The Library Channel

Library Minute: LibGuides

librarychannel@asu.edu (ASU Libraries) — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:40:09 +0000

Need quality information fast? Our librarians can get you started right away. This week Anali introduces you to the ASU Libraries’ LibGuides.

LibGuides are resources handpicked by our subject librarians covering a wide variety of subjects and courses taught at Arizona State University. Because they list only the best items for your subject, they can save you lots of time sorting by getting you right to what you need. They also provide quick contact information for the subject librarian for each one — so you can quickly get help from an expert in that area.

Download iPod Ready Video (mp4 video)

Check out our LibGuides online by choosing the “Find Subject and Course Guides” link from the library’s web site.

Library Minute: Ask a Librarian

librarychannel@asu.edu (ASU Libraries) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:00:15 +0000

In this week’s Library Minute Anali Perry introduces ASU’s Ask a Librarian service. Ask a Librarian provides options to get you quickly in touch with our knowledgeable and experienced reference librarians. These librarians are here to help you succeed in your scholarship and research at ASU. You’ve got four ways to Ask a Librarian: Chat, email, phone, and in person.

Download iPod Ready Video (mp4 video)

For more information visit ASU Ask a Librarian: http://lib.asu.edu/help

For technical help with library systems contact our helpdesk: http://lib.asu.edu/systems/helpstar

The Library Minute is a weekly program telling you about the resources and services at all of the ASU Libraries in one minute.

Native Mexican Manuscripts a Summer Exhibition (Podcast)

librarychannel@asu.edu (ASU Libraries) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:58:07 +0000

Fred McIlvain, Mimmo Bonnani, Curator Karrie Porter Brace and Professor Emily Umberger of the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts discuss the summer exhibit of Mexican Codex Manuscripts on display at the Hayden Library’s Luhrs Gallery.

This engaging conversation tackles the background of the collections, and how the codices depict life of historic and Pre-Hispanic Mesoamericans. Karrie and Emily describe what these codices look like and how they were used by priests for consultation on state events, family decisions, and war. We’ll learn about a an interesting Mexico City map produced in the 1550’s for Charles V (Holy Roman Emperor of Spain), Montezuma, and the beliefs and practices represented in the manuscripts. Well also learn about the calendar stone, Mesoamerican hieroglyphs, Diego de Landa’s alphabet, the destruction of manuscripts, and the status of the actual texts today.

The exhibit is on display in the Hayden Library’s Luhrs Gallery through Summer 2009.

Download Podcast (MP3)

Additional exhibit information

The Dresden codex

Search for Mesoamerican codices (ASU Library Catalog) (Open Worldcat) (Google Scholar - Requires Authentication)

Hosts:
Fred McIlvain
Mimmo Bonanni

Guests:
Karrie Porter Brace
Emily Umberger

Episode 98
Running Time: 35:50

Library Minute: RefWorks

librarychannel@asu.edu (ASU Libraries) — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:12:51 +0000

This week Anali talks about RefWorks, a bibliographic citation manager which allows you to create a personal database of the references you use for your research. Refworks allows you to import and organize citations from research databases, the libraries catalog and Google Scholar all in one place.

Refworks also works with Write-N-Cite to help you include your citations as you are writing papers in Microsoft Word.

Download iPod ready video (mp4 video)

For more information please visit the ASU Libraries Refworks information and help page for tutorials or attend a live workshop.

Library Minute: Interlibrary Loan

librarychannel@asu.edu (ASU Libraries) — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:03:20 +0000

Have you ever found the perfect book or article for your research paper only to discover the ASU Libraries do not have it? Fear not! Anali Perry will explain how Interlibrary Loan can get that article or book for you from libraries all over the world

For more information visit ASU Libraries Interlibrary Loan.

Download iPod ready Videocast (mp4 video)

A Librarian Exchange: A Conversation with William Dansoh (Podcast)

librarychannel@asu.edu (ASU Libraries) — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:20:34 +0000

Visiting Subject Librarian William Dansoh from the University of Kwazulu-Natal, Edgwood Library in South Africa sits down with Fred to talk about his time at ASU. William visited Arizona as a participant in a librarian exchange program that is part of the Carnegie Corporation sponsored Research Libraries Consortium project. The purpose of this project is to obtain insights into research libraries within the United States, especially focusing on how academic librarians collaborate with and support research faculty and post-graduate students. William also expressed an interest in seeing how technology supports research in the libraries.

During the discussion we will learn how William was selected for the internship, what he hoped to learn, his internship experiences, and a comparison between research libraries in the United States and South Africa.

Download Podcast (MP3)

Host:
Fred McIlvain

Guest:
William Dansoh

Episode 97
Running Time: 12:19

Library Minute: All About the ASU Libraries (video)

librarychannel@asu.edu (ASU Libraries) — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:19:14 +0000

Welcome back to The Library Minute!

This week librarian Anali Perry shares with you lots of interesting facts about the ASU Libraries.

Did you know:

We have 8 libraries on 4 campuses.
Books, journals and databases are accessible from any location.
33,000 electronics journals and 300 research databases accessible from anywhere at anytime.
We have 65,000 sound recordings on CD, cassette, and vinyl.
The libraries also have VHS, DVD, and laser discs for checkout.

Download iPod ready Videocast (mp4 video)

Library Minute: Finding Links to Full Text (video)

librarychannel@asu.edu (ASU Libraries) — Thu, 07 May 2009 22:55:04 +0000

Welcome back to our new series, The Library Minute!

