Dr. Who Photo Contest !!!

Who wants a sonic screwdriver or talking dalek? The Mundt Library is holding a Dr. Who photo contest.  DSU students, faculty, and staff are eligible to enter and win.

Submissions will be accepted and judging will take place on the library’s Facebook page. http://www.facebook.com/inthemundt

There will be two categories of judging:  

1. Library TARDIS: Photos should showcase the library’s create-your-own-TARDIS in an interesting/exciting/unique location. Unaltered photos only in this category. No Photoshop, please. (If you need a library TARDIS, stop by the front desk of the library.) 
2. Dr. Who Open: Any photo/image inspired by the Dr. Who series. Photoshop is allowed in this category.

The contest will run until December 10.

(Tip, early submissions will have more time to collect likes/votes.)

Full details and rules can be found under Notes on the library’s Facebook page.  
Questions? Contact librarian Mary Francis.

The contest is held in conjunction with this year's TARDIS theme for the "roving librarians" who are spending an hour each week in each campus classroom building and the TC. Like the TARDIS, the Mundt Library is "bigger than it looks from the outside." Not only do you have access to all that is on the open Internet, but also the Library pays for and provides access to a huge quantity of additional material in the deep web, in print, and by borrowing from other libraries.  We're here for you!

Open Access Week!

Open Access Week promotes "the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need." It is being celebrated October 22-28, 2012.

Traditionally, journal articles and other published research output have been distributed through publishers, with authors giving up their copyrights to the publishers and publishers reaping the profits. Most of those profits come from selling access to the material back to university libraries at high prices. Most simply, this means that the research products --created by university faculty who are financially supported by the universities that employ them--  are given to the publishers. Then universities (primarily through their libraries) have to buy access to those research products (such as journal articles). The costs of publishing are paid by the publisher who earns the profits; the author's gain is in scholarly reputation, which benefits the author and his/her university.  However, the system creates barriers to sharing research results widely because of the cost to others of obtaining the research results. Such barriers negatively impact the progress of research.  The system increases universities' costs to support learning and research and limits the ability of libraries to provide academic materials to students and faculty. One solution being offered is open access.

To learn about open access publishing and how it works, visit SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition. To learn about preserving your rights as an author rather than giving up your copyright to a publisher, see the Mundt Libraries guide on Author Rights.

To learn about Open Access Week activities, visit http://www.openaccessweek.org/. As openaccessweek.org explains, "Open Access (OA) has the potential to maximize research investments, increase the exposure and use of published research, facilitate the ability to conduct research across available literature, and enhance the overall advancement of scholarship. Research funding agencies, academic institutions, researchers and scientists, teachers, students, and members of the general public are supporting a move towards Open Access in increasing numbers every year. Open Access Week is a key opportunity for all members of the community to take action to keep this momentum moving forward."

Space shuttle Endeavor trek across L.A.

Very cool video!  Time-lapse photography of the Space Shuttle Endeavor being maneuvered through the streets of Los Angeles from the Los Angeles International Airport to its new home at the California Science Center -- a three day journey from Oct 12 - 14, 2012.


Time-lapse video: Space shuttle Endeavour’s trek across L.A.
by Bryan Chan

Visit Emmett Till Exhibit and Events!

The Emmett Till Exhibit is here!  Visit the exhibit and attend the various events that are scheduled at Dakota State in the next few weeks. You're invited!

Exhibit location:  On the Dakota State University campus in the Karl E. Mundt Library, 820 N. Egan Avenue, Madison, SD.
Event schedule and locations:  Emmett Till Upcoming Events
Photos and video of the exhibit and the corresponding presentations will be posted:  Emmett Till exhibit and Presentations



About the exhibit: "In 1955, Emmett Till, a 14 year-old black boy from Chicago, went to spend the summer with his relatives in Money, Mississippi. Shortly after his arrival in the Mississippi Delta, Emmett was kidnapped and murdered for reportedly whistling at a white woman. The two men accused of committing the crime, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, were tried and acquitted by an all-white jury. Shortly thereafter, the duo confessed their guilt, sparking outrage around the world. The murder of Emmett Till is viewed by many as the harbinger of the American Civil Rights Movement. Composed of newspaper headlines, articles, personal correspondences, family photographs, oral histories and other primary source materials, the Emmett Till Traveling Exhibit takes visitors back to the Mississippi of 1955 during the trial. The panels are arranged thematically and allow visitors to examine the facts and suggestions which surrounded the case" ("Emmett Till Traveling Exhibit," Delta State University).

