Chicano/a Research Collection, Arizona State University Library

10/15/2025

Join us in celebration of the 55th anniversary of the Chicano/a Research Collection! We hope to see you on Tuesday, November 4, from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m! ✨️

Established by Dr. Christine Marin in 1970, the Chicano/a Research Collection at ASU Library is the largest archival repository for Latino/a/x history in Arizona.

📋: Event Schedule:

• 5 p.m.-6 p.m.
Walking Tour, Tempe Campus (meet in front of Interdiciplinary A)
Led by Dr. Marin, the ASU Latino/a/x History Walking tour will include historical stops on campus including Interdisciplinary Building A, Memorial Union, Cady Mall, Hayden Library, and Danforth Chapel.

• 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
Reception, Hayden Library, Room C55
This event is hosted by the Community-Driven Archives (CDA) Initiative. After the tour, there will be a small reception with food and drinks in the CDA Memory Lab!

Register here: https://asuevents.asu.edu/event/chicanoa-research-collection-55th-anniversary-celebration

10/03/2025

Join us in celebration of the 55th anniversary of the Chicano/a Research Collection! We hope to see you on Tuesday, November 4, from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Hayden Library, Room C55! ✨

Established by Dr. Christine Marin in 1970, the Chicano/a Research Collection, at ASU Library is the largest archival repository for Latino/a/x history in Arizona.

📋 Event Schedule:

• 5 p.m.-6 p.m.
Walking Tour, Tempe Campus
Led by Dr. Marin, the ASU Latino/a/x History Walking Tour will begin at Hayden Library. The tour will include other historical stops on campus including Interdisciplinary Building A, Memorial Union, Cady Mall, and Danforth Chapel.

• 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
Reception, Hayden Library, Room C55
This event is hosted by the ASU Library Community Driven Archives Initiative. After the tour, there will be a small reception with food and drinks in the CDA Memory Lab.

More details to come! Hope to see you all there! 💜

08/13/2024

Join us September 10 for an evening of Archives and Scanning 101 Workshops at Central Park Rec Center in collaboration with Chicanos Por La Causa - CPLC and ARIZONA BARRIO STORIES ! ✨

• Our Archives 101 workshop will focus on how to organize and store your photographs and documents. Participants will receive an Archive Starter Kit!
• Scanning 101 shows how to scan and digitize photographs and documents, so bring your special photos and we can help you scan!

Free parking and free refreshments will be provided!

🎟 RSVP via the Archiving & Scanning 101 Workshop form here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScj4_ufr36X31j4XsSYm5yJ4MFVkyfzhDkd8BOYtmvCOrG3bw/viewform

07/03/2024

ASU Library is recruiting a Collections Services Archivist as part of a cohort within the ASU Library Community Driven Archives (CDA) Initiative. Early career professionals are encouraged to apply. Application deadline is July 26, 2024.

To learn more about ASU Library employment and find the link to the ASU Archivist Recruitment Webinar on July 9, 2024 at Noon PDT (3 pm EDT), visit lib.asu.edu/employment 🌟

06/25/2024

ASU Library is recruiting a Community Access Archivist as part of a cohort within the Community-Driven Archives (CDA) Initiative. Early career professionals are encouraged to apply. Application deadline is July 26, 2024.

To learn more about ASU Library employment and find the link to the ASU Archivist Recruitment Webinar on July 9, 2024 at Noon PDT (3 pm EDT), visit lib.asu.edu/employment 🌟

06/19/2024

ASU Library is recruiting three Archivists as part of a cohort within the Community-Driven Archives (CDA) Initiative. Early career professionals are encouraged to apply. Application deadline is July 26, 2024.

Community Access Archivist:
Processes manuscript and archival collections, collaborates on digitization and outreach projects and creates and maintains metadata to make ASU’s unique holdings available and accessible to the public.

Collections Services Archivist:
Develops and enhances open access to ASU’s distinctive collections in order to engage ASU’s multicultural and transnational communities of learners and scholars. Leads collections services for ASU’s Tempe reading rooms and contributes to expanding collections services.

Arizona Political Collections Archivist:
Provides curatorial leadership, vision and strategic direction for the political papers. Manages and develops associated collections, services, and programs.

