CEU Press provides free access to ten of its titles on Ukraine

 CEU Press is making its most pertinent titles on Ukraine and its neighbours freely available on the Project MUSE platform.

How did the Russian Empire in the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries try to “solve” the question of Ukraine? Can history explain the causes of the current military confrontation? Who are the Ukrainians of today?

For a deeper look into the history of Ukraine and how it affects the present, you can read, download and share the eBooks following the links below:

The Ukrainian Question by Alexei Miller
Along Ukraine’s River by Roman Adrian Cybriwsky
A Laboratory of Transnational History, edited by Georgiy Kasianov and Philipp Ther
Heroes and Villains by David Marples
The Moulding of Ukraine by Katarzyna Wolczuk
State-Building: A Comparative Study of Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, and Russia by Verena Fritz
Regionalism without Regions: Reconceptualizing Ukraine's Heterogeneity, edited by Oksana Myshlovska and Ulrich Schmid
Where Currents Meet: Frontiers of Memory in Post-Soviet Fiction of Kharkiv, Ukraine by Tanya Zaharchenko
Memory Crash by Georgiy Kasianov
The War in Ukraine’s Donbas, edited by David Marples
 

For more about these titles, you can find a summary here.

https://ceupress.com/article/2022-03-01/ceu-press-provides-free-access-ten-its-titles-ukraine

Archives & Special Collections and the South Dakota Oral History Center renovations complete!

The new Archives and Special Collections and South Dakota Oral History (SDOHC) space is open to visitors as of March 28th, 2022. The renovation and expansion project saw increase in teaching, research, office, and collections spaces for the ASC and SDOHC.

We encourage anyone to stop by to see the new space.

The 30-seat reading room serves as both a research and teaching space. Here we will seat individual users of both ASC and SDOHC materials. We will also welcome classes for primary source instruction sessions. Use as general study is encouraged during business hours.  

 
The processing space where students and staff will conduct collections work.  

Older spaces will serve as additional collections storage.  This space will become the new home of the following book collections: Cash, Chilson Oversize, Health Sciences Rare Books, Mahoney, and Special Books.

 
A new state-of-the-art digital imaging lab will aid in our digitization and preservation efforts. 

Library Hours - Easter Weekend

April 14 7:30am - 5pm
April 15-17 Closed
April 18 Noon - 10 pm

 

 

Hot Off the Press Collection

Looking for something to read? The library has a rotating selection of recently published books in its Hot off the Press (HOTP) Collection!

The most recent additions to the Hot Off the Press collection are located on the rotating display shelf in the entrance of the I.D. Weeks Library. The rest of the collection is shelved at the west end of the first floor. All Hot Off the Press books can be checked out for four weeks by anyone with a USD ID or community borrower card.

The HOTP committee selects and manages this leased collection of current reading material to support the leisure reading interests of the USD community. Each month committee members make suggestions for books to include in the collection and vote on the nominations to decide what to order. Selections include fiction and non-fiction titles published within the last two months, and the committee strives to include everything from history to science fiction to sports to mystery and suspense to technology.
Each title is leased for one year, and at the end of the lease period the library is allowed to keep 20% of the leased titles for the main collection. The committee evaluates each book at the end of the year to decide which books to keep, keeping in mind factors such as whether a book could be useful for a specific department and the authority of the author.

Stop by to find your next read!

https://libguides.usd.edu/hotoffthepress

 

 

Connecting to Interlibrary Loan

A lot of times books and articles can be found through the library’s online catalog and easily accessed without asking for help, but sometimes the library doesn’t have what you need. When that happens, you can submit request through Interlibrary Loan (ILL). ILL is a way for library patrons to obtain books, videos, music, or other items as needed from other libraries—not only from around the state, but from around the world—usually at no cost to our patrons.

The ILL department provides scans of book chapters and journal articles for our patrons not physically located on campus and will also mail items to home addresses for distance students. We also lend items from our collection to other libraries to promote the sharing of library resources which helps connect people to the information they are looking for.

In addition to all of this, ILL also maintains electronic course reserves for faculty members to make book chapters, poems, and articles available to students and help defray the cost of buying textbooks. 

https://libguides.usd.edu/ILLiad

https://libguides.usd.edu/wegnerILL/createaccount 

 

 

https://libguides.usd.edu/ILLiad

https://libguides.usd.edu/wegnerILL/createaccount

 

Liaison Librarian, Danielle Loftus

 Liaison Librarian, Danielle Loftus

Each department or program on campus has a designated liaison librarian who serves as the first point of contact for any library-related questions or services. Liaisons are your go-to librarians, connecting you to library services and collections. They are subject specialists who provide support for faculty and student research, instruction, and scholarly communication, who build rich library collections or can refer you to other library experts. I am the Fine Arts liaison and work with Art, Theater and Music, and these are some my engagement activities:

•    Instruction, consultation, collection building
•    Scholarly communication
•    Digital scholarship and tools
•    Outreach to community
•    Exhibits and event planning

Be sure to contact your library liaison if you need research help or would like to purchase items in your area of research for the library collection. To connect with the liaison librarian in your area contact the reference desk ask@usd.libanswers.com or Circulation 605-677-5373

It’s National Library Week! April 3-9, 2022

 
University Libraries works aims to connect you to library collections and services that support your teaching, learning, and research.  As the theme of National Library Week (NLW) this year is “Connect with Your Library,” each day this week the library blog will highlight a way(s) you can connect to library resources.  

National Library Week (April 3-9, 2022) is a time to celebrate our nation’s libraries, library workers’ contributions and promote library use and support. www.ala.org/conferencesevents/celebrationweeks#nlw

Connecting to Reference and Research Services

As the semester nears its end, remember librarians are ready to help you find and use library resources. Contact Reference and Research Services for help with navigating the library’s webpage to locate articles, books, LibGuides (Research Guides), tutorials and more! Librarians are available in person at the Reference Desk (first floor I.D.Weeks Library on the west side) or virtually through Ask A Librarian where you can email you question(s) or have a chat.

Reference hours:
In person and virtual: Monday – Friday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Virtually only: Monday – Thursday, 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. and Sunday 2 p.m. – 9 p.m.