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Ground breaking research -- forwarded by Val Manes and Patty Andersen... http://www.millikin.edu/staley/peeps/

We have been considering ways to make the Acquisitions List more useful to our patrons. Please take a look at http://devereauxbookr.blogspot.com/ and let me know if you think this sort of information would be of interest. This is just a small sample! If you experience trouble accessing the reviews use the Login to ProQuest link.

Tuesday October 30 th at 10:00 AM explore the world of Wiki's @ Your Library in the I-Hub Area.

Many novel features have contributed to making del.icio.us "delicious." The most popular social bookmarking service del.icio.us' website has simple interface, human-readable URL scheme, a novel domain name, and RSS feeds for web syndication . Want to get started? Join us Tuesday Oct. 23rd at 10 AM @ Your Library.

Please visit the Devereaux Library’s newest blog at http://devereauxdvd.blogspot.com/ to find out more about our DVD collection.

Soapbox cars race down College Hill - Campus News The Good, The Bad and The Nerdy - comprising five students from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology - won first place. They dressed in nerdy outfits and drove in a calculator-shaped car named The Numerator 2.0.

The library has a collection of more than 1100 Sci-Tech EBooks provided by Knovel. Available via SDLN or at http://www.knovel.com/ these books are primarily in the areas of Adhesives, Coatings, Sealants & Inks Aerospace & Radar Technology Biochemistry, Biology & Biotechnology Ceramics & Ceramic Engineering Chemistry & Chemical Engineering Civil Engineering & Construction Materials Electrical & Power Engineering Electronics & Semiconductors Environment & Environmental Engineering Food Science General Engineering & Engineering Management Mechanics & Mechanical Engineering Metals & Metallurgy Oil & Gas Engineering Pharmaceuticals, Cosmetics & Toiletries Plastics & Rubber Safety & Industrial Hygiene Textiles

How can RSS be useful to library researchers ? Tuesday 10:00 AM I-Hub Area. Devereaux Library

The library will be open extra hours on Saturday, October 13. To accommodate “Visit Mines” and “Family Weekend” events, we will open at 9 am on Saturday.

October 9, I-Hub 10AM Last summer an episode of History Detectives Investigations - Red Cloud Letter was filmed in the Black Hills. Parts were recorded here in the library. If you missed Devereaux Library’s 15 minutes of fame, stop in and catch it the second time around.

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EndNote Web Your Web-based research and writing tool 10 AM Tuesday Oct 2 in the I Hub area of the library. EndNote Web is a Web-based service designed to help students and researchers through the process of writing a research paper. Undergraduate students can organize their references for citing in papers Professional reseachers and graduate students can use EndNote Web as the perfect complement to EndNote and other desktop writing tools, as well as storing references between ISI Web of Knowledge search sessions

http://www.lyponline.com/infocus/0907/Special_Report.htm Courtesy of Emory University Are publishers getting rich publishing your research? A Bear-Stearns evaluation of Reed-Elsevier (one of the world's largest publishers of scholarly journals) recently rated the company, which earns profits of almost 40% annually, "a stockholder's dream." Should private publishers be getting rich selling information generated by research that is funded by academic institutions and the public? What's happening and how does it affect scholars? This article looks at one university’s experience.

In observance of Native Americans’ Day, the library will be closed on Saturday and Sunday, October 6th & 7th. The Library will be open on Monday, October 8, 4 pm to 12 midnight.