This week librarian Anali Perry shares with us the secret to finding links to full text articles in the libraries research databases. Handy tips for this time of year when you need to get to journal articles fast!

Download iPod ready Videocast (mp4 video)

Library Minute: Study Zones (video)

librarychannel@asu.edu (ASU Libraries) — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:37:49 +0000

Welcome to our new series: The Library Minute! ASU Librarian Anali Perry will be the host each week and will highlight services, resources, and helpful tidbits about the ASU Libraries, in 60 seconds or less.

In our first Library Minute Anali tells us all about the study zones at our libraries. With finals just around the corner, this week’s episode focuses on Study Zones at ASU Libraries to help with your studying needs.

Zones include:

Green zones are Common study zones, found on the entrance levels of the libraries and nearby service desks, are areas where noise is to be expected and groups are encouraged. Please use these areas to convene, collaborate and talk on your cell phone
Yellow zones are Quiet Study Zones, found throughout the libraries on levels with book and journal stacks are all naturally quiet environments. In these areas quiet conversation is allowed, but please silence your cell phones.
Red zones Silent Study Zones and no talking is permitted. Please turn off all cell phones in these areas

You’ll also learn about group study rooms and board games that can be checked out at the circulation desk.

Download iPod ready Videocast (MP4 video)

To find the study zones and other resources available at specific libraries, check out the “In the Libraries” section of the Services for Students page.

Gerald Taiaiake Alfred: Resurgence of Traditional Ways of Being (Video)

librarychannel@asu.edu (ASU Libraries) — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:00:38 +0000

The Library Channel is proud to present the third installment of the Simon Ortiz and Labriola Center Lecture on Indigenous Land, Culture, and Community, sponsored by ASU American Indian Studies Program, ASU Department of English, ASU American Indian Policy Institute, ASU Labriola Center, and the Heard Museum.

Recorded March 23, 2009 at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, University of Victoria Professor of Indigenous Governance Gerald Taiaiake Alfred talks about the “Resurgence of Traditional Ways of Being: Indigenous Paths of Action and Freedom”

Taiaiake Alfred is known for his leadership and groundbreaking research in the fields of Indigenous governance, philosophy and history, and also for his incisive social and political criticism. He has been awarded a Canada Research Chair, a National Aboriginal Achievement Award in the field of education, and the Native American Journalists Association award for best column writing.

Download Podcast (MP3)

For more information please visit:

About Gerald Taiaiake Alfred
The Simon Ortiz and Labriola Center Lecture on Indigenous Land, Culture, and Community
Library Channel event information

NEW! The full event video is now available and will be coming soon to ASUtv.

Episode 96
Running Time: 1:15:04

Speaker:

Gerald Taiaiake Alfred

Professor Simon Ortiz opens the presentation.

Spotlight on Google Scholar (Video)

librarychannel@asu.edu (ASU Libraries) — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:12:19 +0000

The Library Channel is premiering a new series which will “Spotlight” key research resources available to the ASU community. Our first resource to spotlight is “Google Scholar” - a valuable tool to locate academic research.

The program will show you what’s special about the ASU customized version of Google Scholar, where to find it, how the library can help you improve your search results, limitations of the search engine, and additional tools to meet the rest of your research needs.

If you haven’t tried Google Scholar yet, (or never heard of it) then check out this video!

Download iPod ready Video

Ann Ewbank: Mover and Shaker (Podcast)

librarychannel@asu.edu (ASU Libraries) — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 13:00:08 +0000

Host Fred McIlvain welcomes special guest Dr. Ann Dutton Ewbank, Education Liason Librarian, to talk about being named one of fifty Library Journal ”Movers and Shakers.” She is joined by Jennifer Duvernay, ASU Libraries Marketing and Outreach Officer, also named a Mover and Shaker in 2005, who reflects on the significance of this honor.

Ann talks about her continued work to promote and educate the public, especially lawmakers, on the value of teacher-librarians in K-12 schools. Ann is a founding member of Fund Our Future Arizona which was originally organized in response to the proposal by Mesa Public School District to eliminate all certified teacher-librarian positions in the district, replacing them with lower qualified resource center specialists who would manage the library space and collections. Their well publicized initiative ultimately failed as the Mesa Public School District chose to continue with their planned budget reduction, but group’s goal to “to create strong school libraries for every child in the state” continues.

Download Podcast (MP3)

For more information please see:

ASU librarian earns national recognition (ASU News)
Librarian introduces students to facility’s resources (Arizona Republic)
Librarian Earns “Movers and Shakers” Award (State Press)
Library Channel News article
Ann Dutton Ewbank-Activists-2009 Movers & Shakers (March 15, 2009 Library Journal)

Host:
Fred McIlvain

Guests:
Ann Dutton Ewbank
Jennifer Duvernay

Episode 93
Running Time: 23:15

Related podcasts:

You can also listen to Library Channel Episode 40 featuring Life Sciences Librarian Katherine O’Clair, after being named a Mover and Shaker in 2007.

Double Vision: Interview with the Artists (Podcast)

librarychannel@asu.edu (ASU Libraries) — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 03:00:34 +0000

Artists Nancy Reinker and Diana Clauss talk about their joint exhibition “Double Vision” at the ASU Downtown Phoenix campus Library. During this fascinating conversation Nancy and Diana, who are exhibiting together for the first time, discuss the similarities in their artistic process, as well as the differences in their final artistic products.

