… Gallery was made possible by a gift from Doug and Sandy Oleson. Briggs Library invites SDSU students, faculty, staff and alumni to submit original artwork related to the theme for display in the show. Physical media formats may be submitted, including painting, photography, screen printing, graphic design, drawing, fiber and written word, as some examples. Artists may submit up to three works. Work should be no smaller than 8 inches x 8 inches, no heavier than 15 pounds, and able to hang from a hook on a cable (see image). Plexiglas is preferred for framed work. Submission Guidelines Artists should send a single email with all submission information. The email subject line should be “Jackrabbit … The body of the email should include the artist’s name, hometown, SDSU affiliation, contact information, title of the work(s) submitted, year the work was completed, medium, sale price or Not For Sale and a brief statement for each work submitted (200 words or less). Submissions are due by November 13, 2023. Email submissions to …
… Doner Auditorium project progresses with SDHC grant The Doner Auditorium digital preservation project is moving forward, thanks to a South Dakota Humanities Council grant. The Archives & Special Collections launched this project in the summer of 2019 in an effort to preserve and promote … Doner Auditorium’s backstage holds four decades worth of the theater program students’ inscriptions, including signatures, dates, season lineups and favorite lines from plays. Built in 1912, Doner Auditorium hosted hundreds of Prairie Repertory Theatre and State University Theatre shows. Now that the theater program has moved to the new Performing … backstage and digital materials from the Archives’ Theatre Collection. Users will be able to select individual inscriptions and see related information, like programs and production images. This exhibit will provide a literal behind-the-scenes view of the theater program. It will increase public access to Theatre Collection materials that are presently only …
… worth of inscriptions from theatre students who covered the walls, ceilings and other surfaces with their signatures, dates, season lineup schedules, quotes and favorite lines from plays. Built in 1912 as part of Morrill Hall (formerly known as the Administration Building), Doner Auditorium was home for hundreds of State University Theatre and Prairie Repertory … backstage areas. The department seeks donor assistance to fund the preservation of this unique institutional history. Using high-quality photographs, printed theater materials and open-source software, the Archives proposes to create an interactive exhibit in the form of a virtual map of the backstage rooms. With this map, users could select individual inscriptions and see related information, like digitized programs and production images. The online exhibit will provide a literal behind-the-scenes view of the theater program that highlights the work of the students themselves, not just the characters they …
… University Theatre and Prairie Repertory Theatre productions. The backstage areas held nearly four decades worth of inscriptions from theatre students who covered the walls, ceilings and other surfaces with their signatures, dates, season lineup schedules, quotes and favorite lines from plays. In an effort to preserve this unique institutional history, the SDSU Archives and Special Collections began the Doner Auditorium Digitization and Preservation Project to photograph these spaces for a special online gallery. Doner Auditorium ceased being used for theater shows in 2019 when the new Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center opened. Read more about the project in this 2019 article and 2020 article, and about the auditorium's history. These digital bookplates recognize donors whose gifts support this …
… Tips for Effective Research Assignments Do: Consider the purpose of the assignment, does it directly relate to goals of your course and help students understand the role information plays in your subject? Prepare your students for the assignment: share the purpose, the expectations for the final product, and the steps involved in the process. Establish milestones for pieces of the assignment to help students make progress as well as to eliminate opportunities for plagiarism. Consider using our Research Guides and/or scheduling an instruction session with a librarian to make sure students know how to do what you require. Consult with your Subject Librarian on the …
… Visitor Information Visitor Information Visitors to Briggs Library may use physical collections, use library computers to access online collections, and connect their devices to guest Wi-Fi provided by the university. South Dakota residents may check out materials using a government-issued photo ID card; other visitors may apply for a guest library card. Parents of infants and young children are welcome to use the Mothers’ Room located on the lower … parking. Commuter Lot 154, directly north of the building, requires a visitor pass on weekdays 7 a.m.–4 p.m. No pass is needed on evenings and weekends. See the Hours page for daily opening and closing times. Please note that Archives and Special Collections hours may differ from library building hours. .chat__widget { position: fixed; bottom: 0; right:0; …
… New Faculty Resources and Services Hilton M. Briggs Library welcomes new faculty to South Dakota State University! Librarians and staff are here to help you with your teaching and research needs. Click the For Faculty link to learn about what the library has to offer you. The link will provide information on instruction services, the SDSU institutional repository Open PRAIRIE, copyright, and much more. Don't forget to check out the ever-expanding Archives and Special Collections physical and digital materials, or the extensive government … of the most commonly accessed databases. Academic Search Premier - General multidisciplinary database covering virtually every subject area. Includes full-text peer-reviewed journals, magazines, newspapers, and other sources. CINAHL - Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature indexes 5,000 journals and hundreds of books dating from 1937 to present. In …
… Glass plate negatives show early 1900s Brookings life The existence of the Frank Ross Glass Plate Negatives Collection is a case of right time, right place. The collection was produced by a Brookings area photographer named Frank Ross, according to a Nov. 17, 2022, Arlington Sun article. Ross captured portraits and images of daily life in and around Brookings County at the turn of the 20th century. “It gives a quick glimpse into life around the early 1900s,” said archivist Michele Christian. The … are of schools, farms, steam agricultural farm implements, winter weather, and graduations. “This collection adds to the history of Brookings,” Christian said, noting the materials may be helpful in genealogy searches and research about this time period. Prior to this acquisition, the Archives had only a handful of glass plate negatives. The Ross Collection …
… SDSU to host ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Community Read events A series of events featuring the bestselling book “Killers of the Flower Moon” this semester will culminate April 5, when author David Grann will give a lecture on the South Dakota State University campus. The … and tribal politics and traditions. McEntee said it took a lot of support from a lot of different parties to host the events and bring Grann to campus. Work to do so started last May. After organizers confirmed they could get Grann to SDSU, the other plans started falling into place. The Community Read events are being sponsored by the South Dakota Humanities …
… Lisa Lindell Hilton M. Briggs Library lisa.lindell@sdstate.edu Telephone number: 605-688-5561 116Briggs Library 116 Briggs Library-Box 2115 University Station Brookings, SD 57007 Women's history, library history, print culture Lindell, Lisa R. (2023). "The harvest is so great and the laborers are so few": The public ministry of two evangelical … South Dakota History, 45(1), 27-67. Lindell, Lisa R. (2014). A woman of her time: Dr Frances Woods and the intersection of war, expansionism and equal rights. Women's History Magazine, 75, 11-19. Lindell, Lisa R. (2013). The education of Linnie Haguewood. Annals of Iowa, 72(2), 91-121. Lindell, Lisa R. (2012). "Awake to the needs of our day": Early women … Unitarian women ministers in nineteenth-century South Dakota. South Dakota History, 38(2), 148-180. Lindell, Lisa R. (2005). A "splendid service": The South Dakota Free Library Commission in the 1930s. South Dakota History, 35(3), 249-271. Lindell, Lisa. (2004). Bringing books to a "book-hungry land": Print culture on the Dakota prairie. Book History, 7, …