The Archives reading room hours - June

The Archives reading room will be available by appointment only after 12pm from June 9 to June 13, 2025. Email the Archives at speccoll at usd.edu

 

 

FromthePage Update - Jane Rooker Breeden Papers

Thank you to all our collaborators for helping us complete transcripts for the Jane Rooker Breeden Papers!  We had 11 collaborators who completed 455 pages in seven months!

The completed project can be found at
https://explore.digitalsd.org/digital/search/searchterm/Jane%20Rooker%20Breeden%20Papers/field/all/mode/exact/conn/and/order/title

 

 

We have more collections that need transcriptions.  You can help today!  https://fromthepage.com/usdarchives

FromThePage is a software designed for transcribing documents. The platform enables users to view an image of a page and transcribe the corresponding text.

More information https://libguides.usd.edu/fromthepage Questions? Email us at library@usd.edu
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Help us transcribe our Archive collections!

Help us transcribe our collections!

https://fromthepage.com/usdarchives

FromThePage is a software designed for transcribing documents. The platform enables users to view an image of a page and transcribe the corresponding text.

More information https://libguides.usd.edu/fromthepage 

Questions? Email us at library@usd.edu

 

Open House - Archives & Special Collections, Digital Humanities, Digital Imaging Lab, and South Dakota Oral History Center

The University of South Dakota’s University Libraries is set to host an open house for the newly renovated special collections area on the third floor of the I.D. Weeks Library on USD’s campus Thursday, April 18, from 4-6 p.m.

The open house is free and open to the public, and snacks and refreshments will be available.

The third floor of the library is home to the Archives & Special Collections; Digital Humanities initiative; Digital Imaging Lab, Digital Library and Photographs; and the South Dakota Oral History Center.

The Archives & Special Collections houses collections of manuscripts and rare books, as well as the institutional archives for USD. Materials held by Archives & Special Collections relate to local, state and regional history and politics, including Native American history and culture. Archivist and Special Collections Librarian Ryan Burdge will be present to give guided tours of the collections, giving attendees a behind-the-scenes look at where and how these valuable resources are kept and preserved.

Digital Humanities Librarian Lindsey Peterson, Ph.D., and a team of undergraduate and graduate students will share their editorial work on the Civil War & Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi project (CWRGM), a digital documentary edition of over 20,000 archival documents sent to Mississippi’s governors during the Civil War and Reconstruction. The CWRGM team will discuss their efforts to use metadata, transcriptions, subject tags and annotations to digitally disseminate this vast collection of documents, which feature the voices of thousands of Americans from diverse backgrounds as they engage with their government during a tumultuous and pivotal era of U.S. history.

Sarah Hanson-Pareek, head of the Digital Imaging Lab, Digital Library and Photographs, will discuss USD’s holdings in the Digital Library of South Dakota. The Digital Imaging Lab, Digital Library and Photographs is home to an advanced imaging facility, mechanisms for providing open access to USD’s cultural heritage collections through the Digital Library of South Dakota and the curation of unique photographic materials housed in the Archives & Special Collections.

Attendees will also have a chance to visit the South Dakota Oral History Center with Director Samuel Herley, Ph.D., and examine sample transcripts and recordings from its collections, which include the American Indian Research Project and South Dakota Oral History Project. The South Dakota Oral History Center, founded in 1966, contains more than 5,000 recordings from some 50 tribal nations and all 66 counties in South Dakota. The combined resources of the South Dakota Oral History Center make it one of the largest collections of oral histories and historical recordings on the northern Great Plains.

The schedule of events for the open house is as follows.