The Emmett Till Traveling Exhibit was developed by the Delta State University Archives & Museum.The exhibit and presentations were made possible by the generous support of Dakota State University, Karl E. Mundt Library, College of Arts & Sciences, and Office of Diversity Services. This program was made possible by Delta State University, the Mississippi Humanities Council under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the South Dakota Humanities Council.

Learn with video tutorials from Lynda.com

Learn to use software such as Maya, Photoshop, SPSS, Office 2013, and Linux, and learn other skills such as photography or video journalism using the hundreds of video tutorials available to you through the Library's subscription to Lynda.com. We have expanded our subscription to allow an unlimited number of simultaneous users, so you should always be able to use Lynda tutorials and to return to tutorials you have started. New tutorials are released on a daily basis. Just a few examples of recently released videos tutorials are:

• Microsoft Excel 2010
• Creating Game Environments in Maya and Photoshop
• Gmail for Power Users
• SPSS
• iPad Music Production-Inputs, Mics, and MIDI
• Building Your Brand
• Linux for PHP Developers
• Sharepoint Designer 2010

You can get a certificate of completion to show that you've finished a tutorial. 

To use Lynda, you must select Lynda.com from the Database Quicklinks dropdown menu near the top of the Library’s homepage so that Lynda recognizes you as a subscriber. You will then be asked to create a Lynda.com individual account for your use.

After logging into your Lynda account, you may select tutorials from the "New releases" on the start page or you may use the Subject or Software tabs to select a tutorial.

For a quick introduction to using Lynda tutorials, view http://www.lynda.com/online-software-training/lyndacampus.html.

Audiobooks for download

Looking for light summer reading? Have you tried out our audiobooks and ebooks on Overdrive?
You can download the ebooks and audiobooks onto most devices - tablet/computer, smartphone, iPad, or Kindle.
To explore our Overdrive books, link to Overdrive in the "Database Quicklinks" dropdown at the top of the library's home page or go direct to our Overdrive collection. Later this year, Overdrive will be providing streaming audiobooks in addition to downloadables.

MORE AUDIOBOOKS!  Some titles in addition to those we have in Overdrive are being provided free over the course of summer 2012 by Sync, using the Overdrive Media Console.  The book titles and the dates available are below. To download any of these, go to: audiobooksync.com or link to the specific title below. You will need the Overdrive Media Console if you haven't previously used Overdrive.

SYNC Titles available for free download Summer 2012
June14 – June 20, 2012

• The Eleventh Plague by Jeff Hirsch, Read by Dan Bittner (Scholastic Audiobooks)

• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, Frank Galati [Adapt.], Read by Shirley Knight, Jeffrey Donovan, and a Full Cast (L.A. Theatre Works)

June 21 – June 27, 2012

• Irises by Francisco X. Stork, Read by Carrington MacDuffie (Listening Library)

• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, Read by Wanda McCaddon (Tantor Media)

June 28 – July 4, 2012

• The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud, Read by Simon Jones (Listening Library)

• Tales from the Arabian Nights by Andrew Lang, Read by Toby Stephens (Naxos AudioBooks)

July 5 – July 11, 2012

• Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake, Read by August Ross (AudioGO)

• The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, Read by Ian Holm (AudioGO)

July 12 – July 18, 2012

• Guys Read: Funny Business by Jon Scieszka [Ed.] et al., Read by Michael Boatman, Kate DiCamillo, John Keating, Jon Scieszka, Bronson Pinchot (Harper Audio)

• The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Stories by Mark Twain, Read by Norman Dietz (Recorded Books)

July 19 – July 25, 2012

• Cleopatra’s Moon by Vicky Alvear Shecter, Read by Kirsten Potter (Oasis Audio)

• Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare, Read by a Full Cast (AudioGO)

