The Library Channel

Need some culture or a slice of history? Want to take a study break? Visit an exhibit at one of our library locations. 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 Download the Library Minute (MP4 video) The Library Minute hosted by Anali Perry See all the Library Minutes on YouTube!

You can do more with than libraries than just research and study.  You can have fun too!  Check out the variety of fun and relaxing things you can do at the libraries like grabbing a snack, playing games, watching movies, catching an exhibit.  And starting July 1, 2011 you can check out a Culture Pass and get access to the Phoenix Zoo, Desert Botanical Garden, museums and much, much more. Take a break and simmer down in the libraries! Download the Library Minute (MP4 video) The Library Minute hosted by Anali Perry See all the Library Minutes on YouTube!

We welcome back Arizona Historical Foundation Photo Preservationist Rebekah Tabah to discuss the 2011 exhibit “Allen Dutton: A Retrospective” featuring examples from over fifty years of the artist’s work hosted in Allen Dutton Photographic Collection. Host Fred McIlvain takes us on a tour of Dutton’s work including his books, paintings, photo collages, and his life and history in Arizona. Get ready for a discussion unique as the artist himself. Download Enhanced Audio Podcast 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. Host: Fred McIlvain Guest: Rebekah Tabah Episode 115 Running Time: 13:08 Music by:  Grizzly616 / CC BY-NC 3.0

The Library Channel is pleased to present the seventh installment of The Simon Ortiz and Labriola Center Lecture on Indigenous Land, Culture, and Community. Leroy Little Bear, Head of the SEED Graduate Institute, former Director of the American Indian Program at Harvard University and Professor Emeritus of Native Studies at the University of Lethbridge delivers his lecture Native Science and Western Science: Possibilities for a Powerful Collaboration. 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. Download Presentation Audio (MP3 Audio) Lecture Video available for download at the Internet Archive.

We at the ASU Libraries want to keep you up-to-date on all our new services and resources, but communications go both ways. We want to know what YOU want from your library. Take a library minute and let Anali show you all the ways you can connect with us. Download the iPod ready Library Minute (MP4 video) Visit, connect, and make suggestions and comments in person with your subject librarians, at our location service desks, or at any of our online portals: Ask a Librarian ASU Libraries on Twitter ASU Libraries on Facebook Online Suggestion Box We are never far way. Keep us from guessing and tell us what you want from the ASU Libraries. And be sure to stay tuned for a special invite at the end of the video. See all the Library Minutes on YouTube! The Library Minute is hosted by Anali Perry

Curator Jacqueline Chao with featured artists Angela Cazel Jahn and Stephen Marc discuss the Spring 2011 art exhibit Origins at the Institute for Humanities Research running through April 29, 2011 at the ASU Tempe campus. Download Enhanced Audio Podcast Angela Cazel Jahn’s piece, “Our Little House of Once Was Knowledge” is featured in the lobby of Hayden Library on the ASU Tempe campus. Her exhibit is a small house structure containing boxes full of bits of what people think are knowledge resting on a foundation of books and other technological artifacts. The exhibit is an interactive experience where visitors add their own concepts of knowledge. “Knowledge is not just what your brain knows.” – Angela Cazel Jahn. Stephen Marc’s pieces are located in the Institute for Humanities Research on the ASU Tempe campus. The four pieces are digital montages (photographs and documents) of Black Americana up to 1935. Marc describes his work as “an interpretative relocation of, and commentary on the limited representations and accounts of the black experience, into the early years of the 20th Century, that were usually defined from outside the community.” The works include photographs, old newspapers, illustrations, civil war envelopes, postcards, tradecards and narrative plays. Other Artists include: Ron Broglio, Chris Hables Gray, Nicole Herden, Dodd Holsapple, Mary Hood, Mary Lyverse, Laurie Papa Minnick, Benjamin Phillips, Gwyneth Scally, and Kelsey Vance. More information: Origins Art Exhibit Exhibition Catalog Map of Exhibit Locations (MP3 and other formats also available) Host: Fred McIlvain Guests: Jacqueline Chao, Angelea Cazel, Stephen Marc Episode: 113 Running Time: 9:22

