Library Hours - New Year

The library will be closed Jan. 1.

Library Hours - Christmas

The library will be closed Dec 21 - 25

Winter Break Reference

Starting Dec. 19, reference will be available electronically Monday – Friday, 9 am – 5 pm, at http://libanswers.usd.edu/.

Limited electronic reference services will be available December 26th and 27th. 

Normal reference hours resume in the spring semester.

Archives Hours

The Archives and Special Collections will be opening at 9am on  Dec. 20, and 26.

The Archives will be closed on Dec 19

Library Hours - Winter Break

Winter break hours  Dec 19 - January 10

Monday - Friday 8 am - 5 pm*
Saturday - Sunday Closed

Library Authentication update - Dec 11!

Summary:     ITS will be performing scheduled maintenance on EZProxy (https://ezproxy.usd.edu)

Description:     Wednesday, December 11, 2019
6:00 am – 7:30 am (All Locations)
•    EZProxy will be unavailable intermittently during this time
•    Once complete, there will be a new login page for Online Research Databases https://ezproxy.usd.edu
•    The new login page will be the same as currently used by http://mail.usd.edu
•    You will continue to log in with your USD username and password
If you have issues logging in please  contact USD-libraryaccesshelp@usd.edu with questions.


Wegner Partners Wegner Partner users, if you login with your first name.last name, you will continue to use that plus an email extension of @wegnerlibrary.org as your user name/account name. Passwords will remain the same.

Your user name and password for Interlibrary Loan (ILL) will not change.


If you have any questions, or experience issues with your user name and password after the 12/11 change, please contact us at wegner@usd.edu or  605-357-1400.

Library Hours - Finals Week

Monday - Friday (12/9-12/13) 7:30 am - 2 am*
Saturday - Sunday (12/14-12/14) 10 am - 2 am*
Monday - Tuesday (12/16-12/17) 7:30 am - 2 am*
Wednesday (12/18) 7:30 - 10 pm*

Library Hours - Thanksgiving

Wednesday (11/27) 7:30am - 5pm*
Thursday - Saturday (11/28 - 11/30) Closed*
Sunday (12/1) Noon - Midnight

Public Service Colloquium

Research Posters – second floor of the I.D. Weeks library building

Monday Nov. 25th , 5-8pm


Sponsored by the Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice

New Database - National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) Digital Library

National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) Digital Library
https://login.ezproxy.usd.edu/login?url=https://library.nclc.org/my-treatises

The National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) Digital Library is a set of 21 consumer law treatises. Each treatise offers a unique combination of comprehensive and definitive authority from consumer law experts plus practical insights and practice tools. In addition, sample pleadings, practice aids and primary sources are available online with the titles.
The Digital Library offers advanced searching, fluid navigation, an html format allowing easy reading on tablets and smart phones, and live links. Each treatise is regularly updated and the online versions may be updated with new developments almost immediately.

Database provided by USD Law School

Available to USD Law Students and Faculty
Available for Campus-Wide Access

Library Hours - Veterans Day

Saturday- Sunday(11/9 & 11/10) Noon - 5pm*
Monday (11/11) Noon - 10 pm

“Veritas” available in the Digital Library of South Dakota

“Veritas” was a college newspaper created to jointly feature the University of South Dakota and the city of Vermillion. “Veritas” was published by T. H. Ayres of the “Vermillion Plain Talk,” and only six issues were published.

May 25, 1889

June 1, 1889

June 8, 1889

June 10, 1889

June 11, 1889

June 12, 1889

originally posted at https://archivesandspecialcollections.wordpress.com/2019/10/21/veritas-available-in-the-digital-library-of-south-dakota/

It’s Open Access Week!

Come listen to a panel of faculty and students led by the University Libraries about publishing, open access, and using open materials in teaching.

October 24th , 10-11 am.  MT 110. Center for Teaching and Learning

New Staff - Heath Davis

Bound and Unbound V reception

The University Libraries invites you to a reception on October 18, 4-6pm, second floor I.D. Weeks, for Bound and Unbound V, international juried altered book exhibition.

For more information: http://libguides.usd.edu/BU5.