4-4:20 p.m. – Opening

Invocation by Sungmanity Oyate H’oka
Introductions by Damon Leader Charge, director of tribal outreach, Sanford School of Medicine
4:20-4:50 p.m. – Tours and learning sessions

Archives & Special Collections tour
Digital Humanities initiative information sessions
Digital Imaging Lab, Digital Library and Photographs information session
South Dakota Oral History Center listening stations
5:15-5:30 p.m. – Speakers

John Little, Ph.D., director of Native recruitment and alumni engagement
Cheryl Maloney, master’s student
5:30-5:50 p.m. – Tours and learning sessions

Archives & Special Collections tour
Digital Humanities initiative information sessions
Digital Imaging Lab, Digital Library and Photographs information session
South Dakota Oral History Center listening stations

 

 

Celebrating 50 Years of Tiospaye and the 50th Annual Wacipi

https://archivesandspecialcollections.wordpress.com/2024/04/05/celebrating-50-years-of-tiospaye-and-the-50th-annual-wacipi/

Photo - Dancer at the 19th Annual USD Wacipi hosted by the Tiospaye Student Council, 1991.

 

Celebrating 50 Years of Tiospaye

 

 

Installation view in the John A. Day Gallery, Warren M. Lee Center for the Fine Arts
Photograph courtesy Amy Fill, University Art Galleries

The John A. Day Gallery at the University of South Dakota is exhibiting historical images from the USD Photograph Collection and recordings from the South Dakota Oral History Center through March 28, in celebration of the long history of the student led wacipi (often referred to as powwow) at USD.

Celebrating 50 Years of Tiospaye is a pop up installation which grew out of several initiatives.

USD Native Services (NSS), USD Archives and Special Collections (A&SC), and Digital Imaging Lab, Digital Library and Photographs (DIL/DL/P) partnered together to locate, identify, and digitize images related to the Annual Wacipi held in the A&SC. The wacipi was and continues to be hosted by the Tiospaye Student Council, the Native American student group on campus, founded in 1957. The photographs range in date from 1966 to 1999 and also feature members of the Tiospaye Student Council, USD Native alumni, and various events held in collaboration with the Annual Wacipi. 

Over the past year, this unique partnership included the identification of more than 700 negatives by Dr. John Little, Director of Native Recruitment & Alumni Engagement. Sarah Hanson-Pareek, head of the DIL/DL/P, and Library Technology Librarian Anne Hinseth imaged the negatives and efforts are now underway to have them entered in the Digital Library of South Dakota for the 50^th Anniversary Wacipi on April 6 and April 7 at the Sanford Coyote Sports Center. Amy Fill, director of the University Art Galleries, selected four images from the collection to place on view in the Day Gallery.

The wacipi project is part of a larger project by NSS focused on finding all photographs featuring Native content throughout USD’s history held in the A&SC. Research includes other formats and materials held both in the A&SC and the South Dakota Oral History Center. Of particular importance is an early wacipi recording at USD from 1971, AIRP 625, in which “participants describe costumes, music, and giveaways.” The recording is included in this exhibition.

More information about the 50th Annual Wacipi.

Images on view from left to right:

Tiospaye Student Council Drum at the 20^th Annual USD Wacipi, Hosted and Organized by the Tiospaye Student Council, DakotaDome, 1992

Negative number: 13681.1.2, Series 10, Box 122

Drum Group at the 21^st Annual USD Wacipi, Hosted and Organized by the Tiospaye Student Council, DakotaDome, 1993

Negative number: 6370.31, Series 11

19^th Annual USD Wacipi, Hosted and Organized by the Tiospaye Student Council, DakotaDome, 1991

Negative number: 6034.19, Series 11

Institute of Indian Studies Monthly Wacipi, Hosted by Germaine and Adam Sitting Crow, Armory, March 1971

Starting in the 1970-1971 academic year, the Institute of Indian Studies in collaboration with the W. H. Over Museum started hosting monthly wacipis.

Negative number: 10624.9.2, Series 10, Box 89

Photographs from the USD Photograph Collection, USD Archives and Special Collections, University Libraries, University of South Dakota

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AIRP 625 (recorded in 1970): Sound recording of a pow wow at the University of South Dakota. Participants describe costumes, the music, giveaways, and the reasons for holding pow wows.