Joining us as well is Scott Muir, director of the Downtown Phoenix campus Library, who discusses the improvements made to the library to provide new gallery space, the downtown Phoenix art scene and the First Friday events.

Double Vision is available for viewing through April 17 in the Downtown Phoenix campus Library, during normal library hours. In addition, the library will be open for First Friday on April 3 from 6-8 pm.
For more information and the artists statements, see our news item on the exhibit.

Download Podcast (MP3 Audio)

Host:
Fred McIlvain

Guests:
Scott Muir
Nancy Reinker
Diana Clauss

Episode 92
Running Time: 19:54

Library Channel News for March 2009

librarychannel@asu.edu (ASU Libraries) — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:35:27 +0000

Fred McIlvain presents the News from the ASU Libraries.

Download Podcast (MP3 Audio)

Stories:

Reduced Spring Break hours: Hours and closures for March 8 - 14

LibGuides! A handy tool for the resources you need.

Gerald Taiaiake Alfred lecture at the Heard Museum: The third Simon Ortiz and Labriola Center Lecture on Indigenous Land, Culture and Community on March 23rd.

Interlibrary Loan: Possibly the best library service you may never have tried!

Featured Exhibit: Shelter in the Storm: Agnes Smedley at Yaddo (related Podcast)

Host: Fred McIlvain

Episode 91
Running time:4:42

Shelter and the Storm: Agnes Smedley at Yaddo (Podcast)

librarychannel@asu.edu (ASU Libraries) — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:36:41 +0000

Curator Karrie Porter Brace talks with Fred about the new exhibit Shelter and the Storm: Agnes Smedley at Yaddo located on the 4th floor of Hayden Library. The exhibit, drawn from University Archives material, reviews the life and the controversy of ASU Alumna Agnes Smedley, advocate for the oppressed, radical, war correspondent, and spy. Agnes Smedley had the longest residency at the artists’ colony Yaddo in Saratoga springs, NY.

Highlights of the program include information on Yaddo, Agnes’s travels to China and South Asia, her failed attempt at Chinese citizenship, accusations of espionage by General Charles A. Willoughby, and her burial in Beijing.

Download Podcast (MP3 Audio)

The exhibit is on display through the end of the Spring 2009 semester and concurrent exhibits about Yaddo and its other notable artists-in-residence can be found at the New York Public Library, Harvard University’s Houghton Library, University of Maryland Library, and Stanford University Library.

For more information please see:

Daughter of Earth: Agnes Smedley Online Exhibit
The Lives of Agnes Smedley by Ruth Price
Agnes Smedley, the life and times of an American radical by Janice R. MacKinnon and Stephen R. MacKinnon
Agnes Smedley manuscript collection
Daughter of earth: a novel by Agnes Smedley

Host:
Fred McIlvain
Guest:
Karrie Porter Brace

Episode 90
Running Time: 24:38

Marilyn Wurzburger: 48 Years of Service (podcast)

librarychannel@asu.edu (ASU Libraries) — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:53:30 +0000

The Library Channel bids a fond farewell to Marilyn Wurzburger, who retired from ASU Libraries on January 23rd, 2009 after 48 years of service.

Host Fred McIlvain, who’s career spans nearly 30 years himself, reflects with Marilyn on her years with ASU Libraries discussing the move from the cramped Matthews Library to spacious Hayden Library and the unique collections she helped build. She talks about her tutelage under Assistant Librarian Jay Dobkin and her career growth from cataloger to Head of Special Collections.

She also talks about the building and acquiring of many collections including the Peter Lawford papers, the Doris and Marc Patten Collection of Herbals and Early Gardening Books, the William S. Burroughs collection, the Alan Dean Foster papers and much more.

Please read the ASU news article about Marilyn’s career and visit ASU Libraries Special Collections to learn about Marilyn and the specialized collections held at ASU.

Download Podcast (MP3 Audio)

HOST:
Fred McIlvain

Guest:
Marilyn Wurzburger

Episode 89
Running Time: 58:20

The Labriola National American Indian Data Center (Video Podcast)

librarychannel@asu.edu (ASU Libraries) — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:00:35 +0000

Helping to close out this eventful year for ASU Libraries, The Library Channel presents a glimpse into the ASU Labriola National American Indian Data Center highlighting the center’s collections, services and partnerships.

This video highlights the Labriola Center’s outstanding services and collections and includes information for how to become a Friend of the Labriola Center. You’ll hear from notable faculty, members of the ASU community, and librarians about how the center is expanding its community involvement and partnerships through such activities as the Simon Ortiz and Labriola Center Lecture on Indigenous Land, Culture and Community and important new programs such as collecting contemporary film and video critical to meeting ASU’s instructional needs and the Labriola Center’s commitment to the American Indian community.

Download iPod Ready Video Podcast

Closed Caption Version available via Google Video

Episode 88
Running Time: 17:30

ASU Faculty and Librarians Team-Up for Success: Kinesiology (podcast)

librarychannel@asu.edu (ASU Libraries) — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:03:02 +0000

Welcome back to another edition of “Faculty and Librarians Team-up for Student Success” series. In this episode we bring you Kinesiology lecturers Jennifer Fay and Tannah Broman and Health Sciences Librarian Sheila Hofstetter. Learn from this lively discussion of how faculty sought to improve their students’ ability to quickly find the best research; a critical skill they knew would be vital to their success as students in Kinesiology 200, upper level courses, and future healthcare professionals. The team discusses their collaboration teaching students proper research methods, using the library system and finding available resources. They talk about the challenges they faced in moving students away from simple Google searches to progressing analyzing and synthesizing information, and Sheila illustrates methods dealing with information literacy and access issues.