Over a hundred years ago a Franciscan friar and self-taught photographer, Simeon Schwemberger dramatically captured the life of Catholic clergy, Navajo people, and others in the Southwest. Curatorial Museum Specialist Karrie Porter Brace,  Curator of the Labriola National American Indian Data Center Joyce Martin, and University Archivist Rob Spindler promote  Schwemberger Photographs, an exhibition of large format images taken between 1902 and 1909 by Brother Simeon Schwemberger of St Michael’s Mission in northeastern Arizona. Karrie gives us background on Simeon from his time as a missionary at St Michael’s Mission, to his later life after he left the mission, which is still one of the highest rated Navajo Catholic schools in the southwest. Joyce discusses the natural settings of the  images and compares Schwemberger’s photographs to his contemporaries like Edward S. Curtis. Rob explains how ASU received and took curatorial charge over this large collection of glass plate negatives.  He also talks about the amazing trip moving 1700 pieces of 100 year old glass from the mission in Window Rock, Arizona to Tempe. We also hear about Katharine Drexel, the United States second canonized saint, who funded the mission. Download Podcast MP3 Audio The true story of the Schwemberger Photographs is one of trust and collaboration. The fact that these photos have survived this long and are being preserved and made available here at ASU is really a testament to the beautiful trust relationship built between the Franciscans of St Michaels Mission and the Navajo Nation. – Rob Spindler The exhibition will be on display in the Labriola National American Indian Data Center (2nd floor) and the Luhrs Gallery (4th floor) of the Hayden Library for the Spring 2011 semester. Episode 112 Host: Fred McIlvain Guests: Karrie Porter Brace, Joyce Martin, Rob Spindler Running Time: 21:52 Image information:  Church, CP SPC 331.50: 578, Schwemberger Franciscan Southwest Mission Collection, Arizona Collection, ASU Libraries Music: Chemma Chi (Disturbed)by DJ_Rkod

Have a paper to write but don’t know where to start? Try Library One Search! Using one simple search box, you can look for most library resources including millions of books, journals, full text articles, sound recordings, videos and maps – all owned by the ASU Libraries. In this Library Minute, Anali introduces how Library One Search enables you to search for topics spanning multiple disciplines, instead of hunting through specific research databases. This gives you more time to work on your assignment! Use the Library One Search from the libraries home page or wherever you go. It is part of the mobile library site,  My ASU, Library Subject and Course Guides, and the ASU Libraries Toolbar. Library One Search, research made easy! Download the iPod ready Library Minute (MP4 video) See all the Library Minutes on YouTube! The Library Minute is hosted by Anali Perry

The Library Channel is proud to present the 2010 Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Distinguished Lecture in Medieval Studies. The 2010 Distinguished Lecture was offered on October 28th to celebrate donation of the Heritage Edition of the Saint John’s Bible to Arizona State University. This extraordinary and generous donation by ASU Alumnus George Berkner, standing two feet tall and three feet wide, is one of the very few complete handwritten and hand illuminated editions of the Bible to be released in five hundred years. Arizona State University is the first secular institution of higher education to receive one of only 299 copies of the Heritage Edition. The Distinguished Lecture, entitled The Great Illuminated Bibles of 12th-century England, was presented by Dr. Rodney M. Thomson of the University of Tasmania. Dr. Thomson covers the creation, historic significance and beauty of grand, illuminated (illustrated decorated) Bibles, from a time when expensive materials and the enormous labor made creating them as a single, physical unit a rarity. Dr. Robert Bjork, Director of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies introduces Dr. Thomson. Download Presentation Audio (MP3) Dr. Thomson’s full video available for download at the Internet Archive. Running Time: 1:09:11

Join Anali Perry and learn about the musical databases that will stream music right to your computer to help you get through your studying crunch. You can explore your favorites but also discover new musical traditions from folk to jazz and classical music. You can also create playlists and download tracks not available from your everyday internet radio station. Download iPod ready video (MP4 Video) Connect Now! (ASU Authentication required) American Song Online Music Classical Music Library DRAM (Database of Recorded American Music) Naxos Music Library Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries View all the Library Minutes on YouTube! The Library Minute is hosted by Anali Perry.

The Library Channel is pleased to present the sixth installment of The Simon Ortiz and Labriola Center Lecture on Indigenous Land, Culture, and Community. Dr. Kathryn Shanley, PhD, Professor of Indigenous Literature at the University of Montana delivers her lecture ‘Mapping’ Indigenous Futures: Creating a Native Voice in Higher Education. Recorded on October 7, 2010 at the Phoenix, Heard Museum, Dr. Shanley spoke about the “significance of global indigenous people’s struggles to gain recognition and control over their own destinies” and why that struggle is important. She used the example of “Montana’s Indian Education for All Act” to discuss indigenous education models and strategies in higher education for realizing the rights in the [United Nations] Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. 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. Download Presentation Audio (MP3 Audio) Dr. Shanley’s full video available for download at the Internet Archive.

