Library Hours - Christmas

 The library will be closed Dec. 24 - Jan. 3

The reference desk will also be closed during this time.

RESOLVED - Pubmed and U Get it

RESOLVED -  There is currently an issue with the U Get it linking in Pubmed.  The linking is not providing full text.   We are working with our vendors to fix the issue.   

We recommend you search by DOI with our citation linker until the issue is resolved.  https://usd-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/citationlinker?vid=01SDBOR_USD

We apologize for the inconvenience.   

Please email library@usd.edu if you continue to experience this problem

Power outage - Dec. 17

EVENT: Power outage
DATE:    Thursday, December 17, 2020
TIME PERIOD:  9:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Facilities Management will be preforming electrical work in I.D. Weeks Library building on Dec. 17.   There will be no electrical power throughout the entire building until the repair is complete.

The Art of International Education Week

The University Libraries will be displaying the work of international students Anita Shrestha, Yazmin Moktan, Pal Subharaj and Leila Ghasempor on the first and second floors in the library building.

https://yazminmoktan.wixsite.com/portfolio/nepal?lightbox=dataItem-jgzn8ilw7

http://volanteonline.com/2021/01/a-peek-into-an-international-students-world/

Added electronic access to Argus Leader and Wall Street Journal

The library has recently added electronic access to the Argus Leader and the Wall Street Journal via ProQuest.  Due to this access, the library will be discontinuing the purchase of these titles though microfilm.

Argus Leader
Provides information on obituaries, community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community for South Dakota and the Sioux Falls area. Full text articles are available from November 2002 to present. Paid advertisements are excluded.

https://usd.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://search.proquest.com/publication/75981/citation/62126308D65946A2PQ/17?accountid=14750

Wall Street Journal
The full-page images of this digitized newspaper provide genealogists, researchers and scholars with cover-to-cover access to recent newspaper content. Every page is full-text searchable. Coverage: 2008 - present

https://usd.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://search.proquest.com/pdnwallstreetjournal/advanced/news/fromDatabasesLayer?accountid=14750

Library Hours - Finals

Monday - Friday (11/30 - 12/4) 7:30am - 10pm

Saturday  - Sunday (12/5-12/6) Noon - 8pm

Monday - Tuesday (12/7- 12/8) 7:30am - 10pm

Wednesday 12/9 - Winter hours begin

Library Hours - Thanksgiving

 Thursday - Sunday (11/26-11/29) Closed

No food in I.D. Weeks as of Nov. 16

 In light of the Muenster University Center serving take-out food only, food is not allowed in I.D. Weeks Library. This action is effective as of 7:00 a.m., November 16, and will continue until further notice. Please direct any questions to Dean of Libraries Daniel Daily at dan.daily@usd.edu. Thank you.

Database Trial - EBSCO Play Index

University Libraries will be trialing EBSCO - Play Index

Play Index includes over 31,000 plays written from antiquity to the present and published from 1949. An invaluable aid to finding the perfect plays to match any group's production resources, Play Index covers a wide range of plays written in or translated into English, including mysteries, pageants, plays in verse, puppet performances, radio and television plays, and classic drama.
 

Fill out our feedback form and let us know what you think about this resource:  http://libguides.usd.edu/trial

 

The State of Reproductive Rights in South Dakota

The Students for Reproductive Rights will be hosting a poster exhibit “The State of Reproductive Rights in South Dakota” from October 19 - November 3 in the library, on the second floor.  The SFRR states: “When we talk about abortion policy, we often overlook the personal impact these laws have on pregnant people. This display will help us conceptualize the effects of these policies by explaining South Dakota and Federal reproductive laws in conjunction with the testimonies from women who have had to work around them”.

Title: Never Again: The State of Reproductive Rights in South Dakota
Name of Organization - Students for Reproductive Rights
Dates: October 19th through November 3rd
Where: Second floor gallery in the IDW library
Description: When we talk about abortion policy, we often overlook the personal impact these laws have on pregnant people. This display will help us conceptualize the effects of these policies by explaining South Dakota and Federal reproductive laws in conjunction with the testimonies from women who have had to work around them.

Database Trials - EBSCO - Flipster

University Libraries will be trialing EBSCO - Flipster

Flipster is an easy-to-use digital magazine newsstand and offers a wide range of e-magazines covering various topics such as art and design, hobbies, interests and DIY, science and technology. You can directly access the titles here, or find them when you are searching in an EBSCO database.