This episode is a part of the ASU Faculty and Librarians Team-Up for Students Success series looking at new teaching methods and techniques that capture students’ imaginations, build confidence and provide the skills they need to succeed.

Download Podcast (MP3 Audio)

Host:
Fred McIlvain

Guests:
Jennifer Fay
Sheila Hofstetter
Tannah Broman

Episode 87
Running Time: 27:51

Emeritus College Panel Reflects on 50th Anniversary of ASU’s University Status (podcast)

librarychannel@asu.edu (ASU Libraries) — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:48:56 +0000

As part of the 50th anniversary celebration of the historic transformation of Arizona State College into Arizona State University we our proud to present a panel discussion featuring the ASU Emeritus College. The panel includes four of the founding members of the Emeritus College: Founding Dean Dick Jacob, Associate Dean Chuck Elliott, the Emeritus College Newsletter Editor and Council member Winifred Doane, and current Emeritus College Dean Len Gordon.

Our distinguished panel members discuss the founding of the College and the College newsletter, the College literary journal, Emeritus Voices, and the impact of ASU becoming a university 50 years ago, setting the stage for ASU becoming a comprehensive research university.

Download Podcast (MP3 Audio)

Also of interest:

1958 Arizona State Becomes a University: Looking Back with Alumnus Don Dotts

Episode 86
Running Time: 43:07

Homecoming 2008: Events on the West campus (Podcast)

librarychannel@asu.edu (ASU Libraries) — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:00:46 +0000

ASU West campus Dean of Student Affairs Kevin Cook and Student Government President Ryan Caracciolo highlight all the exciting homecoming events at the ASU West campus for Fall 2008.

The ASU West campus is participating in Homecoming as part of the campus’s role as a vital part of one university in many places by hosting a variety of events enabling members of the West campus community to get together, have fun, and show their Sun Devil spirit. This year’s celebration is special because it marks the 50th anniversary of ASU achieving university status.

The events build momentum and enthusiasm for the big university-wide celebration on Saturday, November 15, including the football game against Washington State.

Download Podcast (MP3 Audio)

Episode 85
Running Time: 10:09

Host:
Fred McIlvain

Guests:
Kevin Cook
Ryan Caracciolo

Wilma Mankiller: Challenges Facing 21st Century Indigenous People (Podcast)

librarychannel@asu.edu (ASU Libraries) — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:27:06 +0000

The Library Channel is proud to present the second installment of the Simon Ortiz and Labriola Center Lecture on Indigenous Land, Culture, and Community, sponsored by ASU American Indian Studies Program, ASU Department of English, ASU American Indian Policy Institute, ASU Labriola Center, and the Heard Museum.

Recorded on October 2, 2008 at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Wilma Mankiller, former principal chief of the Cherokee Nation and internationally known Native rights activist talks about “Challenges Facing 21st Century Indigenous People.”

Mankiller talks of the diversity and uniqueness of the over 300 million Indigenous Peoples of the world. She also talks of indigenous duty and sense of responsibility to conserve and protect the natural world and how cultures with no memories of their origins have little understanding of their place in the world.

Download Podcast (MP3 Audio)

Wilma Mankiller’s work as principal chief, consultant and speaker on Native issues has been acknowledged by numerous awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, one of the two highest civilian awards in the United States. She has also been recognized as American Indian Woman of the Year, received the Indian Health Service Award and entered into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.

She co-edited A Reader’s Companion to the History of Women in the U.S., published by Houghton-Mifflin, co-authored, Mankiller: A Chief and Her People, published by St. Martin’s Press, and her newest book, Every Day is a Good Day was published by Fulcrum Press in the fall of 2004.

A video of the full event including opening remarks by Frank Goodyear and Wayne Mitchell will be coming soon on the Library Channel and ASUtv.

Episode 84

Running Time: 46:00

Speaker:
Wilma Mankiller

Professor Simon Ortiz opens the presentation.

Israeli Popular Literature (New Podcast)

librarychannel@asu.edu (ASU Libraries) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:11:38 +0000

Rachel Leket-Mor, ASU Libraries Jewish Studies Bibliographer, joins Fred and co-host Mimmo Bonanni for a fascinating discussion on the history and impact of Israeli pulp fiction. Rachel provides an overview of the 300 pulp books available from the ASU Libraries Archives and Special collections and what this unique collection of westerns, sci-fi, detective, World War II, and adventure stories reveal about Israeli culture during the 1950s and 1960s.

The ISRAPULP Collection at ASU Libraries, the only repository of its kind outside of Israel, is now open for scholars, offering hundreds of titles from the 1930s and on. For more information visit the links below and visit the pulp collection at ASU Libraries Archives and Special Collections.

