Library Hours - Labor Day

Saturday - Sunday (9/3-4) Noon - 5pm

Monday (9/5) Noon-10pm

July 2022 USD RED Readership Snapshot

July 2022 USD RED Readership Snapshot

Monthly Readership Totals:
Last month, USD RED had 4594 full-text downloads and 3 new submissions were posted, bringing the total works in the repository to 1260. University of South Dakota scholarship was read by 457 institutions across 130 countries. 

The most popular papers were:
A Criminological Analysis of Notorious Serial Killers in the United States (839 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/honors-thesis/156

 
The Art of Breaking Up: Ending Romantic Relationships (177 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/honors-thesis/223

 
Application of Leininger’s Culture Care Theory in Family Medical History (175 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/honors-thesis/43


The most popular publications were: 

Honors Thesis (3477 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/honors-thesis

 
Dissertations and Theses (422 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/diss-thesis

 
Occupational Therapy Capstone Presentations (375 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/ot-capstone

 

Library Hours - Fall Semester

Saturday (8/20) 10 am - 5 pm

Sunday (8/21) Noon - Midnight

 

Fall hours begin Monday, Aug. 22

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

RED Readership - June

June Monthly Readership Totals:
Last month, USD RED had 5832 full-text downloads and 15 new submissions were posted, bringing the total works in the repository to 1251. University of South Dakota scholarship was read by 613 institutions across 125 countries. 

The most popular papers were:
A Criminological Analysis of Notorious Serial Killers in the United States (1225 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/honors-thesis/156

Application of Leininger’s Culture Care Theory in Family Medical History (251 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/honors-thesis/43

The Art of Breaking Up: Ending Romantic Relationships (196 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/honors-thesis/223


The most popular publications were:
Honors Thesis (4469 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/honors-thesis

Occupational Therapy Capstone Presentations (472 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/ot-capstone

Dissertations and Theses (458 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/diss-thesis

New HOTP books

 Need something to read this summer?  Check our our Hot Off the Press books!

https://libguides.usd.edu/hotoffthepress
 

Library Hours - 4th of July

 July 2-4 Closed

RED May Readership

May Monthly Readership Totals: 

Last month, USD RED had 8328 full-text downloads and 60 new submissions were posted, bringing the total works in the repository to 1246. University of South Dakota scholarship was read by 962 institutions across 138 countries.
The most popular papers were:
A Criminological Analysis of Notorious Serial Killers in the United States (2469 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/honors-thesis/156

The Effect of Exercise on College Students' Overall Health (270 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/honors-thesis/74

The Effect of a Universal Basic Income on Life Decisions: Evidence from a Student Lab Experiment (266 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/honors-thesis/69


The most popular publications were:
Honors Thesis (6680 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/honors-thesis

Occupational Therapy Capstone Presentations (609 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/ot-capstone

Dissertations and Theses (603 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/diss-thesis

Library Hours - Juneteenth

 June 18-20 Closed

1972 Rapid City Flood

 From USD's Digital Library collections...

On June 9, 1972 a devastating flood ravaged Rapid City and the surrounding area in the Black Hills.

The South Dakota Oral History Center has a collection of oral histories about the flood.  https://tinyurl.com/RapidCityFlood

Addition information and primary resources can be found at

https://tinyurl.com/RapidCityFloodPictures

https://1972flood.omeka.net/collections/browse

https://www.sdpb.org/blogs/images-of-the-past/the-1972-rapid-city-flood/

Library Hours - Memorial Day

 May 28-30 Closed

Scheduled Journals Maintenance-Ovid

On 19 May 2022 starting at 9 pm Central time, the Ovid journals platform will be unavailable for around 45 minutes due to maintenance work.

 

 

 

RED April Readership totals

In April, USD RED had 8990 full-text downloads and 51 new submissions were posted, bringing the total works in the repository to 1218. University of South Dakota scholarship was read by 1069 institutions across 130 countries.
 

The most popular papers were:
A Criminological Analysis of Notorious Serial Killers in the United States (2967 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/honors-thesis/156
The Effect of Exercise on College Students' Overall Health (417 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/honors-thesis/74
The Effect of a Universal Basic Income on Life Decisions: Evidence from a Student Lab Experiment (396 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/honors-thesis/69


The most popular publications were:
Honors Thesis (7507 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/honors-thesis
Occupational Therapy Capstone Presentations (514 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/ot-capstone
Dissertations and Theses (448 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/diss-thesis

BoardVitals maintenance -May 14-15

BoardVitals site is undergoing a planned procedure! Hopefully you are sound asleep while it is happening and it won't interrupt your studies too much. Access to the desktop and mobile app will be unavailable from Sat, May 14 10:00 PM (CST) - Sun, May 15 10:00 AM (CST).

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

 

 

 

Virtual Reference Schedule, May 9-August 19, 2022

 Reference services will be available virtually May 9-August 19, 2022

https://libanswers.usd.edu

Hours available

Monday - Thursday
9 am - 11:30 am
1pm - 3:30 pm
6 pm - 9 pm

Friday
9 am - 11:30 am
1pm - 3:30 pm

Sunday
2pm - 5 pm
6 pm - 9 pm

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