The Williams Library has created the NSU Book Club. The club will read two books (fiction and non-fiction) a semester on various topics. In addition, we hope to have a faculty member serve as an expert on the topics covered in each book. The club will meet in person, but an online discussion board will also be available (more info below).

The NSU Bookstore will carry paperback copies at 20% off.

Who can join: Any NSU student, faculty or staff member (NSU friends may also join)
First Meeting: Wednesday, September 26, 7pm
Second Meeting: Wednesday, October 10, 7pm
Location: Williams Library
Club web site: http://groups.google.com/group/NSUBooks

Book: Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan.
It is not about grading or finals week, but about families who stayed in the Dust Bowl region during the 1930s. “Egan’s portraits of the families who stayed behind are sobering and far less familiar than those of the “exodusters” who staggered out of the High Plains. He tells of towns depopulated to this day, a mother who watched her baby die of “dust pneumonia,” and farmers who gathered tumbleweed as food for their cattle and, eventually, for their children.” (excerpt from The New Yorker review)
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Online discussion (optional): This aspect allows individuals to post comments about the book before the meeting(s).
To join: Select the link below and then select the “Join This Group” link, which is located on the right bar. If you do not have a Google account, create a new one (you may use your NSU or other email address). Once you join the group, you may post you thoughts about the book and comment on others’ posts.

The Williams Library has configured a new citation/resource linking technology called SFX. SFX links together the Library’s databases and e-journals, making it easier to find the online full-text of an article. Students and faculty searching in the Library’s research databases can click on the button to find full-text articles.

For example, if you search Academic Search Complete and you see the icon underneath the citation, the article is not full-text. BUT, select the icon and a new window opens as SFX searches many of the library’s other databases to discover if the article is full-text in another library database. If an article is full-text in another library database a direct link to the article will display (though some technical glitches still exist).

If it is not available in any of the library databases, select the Interlibrary Loan link and the library will get a copy from another library (no cost for this service).

*Alternative icon, , is displayed in some databases.

On September 17 the Williams Library will host two events:

• BUS-eum - a 40-foot school bus converted into a mobile museum that will bring the stories of Midwest POWs in Nazi Germany to life. The exhibit consists of narrative display panels illustrated with photographs and documents, audio and DVD documentaries, artifacts and more. Presentation College library and the Alexander Mitchell Public Library are co-sponsors.
  When: 11:30am-2:30pm
  Where: South side of the Williams Library (corner of 14th and Washington)

• Book signing - South Dakota author David Volk will discuss and sign his book Draftee: A Highschool Teacher Goes to War. “Volk shares an altogether original and incredibly vivid account of the Vietnam experience. At times derisive, yet surprisingly tender, the author, a correspondent and combat photographer, introduces a menagerie of crazies and eccentrics—and a few good men.” Copies of the book will be available.
  When: 12-2pm
  Where: Williams Library