Library Hours - Native American Day

Saturday - Sunday (10/12-13) Noon - 5pm*

Monday (10/14) Noon - 10pm

resolved - Proxy access to databases

Friday, Oct 4 - We are still getting intermittent reports of not being able to connect to the proxy. The proxy is working now but some are now having connection problems.

The Helpdesk recommends restarting computer.

If that doesn’t work, please visit the HelpDesk and they can help get the connection restarted.

If you aren’t in Vermillion, please call the helpdesk. They should be able to walk you through the process on the phone. https://www.usd.edu/technology/contact-the-service-desk

RESOLVED as of 1:30 pm Oct 3. Please email us at library at usd.edu if you have further issues. Proxy Access to all our databases is currently down. We are working on it and will restore access ASAP. Access is currently working on library computers

Silent Witness Initiative

The Department of Political Science is sponsoring Silent Witness Initiative in I.D. Weeks Library during October.


In 1990, the Silent Witness Initiative began promoting and education to support an end to domestic violence through community based exhibits.  It started with a small group of volunteers in one state and grew into an international presence, with projects in all 50 states and 23 countries.


Silent Witness provides hope, help and healing for the victims and violators of domestic violence. Our goal is to eliminate domestic violence homicides by 2020.


Thousands of men and women die each year in acts of domestic violence in the United States.  Each one has a story.  Join our efforts to end this tragedy.

https://www.silentwitness.net/



The exhibit is located in the 2nd floor atrium

Library Hours - Dakota Days

Saturday (10/5) Noon - 5 pm*
Sunday (10/6) Noon - Midnight

Ask an Archivist - Oct 2

Our Archivist will be answering questions on Twitter.  Tweet your questions to @USD_AandSC

New Librarian - Carly Schanock

RESOLVED- Issues with EBSCOhost databases

UPDATE - ACCESS HAS BEEN RESTORED 3:30pm

Some of the EBSCOhost databases are not available today such as Education Research Complete. We are working with EBSCO to resolve the problem.

Please note that some EBSCOhost database are working such as Academic Search Premier. If a database is not working linking will take you to database list. 

If you need an article right away, please submit an inter library loan request.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

New chairs arriving Sept 30.

The first set of new chairs will be arriving Monday, Sept 30. Please be aware there will be less seating during the upgrade.

New resource - JSTOR Arts & Sciences VIII

University Libraries has obtained JSTOR Arts & Sciences VIII - Evidence-Based Evaluation.


JSTOR Arts & Sciences VIII - Evidence-Based Evaluation broadens coverage of core humanities disciplines; features rare 19th- and early 20th-century American art periodicals from the Frick, the Met, and the Brooklyn Museum; contains noteworthy titles such as Poetry and BOMB


Titles can be found in the library catalog or searching JSTOR

Tonight- Lecture and Discussion on Historical Trauma

Lecture and Discussion on Historical Trauma
Farber Hall, 7-9 p.m.
September 18, 2019

Beth Boyd, Ph.D. (Seneca) will talk about Historical Trauma and how it has affected the lives, health, and mental health of Native people in the present day. Historical trauma will be defined, experiences of historical trauma will be presented, and possibilities for healing from historical trauma will be discussed. Dr. Boyd is the Director or the USD Clinical Psychology Program and is a member of the USD Disaster Mental Health Institute. She has provided psychological services for Native children in emergency care at the Winnebago Youth Facility for 20 years. Among her many accomplishments, Dr. Boyd is a Past President of the APA Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity and Race and of the Society for the Clinical Psychology of Ethnic Minorities.

This is part 4 of a 4-part Native Voices Lecture and Discussion Series coinciding with the Native Voices: Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness exhibition which was produced by the National Library of Medicine and is on display on the 2nd floor of the I.D. Weeks Library until September 25th, 2019. Native Voices explores the interconnectedness of wellness, illness and cultural life for Native Americans. To learn more and view content from the exhibition, visit http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices.

If you are a person with a disability and need a special accommodation to fully participate, please contact Disability Services at 605-658-3745 48 hours before the event.

Siouxland Artists Traveling Art Show

Monday, September 9, 2019 - Thu , October 31, 2019

Art from Siouxland Artists Traveling Art Show will be on display in the University Libraries first floor and second floor gallery walls.