July 26 – August 1, 2012

• Pinned by Alfred C. Martino, Read by Mark Shanahan (Listen & Live Audio)

• TBA (Brilliance Audio)

August 2 – August 8, 2012

• Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor, Read by Khristine Hvam (Hachette Audio)

• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, Read by Simon Prebble (Blackstone Audio)

August 9 – August 15, 2012

• Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy, Read by Rupert Degas (Harper Audio)

• Dead Men Kill by L. Ron Hubbard, Read by Jennifer Aspen and a Full Cast(Galaxy Press)

August 16 – August 22, 2012

• The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera, Read by Jay Laga’aia (Bolinda Audio)

• The Call of the Wild by Jack London, Read by William Roberts (Naxos AudioBooks)

Small Demons

If you like to read and find yourself captured by the worlds in the stories you read, Small Demons is a website worth investigating. Small Demons lets you discover how books are connected to each other through their people, places, and things and how specific people, places, and things are connected through books. The site requires creating an account (free) and logging in.

Search for Bob Dylan, Wonder Woman, New York, France, Phuket, WWI, Coca Cola, and songs or albums to find out in which books they appear. Which books include Charlie Chaplin? Which ones include motorcycles? Which ones mention Alberta, Canada?

Small Demons is being developed by people who love a good story and the settings and
characters that enrich the narrative.  You can learn about the development of the site and what motivates its co-founder and CEO Valla Vakili in the video "Exaggerations and Perversions," his talk at the O'Reilly Media Tools of Change in Publishing conference in February 2012. It's a wide-ranging talk that starts with a quote from William James and covers entrepreneurship, narrative, cartoons, and more as Vakili describes the development of Small Demons. Small Demons is new and in beta, so be patient if it's slow or you experience some page load failure.  According to the website, "Small Demons is a Los Angeles based company that believes powerful and interesting things can happen when  you connect all the details of books. This site is the first step in showing what happens when you do just that."

To find books in DSU's Mundt Library or in all or one of the over 70 libraries in the South Dakota Library Network, search the Library Catalog by title, author, or subject. To find  items in  libraries across the U.S. and the world, use WorldCat.  Remember, the Mundt Library can borrow items from other libraries for you through "Interlibrary Loan."  It's free!

Library Book Sale begins April 9

The book sale begins April 9 and continues through at least April 20!  Celebrate National Library Week (April 8-14, 2012) by attending the sale. Items are from both the Madison Public Library and the Karl E. Mundt Library, and new items will be added each day to fill in where items are sold. This year, we are expecting more non-fiction from the Public Library, but we never know what might show up in a box. Come search for treasure!

National Library Week 2012

Library open until MIDNIGHT

The Library is now open until MIDNIGHT from Monday through Thursday for studying and group work. Library services will end at 10pm on nights when the library closes at midnight.  Hours on Friday have  been extended to 9pm, with library services ending at 5pm.

Building Hours: 

Monday-Thursday	8am – MIDNIGHT   (library services end at 10pm)
Friday	8am - 9pm   (library services end at 5pm)
Saturday	CLOSED
Sunday	2pm-10pm

Need help using library resources?

Whenever you have questions, just ask! Use the "Ask a Librarian" link at the top of the Library home page to contact librarians Mary and Rise ("Reesa") -- by email, chat, or texting. Or stop by and find us in our offices on the first floor. Whether you're researching a topic, looking for a specific book, wondering how to get started, trying to figure out how to use the library website... whatever!  We're here to help.  Also, you can use the "Contact Us" link to find contact information for all of the library staff.

Welcome back! What's new...

 What's new? The databases "Children's Core Collection," "Middle and Junior High School Core Collection," and "Senior High School Core Collection" have moved from the WilsonWeb platform to EBSCOhost.  At the end of Fall semester, the library added "Proquest Dissertations and Theses" to its research databases. Over the break, the library building had new front entry doors installed, and the terrazzo entry floor was refinished. Soon we'll have a new exterior book drop, too. If you have questions about research, you can contact us through Ask-a-Librarian. To contact individual library staff, use the Contact-Us link. Both links are near the top right side of the library home page. Welcome back for Spring semester!