Presented at the 2015 Charleston Conference by Jim O'Donnell, University Librarian, Arizona State University

1. Star Wars in the Library
Jim O’Donnell
jod@asu.edu

2. And all my words come back to me . . .
“If the traditional librarian has been conceived
as a figure at home in the discreet silences and
cautious dealings of a Henry James novel, now
perhaps the right model will be found in James
Fennimore Cooper or the Star Wars
films: something between the pathfinder Natty
Bumppo and the Jedi knight.”
Avatars of the Word, p. 43

3. Episode VI
The Revenge of the Jedi

5. Episode VII
The Force Awakens

6. All our students
are on-line students

7. Knowledge is a verbal noun.

8. The printed book has
a glorious future in front of it.

9. What would
a universal library
look like?

11. May the Force be with you!

12. jod@asu.edu