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Memory Keepers Fellowship: Projects
Jean Chaudhuri Collection and Phoenix Indian School This blog post is about the projects Janine Nelson and Myacedes Miller have chosen for their monthly blog posts under the Memory Keepers Fellowship. Photo of Archivist Vina Begay (Diné) going throug...
Database Discovery: LGBTQ+ Source enhances inclusive research for LGBTQ+ studies
Looking for information about LGBTQ+ topics, including history, sociology, psychology, and gender studies? Do you need to learn about the history of LGBTQ+ movements, events and people? LGBTQ+ Progress Pride Flag by Daniel Quasar courtesy Wikimedia C...
Memory Keepers Fellowship: Myacedes Miller
Introductions The Memory Keepers Fellowship program is a project partnered between ASU’s Community Driven Archive Initiative and the Labriola Center. The fellowship is geared for BIPOC students at local community colleges and for them to explore the field of Library Information Science early in the...
Applications now open for 2024-2025 Community Archivist Fellowship
The Community Archivist Fellowship Program at the ASU Library is looking for community college students interested in becoming professionally trained archivists or librarians. Students will be introduced to community-driven archives and work closely with archivists and staff from the Community-Drive...
Make a difference on Sun Devil Giving Day
Sun Devil Giving Day is ASU’s biggest philanthropic event of the year! This day greatly impacts the causes you care about. Each gift, regardless of size, makes a difference. Suhrud Parag Joglekar is enrolled in the master’s program in robotics and au...
Preserving America’s Cultural Touchstones: the National Register of Historic Places
What do Taliesin West, the “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign and the Hoover Dam have in common? They are all properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places. “Frank Lloyd Wright's ‘Taliesin West,’ his winter home and architectural sc...
ASU Hosting Esri Global Education Manager on April 4th, 2024
ASU School of Geographical Sciences & Urban Planning will be hosting Dr. Michael Gould for an hour-long talk:On the Evolution of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) Thursday, April 4th 4:00-5:00 p.m. Coor Hall, Room #5536 Dr. Michael Gould is Global Educat...
New Web Application: 1918 National Parks and Monuments
A new Web App, 1918 National Parks and Monuments, is now live on ASU Geodata. This App digitizes a map of the National Park and Monument system in its infancy and overlays it across a modern map of the United States, allowing the user to explore the NPS two years after its creation. ...
Map of the Month: March 2024
The United States National Park Service (NPS) currently administers 63 National Parks and 85 National Monuments, among the astonishing 423 total areas managed by the agency. That scope wasn’t always so large. In the years after its 1916 inception, the NPS oversaw only a small fraction of the nationa...