Fill out our feedback form and let us know what you think about this resource:  http://libguides.usd.edu/trial

New Resource - Stedman's Online

 Stedman's Online 

 https://usd.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://www.StedmansOnline.com

Stedman’s Medical Dictionary Online and the other Stedman’s reference products on StedmansOnline are the direct successors to the first American medical dictionary, Dr. Robley Dunglinson’s A New Dictionary of Medical Science and Literature, first published in 1833. The work continued through successive editions until the 23rd and last edition, which was edited by Thomas Lathrop Stedman, MD in 1903. Five years later, Dr. Stedman wrote a modernized version of the Dunglison dictionary. It was published in 1911 as A Practical Medical Dictionary and is now known as Stedman’s Medical Dictionary.

2020 Library Newsletter

 
The 2020 newsletter is now available.
http://apps.usd.edu/administrative/flip/university-libraries-newsletter-fall-2020/ 

All news:  http://www.usd.edu/library/news

New Database - New Play Exchange

University Libraries has subscribed to New Play Exchange

New Play Exchange (NPX) is a script discovery database. Search, read and download scripts, view writer profiles, contact writers, read script recommendations from professionals throughout the field.

https://usd.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://newplayexchange.org/

New Database - Digital Theatre +

University Libraries has recently subscribed to Digital Theatre+.   Digital Theatre+ provides online access to streaming video of current theatre productions including behind-the-scenes documentaries as well as teaching and learning resources to facilitate understanding of the productions and texts for English Literature and Performing Arts.

All you need to do is visit
https://usd.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.digitaltheatreplus.com

 

 

Food in I.D. Weeks

As of  Sept 5th, food is now allowed in the library.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Library Resources

The DEI Committee has  created the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Library Resources LibGuide.  It highlights library collections relating to diversity, equity, and inclusion and provides links to online resources. 

https://libguides.usd.edu/deiresources/libraryresources

University Libraries Exhibits Art by Janet Braun-Reinitz

 

The “Painted Ladies Speak” exhibition by artist Janet Braun-Reinitz of Brooklyn, New York, is currently on view at the University of South Dakota University Libraries, on the second floor, through Oct.16.

The exhibition, which features a selection of Braun-Reinitz’s recent collages, is hosted by the University Libraries’ Art and Exhibits Committee and curated by Sarah A. Hanson-Pareek, committee member and curator of photographs and digital projects at the University Libraries.

“Implicit in my work are stories waiting to be re-told – remembrances of recent events and those fading from memory that resonate in many registers, formal, narrative and personal,” Braun-Reinitz said. “The troubling nuances and tensions between what is observed in passing, and what lives in memory, produce an art with explicit social and political content. I find conceptual parallels and formal connections to works as diverse as the narrative predellas of Italian altarpieces and the mixed media art of Betye Saar.

“The collages in the “Painted Ladies Speak” series borrow from icons of art history and add a contemporary ‘comment’ to critique the ongoing, still unresolved problems facing women today and, alas, tomorrow. Artists are here to disturb the peace,” said Braun-Reinitz.

The exhibition was originally planned to open in April, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was postponed.

“A lot has happened since then. Janet’s work reflects current events and is always fresh. She keeps up with the topics of the day in her work. So, if one thinks back to April, you can see a definitive timeline in her pieces, pausing right at the pandemic. And yet, her pieces are also timeless. The topics she works with, the stories she relates, the narratives created, are sincere and are well documented by many artists throughout time and place, thus her references to them,” said Hanson-Pareek.

“The University Libraries is honored to host the exhibit,” said Dan Daily, dean of the University Libraries. “Braun-Reinitz’s 2018 exhibit at I.D. Weeks Library with Sarah Maple was well-received, and I anticipate the same for ‘Painted Ladies Speak.’”

Braun-Reinitz is a muralist, painter, teacher and activist committed to social justice. Since 1984, she has collaborated in painting more than 60 community murals – in many venues in New York City, including public schools, health care facilities, day care centers, community gardens and more – as well as elsewhere in the U.S. and internationally. Between 1992 and 2013, she was the director of Artmakers Inc., a NYC community mural organization.

