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2009-2010 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2009-2010 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

Libraries


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University Libraries

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Anne Cooper Moore, Dean of Libraries
I.D Weeks and Lommen Health Sciences Libraries
605-677-5371
library@usd.edu

www.usd.edu/library

The University Libraries offer academic resources and services that are integral to the mission of The University. The library faculty works closely with The University faculty in support of research and classroom teaching. An emphasis on information literacy instruction complements The University’s goal to help students develop life-long learning skills. The library building was expanded and remodeled in 1993/94 increasing its total size by 60,000 square feet to a total 120,000 square feet. The new building included space for the Lommen Health Sciences Library. The collections and services of the two libraries were integrated in 2008. A glass-enclosed walk-through links the library building to the Muenster University Center, which houses dining services, bookstore, and student services and activities. The library building has seating for 960 people in carrel, table, and lounge settings as well as 80 computers for student, faculty, staff, and public use. Twenty-five of these computers are located in a classroom used for information literacy and course-integrated library research instruction. The library is open 113.5 hours per week with extended hours during finals week.

The University Libraries contain nationally-recognized resources on Native Americans; significant art and humanities collections; in-depth K-12 education materials; extensive 19th century Western Americana, and primary historical materials such as senatorial papers, Wounded Knee massacre and siege materials housed in the special collections department, etc. The University Libraries’ physical collections include 647,981 bound book and journal volumes, 740,797 microforms, 309,731 government documents, 62,454 audiovisual items, and 6,668 print periodicals and newspapers. Increasingly, journals are transitioned to or purchased exclusively in electronic form. The Libraries currently have access to over 45,600 online journals. Online journal holdings range from the complete archive, back to the inception of a journal title, to more limited coverage of current years. Tools like the Research Gateway and Journal List found on the library website help users determine quickly whether an article is available for immediate online access. The automated borrowing programs, ILLiad and Docline, enable users to request materials not available in USD Libraries, which often arrive within hours. The online catalog, full-text holdings, and nearly 200 databases are available 24 hours a day. Most electronic resources are accessible from any geographic location provided the user has a current USD email address.

McKusick Law Library

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Law School Building
605-677-5259
law@usd.edu

http://www.usd.edu/law/lawlibrary.cfm

Located on all three floors of the east end of the Law School building, the McKusick Law Library is the largest law library in South Dakota, containing more than 213,000 volumes of primary and secondary legal materials. It also has a number of electronic databases, most of which, because of licensing agreements, are restricted to use by law students and faculty members. Its collection of books is open to the public, but most of the volumes do not circulate. The particular strengths of the collection are in Indian Law, Natural Resources Law, and Health Law.

The students and faculty members of the Law School are the law library’s primary clientele, but it serves the University’s academic community, the State Bar, and all the citizens of South Dakota. Its location in the southeastern corner of the state also attracts patrons from Iowa, Minnesota, and Nebraska.

Wegner Health Science Information Center

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1400 West 22nd St.
Sioux Falls, SD 57105
605-357-1400
Fax: 605-357-1490
Toll Free: 1-800-521-2987
Email: wegner@usd.edu

http://www.usd.edu/library/wegner.cfm

The Wegner Center opened in January 1998 and is named in honor of Dr. Karl and Mary Jo Wegner. As Dean of the USD School of Medicine, Dr. Wegner guided the USD Medical School as it evolved from a two-year medical school to a four-year degree granting medical school. The Wegner Center is a medical library serving the following organizations and programs: Center for Disabilities, Degroot Center for Ethics and Caring, Children’s Care Hospital & School, Community HealthCare Association of the Dakotas, Mount Marty College Nurse Anesthesia Program, Sanford School of Medicine USD, Sanford USD Medical Center, SDSU College of Nursing, SDSU College of Pharmacy, Sioux Falls VA Medical & Regional Office Center and USD Department of Nursing.

Conceived as a clinical resource, the Wegner Center’s mission is to serve the partners by providing quality health science information for health care practice, education, and research. The Wegner Center is a three-level 22,000 square foot facility adjacent to the Sanford School of Medicine and the Sanford USD Medical Center.  The Wegner Center is open to the public.