South Dakota State Library: Digital Collections

- Break Ground For New S.D. State Library
- South Dakota State Library; South Dakota State Library Commission; Kneip, Richard F. (Richard Francis), 1933-1987; Anderson, Herschel V. (Herschel Vincent); Kocourek, Mrs. Frank; Mikelson, Senator Grace; Colby, Jane; Peterson, Rachel; Paulson,...
- Ground breaking ceremonies were held in Pierre on August 19 for the new state library building.
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- State Library Crowded Conditions
- South Dakota State Library; South Dakota State Library Commission
- Crowded conditions in the State Library Commission building force books to be stacked on the floor.
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- 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.
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- Women Set Sights On New Library At State Capitol
- South Dakota State Library; South Dakota State Library Commission; General Federation of Women’s Clubs of South Dakota; South Dakota. Governor (1955-1959: Foss); Darling, Dorette; Reecy, Mrs. Lester; Tillman, Mrs. Harold
- South Dakota women’s groups are hoping to get a $750,000 appropriation for a new state library building. The article also describes the lack of space in the 1957 State Library.
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- Library begins new system
- South Dakota State Library; South Dakota. State Publications Depository Program
- The South Dakota State Library establishes system of document depository libraries to make state publications available on a local level to the people of the state.
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- Resolutions Approved by Library Conference
- South Dakota State Library; South Dakota State Library Association -- Annual convention
- The State Library Association met in Rapid City for its annual convention and passed many resolutions including one calling for the construction of a new library building.
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- Library Decision Delayed
- South Dakota State Library; South Dakota. Legislature. State Legislative Research Council; Herschel V. (Herschel Vincent); Madison (S.D.); Dakota State College; Songstad, Mike
- Mike Songstad from the Pierre Chamber of Commerce and South Dakota State Library director Vince Anderson present testimony to the interim state affairs committee concerning the recommended change in statute about the location of the office of the...
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- State Library Joins Federal documents depository System
- South Dakota State Library; Federal Depository Library Program
- The South Dakota State Library became the final state to join the Federal Depository System.
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- State Dedicates Library for Blind, Handicapped
- South Dakota State Library; Library of Congress. Service for the Blind; South Dakota. Governor (1969-1971 : Farrar); Hanson, Howard H.; Gallozzi, Charles; Hyde, Mrs. Enid; People with visual disabilities--Services for--South Dakota; Braille &...
- The State Library for the visually handicapped was dedicated.
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- $40,000 state library investment saves purchasers over $2.2 million
- South Dakota State Library; South Dakota State Library Commission; MacKay, Mercedes B. (Mercedes Belle), 1904-1987; Libraries—South Dakota
- The 1971-1972 media circulation report shows that the State Library’s collection valued at $40,000 when circulated to libraries, institutions, and individuals would have cost more than $2.2 million if purchases by the borrowers. The worth of...
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- State Library now serving North Dakota
- South Dakota State Library; Braille & Talking Book Library (South Dakota State Library); People with visual disabilities--Services for--North Dakota; North Dakota State Library; Sharp Jannette
- The Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped has extended its services to North Dakota.
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- Library Assoc opposes move
- South Dakota State Library; South Dakota Library Association; Swanson, Mona; Madison (S.D.)
- The South Dakota Library Association opposed the attempt to move the South Dakota State Library from Pierre to Madison.
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- South Dakota State Library Photos
- South Dakota State Library;
- Photographs of the Free Library Commission.
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- Hostess
- South Dakota State Library; South Dakota State Library Commission; MacKay, Mercedes B. (Mercedes Belle), 1904-1987
- Mercedes MacKay is shown at the coffee service at the golden anniversary conference.
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- 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.
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- State Library Grows Despite Facilities
- South Dakota State Library
- The article gives a brief description of the history of the South Dakota State Library. The services provided by the Library are also discussed along with the request for a new building. Included are pictures of the library in 1966.
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- Moving the State Library
- South Dakota State Library; Dakota State College; Madison (S.D.); South Dakota Library Association; Swanson, Mona; Pierre Chamber of Commerce (Pierre, S.D.)
- Moving the South Dakota State Library from Pierre to Madison was proposed in pre-filed legislation for the 1974 legislature.
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- 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
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- State library needs ‘twice as much money’
- South Dakota State Library; Anderson, Herschel V. (Herschel Vincent); Public Libraries -- South Dakota -- Rapid City
- State Librarian Vince Anderson discusses the collections, staff, budget, and services of the South Dakota State Library.
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- An “Easy on the Eyes” Project
- Large type books; South Dakota State Library; South Dakota Optometric Assn., Women’s Auxiliary; MacKay, Mercedes B. (Mercedes Belle), 1904-1987; Green, Mrs. Bryce; McGibney Mrs. Carolyn; Corwin, Mrs. Bert
- South Dakota Optometric Association Women’s Auxiliary donates large type books to the South Dakota State Library.
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