Her ongoing commitment to social justice began in 1961 when she was a freedom rider, arrested and jailed in Little Rock, Arkansas. She is frequently an artist-in-residence, most recently in 2019 at the Lakkos Residency to paint the mural “Denied, Detained, Welcomed,” in Heraklion, Greece, and in 2017 at Arte Studio Ginestrelle, Assisi, Italy.

Braun-Reinitz has co-authored two books, “The Mural Book: A Practical Guide for Educators” and “On the Wall: Four Decades of Community Murals in NYC.”

For more information, please contact Sarah A. Hanson-Pareek at Sarah.HansonPareek@usd.edu, Danielle De Jager-Loftus at Danielle.Loftus@usd.edu, or Michael Boring at Michael.Boring@usd.edu.

The exhibition is located at the top of the stairs on the second floor of the library, open to the public during library operating hours.

Originally posted at https://www.usd.edu/news/2020/usd-university-libraries-exhibits-art-by-janet-braun-reinitz

 

Virtual Reference Desk

The physical reference desk will be closed this semester. Librarians and staff are available online for
drop-in help online. We will answer your questions and help with your research virtually.

Contact us through Ask-A-Librarian via chat, text or email.
● Monday – Thursday 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. - 9 p.m
● Friday 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
● Sunday 2 p.m. – 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. - 9 p.m.

After hours you may send an email through the link above or
ask@usd.libanswers.com and your inquiry will be answered promptly.

Additional Reference Services
Reference services for the Lee Medical Building, Native Student Center, Veteran
Student Services, and the Community College of Sioux Falls (CCSF) are available
virtually or by appointment. Students, faculty, and staff may also contact the Reference
Desk online as noted above.

Subject Specialist Services
Virtual appointments and consultations with library subject specialists are available on a
limited basis.
● Virtual appointments will be held using teleconferencing software platforms such as
Zoom or WebEx. Once the appointment/consultation is scheduled the librarian will
send you an invitation to meet through either Zoom or WebEx.
● Requests for face-to-face consultation services will be assessed by the librarian
relative to the research objectives and risk mitigation.
○ If meeting in person you will be required to wear a mask and practice social
distancing.
○ The meeting space will be disinfected before and after the meeting.

The USD Library is open!

The USD Library is open! See our updated hours, the Library Reopening Plan and Frequently Asked Questions for more information.

https://libguides.usd.edu/reopening-plan 

FAQ: https://www.usd.edu/library/covid-19-faq

Proxy server update

The library recently updated its proxy server used for connecting USD members to licensed databases, e-books and journals. 

·       We will no longer be using login.ezproxy.usd.edu/login?url=

·       Our new proxy prefix is usd.idm.oclc.org/login?url=

·       Please update your bookmarks!

We have a web-tool that will generate urls with the proxy prefix.  libguides.usd.edu/purl/generate

For additional information about linking, please see our Libguide for direct linking to resources.  libguides.usd.edu/purl



Found a broken link?  email us at library@usd.edu or use our web form www.usd.edu/library/forms-feedback

Library Hours - Fall Semester

Fall semester hours begin Aug. 19

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

Library re-opening

I.D. Weeks Library Building will re-open Aug. 3

Hours from Aug 3 - 16

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

Aug 17-18 hours: 8am-8pm

Fall semester hours begin Aug. 19

Database Trial - New Play Exchange

University Libraries will be trialing New Play Exchange

All you need to do is visit
https://usd.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://newplayexchange.org/

Fill out our feedback form and let us know what you think about this resource:  http://libguides.usd.edu/trial

Database Trial -Digital Theatre+

University Libraries will be trialing  Digital Theatre+ 20th July - 10th August, 2020

All you need to do is visit
https://usd.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.digitaltheatreplus.com

Fill out our feedback form and let us know what you think about this resource:  http://libguides.usd.edu/trial

Database Trial - Drama Online

University Libraries will be trialing Drama Online until August 12, 2020

https://usd.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.dramaonlinelibrary.com/

Database information https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6fXahjQUiA

Fill out our feedback form and let us know what you think about this resource:  http://libguides.usd.edu/trial

Database Trial - American Heart Association eBooks

We are trialing American Heart Association eBooks until August 28 2020

https://usd.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ahainst.ipublishcentral.com/

