass is made possible through the generous support of the Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust, Wells Fargo, APS, Bashas’, Avnet and CKKO Foundation.

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A book display on the concourse level of Hayden Library highlights Latin American Jewish Studies materials in the Libraries collections.  Please browse and enjoy this selection of the collection.  All materials may be checked out at the Information/Check Out desk across from the entrance of Hayden Library.

The Judaica collections at ASU Libraries support research and teaching pertaining to Jewish Studies on all ASU campuses. The collections offer a variety of reference tools, scholarly journals and books in print and electronic formats, as well as microfilms, maps, videos, DVDs and music CDs. These library materials cover all areas of research in the interdisciplinary field of Jewish Studies, with particular focus on the Modern era, including History, Religious Studies, Political Science, Yiddish belles-lettres, criticism, and non-fiction, Hebrew language, literature and criticism, Zionism and Israel Studies, and Latin American Judaica.

ASU Libraries supports Latin American Jewish Studies with library materials in English, Spanish and Portuguese, along with Yiddish and Hebrew. The collection covers the history of Jewish communities in Latin America and their relations with other communities in the region, as well as their intellectual and literary output in all mentioned languages.

Coverage of works published in Yiddish in Argentina is particularity strong, with some titles included in the Yizkor book collection (Holocaust memorial books). Holdings at ASU Libraries also include some Argentinean periodicals in Spanish, such as Davar: Revista Literaria or Controversia de Ideas Sionistas, and some rare publications from the 1940s housed in Special Collections. Access to current and historical newspapers, research articles and databases is available electronically.

Questions about the materials in this display can be directed to Melissa Guy, subject specialist for Latin American and Iberian Studies, and Rachel Leket-Mor, subject specialist for Jewish Studies.

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Master photographer, author, sculptor, social critic, painter, poet, educator and philosopher Allen Dutton was born in 1922 in Kingman, Arizona. His grandparents were pioneers who came to the Arizona Territory in the late nineteenth century and his family has been here ever since. After receiving his discharge from the Army in 1946, he went on to study painting and sculpture at the Art Center School in Los Angeles and earned a master’s in history with a minor in art from Arizona State University. At the age of 62, he took early retirement from Phoenix College to devote himself full time to his art. Dutton embarked on a re-photographic survey project that netted two volumes of before and after comparisons published under the titles of Arizona Then and Now and Phoenix Then and Now. This led to his next project, photographing every street corner in every town in Arizona for the benefit of posterity.

Influenced by the cowboy culture of his youth, Dutton created the fictional Rocking A.D. Ranch in southwestern Yavapai County to breed rhinoceros. He wove tales and gave slide illustrated lectures to audiences about the 34 rhinos he kept on the ranch, all of whom were trained for a specific useful task such as cutting cattle.

In addition to landscapes and fictitious rhinos Dutton also photographs nude camera studies. Using people of every shape, size, and age the subjects are sometimes the focal point or often the nude discreetly concealed within a larger landscape. He also has completed a series that takes a humorous look at retired life in Sun City, Arizona.

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Guest: Rebekah Tabah

Episode 115
Running Time: 13:08

Music by:  Grizzly616 / CC BY-NC 3.0

The first book, for June 9, is Barbara Kingsolver’s “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle.” It has a strong sustainability focus and is a memoir with some investigative reporting mixed in. The book chronicles the year Kingsolver and her family made a deliberate effort to eat locally.

The second book, to be discussed Thursday, July 14, is Nick Lane’s “Life Ascending.” “This book takes the reader on a journey through time from chemical reactions around underwater thermal vents to life on land. Along the way Lane chronicles 10 major evolutionary developments that created life as we know it.

The August 11 discussion will focus on “Journey to the Ants” by Bert Hölldobler (ASU, Foundation Professor of Biology) and E. O. Wilson. Journey to the Ants combines autobiography and scientific discovery to explain communication among one of the smallest and most numerous organisms on the planet.

The discussions, which are free and open to the public, will take place at 7:30pm in room 105 of Noble Library. Free parking is available after 7 p.m. in the Tyler Street Garage, located at Tyler Street and McAllister Avenue. Light refreshments will be served.

For more information, or to R.S.V.P., contact Tanner at rene.tanner@asu.edu or go to http://libguides.asu.edu/content.php?pid=207530

Professor Little Bear believes now is the time for a collaboration between “Western Science” and “Indigenous Knowledge.” In the lecture he discusses the tenants or foundation of Indigenous thought and compares them to the Western paradigm.  It is time to tap Indigenous knowledge as native languages can explain things that are paradoxes in English – such as “dynamics without motion” where Indigenous language explains nature without depending on the other language of math. In another example, Professor Little Bear speaks of how the collaboration of Indigenous thought and string theory could complete the Grand Unified Theory of Physics but it will never happen using the standard model.

Delving even further he discusses the holistic, Native paradigm where everything is in flux (moving, changing) existing in energy waves.  The energy waves are referred to as spirit. Everything is animate – so everything has spirit and is related.  In that flux there are regular patterns that humans seek out to renew and sustain themselves.

The lecture series is sponsored by the Heard Museum and Arizona State University’s American Indian Policy Institute; American Indian Studies Program; Department of English; Faculty of History in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies; Indian Legal Program in the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law; Labriola National American Indian Data Center and the ASU Libraries; and Women and Gender Studies in the School of Social Transformation.

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