Sound recording from the American Indian Research Project (AIRP), South Dakota Oral History Center, University Libraries, University of South Dakota

Originally posted at https://archivesandspecialcollections.wordpress.com/2024/03/20/celebrating-50-years-of-tiospaye/ 

Annual Report 2023

https://libguides.usd.edu/Annual_Report

 

Celebrating 50 years of Wacipi at the University of South Dakota

 Celebrating 50 years of Wacipi at the University of South Dakota

https://listen.sdpb.org/arts-life/2024-01-21/celebrating-50-years-of-wacipi-at-the-university-of-south-dakota

Photo credit: Sarah A. Hanson-Pareek/
University Of South Dakota Libraries, Archives, And Special Collections

 

 

Save the date- Open House April 18, 2024

Open house: Save the date

Archives & Special Collections, Digital Humanities, Digital Imaging Lab, and South Dakota Oral History Center

IDW 3rd Floor 321

Join us for refreshments, guided tours, interactive stations and guest speakers.

Thursday, April 18, 2024

4:00-6:00pm

 

 

Feature Friday- Ryan Mews

Help us Welcome Ryan Mews.

 

Ryan Mews, Archive Specialist, manages Archive's reading room, assisting patrons in accessing material. Ryan will also process new collection 

BROKEN BOOK EXHIBIT ON DISPLAY THROUGH END OF THE SEMESTER

 A book exhibit arranged by students in an English senior capstone course taught by Jillian Linster, Ph.D, lecturer of English, is on display on the second floor of the University of South Dakota’s I.D. Weeks Library through the end of the semester.

A reception for the exhibit is planned for April 19 at 3 p.m. in front of Archives & Special Collections on the third floor of the library, room 321. Refreshments will be served.

Students in Linster’s class are exploring the history of early modern books and their production. They are learning about the physical features of book objects, such as the difference between folios and octavos and the process of making paper. Archives & Special Collections is supporting the students’ coursework by providing examples of early modern books from the 17th through the 19th centuries for the students to examine.

The students’ interest in damaged volumes and their preservation has led them to curate this exhibit of well-used books from the Archives’ collections.

“A broken book is a sign of a book well used. Our display functions as a reminder that books are meant to be interacted with and explored. Though these books may seem in rough shape, their condition illustrates the history of their use,” said in a statement made by Linster's students. “Seeing the state of these books opens up discussion about the different ways we interact with books, not only for entertainment, but for practical use as well. Special collections serves as a place for the preservation and careful handling of these delicate books, allowing curious readers to examine objects and knowledge from a time long since past.”

 Originally posted at  https://www.usd.edu/academics/colleges-and-schools/college-of-arts-sciences/south-dakotan-arts-and-sciences/broken-book-exhibit-on-display-through-end-of-the-semester

Sarah Hanson-Pareek selected February USD Civil Service Employee of the Month

 Congratulations to Sarah Hanson-Pareek for being selected February USD Civil Service Employee of the Month!

Sarah is Curator of Digital Projects and Photographs for the Archives and Special Collections

 

Archives Reading Room - closed Dec. 27-30

Dec. 27-30: Reading room is closed. Services on an appointment-only basis.  

To schedule an appointment or for more information, please email speccoll@usd.edu or call 605-658-3380.

 

 

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. 

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 

Welcome back Coyotes! Come check out what the I.D. Weeks Library offers!

Library services and resources are available in-person and online to help you achieve your research, teaching and learning goals. What does that mean? See below to discover some of what the library offers.

REFERENCE and RESEARCH HELP

Need help finding a book? We can help! Not sure where to begin finding articles for a paper? No problem! Stop by the reference desk on the first floor of I.D. Weeks Library Monday – Thursday between the hours of 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. and a librarian will be happy to help you. Not able to get to the library? Contact us online through Ask a Librarian to connect with a librarian using email or chat. Find our hours here.  By the way, if you want to contact us during hours reference services are closed? Submit a question through Ask a Librarian and we will respond when reference services reopen.