Download Enhanced Podcast (Chapter Enhanced AAC)

For further information:

Eli Eshed References:

Readings:

Ben-Ari, Nitsa. 2006. Suppression of the erotic in modern hebrew literature. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press.
Ben-Ari, Nitsa. 2008. Popular mass production in the periphery: Socio-political tendencies in subversive translation. In Beyond descriptive translation studies: Investigations in homage to gideon toury., eds. Gideon Toury, Anthony Pym, Miriam Shlesinger and Daniel Simeoni, 1-18. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing.
Eshed, Eli. 2002. Mi-tarzan ve-`ad zbeng: Ha-sipur shel ha-sifrut ha-popularit ha-`Ivrit [From Tarzan to Zbeng: the story of Israeli pop fiction]. Tel Aviv: Bavel. [Hebrew]
Shavit, Zohar and Yaacov. 1974. “On the Development of the Hebrew Crime Story during the 1930’s in Palestine”. Ha-Sifrut, 18-19: 30-73. [Hebrew]

Hosts:
Fred McIlvain
Mimmo Bonanni

Guest:
Rachel Leket-Mor

Episode 83
Running Time: 28:35

Get the standard MP3 version here

ASU Faculty and Librarians Team-Up for Success: Cancer and Heart Disease

librarychannel@asu.edu (ASU Libraries) — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:14:47 +0000

Our series, “Faculty and Librarians Team-up for Student Success,” returns! In this installment we are joined by Dr. Ken Mossman, Professor of Health Physics in the ASU School of Life Sciences, and Katherine O’Clair, Life Sciences Librarian, ASU Libraries. They are here to tell us about collaborating to help students succeed in Bio 302: Cancer & Heart Disease.

Ken’s interest are in radiological, health and safety with a particular concern in public health and protection from radiation exposures in nuclear power plants and medical X-rays. Not only is Ken a faculty member here at ASU, he is also a Federal Administrative Judge with the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

We will learn about the Bio 302 class, how Katherine and Ken started working together, strategies for connecting with students, the differences they have already seen in the students, and much more.

Download Podcast (MP3 Audio)

Host:
Fred McIlvain

Guests:
Katherine O’Clair
Ken Mossman

Episode 82

Running Time: 26:00

Disability Services at ASU Libraries

librarychannel@asu.edu (ASU Libraries) — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:00:26 +0000

Jodie Milam talks with Fred about the outstanding suite of services and extraordinary customer service provided by ADA Services at the Hayden Library on the ASU Tempe campus.

Fred and Jodie talk about the software, hardware, modified workstations, and services at the different campus library locations. They also define what constitutes a disability.

Download Episode 81

Please visit the ASU Libraries ADA Services page for location, hours, and more information.

You can also download our enhanced podcast of this episode featuring chapters, images and helful web links at ASU on iTunes U!

Host: Fred McIlvain

Guest: Jodie Milam

Episode 81
Running time: 9:13

Library Channel News for September 2008

librarychannel@asu.edu (ASU Libraries) — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:02:33 +0000

Fred McIlvain presents the News from the ASU Libraries.

Download Episode 80

Stories:

New Library Web URL: The ASU Libraries can now be found at the new address lib.asu.edu.

Upgraded Chat Service: ASU Libraries launched a new version of our popular “Ask a Librarian Chat” service.

New Lecture: Matthew Harp interviews Labriola Center Curator Joyce Martin about about the upcoming lecture with Wilma Mankiller - “Challenges Facing 21st Century Indigenous People” 7:00 p.m. on October 2, at the Phoenix, Heard Museum Steele Auditorium.

ASU China Book Drive Meets Goal:

Host: Fred McIlvain

Running time: 7:20

1958 Arizona State Becomes a University: Looking Back with Alumnus Don Dotts

librarychannel@asu.edu (ASU Libraries) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:00:28 +0000

The Library Channel helps celebrate the 50th anniversary of Arizona State University with a new series of podcasts this fall. The historic “name change” drive, a singular moment in the university’s and state’s history, transformed Arizona State College into Arizona State University through an unprecedented statewide referendum that was approved by Arizona citizens in the general election of November 4th, 1958.

In this first episode, we are joined by former editor of the State Press and former director of the Alumni Association Don Dotts and University Archivist Rob Spindler to set the scene and illustrate Arizona State College and student life in 1958. Don will also talk about the students’ support of the initiative process, their march on the capitol, the roll of the State Press, opposition to the process and much, much more.

Download Episode(MP3 Audio)

To honor this heritage, and the vast progress that has been made in the last half century, ASU will be celebrating throughout the year at a variety of events. The university as a whole will also look back and reflect on that special moment in 1958 and what it means for the university in 2008.


Dr. Grady Gammage atop the Memorial Union announces the 1958 election returns changing Arizona State College to Arizona State University

For more information please visit:
The official ASU 50th anniversary site and blog
ASU Generations (Streaming Video).

Host:

Guests:

Episode 79

ASU Libraries Goes to ALA 2008

librarychannel@asu.edu (ASU Libraries) — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:13:06 +0000

The 2008 American Library Association Annual Conference in Anaheim is almost here and the Library Channel will be there!

We’ve gathered a small group to talk about ASU’s activities and your chance to meet us in person at the conference. We’ll be sharing what we are looking forward to and the presentations we’ll be hosting and attending.

Tammy Allgood will talk about her joint presentation on library gaming. Dan Stanton discusses the Association for Research Libraries meeting he will be attending and the ClimateQual survey ASU Libraries employees participated in. Matt Harp and Fred McIlvain will discuss the Library Channel’s conference poster session and Mimmo Bonanni will talk about other presentations ASU Librarians will be hosting.

