Unleash your creativity and develop new ways to communicate your research.
Zine your research!
No prior zine making experience required – just come with some research/writing you’d like to turn into a zine!
Instruction and art supplies will be provided.
29 October | 12:00-1:30 pm
In person only - I.D. Weeks 321(archives reading room)
Digital Scholarship & Research Services USD University Libraries
Use the qr code to register
Contact:
Danielle.Loftus@usd.edu
Anna.Simonson@usd.edu
• Call for entries September 23, 2024 – March 7, 2025
• The exhibition will be: August 25, 2025 – January 5, 2026
• Entry is open to all. Entry is free. Artists may submit up to three works for consideration. Submit entries at https://libguides.usd.edu/BU8, with one image per piece.
Bound and Unbound 8 is a is an international and juried exhibition.
This year's Juror is Isobelle Ouzman
Isobelle Ouzman is a British artist raised in Washington State, USA, now living and working in Europe. Ouzman graduated from Tacoma School of the Arts in 2010 and has been creating book art ever since, combining paper carving and illustration to create 3-dimensional stories within the pages of discarded novels, journals, and sketchbooks. Her altered books are a testament to the value of slow, purposeful work - gluing, carving, and illustrating through hundreds of pages over many weeks and months at a time. Her dedication to working with books stems from both her love for reading (from fairytales to psychology and everything in between) and her genuine connection to others through storytelling. She aims to highlight the value of books as an object, in addition to the transformative nature of narrative. Her work has been exhibited in the USA and Slovakia, featured in magazines such as Hi-Fructose, Colossal, and My Modern Met, and can be found in private collections worldwide. https://isobelleouzman.com
Library Night Out
Graduate & Professional Students Open House
September 30, 5:30-7:00 pm
I.D. Weeks Library, 2nd Floor Tower
Learn about Library Services, Food & Drinks Provided, Win Prizes, and More
In August, USD RED had 9827 full-text downloads and 10 new submissions were posted, bringing the total works in the repository to 1891. University of South Dakota scholarship was read by 585 institutions across 132 countries.
The most popular papers were:
A Criminological Analysis of Notorious Serial Killers in the United States (442 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/honors-thesis/156
Application of Leininger’s Culture Care Theory in Family Medical History (288 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/honors-thesis/43
THE EFFECTS OF EXERCISE ON MENTAL HEALTH (223 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/honors-thesis/134
The most popular publications were:
Honors Thesis (4258 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/honors-thesis
Dissertations and Theses (1789 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/diss-thesis
South Dakota Law Review (1209 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/sdlrev
Thank you to all our collaborators for helping us complete transcripts for the Mabel Townsley Papers! 248 pages were completed in a couple of months!
https://explore.digitalsd.org/digital/collection/richardson/search/searchterm/Mabel%20Townsley%20Papers/field/collec/mode/exact/conn/and
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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Thanks to generous funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and a partnership with National History Day in Iowa, we're hosting a free workshop for educators. Rooted in CWRGM's materials, the workshop offers strategies for implementing project-based, digital learning that is designed to help students develop their analytical research and writing skills.
Attendees will receive a $300 stipend & access to a comprehensive, approximately 6-week curriculum with built-in resources for SPED and ELL students.
The workshop is limited to 15 attendees, & interested candidates should use the Google Form to apply.
Applications close on September 25th, & we'll notify applicants in late September.
When: Saturday, October 12 from 9:00am–3:00 pm
Where: LeMars Educational Service Center at 940 Lincoln St. SW, Le Mars, IA, 51031
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) recently awarded the University of South Dakota University Libraries a two-year Digital Humanities Advancement Grant.
The project, “Subject Spotter: Automation & Subject Tagging Historical Texts,” is part of the libraries’ growing commitment to interdisciplinary digital humanities education and training. Digital humanities assistant professor of practice, Lindsey R. Peterson, Ph.D., will co-direct the project alongside Elizabeth Le Beaud with the Mississippi Digital Library.
Peterson and Le Beaud are partnering with Brumfield Labs, the creators of FromThePage, to develop and test AI-based software designed to increase access to digital archives and libraries.
