Monday, September 30, 2019

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.

Tuesday, September 24, 2019

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.


Thursday, September 19, 2019

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

Wednesday, September 18, 2019

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.

Thursday, September 12, 2019

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.


Wednesday, September 11, 2019

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.

Wednesday, September 4, 2019

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