A single teacher in a four room school house started the nation’s largest public university? Take a trip back 125 years to 1885 and the founding of ASU as a tiny normal school. University Archivist Rob Spindler and Curatorial/Museum Specialist Karrie Porter Brace discuss the Fall 2010 Hayden Library exhibit TNS 125 ASU on the anniversary of the university’s founding as the Territorial Normal School. Download Enhanced Audio Podcast They will also talk about the founding fathers of ASU such as Charles Trumbull Hayden, John Armstrong, James McClintock, and George Wilson. Discover the boundaries of the original twenty acre campus shown on a hand drawn plat map. See the courses taken and the grades achieved by students in 1896. Karrie and Rob reveal where the first unofficial student dormitory stands, how Old Main was on the cutting edge of technology in the Old West, and how ASU began it’s 125 year journey to become the New American University. The exhibit TNS 125 ASU runs through December 2010. For more information on the history of Arizona State University visit The New ASU Story. (MP3 and other formats also available) Host: Fred McIlvain Guests: Rob Spindler, Karrie Porter Brace Episode 109 Running Time: 22:49 Music by: Scomber / CC BY-NC 3.0

Of course, we couldn’t celebrate Open Access week at ASU without a Library Minute! Download the iPod ready Library Minute (mp4 video) However, we’re not the only ones inspired to make videos about Open Access.  The Anita Greene Student Working Group of Boston University Libraries made this great video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTvyzp-RwzY One of the great things about Open Access is that it encourages and supports creativity. It’s not just about access to research, but also about reusing, remixing and mashing material into something new. The Sparky Awards Video Contest is a great way to flex your creative muscles and promote open access at the same time! This contest is for student-created videos that explain why open access to research is important to students. Entries can be submitted solo, or as part of a team, and are due May 26, 2011. There are several award categories, so there’s more than one way to win!

Do you have an iPhone, iPod Touch, Android, Blackberry or other mobile device? You can now use them to access the ASU Libraries wherever you go.  In the latest the Library Minute  we learn about the new mobile version of the ASU Libraries web site. Reserve a book, check computer availability, or get directions to one of our locations no matter where you are, all from http://m.lib.asu.edu. Features of the mobile site include: Mobile specific hours and staff directory displays Search the catalog, Library One Search, LibGuides, and Google Scholar Save, email or text catalog records from within the mobile catalog Mobile specific Google maps and directions to our libraries Ask a Librarian contact information Library computer availability (refreshed every 5 minutes!) Mobilized Library Channel (news and multimedia) content Wait – there’s more!  More library related mobile sites that is: RefMobile (RefWorks’ mobile site): http://www.refworks.com/mobile/ PubMed: http://pubmedhh.nlm.nih.gov/ Medline Plus: http://m.medlineplus.gov/ IEEE Xplore: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/mobile/ WorldCat: http://www.worldcatmobile.org Google Books: http://books.google.com/m MD Consult: http://mobile.mdconsult.com/ (after creating a personal account on regular site) Encyclopedia Britannica: http://m.eb.com/ Mobile Apps: Naxos Music Library: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nml/id338059159?mt=8 Scopus Alerts; http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/scopus-alerts-lite-take-your/id365300810 American Chemical Society Journals: http://itunes.apple.com/app/acs-mobile/id355382930 AiP iResearch: http://itunes.apple.com/app/iresearch/id331339330 arXiv: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/arxiview/id311788753 PLoS: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/plos-medicine/id362137769 LexisNexis: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id336328468?mt=8 Social Science Research Network: http://itunes.apple.com/app/issrn/id334702612?mt=8 Do you know of other handy mobile web sites?  Tell us in the comments below. Download the iPod ready Library Minute (mp4 video) See all the Library Minutes on YouTube! The Library Minute hosted by Anali Perry

As temperatures in the Valley continue to climb into the triple digits, the libraries are a cool oasis from the summer heat. So kick back and let Anali show you how to beat the heat with fun and relaxing things you can do at the libraries.  You can grab a cold drink and a snack, watch a movie, surf the web, play some games and more. Download iPod Ready Video (mp4 video) See all the Library Minutes on YouTube! The Library Minute hosted by Anali Perry