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.