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Summer Hours:

Summer Library hours are Monday through Thursday from 7:30a.m. to 5p.m. and on Friday from 7:30a.m. to 4:30p.m. The building is CLOSED on weekends, but online research resources are accessible 24/7 through the Library's home page. Librarians are on duty, when the building is open, to answer your questions. Use the Ask a Librarian link at the top of library web pages to send your question by instant message or email, but please remember that it is unlikely you will receive an answer when the Library is closed.

"I Am Not an Open Book"

This week marks the inaugural Choose Privacy Week, a celebration of our right to privacy and an opportunity to focus on the importance of this issue in our increasingly public world. Sponsored by the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom, Choose Privacy Week is made possible in part by a grant from the Open Society Institute. A 20-minute video featuring Neil Gaiman, Cory Doctorow, ALA President Camila Alire, University of Chicago professor Geoffrey Stone, and others is on the Mundt Library's home page and is also available at http://vimeo.com/11399383.

For more information about the American Library Association's privacy initiative, visit www.privacyrevolution.org. You can also show your support by becoming a fan at www.facebook.com/chooseprivacyweek and by following at www.twitter.com/privacyala. (If you're tweeting about the week, please use the #chooseprivacy hashtag!).

In an information age, it’s vital to protect the impulse to be curious, read, and learn. Yet people seem resigned to the loss of their privacy rights because they see no recourse. We aim to spark a national conversation on privacy.

FREE for ALL

All BOOK SALE books and videocassettes are FREE.

Yes, that's right, FREE!

Stop by early this week, because we'll be boxing up and removing books by Friday, April 30th.

Book sale prices REDUCED!

Book Sale prices are so cheap they're practically free! Hardback books are 25 cents. Bundles of paperbacks are 25 cents per bundle. We actually have some books we're giving away FREE. Summer will be here soon; don't miss this great opportunity to find light (or not so light) reading for the porch, beach, or lawn chair.

SPECIAL DEALS for NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK

From April 11-17, all Library book sale proceeds go to the Food Pantry! We'll continue to add new materials to the sale tables each day, so don't miss this opportunity to do a good thing by buying our good things during National Library Week. The Book Sale is a joint effort of the Madison Public Library and Karl E. Mundt Library.

Other special deals for National Library Week:

April 12-18. >>> Proquest is offering free and open access to some of its databases, and you can access them at www.proquest.com/go/celebrate. Includes --

• CultureGrams™ explore the world's cultures with local experts that document the history, customs, government, and daily life in multimedia reports on over 200 countries.
• eLibrary® this easy to use resource brings together content about in-demand subjects from millions of multimedia-rich, global resources
• ProQuest® African American Heritage brings together records critical to African American family history research and connects users to a community of research experts
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers™ - Black Newspapers experience history firsthand via continuous runs of the following full-image titles: The Baltimore Afro-American, Chicago Defender, Los Angeles Sentinel, and New York Amsterdam New
• And more!

April 9-25. >>> H.W. Wilson is offering free access to its Careers database at www.hwwilson.com/libraryweek.htm.

• Careers covers qualifications, duties and responsibilities, pay scales, application processes and future prospects.
• Careers also features a “Job-Finder’s Toolbox” with annotated links to more than 50 career-related websites, including many popular job-search and industry specific sites.

April 9-17. >>> ABC-Clio and Greenwood are offering free access, but you do need to sign up for a 60-day trial at http://nlw.abc-clio.com/ Their reference collections include:

• American Mosaic, which includes African American, Latino, and American Indian Experience
• Daily Life Online, which includes World Folklore and Folklife
• ABC-Clio Digital Collections, including government, geography, and history
• and more

National Library Week is an annual celebration of the contributions of our nation's libraries and librarians. All types of libraries -- school, public, academic and special -- participate. Neil Gaiman is Honorary Chair of National Library Week 2010 [read more about Neil Gaiman].

Celebrate National Library Week 2010 : "Communities thrive @ your library."

Library hours until Jan. 19

Library will be open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on January 14 and 15 and will be closed January 16 through January 18 for the Martin Luther King holiday.

The following regular hours begin on TUESDAY, January 19:

Monday-Thursday 8am-10pm

Saturdays CLOSED

Sundays 2pm-10pm

The Library is closed or open shorter hours during holidays. Please see the Hours page for library hours and holiday exceptions.

Winter Break HOURS

Library will be open Monday - Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and will be closed Dec 24-25, January 1, and on Saturdays and Sundays from December 19, 2008 - January 12, 2009.

HOURS December 19, 2008 - January 12, 2009:

Saturdays & Sundays CLOSED

Monday-Friday 8am-5pm

Holidays   Dec 24-25 & Jan 1 CLOSED

Midnight hours start Dec 1

The Library's midnight hours start on Tuesday, December 1st, with the Library open until MIDNIGHT on the evenings it would normally close at 10 p.m. The Fall 2009 end-of-semester extended hours are in effect from Tuesday, December 1st through Wednesday, December 16th. Midnight days/dates are:

Tuesday-Thursday | December 1 - December 3 | 8a.m.-midnight

Sunday | December 6 | 2p.m.-midnight

Monday-Thursday | December 7 - December 10 | 8a.m.-midnight

Sunday | December 13 | 2p.m.-midnight

Monday-Wednesday | December 14- December 16 | 8a.m.-midnight

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

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").

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.

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

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.

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

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

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!

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.

Midnight hours & Cider: Sundays through Thursdays

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National Library Week - April 13-19

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