Download Episode(MP3 Audio)

ASU Libraries activities at the 2008 annual conference include:

ALA Advocacy Institute, on Friday, June 27 from 8:30am to 3:30pm
Are You in the Game? Harnessing Millenial Learning Strategies to Market Your Library on Saturday June 28 from 8:00 am -10:00 pm (Note: the ALA wiki has this time incorrectly posted)
The Library Channel: Syndicating News, Views, and Collections to the World Poster Session Monday, June 30, 2008 from 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm

Be sure to find us at the conference and leave your feedback. See you there!

Host:

Guests:

Episode 78

Surveying Arizona: Select Photographs and Artifacts on Exhibit

librarychannel@asu.edu (ASU Libraries) — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:00:43 +0000

In this edition of The Library Channel, Fred converses with Arizona Historical Foundation Photo Preservationist Rebekah Tabah, about an exhibit of images selected from over 40,000 foundation photographs illustrating various ways that Arizona has been surveyed, measured, mapped, and studied. These images and artifacts capture an Arizona we cannot fully experience today, representing 150 years of explorers, miners, soldiers, ranchers, engineers, archaeologists, and government officials.

Download Episode (MP3 Audio)

This exhibit can be viewed in the lobby of the Hayden Library on the Tempe campus through the rest of the summer, during all hours the library is open.

For more information about the exhibit, please contact Rebekah Tabah, Arizona Historical Foundation, 480-965-3283

Host: Fred McIlvain

Guest: Rebekah Tabah

Episode 77

ASU’s West campus a Point of Pride

librarychannel@asu.edu (ASU Libraries) — Thu, 22 May 2008 14:00:09 +0000

In early 2008, ASU’s West campus was selected as a “Point of Pride” by the Phoenix Pride Commission. The honor, which is awarded every four years, recognizes a landmark or attraction unique to and located within the city that evokes a sense of pride among area residents. Join West campus leaders, staff and alumni in a discussion about what truly makes the West campus a point of pride.

Download Episode 76 (MP3 Audio)

For more information see these related articles:

West campus earns Phoenix “Point of Pride”

ASU’s West campus is newest ‘Point of Pride’

Commission names campus a ‘Phoenix Point of Pride’ - ASU Web Devil

Host:

Tammy Allgood

Guests:

ASU Vice President and Dean of the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences

Director of Fletcher Library and long-time employee of ASU

ASU College of Human Services alumnus, graduated with a degree in Communication Studies in 1994

community relations coordinator with ASU’s Public Affairs Office at the West campus

Jenni Thomas, Dr. Elizabeth Langland, Marilyn Myers and Mark Ceser

Episode 76
Running Time 12:02

Just the Facs Ma’am: Eckart Sellheim on Music Facsimiles

librarychannel@asu.edu (ASU Libraries) — Mon, 12 May 2008 23:37:54 +0000

Professor of Music Eckart Sellheim joins guest host Anali Perry and ASU Music Library Head Dr. Christopher Mehrens to discuss the summer 2008 exhibit, “Just the Facs Ma’am: Les Basses Danses of Marguerite of Austria and other music facsimiles from the collections of the ASU Libraries and Professor Sellheim.

Download Episode 75
Facsimiles are books that attempt to recreate the appearance of original manuscripts. They are used by scholars as tools for study or investigation when they do not have access to original materials.

This exhibit, located in the ASU Music Library, explores the wide variety of music facsimiles found in the collections of the ASU Libraries and Professor Eckart Sellheim of the ASU School of Music. The centerpieces of the exhibit are two facsimiles of manuscripts that were prepared for Marguerite of Austria (1480-1530) a chanson album (Brussels manuscript 11239), and a collection of basses danses (Brussels manuscript 9085). The display also features facsimiles of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, Mozart’s Magic Flute, Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony, and Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring.

The exhibit will be available from May 5 until August 8, 2008.

Watch the Google Video of the Episode Here!

Host:
Anali Perry

Guests:
Christopher Mehrens
Eckart Sellheim

Episode 75
Running Time 43:58

Supporting Faculty Research Part 2

librarychannel@asu.edu (ASU Libraries) — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:44:32 +0000

In order to create and refine library services and resources to support the faculty of the New American University, it is imperative that we in the libraries have a clear understanding of their research process.

In part two Dr. Keith Kintigh the associate director of the School of Human Evolution and Social Change show the evolution and history intellectual threads and activities of his work that have gotten including archaeological fieldwork, southwest biocomplexity, the development of quantitative and formal methods, his involvement with the Society for American Archaeology, and tDAR - The Digital Archaeological Record. Keith will also talk about needs for broad-based information infrastructure and his collaboration with the library and how this relationship forms new analogies.

The program concludes with questions from the audience and closing remarks by Associate University Librarian Dr. John Howard. Dr. Howard discusses what this exciting research at ASU means to the library in capturing dynamic scholarly research, maintaining them over time and making research available to diverse communities.

Download Podcast in MP4 format (Chapter Enhanced AAC)
Note: This is an enhanced podcast with dynamic links, chapters, and slides from Keith’s presentation. It is best viewed in iTunes. This program is also available as a standard MP3 at The Internet Archive.

Dr. Keith Kintigh is the associate director of the School of Human Evolution and Social Change. Dr. Kintigh’s career-long commitment to understanding political organization in middle-range societies has focused on the Cíbola area along the Arizona-New Mexico border near Zuni Pueblo. Kintigh’s other major research focus has been on the development and application of quantitative methods in archaeology.

Part 1 features Dr. Jane Maienschein discussing The Embryo Project and its partnership with the ASU Knowledge Network.

