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December 28, 1971 - oldest living Mines graduate, Carrie Feigel, celebrates her 100th birthday [Stymiest, Ruth Anne. "Centennial: An Illustrated History, 1885-1985". 1985, pg. 129] Photo of first graduating class in 1890. Poznansky, Benjamin, Robinson, Eva, and Feigel, Caroline

As you prepare to head off for the break we’d like to remind you: If you have materials checked out that you are finished with, we’d be glad to pick them up at your office. Just fill out this form at: http://library.sdsmt.edu/Delivery.htm If you haven’t had a chance to get any reading done, and are looking for a good read http://sdsmtal.blogspot.com/ has a list of some of the most recent items we’ve added to the collection. The items labeled “Knovel” are electronic books that you can access from your office, or from home if you use the campus VPN service http://its.sdsmt.edu/network/vpn/ If you’ve done quite enough reading, we also have DVD’s and Audio books , More Audio books or Music CDs Have a wonderful holiday!

December 3 - William Phipps Blake accepts position as President of the Faculty then reconsiders and declines the position [Stymiest, Ruth Anne. "Centennial: An Illustrated History, 1885-1985". 1985, pg. 6]

What’s new at the Library? These items were recently added to the collection. Many new Knovel E-books have been added. In addition, we recently received a donation of a number of Star Trek books. Check them out. We have a “Fan Page” on Facebook and are looking for friends. And of course at the time of year we are getting ready for Nostalgia Night. This will be our 16th year. Seems like only yesterday that we were wondering if anyone would come… Hope to see you again this year, and remember tickets make great stocking stuffers!

We will be rebooting the Aleph server tonight at 9 pm Mountain Time. This is to attempt to resolve the issue with the basic search that was reported earlier today. The estimated outage is 30 minutes while services are restarted. Once the server is back online another message will be sent out. We apologize for the inconvenience this issue has caused but hopefully it will be resolved tonight after the reboot.

We’ve been made aware of an issue with the Basic Search on the OPAC where it asks you to download a change.php file. We’re currently looking into the problem and hope to have a resolution soon. In the meantime, the Advanced Search is functioning normally so feel free to use that search instead.

CNN and Oprah's Book Club are teaming up to bring you a discussion of "Say You're One of Them," a book of short stories about African children who face the unimaginable. Oprah's Book Club Event on CNN Live with Facebook

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The EndNote program version X3 is now available. For Windows go to: F:\install\endnote and click the .msi file For the Mac version go to: F:\install\endnote\mac and click the dmg file

From the American Library Association: September 26−October 3, 2009 Banned Books Week (BBW) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment. Held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of free and open access to information while drawing attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted bannings of books across the United States. Intellectual freedom—the freedom to access information and express ideas, even if the information and ideas might be considered unorthodox or unpopular—provides the foundation for Banned Books Week. BBW stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints for all who wish to read and access them. The books featured during Banned Books Week have been targets of attempted bannings. Fortunately, while some books were banned or restricted, in a majority of cases the books were not banned, all thanks to the efforts of libra...

"On the evening of Sept. 28, it became apparent that something was not just right with a few of the men, and upon examination of the entire company (150 men), about 15 of the fellows were sent to the hospital with the pleasing information that they had the 'flu'" by noon the following day twenty-three were hospitalized. "At the end of six days out of the entire Company all but fifteen or sixteen were sick." "Until the first death in camp, our life in the hospital had its humorous sick as well as sober. For a few days we were able to enjoy our usual army jubilees, a birthday party. A cloak of gloom seemed to spread over the camp though when our first comrade passed away, and so it was until we were all out of quarentine once more. The loss of five of our comrades namely: Robert Small, Helmer and Levi Casper, Irwin Powell, and Joseph Nevill was a great blow to the Company." The Pahasapa Quarterly. Dec 1918. pp 59-63. http://dlsd.sdln.net/u?/sdsmt,5...

Significant new enhancements are now available in SciFinder®! These enhancements include new search, analytical, and collaboration tools to help synthetic chemists and other scientists save time, increase productivity, and streamline their research process. A direct link to a PDF file detailing these enhancements is at: http://www.cas.org/ASSETS/88B542FC19B544C99BB77930C89B5998/ whatsnew.pdf or go to http://www.cas.org/support/scifi/index.html and click on the "newest features in SciFinder" link

The Knovel University Challenge starts on 9/14/09 and is open to all universities with current subscriptions and trials to Knovel. You have until (midnight) December 1st to submit your answers and contact information (full name, school name, email address) via the contest widget available at www.info.knovel.com/challenge .   All entries with a total of at least 3 correct answers will be placed into a random drawing for one of (1) Kindle, (2) Nintendo Wiis, (4)  iPod Nanos and (6) iTunes Gift Cards. The drawing will take place on December 1st, 2009. The Prizes will be awarded to entrants in the US, Canada, Asia, Eastern Europe, Western Europe and all other regions. All winners must present correct answers to 3 quiz questions. All universities, domestic and international, are eligible to participate and win. For entries to be valid, and to qualify for prizes,  students must use Knovel to answer the questions. Contest-within-the-contest To reward outstanding participation, all universitie...

The library will be closed Saturday Sept. 5th and Sunday Sept. 6th in observance of the Labor Day Holiday. We will be open Monday Sept 7th from 4PM-12Mid.