Siouxland Artists Incorporated has been promoting art and artists for three-quarters of a century. See facebook for more information about Siouxland Artists Incorporated. https://www.facebook.com/SiouxlandArtistsIncorporated/

If you are a person with a disability and need a special accommodation to fully participate, please contact Disability Services at 605-658-3745 48 hours before the event.

Tonight - Healthcare: Crisis at Rosebud

Native Voices Lecture Series
Farber Hall 7-9 p.m.
September 11, 2019


Health Care: Crisis at Rosebud. Film and panel discussion led by Damon Leader Charge, a Sicangu Oglala Lakota and enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe of South Dakota. He is currently the Assistant Program Coordinator for the Native American Healthcare Scholars Program based at the University of South Dakota’s Sanford School of Medicine. Short film from 1973 examining healthcare issues on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota  (Produced by the University of South Dakota for the South Dakota Committee for the Humanities, Vision Maker Video).

This is part 3 of a 4-part Native Voices Lecture and Discussion Series coinciding with the Native Voices: Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness exhibition which was produced by the National Library of Medicine and is on display on the 2nd floor of the I.D. Weeks Library until September 25th, 2019. Native Voices explores the interconnectedness of wellness, illness and cultural life for Native Americans. To learn more and view content from the exhibition, visit http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices.

If you are a person with a disability and need a special accommodation to fully participate, please contact Disability Services at 605-658-3745 48 hours before the event.

Bound and Unbound V

More information can be found at https://www.usd.edu/news/2019/university-libraries-at-usd-presents-bound-and-unbound-v-altered-book-exhibition 

TONIGHT - Native Voices Lecture Discussion Series

Storytelling and health as experienced by Native Americans led by Dr. Gary Cheeseman, Wednesday, September 4, 7 – 9 p.m., Farber Hall.

Gary Cheeseman, Ed.D., (Maajiiange) will tell a personal story about his own experiences with mental health issues as they exist in the Native American population. For about nine years Cheeseman operated one of only two American Indian therapeutic foster group homes in the state of Minnesota where he used traditional teachings and cosmologies to assist native youth in using spirituality to heal. Cheeseman has spent the past 27 years in higher education educating people about American Indians and Indigenous belief.

This is part 2 of a 4-part Native Voices Lecture and Discussion Series coinciding with the "Native Voices: Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness" exhibition, produced by the National Library of Medicine, on display on the 2nd floor of the I.D. Weeks Library until Sept. 25. To learn more and view content from the exhibition, visit http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices

Library Hours- Labor Day Weekend

Labor Day Weekend

Saturday (8/31) Noon - 5 pm
Sunday (9/1) Noon- 5 pm
Monday (9/2) Noon - 10 pm

Important update EndNote users with macOS systems

Apple will be releasing macOS 10.15 Catalina fall 2019. Apple has made the decision to drop all 32-bit application support with this release, which will impact EndNote.

EndNote X9 for macOS will be extensively updated for compatibility prior to the launch of Catalina. If you already have EndNote X9, please install all updates as they become available to avoid interruption in your workflow.

EndNote X8 and earlier for macOS Users
Since Apple has made the decision to drop all 32-bit application support, we expect that macOS 10.15 Catalina will not run EndNote X8 and earlier. However, we want to continue to support you. We recommend one of two options:

• Upgrade to EndnoteX9 https://libguides.usd.edu/endnote
• If you’d prefer not to upgrade to EndNote X9, you may keep working on your current macOS. We do not recommend upgrading to Catalina with EndNote X8 and earlier as we expect major compatibility issues.

Please visit https://support.clarivate.com/Endnote/s/article/EndNote-for-Mac-macOS-Catalina-Compatibility?language=en_US for more information.

Library Hours - Fall Semester

Fall hours begin August 25*

Sunday: Noon - Midnight*
Monday - Thursday: 7:30 am - Midnight*
Friday: 7:30 am - 10 pm*
Saturday: 10 am - 10 pm

University Libraries CSA Employee of the Year

Library Employee Years of Service Celebration 2019

Congratulations to library employees for their years of service

Carol Leibiger - 30 years (not pictured)
Steve Johnson - 25 years
David Alexander - 20 years

Dan Daily - 10 years
Sue Zhu -10 years

Native Voices Schedule of Events

Native Voices: Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness will be on display at University Libraries, 2nd floor, August 14th – September 25th.


