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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Cathy Norton,director of the Marine Biological Laboratory and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library, discusses the BHL digitization project and its role in the Encyclopedia of Life project. Ms. Norton also highlights taxonomic intelligence algorithms included in the BHL that allow researchers to search information based upon historical scientific and common names of organisms.

Jeanne Davidson 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.

he 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.

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.