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Wednesday, October 07, 2009
National Information Literacy Awareness Month
October 2009 is National Information Literacy Awareness Month, according to a proclamation statement issued on October 1, 2009 by President Obama. The President specifically calls people "to recognize the important role information plays in our daily lives, and appreciate the need for a greater understanding of its impact."
Excerpts from the proclamation:
Though we may know how to find the information we need, we must also know how to evaluate it. Over the past decade, we have seen a crisis of authenticity emerge. We now live in a world where anyone can publish an opinion or perspective, whether true or not, and have that opinion amplified within the information marketplace.
An informed and educated citizenry is essential to the functioning of our modern democratic society, and I encourage educational and community institutions across the country to help Americans find and evaluate the information they seek, in all its forms.
Read the complete proclamation: The White House -- Proclamation
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
South Dakota newspapers online
Use the Newsbank database to read South Dakota newspapers from Pierre, Mitchell, Aberdeen, and Rapid City and to read AP news stories from the Sioux Falls area. A link to Newsbank may be found in the "Database Quicklinks" drop down menu in the upper right corner of the Library's home page. Click on "South Dakota News Package" to search on all the newspapers at one time. Or click on the individual newspapers to search one at a time. Newsbank also includes a database of historical Aberdeen newspaper articles from the 1880's to the 1920's (for example, since L. Frank Baum, the author of The Wizard of Oz, once lived in Aberdeen, search the historical papers for "oz").
Edited on: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 5:03 PM
Categories: Databases, New Materials, News
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Summer hours
Summer hours are: Monday through Thursday from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. We will be closed on Monday, May 25, 2009 for Memorial Day and on Friday, July 3, 2009 for Independence Day. A link to library hours may be found in the left navigation bar on the library home page.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Library Open Until MIDNIGHT
The Library is now open until MIDNIGHT on the evenings it would normally close at 10 p.m. The Spring 2009 end-of-semester extended hours are in effect from Tuesday April 21 through Wednesday May 6 on the following days/dates:
Tuesday-Thursday Apr 21-24 8am-midnight
Sunday Apr 26 2pm-midnight
Monday-Thursday Apr 27-Apr30 8am-midnight
Sunday May 3 2pm-midnight
Monday-Wednesday May 4-6 8am-midnight
Friday, April 10, 2009
Free Music Archive
Free Music Archive offers free downloads under Creative Commons and other licenses. To find music in the Free Music Archive, do a music search or browse by curator or genre.
"The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads. The Free Music Archive is being directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America. Radio has always offered the public free access to new music. The Free Music Archive is a continuation of that purpose, designed for the age of the internet.
Every mp3 you discover on The Free Music Archive is pre-cleared for certain types of uses that would otherwise be prohibited by outdated copyright law. Are you a podcaster looking for pod-safe audio? A radio or video producer searching for instrumental bed music that won't put your audience to sleep? A remix artist looking for pre-cleared samples? Or are you simply looking for some new sounds to add to your next playlist? The Free Music Archive is a resource for all that and more, and unlike other websites, all of the audio has been hand-picked by established audio curators." For more information, visit: http://freemusicarchive.org/about/
Do visit the track page to discover what you can and cannot do with each track.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Library Hours - Presidents Day holiday
Library closes 5 p.m. Friday & reopens at 6 p.m. on Monday evening. Library hours for the Presidents Day holiday weekend are:
- Saturday-Sunday Feb 14-15 CLOSED
- Monday Feb 16 6pm-10pm
Friday, January 02, 2009
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Food for Fines
Please return Library items. We're still happy to take Food for Fines through Friday, December 19, if you're returning materials that are overdue.
One food item – box or can – is equivalent to $2 (and 4 ramen noodles equal 1 item). For example, a $4 fine can be “paid” with 2 food items, a $5 fine can be paid with 3 food items, and a $9 fine can be paid with 5 food items. All food goes to the Food Pantry.
Have a great winter break and a joyous new year!
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
One Campus One Book
“My principal said it was cool of me to take my sister to prom.” – Sheer Dominance
Maybe you relate to the author of this quote, maybe you don’t. Either way, you will find something to connect with in the book Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers. Whether you read one or all twenty-nine essays, you will be sure to find something to interest, entertain, shock, or impact you.
This book is the library’s selection for One Campus One Book - Fall 2008. In order to promote discussion and join a campus wide community of readers, Dakota State University's Karl E. Mundt Library will be holding this reading event. Through the mass reading of a single text, we are able to cross the boundaries of the classroom and evolve into a campus focused on thinking, talking, learning, and sharing.
Copies of the book are available at the library. Visit 1CampusOneBook for info, reviews, pictures, etc.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Midnight hours & Cider: Sundays through Thursdays
The Library will remain open until midnight on Sunday through Thursday evenings until the middle of finals week. At...