Native Voices Lecture Discussion Series:

August 28
•    Opening Ceremony led by Gene Thin Elk, Wednesday, August 28, 7 – 9 p.m., 2nd floor of I.D. Weeks library building.

September 4
•    Storytelling and health as experienced by Native Americans led by Dr. Gary Cheeseman, Wednesday, September 4, 7 – 9 p.m., Farber Hall.

September 11
•    Film and Discussion—Health Care: Crisis at Rosebud followed by a panel discussion led by Damon Leader Charge, Wednesday, September 11, 7 – 9 p.m., Farber Hall.

September 18
•    Lecture and Discussion on Historical Trauma, led by Dr. Beth Boyd, Wednesday, September 18, 7 – 9 p.m., Farber Hall.


September 9 - 13
Story Times and art projects based on Sherman Alexie’s THUNDER BOY during the week of September 9th, Edith B. Siegrist Vermillion Public Library.

Fall Semester Art and Exhibit Schedule

Infinity’s Edge Installation

Fall semester 2019

Second floor corner windows of the northwest side

Native Voices Travelling Exhibition, National Library of Medicine

August 14th – September 25th, 2019

Second floor exhibit space

Siouxland Artists Exhibit, Sioux City Art Center 

Mid-August - October, 2019 

First floor and second floor gallery walls 

Bound and Unbound 5: Altered Book Exhibition

August 26, 2019 - January 3, 2020 

Second floor exhibit cases

Public Services Colloquium, Department of Political Science 

Monday, Nov. 25, 2019. 5-8 p.m.

Second floor exhibit space

Exhibit - Infinity’s Edge

Location: 2nd Floor corner windows of the northwest side of I.D. Weeks library building.
When: Fall semester 2019

University Art Galleries Interim Director, Amy Fill and USD Graphic Design student, Lacey McLouth created a beautiful window installation for the I.D. Weeks library building. Using red removable vinyl, they hand cut the shapes and designs to create a symmetrical, lace-like pattern that was applied to the windows. Courtney Lavallie, UAG Gallery Assistant and Martha Aguirre, Oscar Howe Gallery Attendant assisted Lacey with the installation process. The artists state that “art does not have to exist in a formal gallery space and with this project, we hope to elevate and activate a common shared space”.

New Database - DynaMed Plus

DynaMed Plus is the decision support tool that clinicians go to for answers. Content is written by a world-class team of physicians and specialist who synthesize the evidence and provide objective analysis and guidance with transparent detail to assist in the clinical decision-making process.

https://login.ezproxy.usd.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&custid=s2856931&groupid=main&profile=dmp

Library Hours - 4th of July Holiday

Wednesday (7/3) 7:30 am - 5 pm
Thursday - Sunday(7/4 -7/7) Closed

LibQual+ 2018 Survey Results Report

The LibQual+ 2018 Survey Results report is posted on the University Libraries Surveys & Reports page. https://www.usd.edu/library/surveys

Direct link: https://www.usd.edu/-/media/files/library/libqual/libqual2018surveyresults.ashx?la=en

Expanded Access to JoVE: Journal of Visualized Experiments - Science Education Section

USD Libraries has had access for about a year to the JoVE Video Journal collection for all topics except engineering.  Thanks to some additional library funding from the BRIN grant, we now have access to the Science Education Section within JoVE. 


JoVE
https://login.ezproxy.usd.edu/login?url=https://www.jove.com/journal

JoVE - Science Education:
Advanced Biology – Neuroscience, Developmental Biology, Genetics, Cell Biology
https://login.ezproxy.usd.edu/login?url=https://www.jove.com/science-education/advnbio

Psychology – Behavioral Science, Experimental Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Neuropsychology, Sensation & Perception, Social Psychology
https://login.ezproxy.usd.edu/login?url=https://www.jove.com/science-education/psyc

Basic Biology – Includes lab animal research and lab safety
https://login.ezproxy.usd.edu/login?url=https://www.jove.com/science-education/basicbio

Chemistry – General, organic, inorganic, analytical,  biochemistry
https://login.ezproxy.usd.edu/login?url=https://www.jove.com/science-education/chem