EndNote is a commercial reference management software package, used to manage bibliographies and references when writing essays and articles. It is made by Thomson Scientific. If you wanted to purchase the EndNote software it would cost $250. The Board of Regents Libraries negotiated a contract with Thomson Scientific for the Web of Knowledge package. Included in this contract is the right to provide copies of the EndNote software to our students, faculty and staff at no charge to the user. Do you use EndNote? Need an upgrade? If you don’t use it, would you like to give it a try?

http://bit.ly/13Y2G2 Access the world’s leading scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities and examine proceedings of international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions. * Navigate with cited reference searching and Author Finder * Use the Analyze Tool to identify trends and patterns * Backfiles available to 1992 * Access enhanced coverage of books and meeting abstracts Your edition(s): * Science Citation Index Expanded (1992-present) * Social Sciences Citation Index (1992-present) * Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1992-present)

Chemical and Biological Engineering cooperative ~ The SDSM&T Chemical and Biological Engineering Department has provided funding for online access to several specialized journals. These are available to all members of the campus community. http://library.sdsmt.edu/cbe_journals.htm

We are once again experiencing a power outage with an unknown cause. We're currently taking all possible measures to insure Aleph remains running for the longest time possible on our UPS. Once we know more information we'll let everyone know.

Devereaux Library is tweeting @ http://twitter.com/SDSMT_Library Follow us for up to the minute updates, if you like, or just check in once in a while @ http://library.sdsmt.edu/whatsnew.htm We plan to post information about new resources, scheduled and unscheduled downtime, and much more.

From Warren Wilson at SDLN: To share more information. There were numerous problems last Friday. The first power related problem was with a substation that the University shares with part of the city. This problem was fixed relatively quickly. Then the crews started working on the substation that feeds the campus. All three breakers had blown and they had to get new breakers from Rapid City. As they narrowed the search down, it was a bad transformer to one of the building, actually the Young Center, the athletic building. They had to bypass that bad transformer. When power was restored to campus. The Library’s power did not come backup. The main switch/breaker for the building is bad and they had to force a connection to get power restored to the building. At some point, we will schedule another outage so that we can get that switch rebuilt. The SDLN UPS worked great. However, all of the network connectivity off campus lost power. So until power was reliably restored, the netwo...

Black Hills State (the home of the South Dakota Library Network) is having electrical problems. This may result in our loosing access the library catalog and the resources provided by SDLN. http://www.worldcat.org/ can be used as an alternative to the catalog. Please contact the library reference desk at 394-2419 or libref@sdsmt.edu for assistance in locating other replacement sources. Cindy Davies Devereaux Library, SDSMT From: Lucas Bialorucki [mailto:lbialorucki@sdln.net] Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 9:33 AM To: sdln-l Subject: Power Outage We are currently experiencing a campus wide power outage. SDLN is currently running on our UPS and that will keep our servers on for about an hour. However the campus internet connection will likely lose power shortly and all services will be off line until further notice. Sorry for any inconvenience if you have any questions feel free to contact us. Thank you Lucas

SDLN has advised us that the library database http://apollo.sdln.net has a problem which is expected to result in downtime this afternoon and evening. They hope to have everything back up by tomorrow sometime. In the meantime http://www.worldcat.org/ may serve as a partial substitute for the online catalog. The reference and journal databases at http://library.sdsmt.edu/atthelibrary.htm should continue to be available for on campus users. Databases that are normally available on and off campus http://library.sdsmt.edu/247.htm will be available on campus only. Please contact us for assistance: E-Mail library@sdsmt.edu Phone (605) 394-2419

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The State has scheduled an upgrade to their networking equipment located on the campus of BHSU for this coming Saturday, July 11, beginning at 8 PM Mountain Time and lasting no longer than 30 minutes. During this time, access to SDLN resources will be intermittent. If you should have any questions please feel free to let us know. We apologize for any inconvenience encountered during the outage.

Devereaux Library summer hours begin Monday, May 11. Hours are posted on the library’s online newsletter, Devereaux Online Check out the new arrivals at the library with the new book alert that is updated daily. DVDs, AudioBooks and other AV materials are listed at http://devereauxdvd.blogspot.com/ Leaving campus for the summer? Many of the library’s electronic resources may be accessed anywhere in the world with your internet connection.

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Do you use SciFinder? SciFinder is a research discovery tool that allows you to explore the CAS databases that contain literature from many scientific disciplines, including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science, and more! You can explore one single source for scientific information in journal and patent literature from around the world. CAS has implemented a web based interface. To use this interface you must create an account. You need to be on campus, and need to use a campus (.sdsmt.edu or mines.sdsmt.edu) email account to register. The old windows or Mac based client you have been using will no longer be supported. Here is the link to create a SciFinder account. https://scifinder.cas.org/registration/index.html?corpKey=DC0CA65D-86F3-50AB-27F5-CF3FCEB12DF3

January 14 through January 19 The Devereaux Library will be open Wednesday January 14 7:00 am to 8:00 pm Thursday January 15 7:00 am to 8:00 pm Friday January 16 7:00 am to 5:00 pm Saturday - Sunday January 17-18 Closed Monday January 19 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day 4:00 pm - 12:00 midnight