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The Devereaux Library will be closed Saturday and Sunday, October 9th & 10th, for Native Americans' Day. We will be OPEN Monday, October 11th 4PM - Mid. Thursday, November 11th, Veterans' Day, the Library will be OPEN 12 noon to 12 midnight.

OCLC FirstSearch, the vendor that was providing access to GeoRef, is no longer doing so. As of today we have access to GeoRef via ProQuest's CSA interface. http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=sdsmt&access=sdsmt57&db=georef-set-c It should work on campus or via VPN . Please contact the library if you have questions about GeoRef. Please contact the ITS help desk for assistance with VPN.

September 1 - Walter P. Jenney appointed Dean [Stymiest, Ruth Anne. "Centennial: An Illustrated History, 1885-1985". 1985, pg. 16] December 23 - Walter P. Jenney resigns [Stymiest, Ruth Anne. "Centennial: An Illustrated History, 1885-1985". 1985, pg. 16]

September 1 - President Connolly reports that the old original building has been abandoned since the army training program was discontinued and that it will remain so because of its unsafe condition, unless the space becomes absolutely necessary in the increasing enrollment at the end of hostilities. [Twenty-Eighth Biennial Report of the Regents of Education of the State of South Dakota to the Governor for the Biennial Period Ending June 30, 1944, Fiscal Years 1942-43 and 1943-44, Transmitted to the Legislature at the Twenty-Ninth Biennial Session, 1945. pg. 104]

August 25 - WCAT broadcasts for first time using wireless phone (voice instead of Morse Code) [Stymiest, Ruth Anne. "Centennial: An Illustrated History, 1885-1985". 1985, pg. 39]

Students and researchers have instant access to an integrated tool for managing their references. If you haven’t reviewed the EndNote Web feature recently, it’s time to take another look. See more at link: Web of Knowledge August News EndNote Web works with the new Auqabrowser library catalog interface as well.

Happy Anniversary! 125 years ago today, on August 19, 1885, the cornerstone of the first building for the Dakota Territory School of Mines was dedicated. The library is pleased to announce a new cornerstone for researchers. AquaBrowser is now the primary access tool for searching and locating the library’s collection. This new interface provides user friendly, intuitive searching and retrieval options. Try it out http://searchsdln.aquabrowser.com/?c_profile=SMT Want to learn more about AquaBrowser? View the South Dakota Library Network’s slideshow.