The Subject Spotter software proposes to use named entity recognition and large language models to automatically create subject tags for historical texts, significantly improving search capabilities and making these resources more discoverable to researchers, educators and the public.
The project will utilize the Civil War and Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi (CWRGM), co-directed by Peterson and Susannah J. Ural, Ph.D., at Mississippi State University, to test the software. CWRGM is an extensive collection of over 20,000 letters sent to the governors of Mississippi during the Civil War and Reconstruction and has already digitized, transcribed and subject tagged over 12,000 letters to date.
“Peterson’s research presents tremendous opportunities for the University of South Dakota to advance the field of digital humanities, as demonstrated by both the Civil War and Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi and Subject Spotter projects,” says Dan Daily, dean of libraries. “Moreover, University of South Dakota students, who are working with Peterson on these projects, gain valuable work experience and make genuine contributions to developing access to the primary sources that help us understand America’s past.”
Elisabeth “Liz” Kluin, a master’s student in the Department of English, will work as a graduate research assistant on the project, providing feedback on the accuracy of the AI-generated subject tags.
Kluin will gain hands-on experience with software development, AI-driven research and digital editing and archiving.
“Working on Subject Spotter will be an incredible opportunity for Liz,” says Peterson. “Humanities research and reasoning skills are critical to the development of AI, and projects like Subject Spotter reflect how important historical reasoning and interdisciplinary training have become for students like Liz.”
“This position offers me a chance to be at the forefront of digital innovation in the humanities, and I am thrilled and honored to continue working with CWRGM,” says Kluin.
Learn more about the NEH grant.
U.S. Copyright Law provides instructors with the right to show and/or assign films and videos for teaching and learning, both in their entirety and clips thereof, under the following conditions:
Films and videos used within distance education courses, or otherwise made available to students through D2L outside of face-to-face instruction, are, per U.S. Copyright law, subject to greater copyright restriction than those shown in face-to-face instruction. In light of U.S. Copyright law and to support teaching and learning, the University Libraries licenses streaming film and video databases, Hence, instructors are encouraged to use materials from these film and video resources.
The University Libraries also purchases film and video on a title-by-title basis, both in streaming and DVD formats; and these materials are available through the University Libraries. Please check the library catalog or contact library@usd.edu about the availability of a film or video.
If the University Libraries cannot purchase a video or film, instructors may request that ITS make a digital copy of a lawfully owned copy of a film or video to stream for viewing in face-to-face courses. Seeking permission of the producer is not required. Please submit a ticket for this service. Instructors may only make the digitized copy available through D2L.
This information is taken from the One Stop article https://td.usd.edu/TDClient/33/Portal/KB/ArticleDet?ID=9101
More information can be found at https://libguides.usd.edu/purl/streaming
USD ensures that you have access to hundreds of journals and resources for your learning. Today, we’re highlighting one of those resources: The Chronicle of Higher Education! Whether you are on campus or on the go, you have access to The Chronicle’s news, opinions, advice, and data. Get started today at chronicle.com.
For best access, register for an account using your USD email address.
The University Libraries are trialing the database - American Children’s Books 1654-1819 until Nov. 1.
https://usd.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/readex/welcome?p=AMCBX
The most comprehensive digital collection of books published for children’s entertainment, instruction, education, and play
Nearly 6,000 books offer extraordinary insight into early American life
Features text and data analysis tools, author biographies, and suggested search paths for easy browsing and discovery
Fill out our feedback form and let us know what you think about this resource: http://libguides.usd.edu/trial
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In August, USD RED had 14431 full-text downloads and 25 new submissions were posted, bringing the total works in the repository to 1845. University of South Dakota scholarship was read by 570 institutions across 143 countries.
The most popular papers were:
A Criminological Analysis of Notorious Serial Killers in the United States (567 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/honors-thesis/156
Application of Leininger’s Culture Care Theory in Family Medical History (346 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/honors-thesis/43
Confined In (Patri)Architecture: How Gothic and Horror Literature Exposes Ongoing Violence and Oppression Against Women (182 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/diss-thesis/68
The most popular publications were:
Honors Thesis (5883 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/honors-thesis
Dissertations and Theses (3038 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/diss-thesis
South Dakota Law Review (1944 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/sdlrev
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