Environmental Sciences – Environmental microbiology, earth science
https://login.ezproxy.usd.edu/login?url=https://www.jove.com/science-education/envirosci

Physics – Physics I and II
https://login.ezproxy.usd.edu/login?url=https://www.jove.com/science-education/physics

Engineering – Bioengineering, Biomedical Engineering
https://login.ezproxy.usd.edu/login?url=https://www.jove.com/science-education/eng

Lab Manual (Biology)- Comprehensive, curriculum-focused videos for both instructors and students in introductory biology lab courses
https://login.ezproxy.usd.edu/login?url=https://www.jove.com/science-education-library/41/lab-bio

Core (Biology)- Foundational concepts of biology
https://login.ezproxy.usd.edu/login?url=https://www.jove.com/science-education/jovecore

Clinical Skills – Nursing Skills, Emergency Medicine & Critical Care, Physical Examinations I, II, & III
https://login.ezproxy.usd.edu/login?url=https://www.jove.com/journal

Elgaronline

The USD Law School has recently purchased Elgaronline.  Access is available to all of USD.

Elgaronline includes scholarly research monographs, Research Handbooks, companions, dictionaries, encyclopedia and journals. Works include scholarly research monographs in major subject areas of Law, Business, Economics and the Social Sciences

URL: https://login.ezproxy.usd.edu/login?url=http://www.elgaronline.com/browse?access=user

Summer Reference

This summer, reference services will be available electronically Monday – Friday, 9 am – 5 pm, at http://libanswers.usd.edu/. You may also make an appointment with a subject librarian.

Library Hours - Memorial Day

Friday (5/24) - Monday (5/27) Closed

May 18 closure

The library will be closed Saturday, May 18 due to Facilities Management upgrading the primary electrical service at the East Substation.

To facilitate this work, the East Substation will be required to be shut down for approximately four hours. This will affect the campus IT network/email services and all electrical service to the vast majority of the campus buildings including the I.D. Weeks Building.  

Library Hours - Summer

Summer Hours begin May 6*

Saturday & Sunday: Noon - 5 pm;
Monday - Thursday: 7:30 am - 8 pm;
Friday: 7:30 am - 5 pm

Herbert T. Hoover 1930-2019

Photo credit: South Dakota Magazine

Herbert Theodore Hoover (1930-2019) was a Renaissance man. He served as a U.S. Marine during the Korean War, studied multiple languages, nearly majored in chemistry, thought seriously about a career in pharmacy, worked for a time in healthcare, and ultimately became one of the longest-tenured, most prolific, and most influential historians in the history of South Dakota. Although he came to document and understand the kaleidoscopic interactions between virtually all groups of people in the state, he became particularly noted for his keen insights into the complex relationships between Native Americans and whites. His passing in March 2019 marked the end of an era. But it also marked a time to celebrate a legacy that has served, and will continue to serve, as one of the pillars of modern academic life at the University of South Dakota.
    Born in the small town of Wabasha, Minnesota at the start of the Great Depression, Hoover eventually used the G.I. Bill to begin his academic pursuits. He often cited the notable historian John Baptist Wolf at the University of Minnesota as his greatest influence but was always quick to express gratitude to all historians who helped him navigate a career that “beats working,” as Hoover liked to say.
    “I was only using the best that I learned from those models. I think there has to be something behind you like that,” he said in 2007. “You must have learned from some of the very best.”
    After receiving his Ph.D. in history at the University of Oklahoma, Hoover taught and researched for a time in Texas, where he claimed he learned to do state history. He developed his philosophy that regional and thematic considerations are more important to state history than strict adherence to geographic borders.
    Hoover came to USD in 1967 to help fill the seemingly unfillable void then being left by historian Herbert Schell, who had served more than forty years in higher education and – among other accomplishments – had written what was at that time considered the definitive history of South Dakota (History of South Dakota, 1962).  Shortly after arriving at USD, Hoover came to chair a committee on the operations of the newly-created South Dakota Oral History Center (SDOHC). Over the coming decades, he and fellow USD historian Joseph Cash formed one of the most important partnerships in the academic history of South Dakota. Together, they led the effort to collect the bulk of resources at the SDOHC, which now houses more than 6,500 oral histories and recordings, making it one of the largest oral history collections in the United States.
    By 1970, Hoover and Cash had secured funding from the South Dakota state legislature to collect oral histories from every county in the state. By 1971, they published To Be an Indian, an anthology of fifty-two oral history excerpts. Donald Fixico, the prominent Native American historian and recent president of the Western History Association, recognized To Be an Indian as one of the most important and groundbreaking collections of Native American oral histories ever published, particularly with regard to the subject of Native American identity.
    Drawing upon his family heritage and intellectual ability, Hoover in his classes and numerous publications was able to show balanced insights into the relationships between Dakota, Lakota, and non-Native American groups in the region. His sharp sense of humor is evident in many of his writings, as well as the more than half-dozen recordings (from 1972 to 2007) for which he agreed to be interviewed for the SDOHC. South Dakota Leaders, which Hoover published in 1989 as an editor with Larry J. Zimmerman, became one of the first studies of general South Dakota history to gain widespread acclaim under peer review.
    As he entered his twilight years as a historian, Hoover became a leading advocate for a new comprehensive state history of South Dakota. As part of a landmark collaboration with more than a dozen scholars from around the region in the early 2000s, Hoover worked tirelessly for the project. The result was a magnum opus, A New History of South Dakota (first printed in 2005), for which he wrote the introduction and served as a primary contributor.

