Arizona and California library fall updates
Posted: November 4, 2025
The fall was full of exciting activity as the Arizona campus library celebrated National Medical Librarians Month in October with several engaging contests and prizes. We are particularly pleased to announce a new name for our 3D printer! After a campus-wide vote by our residential students, it will officially be known as 3DP0.
We’d also like to extend a warm congratulations to all our contest winners: Sumitra Miriyala, Rajendra Angara, and Hannah Fine successfully conquered our open-access trivia contest, while Ricardo “Ric” Dozier made the winning guess in our festive Halloween candy-guessing game.
The winning spirit continues! We are currently seeking your valuable feedback to help us improve our library website. We invite you to take 10-15 minutes to fill out our website evaluation survey. As a token of our appreciation, simply email Hal (hbright@atsu.edu) once you’ve completed the evaluation, and we will happily send a library-themed Bucky sticker (shown above) to you via interoffice mail!
If you haven’t visited us recently, you’ll notice some wonderful physical upgrades to our space. The back of the library now features a fresh coat of paint with calming blue accents, as well as brand-new carpet. Furthermore, we have equipped our Ficus study room with a new 60″ touchscreen monitor, perfect for interactive group collaboration and individual study by both students and faculty. We encourage you to stop by to take a look and book the room here!
Finally, we are excited to personally invite the entire campus community to our upcoming art reception during lunchtime (12:00–1:00 p.m.) on Tuesday, November 19, in the library (Building 5850). This special event will feature our new student library art exhibit as well as creative works by our talented first-year Physical Therapy students created in their Education Theory course. We truly look forward to seeing you there and celebrating our students’ creativity.
California Campus Library Updates
Peter-John Van Beurden and Omar Ramirez, both of CCPA CO2026, submitted art for the student art display in the California library. These will be up for viewing for the CCPA academic year. Van Beurden submitted two images inspired by the PA and the Farmworker image, and Ramirez submitted a beautiful picture of a classic car with the ocean in the background.
The CA Library celebrated National Medical Library Month and Halloween with a “name the torso” contest and candy guessing game. The library received 6 name submissions and the candy guessing box was full! Name submissions included Emperor Biocletian, Ben Abody, Gastro Greg, Bod E. McScience, the Great Gutsby and the Greater Gutsby, with our winner being “The Great Gutsby” submitted by Alana Curtis! Kayla Montoya was the lucky winner of a jar full of candy with the closest guess. Thanks to all for your participation!