Speaker:
Keith Kintigh

Introduction:
Vicki Coleman

Closing Comments:
John Howard

Episode 74
Running Time 44:30

Supporting Faculty Research Part 1

librarychannel@asu.edu (ASU Libraries) — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:20:00 +0000

In part one Dr. Jane Maienschein discusses The Embryo Project and its partnership with the ASU Knowledge Network.

Download Podcast in MP4 format (Chapter Enhanced AAC)
Note: This is an enhanced podcast with dynamic links, chapters, and slides from Jane’s presentation. It is best viewed in iTunes. This program is also available as a standard MP3 at The Internet Archive.

Dr. Jane Maienschein, Regents’ Professor, President’s Professor, and Parents Association Professor, serves as the director of the Center for Biology and Society in the School of Life Sciences. Dr. Maienschein specializes in the history and philosophy of biology and the way that biology, bioethics, and biopolicy play out in society.

Next time: Part 2 features Dr. Keith Kintigh the associate director of the School of Human Evolution and Social Change with closing remarks from Associate University Librarian Dr. John Howard.

Speaker:
Jane Maienschein

Introduction:
Vicki Coleman

Episode 73
Running Time 40:51

Digitizing Biodiversity Literature for the World Part 2

librarychannel@asu.edu (ASU Libraries) — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:00:02 +0000

Cathy Norton wraps up her discussion digitizing biodiversity and Phil Konomos, Head, Informatics and Cyberinfrastructure Services follows with remarks on the expanding role of the ASU Libraries in building digital repositories through the ASU Knowledge Network.

Concluding from Part One, Cathy discusses Biodiversity Informatics, Web 2.0 components of the Encyclopedia of Life, challenges for contemporary digital libraries, the uBio Name Bank, and new innovative ways of applying data.

Download Podcast in MP4 format (Chapter Enhanced AAC)

About the Program: While much of the biodiversity of the world lies in remote areas and developing nations, vast storehouses of biodiversity information are contained within the major libraries and museums of the developed world. The Biodiversity Heritage Library is providing access to the rich literature of science for people across the globe by taking these materials off the shelves and onto the Internet. Founded by 10 museums and libraries, the BHL is undertaking a vast digitizing effort to scan biodiversity materials and make them freely available, anywhere, anytime. Cathy Norton,director of the Marine Biological Laboratory and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library, will discuss the BHL project and its role in the Encyclopedia of Life project. Ms. Norton will also highlight taxonomic intelligence algorithms included in the BHL that allow researchers to search information based upon historical scientific and common names of organisms.

This program is also available as a standard MP3 at The Internet Archive.

Speakers:

Cathy Norton
Philip Konomos

Episode 72
Running Time: 42:51

Fletcher Library 20th Anniversary: An Interview with Marilyn Myers

librarychannel@asu.edu (ASU Libraries) — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:37:41 +0000

Marilyn Myers talks with Tammy Allgood about the 20th anniversary of the Fletcher Library at the ASU West campus.

Download Podcast (MP3)

On March 31, 2008, the ASU Libraries will celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Fletcher Library, on ASU’s West campus. In honor of this milestone, host Tammy Allgood and director Marilyn Myers sit down for a conversation including the role of Fletcher Library as the foundation of the newly developed West campus, the challenges of creating an academic library with complete services and collections from the ground up, how Fletcher has transformed over the years, and the need to develop new strategies for expanding library services to meet the needs of a rapidly growing campus population.

Host:
Tammy Allgood
Guest:
Marilyn Myers

Running Time: 19:09

Episode 71

Digitizing Biodiversity Literature for the World Part 1

librarychannel@asu.edu (ASU Libraries) — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:39:36 +0000

While much of the biodiversity of the world lies in remote areas and developing nations, vast storehouses of biodiversity information are contained within the major libraries and museums of the developed world. The Biodiversity Heritage Library is providing access to the rich literature of science for people across the globe by taking these materials off the shelves and onto the Internet. Founded by 10 museums and libraries, the BHL is undertaking a vast digitizing effort to scan biodiversity materials and make them freely available, anywhere, anytime. Cathy Norton,director of the Marine Biological Laboratory and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library, will discuss the BHL project and its role in the Encyclopedia of Life project. Ms. Norton will also highlight taxonomic intelligence algorithms included in the BHL that allow researchers to search information based upon historical scientific and common names of organisms.

Vicki Coleman, Associate University Librarian at the ASU Libraries, provides a brief introduction.

Download Podcast in MP4 format (Chapter Enhanced AAC)

This is a special chapter enhanced show with concurrent slides and URLs of Cathy’s presentation. It is best heard in Quicktime or iTunes. Click here to access files directly from iTunes University at ASU.

This program is also available as a standard MP3 at The Internet Archive.

For more information please visit:
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Marine Biological Laboratory Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library
Encyclopedia of Life project

Speaker:
Cathy Norton

Introduction by:
Vicki Coleman

Episode: 70
Running Time: 50:16

Next Time: On March 27, 2008 we will present Part 2 of Digitizing Biodiversity Literature for the World where Cathy Norton wraps up her discussion, Phil Konomos, Head, Informatics and Cyberinfrastructure Services follows with remarks on the expanding role of the ASU Libraries in building digital repositories through the ASU Knowledge Network.

