Library Hours - Summer

Summer Hours Start May 9

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

Finals Week - Library Hours

Sunday (5/1) 10 am - 2 am
Monday (5/2) - Thursday (5/5) 7:30 am - 2 am
Friday (5/6) 7:30 am - 8 pm
Saturday (5/7) Noon - 5 pm
Sunday (5/8) Closed

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.

 

Library Voices

Two students share what it is like working at the I.D. Weeks Library.

What does working at the library mean to me? I can approach many different tasks from easiest to the most complicated; in return, my skills are improving and growing day by day.

My projects are mostly about processing the gift books and the graduation theses. These items will be the property of the USD library and should be useful to students who need references for their papers or projects.  

My part working in the library is to help the students indirectly.

Dolan Nguyen, Technical Services

 

I like working at the library because the environment and my coworkers are great. The schedule is flexible, so I am able to work around all of my medical classes pretty well.

A job at the library means I get to meet a lot of new people and make new friends while helping members of the community and students on campus. We get to provide a great available study space for students no matter how they study best.

Camyron Ballard, Circulation
 

Archives and Speical Collections Reopening!

Archives and Special Collections will be open to patrons starting March 28, 2022

Archives and Oral History Center Hours: Monday-Friday 9 a.m to 5 p.m., by appointment only.

If you need additional information please contact the Archives at speccoll@usd.edu or 605-658-3380

Location: Room 321, University Libraries, I.D. Weeks Building

https://libguides.usd.edu/ASCCollections
https://libguides.usd.edu/OralHistory 

New USD Website Launch

USD has launched its new website and urls for pages have changed.  Please update your bookmarks!

Library Home pages:

I.D. Weeks  https://www.usd.edu/Academics/Libraries/ID-Weeks-Library

Wegner Library  https://www.usd.edu/Academics/Libraries/Wegner-Medical-Library

McKusick Law  https://www.usd.edu/Academics/Libraries/McKusick-Law-Library

 

 Additional Links to Library Resources

Library Databases https://libguides.usd.edu/az.php?

Research Guides https://libguides.usd.edu/

Inter-library Loan https://libguides.usd.edu/ILLiad

Room Reservations  https://apps.usd.edu/campus/rooms/

Library Catalog links
https://usd.primo.exlibrisgroup.com

I.D. Weeks Catalog link - https://tinyurl.com/CatalogUSD
Law Library Catalog link - https://tinyurl.com/CatalogLaw
Wegner Library Catalog link - https://tinyurl.com/CatalogWegner

 

If you have questions or need help finding information please contact library@usd.edu

TODAY! 4pm - Don Barnett Lecture

 Join us today at 4pm for the Don Barnett Lecture https://fb.me/e/16BhD9Xp9

Second Floor - I.D. Weeks Library

 

 

New URLs for Primo One Search

We have updated our Primo One Search Catalog.   The urls have also changed.  Please update your bookmarks!

 https://usd.primo.exlibrisgroup.com

I.D. Weeks Catalog link  - https://tinyurl.com/CatalogUSD
Law Library Catalog link - https://tinyurl.com/CatalogLaw
Wegner Library Catalog link - https://tinyurl.com/CatalogWegner

 

 

USD RED - February 2022 Readership Snapshot

Last month, USD RED had 6693 full-text downloads and 7 new submissions were posted, bringing the total works in the repository to 1121. University of South Dakota scholarship was read by 770 institutions across 132 countries. 

The most popular papers were:
 

A Criminological Analysis of Notorious Serial Killers in the United States (2073 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/honors-thesis/156
 

Application of Leininger’s Culture Care Theory in Family Medical History (342 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/honors-thesis/43
 

The Effect of Exercise on College Students' Overall Health (275 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/honors-thesis/74


The most popular publications were:
 

Honors Thesis (5603 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/honors-thesis
 

Occupational Therapy Capstone Presentations (408 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/ot-capstone
 

Dissertations and Theses (256 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/diss-thesis

Library Hours - Spring Break

Spring Break March 11 - 20

Friday (3/11) 7:30 am - 5 pm
Saturday - Sunday (3/12-3/13) Closed
Monday - Friday (3/14-3/18) 7:30 am - 5 pm
Saturday (3/19) Closed
Sunday (3/20) Noon-Midnight

Regular Library Hours resume March 21

 

USD RED - January 2022 Readership Snapshot

Monthly Readership Totals:

Last month, USD RED had 5604 full-text downloads and 69 new submissions were posted, bringing the total works in the repository to 1118. University of South Dakota scholarship was read by 623 institutions across 132 countries. 

The most popular papers were:
A Criminological Analysis of Notorious Serial Killers in the United States (1470 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/honors-thesis/156
The Effect of a Universal Basic Income on Life Decisions: Evidence from a Student Lab Experiment (264 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/honors-thesis/69
Application of Leininger’s Culture Care Theory in Family Medical History (221 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/honors-thesis/43


The most popular publications were:
Honors Thesis (4680 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/honors-thesis
Occupational Therapy Capstone Presentations (408 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/ot-capstone
Dissertations and Theses (169 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/diss-thesis

Library Hours - Presidents' Day

Saturday - Sunday (2/19-1/20) Noon - 5pm
Monday (2/21) Noon - 10 pm

 

Artstor is searchable in JSTOR

 

Artstor is searchable in JSTOR.  Artstor collections are being added to JSTOR - about 95% of the licensed Artstor collections are now visible on JSTOR as of June 2021.

Black History Month

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