    After the project, Hoover continued on in a professor emeritus role in the USD History Department for many years. Reflecting upon his half century of work with the university, Hoover called it “the ideal job.”
    “It couldn’t have been any better for me,” he said.
    It could not have been any better for USD, as well. Like the great historians who influenced him, Hoover will continue to stand as a model for students and scholars who come through the university. His lectures and publications will become all the more important in the coming decades, as concepts of identity continue to be crucial to Native American individuals and communities in the twenty-first century, and also as stories of all South Dakotans continue to unfold.

An oral history interview with Herbert T. Hoover from 2007 is available on the Digital Library of South Dakota.

https://explore.digitalsd.org/digital/collection/sdohc/id/98/rec/11

Library Hours - Finals

Wednesday - Friday (4/24-26) 7:30 am - 2 am*
Saturday - Sunday (4/27-28) 8 am - 2 am*
Monday - Thursday (4/29 - 5/2) 7:30am - 2am*
Friday (5/3) 7:30 am - 10pm*
Saturday (5/4) Noon - 5 pm
Sunday (5/5) Closed

Institutional Repository - RED

Library Hours - Easter Break

Thursday (4/18) 7:30 am - 5pm*
Friday (4/19) Closed*
Saturday (4/20) Closed*
Sunday (4/21) Noon - Midnight

Library chair poll

The University Libraries is purchasing new chairs for our first floor study area.  Help us choose!

 https://tinyurl.com/Librarychairs

Add your email address to be entered into a prize drawing.  Winners will be contacted via email.

Chairs will be available to view and test in Room 121A,  April 8-12.    


PLEASE NOTE! Purchased chairs will NOT have arms and chair color will be neutral.  

Questions?  Please see the Circulation Desk.

National Library Week

Help the University Libraries celebrate National Library Week, April 7-13!


Come in and help us choose new chairs for our first floor study area. Those that vote can enter in the  prize drawing.  Winners will be contacted via email.

https://tinyurl.com/Librarychairs

National Library Week (April 7- 13, 2019) is a time to celebrate the contributions of our nation's libraries and library workers and to promote library use and support. From free access to books and online resources, libraries offer opportunity to all. The theme for 2019 National Library Week is "Libraries = Strong Communities." 

University Libraries call for entries for altered book exhibition

VERMILLION, S.D. -- University Libraries at the University of South Dakota is seeking entries for “Bound and Unbound V: Altered Book Exhibition,” their fifth international biennial altered book art exhibition scheduled for display August 26, 2019 – January 3, 2020.

Sponsored by the University Libraries Arts and Exhibits committee, “Bound and Unbound V: Altered Book Exhibition” features an exhibit of altered books, which are a mixed media artwork that changes a book from its original form by altering its state or meaning. Books from any source and media are eligible for this exhibition, and all work must be original and executed within the last three years.
“”Bound and Unbound” is now in its tenth year, and the Libraries are committed to exhibiting some of the world’s best altered book entries, as well as growing our online study collection of altered books,” said committee member Sarah A. Hanson-Pareek, digitization and photographs curator at the University Libraries. “The response to calls has always been very positive, and we currently have 167 works in our online collection, representing many diverse artists.”