Conversation with Librarian Jeanne Davidson

librarychannel@asu.edu (ASU Libraries) — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:46:37 +0000

In June 2007, Jeanne Davidson joined the ASU Libraries as Head of the Noble Science and Engineering Library. In the ensuing eight months the science librarians have expanded their services, highlighting cross campus collaboration efforts as well as new approaches to supporting interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research. Utilizing her experience with instruction and information literacy in the sciences, she helped form a workgroup coordinating cross discipline instruction on Tempe campus. She serves on the One Library Instruction Council which will facilitate information fluency efforts across all ASU campuses.

Jeanne joins us in this interview to talk with us about her beginnings as a librarian, working with students, sharing resources across campuses and the new instruction workgroup.

Download Podcast (MP3)

Host:
Fred McIlvain

Guest:
Jeanne Davidson

Episode 69
Running Time: 12:49

Violence over the Land: Lessons from the Early American West

librarychannel@asu.edu (ASU Libraries) — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:00:31 +0000

The Library Channel is proud to present a lecture from the first installment of a new ASU Indigenous speaker series, the Simon Ortiz and Labriola Center Lecture on Indigenous Land, Culture, and Community, featuring Dr. Ned Blackhawk talking about his new book Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West published by Harvard University Press.

Download Podcast (MP3)

Winner of the 2007 Frederick Jackson Turner Award and the 2006 William P. Clements Prize for the Best Non-Fiction Book on Southwestern America, Violence Over the Land “begins with the premise that too many histories written about the United States downplay the violence perpetrated by its citizens on native peoples.” (Harvard University Press)

Dr. Blackhawk teaches in the History and American Indian Studies Departments at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His areas of specialization and teaching interest include North American Indian history, culture, and identity from U.S. colonial to the 21st century; race and multiculturalism; comparative colonialisms; borderlands studies; and race and violence.

The series is sponsored by the ASU American Indian Studies Program, ASU Department of English, ASU American Indian Policy Institute, ASU Labriola Center, and the Heard Museum.

Recorded on January 28, 2008 at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona. A video of the presentation, including Dr. Simon Ortiz’s introduction, is available from The Library Channel at ASU on iTunes U, Google Video and the Internet Archive.

Speaker:
Dr. Ned Blackhawk

Episode 68
Running Time: 55:31

Allison and Ralph Go to China: China Initiatives Series Part Four

librarychannel@asu.edu (ASU Libraries) — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:00:55 +0000

Tammy Allgood welcomes Allison Leaming, business librarian, and Dr. Ralph Gabbard, associate director, of Fletcher Library at the West campus for a travelogue about their trip to China in late spring of 2007. Ralph and Allison visited Chinese libraries and met people interested in developing international partnerships with the ASU Libraries. Many outstanding institutions were toured including the National Library of China, Tsinghua University Library, Liaoning University Library, Sichuan University Library and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. They will also discuss their experiences with the people, places and culture of China.

Download Podcast (MP3)

Host:
Tammy Allgood

Guests:
Ralph Gabbard
Allison Leaming

Episode 67
Running Time: 14:51

Murder & Mayhem: The Strange Saga of Winnie Ruth Judd

librarychannel@asu.edu (ASU Libraries) — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:38:51 +0000

The Arizona Historical Foundation presents and exhibition of images from the murder trial of Winnie Ruth Judd, one of the most sensationalized cases in the history of Phoenix. Judd, who died in 1998 at the age of 93, was the notorious “Trunk Murderess” of 1931 caught in Los Angeles transporting the remains of her two female roommates in a set of trunks from Arizona by train. Speculations and conspiracy theories have developed over the years involving her relationships with local celebrities, politicians, and business men. Regardless, by the time of her release she had served one of the longest sentences in the history of any criminal in the United States.

Fred McIlvain and Photo Preservationist Rebekah Tabah talk about the notorious double murder case in Arizona and also explain the how these photos were recently discovered.

Download Podcast (MP3)

For More Information about this an other historic topics visit the Arizona Historical Foundation at the Hayden Library on the ASU Tempe campus.

Host:
Fred McIlvainGuest:
Rebekah Tabah

Episode 66
Running Time: 10:49

Parisian Opera Scores of the 19th and 20th Centuries

librarychannel@asu.edu (ASU Libraries) — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:01:34 +0000

Fred McIlvain and Tammy Allgood interview Dr. Robert Mills, Assistant Professor ASU School of Music and Chistopher Mehrens, Head Music Library about Robert’s personal collection of opera scores on loan for display in the Music Library.

The exhibit features early and first-edition opera scores printed by Parisian music publishers highlighting the rich history of Parisian music publishing.

During the late 1800’s and early 1900’s publishers took a lot of pride in their publications. These scores, illustrated in very intricate artwork, are visually appealing versus the scores of today which tend to be homogeneous, and in many cases lack images all together. Major French composers, such as Jules Massenet actually had a say in who the illustrating artists were and worked with the publishers to produce these works. These French scores are a true lost art form.

Robert Mills is a former DMA student of ASU, and wrote his Doctoral of Musical Arts Thesis on the French first editions of the Christina Carroll Collection, a special collection of primarily opera scores housed at the Music Library. Robert is an Assistant Professor ASU School of Music the vocal coach/accompanist for ASU’s Lyric Opera and also holds both Juris Doctor and a Master of Library Science.

Download Podcast (mp3)

Hosts:
Tammy Allgood
Fred McIlvainGuests:
Robert Mills
Chistopher Mehrens

Episode 65
Running Time: 12:44

Click Here for more exhibit information.