On July 9, 2024 at Noon PDT (3 pm EDT), ASU Library will host a webinar to share more information about these academic professional positions, working at ASU Library and living in the Phoenix area. Attendance is not required to apply for any open positions.

To learn more about ASU Library employment and find the link to the webinar, visit lib.asu.edu/employment

05/09/2024

We are looking for our 2nd cohort of fellows! The fellowship program seeks to inspire community and tribal college students to obtain a Masters in Library and Information Studies (MLIS) in order to become a professionally trained archivist. Applications are due May 31.

The next cohort will continue to work closely with archivists and staff from ASU Library Community Driven Archives and the ASU Library Labriola Center from August 2024 to May 2025. Fellows who complete the program will receive a $10,000 scholarship to continue their education.

Apply here:
https://docs.google.com/.../139jnfiBsgnC.../viewform...

04/26/2024

We are happy to share that Episode 4 of season 2 of Archives Glow is out now! Listen on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/episode/5CnjpvLJSDaHCUmiEgVMtD and Acast https://shows.acast.com/archives-glow/episodes/arizona-barrio-stories-storytelling-and-preserving-memories !

Episode 4 features guest Irma Payán, a community archivist and active member of ARIZONA BARRIO STORIES, an organization dedicated to recording and collecting data and stories from Chicano/Mexican communities and families in vanishing barrios in Arizona. Irma Payan was born and raised in central Phoenix, and shares her thoughts on food and culture in these communities, and preservation of family recipes and food memories.

Irma is an educator who taught in the Roosevelt School District #66 in South Phoenix for 33 years. Upon retirement she returned to aid the district in several programs for an additional 5 years. Irma conducts interviews and hosts a program on Facebook, YouTube, COX Glendale channel 11, Roku, and the Irma Payan Show on Latino USA TV on https://latinousa.live/ too!

03/20/2024

For Darlene Peralta’s in-person experience, she has been working with the Chicano/a Research Collection and processing the Lopez Collection along with her fellow cohort member Esme. Darlene has chosen to have both archiving experience and to create a presentation on archiving for a local non profit organization that supports undocumented communities. Stay turned to see how Darlene will present the importance of archiving for undocumented communities.

Darlene shares how mentoring has impacted her: “The experiences I've had with in-person mentorship have been both educational and transformative. Through the fellowship, I began to realize that archiving is all around me. It was present when I would carefully place a photograph in an album or write down my grandmother's recipes. In my life, I have always archived and preserved things. I'm happy that I can now learn how to preserve family memories and photos, both digital and analog, for upcoming generations.”

03/19/2024

ASU Library Community Driven Archives is happy to share that Episode 3 of season 2 of Archives Glow is out now!
Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2y6mEZWMRc53qiOCD4UP7v
Listen on Acast: https://shows.acast.com/archives-glow/episodes/the-power-of-storytelling-querencia-voices-from-chandlers-la

Episode 3 features guest Dr. Rafael A. Martínez, an Assistant Professor in Southwest Borderlands at Arizona State University teaching history courses at the Polytechnic Campus in the East Valley. As a first-generation immigrant to the U.S., Dr. Martinez has learned first-hand the power of storytelling in forming connections to place and community. As an advocate of community-based history projects, he is engaged in public projects that seek to connect academic work with community development.

03/18/2024

Now accepting applications for the final cohort! Learn to become a Memory Keeper through exploring the field of archiving. Through archiving, students can learn different methods of how to preserve the history of their own community! This fellowship is geared for Maricopa Community College and TOCC students.

ASU Library ASU Library Labriola Center

Apply here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/139jnfiBsgnC_S0WexqMtIZYfpnkxwHOBdTYwDqS5fto/viewform?edit_requested=true

03/15/2024

Dr. Chrstine Marin was recently featured on Arizona Horizon on Arizona PBS. Dr Marin, creator of the Chicano/a Research Collection at ASU talks about her mining roots, work with ASU Library as an archivist and as ASU professor emeritus, and founding the Chicano/a Research Collection and Archives. The interview highlights her career and her dedication to preservation of the history of the Latino community in Arizona and how she paved the way for the Transborder Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies program.

Watch the interview with Dr. Marin here:

Dr. Christine Marin, an archivist and professor at ASU, is making sure Latino history in Arizona and the Southwest is not forgotten.Marin founded the ‘Chican...