South Dakota State Library: Digital Collections

- South Dakota State Library Commission (brochure)
- South Dakota State Library Commission; South Dakota State Library
- Along with a description of services, this booklet includes photos taken when the library was housed in an old grocery store warehouse and an old lumberyard building.
- South Dakota State Library Vertical Files
- Barnhart blasts operations of State Library Commission
- Barnhart, Donald; South Dakota State Library Commission
- The State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Donald Barnhart, called for the South Dakota State Library Commission to transfer its functions to the South Dakota Department of Public Instruction.
- South Dakota State Library Vertical Files
- State Library requests $546,040
- South Dakota State Library; South Dakota State Library Commission
- The South Dakota State Library Commission approved a budget request of $546,040
- South Dakota State Library Vertical Files
- Named to head State Library Commission
- Kocourek, Mrs. Frank; South Dakota State Library Commission
- Mrs. Frank (Ardeth) Kocourek was elected chairman of the South Dakota State Library Commission.
- South Dakota State Library Vertical Files
- 50th Anniversary – South Dakota Library Commission Conference for Trustees, Librarians and Friends of the Library
- South Dakota State Library Commission
- Brochure for the 50th Anniversary – South Dakota Library Commission Conference for Trustees, Librarians and Friends of the Library
- South Dakota State Library Vertical Files
- State Library Plans Observance
- South Dakota State Library; South Dakota State Library Commission; South Dakota Library Association; South Dakota. Governor (1961-1965: Gubbrud); MacKay, Mercedes B. (Mercedes Belle), 1904-1987; United States. Office of Education; Stahl, Albin;...
- The South Dakota State Library Commission is hosting a conference to celebrate the golden anniversary of the State Library.
- South Dakota State Library Vertical Files
- State Library Contracts Awarded
- South Dakota State Library; South Dakota State Library Commission; Building construction -- United States -- South Dakota -- Pierre -- 1970-1980
- The South Dakota State Library Commission awarded contracts for the new State Library Building
- South Dakota State Library Vertical Files
- State will acquire present Pierre P.O. as SD library
- South Dakota State Library; South Dakota State Library Commission; MacKay, Mercedes B. (Mercedes Belle), 1904-1987; Post office buildings--South Dakota; Harold Spitznagel and Associates (Sioux Falls, S.D.)
- The South Dakota State Library Commission decided to move the State Library into the present Pierre post office building upon availability in approximately two years.
- South Dakota State Library Vertical Files
- Library advisory council elects Mrs. Lushbough
- South Dakota State Library Commission; Lushbough, Mrs. Lillian; VanDeRostyne, Joe
- Mrs. Lillian Lushbough, Sturgis, was elected vice chairman of the newly formed Advisory Council to the South Dakota State Library Commission. Joe VanDeRostyne, Aberdeen, was elected chairman.
- South Dakota State Library Vertical Files
- Books Arrive in Pierre for Library for the Blind
- South Dakota State Library; South Dakota State Library Commission; Braille & Talking Book Library (South Dakota State Library); People with visual disabilities--Services for--South Dakota; Library of Congress; MacKay, Mercedes B. (Mercedes Belle),...
- The State Library received talking books, tapes, and braille volumes from the Library of Congress to start a lending collection for services for the blind. The truck from Washington D.C. was four days late in arriving because of winter road...
- South Dakota State Library Vertical Files
- State Library Adds Service For Blind
- South Dakota State Library; South Dakota State Library Commission; Braille & Talking Book Library (South Dakota State Library); People with visual disabilities--Services for--South Dakota; Library of Congress; MacKay, Mercedes B. (Mercedes Belle),...
- The State Library received talking books, tapes, and braille volumes from the Library of Congress to start a lending collection for services for the blind. The materials will be housed at 701 E. Sioux Avenue.
- South Dakota State Library Vertical Files
- Library Facility For Blind, Handicapped Dedicated Here
- South Dakota State Library; South Dakota State Library Commission; Braille & Talking Book Library (South Dakota State Library); People with visual disabilities--Services for--South Dakota; Library of Congress; South Dakota. Governor (1969-1971 :...
- South Dakota’s regional library of reading material for the blind and physically handicapped was dedicated on January 28, 1969. The library has received more than 2000 books in braille and on recorded discs and tape from the Library of Congress....
- South Dakota State Library Vertical Files
- State Library Gets $500 to Match $58,000 in Aid
- South Dakota State Library Commission; Budgets -- South Dakota; Mackay, Mercedes B. (Mercedes Belle), 1904-1987; South Dakota. State Legislature. Joint Appropriations Committee
- A joint appropriations committee tentatively upped the 1963 budget for the State Library by $500.
- South Dakota State Library Vertical Files
- Growth of libraries cited at anniversary
- South Dakota State Library; South Dakota State Library Commission; South Dakota Federation of Women’s Clubs; Mackay, Mercedes B. (Mercedes Belle) 1904-1987; Reecy, Mrs. Lester; Luce, Helen; Janecek, Kilbourn L.
- The article discusses the fiftieth anniversary of the South Dakota State Library including historical background.
- South Dakota State Library Vertical Files
- Third of S.D. not served: Book Circulation Rises 568 Per Cent Since
- South Dakota State Library; South Dakota State Library Commission; Libraries--South Dakota; Regional libraries--South Dakota; MacKay, Mercedes B. (Mercedes Belle), 1904-1987
- Since 1957 nine regional libraries were established and 18 counties received bookmobile service.
- South Dakota State Library Vertical Files
- Library group takes issue with charges by Barnhart: Kneip mentions 9 areas of improving library services
- South Dakota State Library Commission; South Dakota Library Association; Barnhart, Donald; Kneip, Richard F. (Richard Francis), 1933-1987
- The South Dakota Library Association took issue with Donald Barnhart’s statements regarding the State Library and asked the Governor to appoint an impartial consultant the examine the whole situation in the State Library.
- South Dakota State Library Vertical Files
- Association Vice President Contends: State Library Conditions Not Fault of Librarian
- South Dakota State Library Commission; South Dakota Library Association; Wittkopf, Paul; Barnhart, Donald; Mackay, Mercedes B. (Mercedes Belle), 1904-1987
- Paul Wittkopf of the South Dakota Library Association says that the “inexcusably bad” conditions at the State Library are not the fault of the state librarian alone.
- South Dakota State Library Vertical Files
- Library service compacts sought
- South Dakota State Library; South Dakota State Library Commission; South Dakota Department of Public Instruction; South Dakota Board of Regents
- A bill has been introduced in the South Dakota House of Representatives permitting the state and local districts to share library services through interstate library compacts.
- South Dakota State Library Vertical Files
- Continued Planning for a New State Library Building
- South Dakota State Library; South Dakota State Library Commission; South Dakota. Supreme Court; MacKay, Mercedes B. (Mercedes Belle), 1904-1987; Kneip, Richard F. (Richard Francis), 1933-1987; Hanson, Charles S.; Feldaus, Gordon; Crow, Kenneth
- The 47th session of the South Dakota legislature allocated $40,000 for the planning of a State Library – Supreme Court complex.
- South Dakota State Library Vertical Files
- $1.7 Millions State Library Contract Let Here Tuesday
- South Dakota State Library; South Dakota State Library Commission; Building construction -- United States -- South Dakota -- Pierre -- 1970-1980
- The South Dakota Library Commission awarded $1.7 million in contracts for a new state library building.
- South Dakota State Library Vertical Files