Fill out our feedback form and let us know what you think about this resource:  http://libguides.usd.edu/trial

Titles available are:
2015 Handbook of Emergency Cardiovascular Care for Healthcare Providers eBook
2015 American Heart Association Guidelines Update for CPR and ECC eBook
Basic Life Support Provider Manual eBook
Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support Provider Manual eBook
Heartsaver First Aid Student Workbook eBook
Heartsaver CPR AED Student Workbook eBook
Heartsaver Pediatric First Aid CPR AED Student eBook
Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) Provider Manual eBook
ACLS for Experienced Providers Manual and Resource Text eBook
Pediatric Emergency Assessment, Recognition and Stabilization (PEARS) Provider Manual eBook
Heartsaver® Bloodborne Pathogens Student Workbook eBook

New EBSCO databases!

The following EBSCO online databases are now available through The South Dakota State Library’s partnership with Minitex:

Applied Science and Technology Sources
https://usd.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?db=aci

This database offers a diverse array of full-text and indexed content covering the full spectrum of the applied sciences and computing disciplines — from acoustics to aeronautics, neural networks to nuclear engineering.


European Views of the Americas
https://usd.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?db=hev

This is a free archive of indexed publications related to the Americas and written in Europe before 1750. It includes thousands of valuable primary source records covering the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of Native American peoples.


Newspaper Source
https://usd.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?db=nfh

Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for hundreds of national (U.S.), international and regional newspapers.


Open Dissertations
https://biblioboard.com/opendissertations/

EBSCO Open Dissertations is a free database with records for more than 1.2 million electronic theses and dissertations from around the world.


World Politics Review
https://usd.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?db=wpr

This unique database provides uncompromising analysis of critical global trends to give academics, policymakers and businesspeople the context they need to have the confidence they want.

All databases links are also available on our A-Z database list  https://libguides.usd.edu/az.php

Library Hours - 4th of July

Our offices will be closed July 3-5 for the 4th of July holiday. There will be no online reference on Friday and Sunday. Online services will resume July 6th.

Library Hours- Summer

I.D. Weeks building is currently closed.  If you require items from the library please see this libguide.  https://libguides.usd.edu/online-learning/appointments

RESOLVED - USD online services are down

Please contact libanswers.usd.edu if you continue to see errors. Various online services such as CAS, SNAP, D2L and the U Portal are down. This includes our DATABASES and LINKS IN THE CATALOG. ITS is working on the issue.

Database Trial - Harper’s Weekly

Harper’s Weekly - Trial runs June 5- July 6, 2020
https://usd.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://harp.alexanderstreet.com

HarpWeek provides electronic access to Harper’s Weekly, the illustrated 19th century "Journal of Civilization" for a 56-year period: 1857-1912. Harper's Weekly is an important primary resource for examining 19th-century America on a cumulative week-to-week basis. HarpWeek's electronic database makes it possible for the user to discover the lively

• news stories
• illustrations
• cartoons
• editorials
• biographies
• literature

and even advertisements that shaped and reflected public opinion in this era.
The pages are scanned as facsimile Images, then created both Thesaurus-based Indexing and Searchable Full-text which integrate with those pages to provide the user with pinpoint access to precise information, or with a general overview of the period.

Fill out our feedback form and let us know what you think about this resource: http://libguides.usd.edu/trial

Database Trial - Oxford Constitutional Law

Trial is open until June 19, 2020

https://usd.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://oxcon.ouplaw.com/

Full access to all content included within Oxford Constitutions of the World including the most up-to-date constitution for every jurisdiction across the world including national, sub-national, and state constitutions, as well as those of special sovereignties and recognized autonomous regions. In addition, you will have access to the Oxford Law Citator. The Citator offers easy access linking to related content available in all new Oxford online legal services.


Fill out our feedback form and let us know what you think about this resource: http://libguides.usd.edu/trial

Database Trial - Health Library database-Speech, Language, Hearing collection

Health Library database-Speech, Language, Hearing collection

Trial is open until June 19, 2020

https://usd.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://lwwhealthlibrary.com

Get convenient, cost-effective access to 15 core books ideal for for the SLH student and practitioner. Also included are over 235 video clips that cover fluency, audiology, voice, neuroscience, and anatomy and physiology


Fill out our feedback form and let us know what you think about this resource: http://libguides.usd.edu/trial