Are you working on more in-depth research or teaching a class? Arrange to meet with a Subject Specialist Librarian for assistance with your research project or teaching. They are also who to contact for new materials requests and library instruction for your class.

PRIMARY SOURCES/COLLECTIONS

Looking for first-hand account about a topic? The Archives & Special Collections (A & SC) department can help you locate the primary sources needed for your research. A & SC is the rare books, manuscripts and archives department of the University Libraries and contains materials related to local histories, South Dakota history, Native American Collections and western expansion of the United States. It also contains materials relating to activities of USD students, faculty and alumni, as well as the USD Photograph Collection. While A & SC is currently closed for renovations, the department may be contacted via email for assistance. (speccoll@usd.edu) 

Oral Histories are also primary sources and an interesting way to hear first-hand accounts of the people of the Northern Plains. The South Dakota Oral History Center’s (SDOHC) collects and maintains these recordings which have been digitized and catalogued. Included in the collection are over 5500 interviews which preserve indigenous memories and experiences from the 1890s to present. 

The University Libraries provide many more resources to support your research, teaching and learning. Stop by to check out the library and keep an eye out for updated blog posts about the great resources available to you. Oh—and when you do stop by, wander through each floor to see the amazing Arts & Exhibits on display throughout the building!
 

Temporary Closure of Archives and Special Collections

Archives and Special Collections will be closed for renovation/expansion from May 14th, 2021- Jan 01, 2022. Patron services will be limited.

If you need additional information please contact the Archives at speccoll@usd.edu  

Vanguard: Leading on Voting Rights, Leading the Nation

 The University of South Dakota Libraries are proud to be a sponsor for the upcoming lecture “Vanguard: Leading on Voting Rights, Leading the Nation” by Professor Martha S. Jones, who is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and Professor of History at The Johns Hopkins University. The presentation is a joint Schell History Lecture and Gunderson Lecture in honor of Women’s History Month. It is scheduled for March 18 from 4 to 5 p.m. via Zoom. There is still time to register for the event. To do so, go here: https://www.usd.edu/arts-and-sciences/history/vanguard-lecture.  Jones’ book, “Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All” is part of the libraries’ Hot Off the Press Collection (https://usd-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/1r36jh2/01SDBOR_ALMA9993910090803645).

USD Libraries, Archives & Special Collections, and the South Dakota Oral History Center all house numerous collections and research materials on women’s suffrage. The SDOHC has about a dozen oral histories that discuss the topic. Several are currently featured on the SDOHC Kiosk on the second floor of I.D. Weeks Library, and many can be accessed at the Digital Library of South Dakota (https://explore.digitalsd.org/ ).  

Also in the DLSD is the Marnie Shields Pyle Papers.  This collection is part of the Richardson Collection, USD Archives & Special Collections. Mamie Shields Pyle was a prominent suffragist and leader of the South Dakota Universal Franchise League which secured suffrage to South Dakota women in 1918. She is the mother of Gladys Pyle, the first female senator from South Dakota. Her papers, highlighted here, demonstrate the organizational efforts of the suffrage campaign in South Dakota through correspondence and printed materials (https://explore.digitalsd.org/digital/collection/richardson/search/searchterm/Mamie%20Shields%20Pyle%20Papers/field/collec/mode/exact/conn/and)

For more information, contact the Archives and Special Collections (https://www.usd.edu/library/archives)  or SDOHC (https://www.usd.edu/library/sdohc).  

New treatises from the Mahoney Music Collection added to the Digital Library of South Dakota

https://archivesandspecialcollections.wordpress.com/2021/01/21/new-treatises-from-the-mahoney-music-collection-added-to-the-digital-library-of-south-dakota/

3rd Floor closure on Jan 3

Archives and Special Collections will be closed on Jan 3 due to roof construction.   The east side of third floor will also be closed off.