This year’s juror is Jessica Drenk. Drenk is an American artist, who was raised in Montana where she developed an appreciation for the natural world that remains an important inspiration to her artwork today. Tactile and textural, her sculptures highlight the chaos and beauty that can be found in simple materials. Drenk’s work is also influenced by systems of information and the impulse to develop an encyclopedic understanding of the world. Working with altered books for over 15 years, Drenk’s work can be found in private collections throughout the world, and can be seen in galleries across the United States. Her work is a part of several corporate collections, such as Fidelity Investments and the Macallan distillery in Scotland, as well as university collections, including Yale University Art Gallery. Drenk has been the recipient of several awards, including the International Sculpture Center’s Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award, and her work has been pictured in “Sculpture” and “Interior Design” magazines, as well as the “Workshop Guide to Ceramics.” Drenk received an MFA in 3D Art from the University of Arizona in 2007 and a bachelor’s degree from Pomona College in 2002. A working artist since 2007, Drenk’s home and studio are currently outside Rochester, New York. More information about Drenk and her art can be found at http://www.jessicadrenk.com.

Entries for “Bound and Unbound V” are open to the public and artists can submit up to three entries by April 2. There is no fee to enter the exhibition and selected works will be on display at USD’s University Libraries second floor exhibition cases from Aug. 26 through Jan. 3, 2020 as well as entered into the altered book collection on the Digital Library of South Dakota at https://explore.digitalsd.org and the Digital Public Library of America at https://dp.la. A full prospectus and entry form for the exhibition can be found at http://libguides.usd.edu/BU5.
For more information, please contact Hanson-Pareek at Sarah.HansonPareek@usd.edu, Danielle De Jager-Loftus at Danielle.Loftus@usd.edu or Michael Boring at Michael.Boring@usd.edu.

Photo credit: “Grand Rapids 1937” by Lynn Skorhal, 2014.

Library Hours - Spring Break

Friday (3/1) 7:30 am - 5 pm*
Saturday - Sunday (3/2-3) Closed*
Monday - Friday  (3/4 - 3/8) 7:30 am - 5 pm*
Saturday (3/9) Closed*
Sunday (3/10) Noon - Midnight

Library Hours - President's Day

Saturday- Sunday (2/16-17) Noon- 5pm*
Monday (2/18) Noon - Midnight

Human Library Book Applications - Open

Applications (www.bit.ly/USDhuman) are now being accepted for people to be volunteer human books for Vermillion’s 3rd Human Library—scheduled for Tuesday, March 19th, 2019, from 4 – 7 p.m. at the I.D. Weeks Library.

A Human Library is an opportunity for people talk one to one with someone who is different from them—whether the difference is related to looks, background, culture, religion, life experiences, sexual orientation, occupation, ideology, health, etc. The book (a brave person willing to share their story) begins by sharing highlights of their story with a reader (a brave, curious person) and then the conversation begins. Conversations last up to 20 minutes and readers’ questions are welcome.  The event is organized like a library with volunteer books, a catalog of book titles & descriptions to help readers choose which book(s) they want to read (talk to),  librarians to answer questions, a check out table (circulation desk), etc.

The first Human Library was held in Copenhagen in 2000 at a youth rally to promote peace. The Human Library™ Organization now works with libraries and organizations around the world to overcome prejudice and stereotypes by building bridges of understanding through conversation.

For more information please refer to the links below or contact Caroline Anderberg at caroline.anderberg@usd.edu.
The Human Library LibGUIDE                      https://libguides.usd.edu/humanlibrary
The Human Library™ Organization            http://humanlibrary.org

January Faculty Publications

 New blog post for faculty publications.

https://facultypublications.wordpress.com/2019/01/12/january-2019/

Proquest Downtime

To maintain the currency and security of ProQuest products, ProQuest is performing maintenance on many ProQuest products beginning on January 19, 2019 During the maintenance window, the following products will be temporarily unavailable.

Downtime scheduled: Saturday, January 19 at 9 p.m. U.S.  Maintenance will conclude within 8 hours.
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