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.

Wilma Mankiller: Challenges Facing 21st Century Indigenous People from ASU Libraries on Vimeo.

Rachel Leket-Mor, ASU Libraries Jewish Studies Bibliographer, joins Fred and Co-Host Mimmo Bonanni in an 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 1960s and on.

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.

 

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.

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.

News from the ASU Libraries for September 2008: New Library Web URL, Upgraded Ask a Librarian Chat service, Curator Joyce Martin talks about Wilma Mankiller Lecture, and ASU China Book Drive Meets Goal.

Fred sits down with University Archivist Rob Spindler and former editor of the State Press and former director of the Alumni Association Don Dotts to tell the story of Arizona State College becoming a University

Several represenatives from the ASU Libraries talk about their plans for the American Library Association Annual Conference 2008 in Anaheim, California.

Fred talks 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.