Mission ASU Library’s Community-Driven Archives (CDA) Initiative is reimagining and transforming 21st century academic libraries and archives by developing and implementing innovative solutions that address inequities, erasure, and trauma. Our award winning initiative advances ASU’s research and public service mission by creating a collaborative culture that models reparative justice, diversity, inclusion and broadens access to and preservation of knowledge. , Vision and Values Empathy and Reparative Action We seek to… Build relationships with historically marginalized communities in Arizona by cultivating trust and mutual respect. Acknowledge the legacy of White supremacy in Arizona and historical trauma by dismantling traditional power structures that exclude. Break cycles of erasure through the collaborative development of CDA collections, programs and services. Ensure community members are truly able to engage at all levels of the preservation process and share stewardship responsibilities. Collective Memory and Knowledge We aim to… Work with communities to redefine the traditional definition and function of an archive. Center the lived experiences and knowledge of Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) memory keepers. Create intergenerational and intersectional safe spaces that support lifelong learning and reimagine archives as spaces of inclusion. Support community-driven projects that use archival material, storytelling and memory keeping as healing tools. Equitable Access Our initiative… Provides free access to archival training, archive starter kits, technology and other educational resources that empower our patrons. Supports community archivists as they establish their own archives outside of the university for future generations. Facilitates the donation of archival material to ASU Library’s Black Collections, Chicano/a Research Collection, Greater Arizona Collection and University Archives. Provides access to our collections in our reading room and digital repository. Improves metadata to enable culturally relevant searching and access to archival collections and library resources. , More than research and preservation, CDA is helping historically marginalized communities process and remember by centering their knowledge. Seeing yourself in history, probably for the first time, and then reflecting on it leads to personal and collective healing. We humanize ourselves and others when we take action, work with archives, and share our stories. Nancy Liliana Godoy Director and Associate Archivist , ASU Events , News and blog More news Department of English celebrates 125th anniversary with special events, including a history exhibit In honor of its quasquicentennial, the Department of English is celebrating in a big way. Special events will run through October, including an exhibit detailing the history of the department that wil... Read more about the "Department of English celebrates 125th anniversary with special events, including a history exhibit" article Local athletes get crash course on Black history in Arizona Basketball players from Arizona State University and the Valley Suns gathered on Jan. 6 to learn about Black history in Arizona and Martin Luther King Jr.’s visit to ASU's Tempe campus in 1964. The V... Read more about the "Local athletes get crash course on Black history in Arizona" article ASU Library collection captures robust history of Arizona Copper, cattle, cotton, citrus and climate. The so-called “five Cs” of Arizona are an enticingly succinct tagline for the state’s historically best-known outputs. But a revelatory repository at ASU... Read more about the "ASU Library collection captures robust history of Arizona" article University Archives chronicles more than 140 years of Sun Devil history From photos to video and audio recordings, administrative records, manuscripts, yearbooks, club information, and faculty and staff bios, the Arizona State University Archives chronicle approximately 1... Read more about the "University Archives chronicles more than 140 years of Sun Devil history" article

Welcome Contributing to a ‘greater’ understanding of the region, its people and places through a vast collection of resource materials on Arizona and the Southwest, the Greater Arizona Collection includes personal papers, photographs, organizational and business records, congressional and political papers and community-centered materials. It features a variety of primary and secondary resources documenting politics, mining, labor history, Phoenix history, water and land management, organizational history and community-based history. Collections of note Herbert and Dorothy McLaughlin Black and White Photography, 1850s–1977 Over 100,000 photographs documenting agriculture, mining, recreation, transportation, city and aerial views, schools and churches. View finding aids for McLaughlin photography U.S. Congressional Research Collection The papers of a number of Arizona senators and congressmen, including Carl T. Hayden, Barry M. Goldwater and John J. Rhodes. More information about the U.S. Congressional Research Collection Gila River "Relocation" Center Photographs Photographic prints of the Gila River Relocation Center, 1942-1945, available online in the ASU Digital Repository.  View the Gila River Relocation Center Photographs , Information Access the collection Materials in this collection can be viewed by appointment in the Wurzburger Reading Room at Hayden Library (rm. 138). Please make an appointment at least five business days prior to your visit by contacting Ask an Archivist or call 480-965-4932 for more information. Questions? Ask an Archivist , Resources Greater Arizona Collection Library Guide Arizona Archives Online ASU Digital Repository ASU Distinctive Collections Policies American Continental Corporation Use Agreement Arizona AFL-CIO Use Agreement Camera Use Agreement Using our collections in publications , Renee James Assistant Archivist renee.d.james@asu.edu 480-965-9279

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At the Harvard Law School Library, we have 39 early manuscript copies of Magna Carta, and now we also have over 300,000 public datasets published by the United States federal government. In February, our Library Innovation Lab launched the Data.gov Archive, a 17-terabyte archive of every dataset published on data.gov by the U.S. federal government. The archive […]

The Academic Libraries Video Trust is a service facilitating the preservation of audiovisual (“AV”) works in the collections of member libraries. The principal activity of ALVT is to provide a clearinghouse or repository of digital versions of selected AV works, generally works currently available only in the obsolete VHS format. The service is built on opportunities allowed to libraries and archives for the preservation and replacement of works in their collections, pursuant to Section 108 of the U.S. Copyright Act. Video Trust offers this service in order to encourage the preservation and appreciation of the educational films, motion pictures, documentaries, and other works that are increasingly out of reach because of the obsolete technology.

The Law Library continues to digitize legal and legislative materials to help users gain access to important historical documents. The Law Library regularly adds digitized content, as noted in the About the Collection section for each collection.

Last year the family of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor generously gifted the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law and the Ross-Blakley Law […]

We believe the works in this collection are eligible for free public access under 17 U.S.C. Section 108(h) which allows for non-profit libraries and archives to reproduce, distribute, display and publicly perform a work if it meets the criteria of: a published work in the last twenty years of...