Friday, September 4, 2009

Labor Day weekend

Just to remind you that we are closed on Holiday weekends. We'll be open again as usual, Tuesday morning at 7:30.

Also, there will be some systems work on Sunday morning so the library systems may not be available. Try again after 1:00 pm.

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Theodore Roosevelt - Family Man in the Arena

Dickinson State University presents several programs about Theodore Roosevelt on Thursday, Oct. 15 and Friday, Oct. 16, with a field trip to the site of the Elkhorn Ranch on Sat. Oct. 17. Scholars Kathleen Dalton, Stacy Cordery, Betty Boyd Caroli and Clay Jenkinson will be presenting at the symposium.

This symposium will carefully examine the adventure and challenge of family life among the Roosevelts. Unlike most presidents, this Roosevelt did not shelter his family from the American public. For more info visit http://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.com or call 1-866-496-8797.

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

New Library Staff

With the new academic year, the library has been able to add 2 new part-time staff members. Georgia Vosberg has joined as a Library Clerk. She will be working mornings, handling customer service and projects that will help the student find the right material and the right time. Georgia has previously worked in other departments at NDSCS.

Marylin Vertin joins the library through the auspices of Experience Works. She will be working part-time in the mornings, mostly handling materials processing and ordering. This is the behind the scenes work that makes the books and materials available for student and staff use.

Several new work study students will also begin working afternoons and evenings, supporting the work of the regular staff and keeping the library open into the evening. We are happy to welcome the new workers, both students and staff, and look forward to a productive year.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Fritz Scholder Collection

The NDSCS Alumni/Foundation has recently loaned 5 selections of art by the Native American artist Fritz Scholder to the Mildred Johnson Library. This showing is an effort to bring Scholder's art to more students on campus and create awareness of his heritage and works. His art is still shown throughout the world. Most recently is a featured exhibit at the National Museum of the American Indian, documented at http://www.nmai.si.edu

In the process of being rehung, the works can be seen on the second floor of the Library along with a case of artifacts from Scholder's art and books owned by the Library on his extensive body of material. Take a minute to see what is in the Library or another set of pieces still on display at the Stern Cultural Center on the NDSCS campus.

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

New Library Staff members

Two new staff members have recently joined the Mildred Johnson Library.

Shelly Hart has joined as the Associate who works primarily with the cataloging and processing areas. She orders books, pays bills, gets things ready for students and staff to take out. If you have questions about orders or requests for new materials, Shelly is the person to start with.

Deb Zachmann is the new Associate at the Service Desk. She works with Reserves and helping people who come to the desk looking for the items they need. DEb is also the person to start with for questions about renewals, overdues, fines and so on.

Both Shelly and Deb also work with the IVN classes afternoons and evenings.

Monday, April 6, 2009

Access World News

Access World News: Research Collection - Free Trial

Research unique current and archived news content for information on topics, events, issues, people, businesses, and more through this in-depth resource. Easy online access to local, in-state, national and international news sources, including newspapers, broadcast transcripts, newswires, news blogs, news web-only content and video. Alerts and "my personal" functionality helps students and faculty track and manage their research projects.

Available on campus from:

http://infoweb.newsbank.com/?db=AWNB&s_sources=location&d_place=United%20States

Friday, April 3, 2009

NewsBank topics for papers

Are you familiar with NewsBank, the library news subscription? This can be a very useful resource for current events and Hot Topics in the news. All articles are full text and feature length, so there is a wealth of knowledge here to tap into. You can have a look at

http://www.ndscs.nodak.edu/library/hottopics.jsp

to see their pre-searched topics on topics of current interest.