Vickie Mix

Nov. 14, 2014

125 Years: Serving the Government

Information Needs of South Dakota

Statehood for Dakota Territory https://archive.org/details/journalofconsti00sout

http://www.loc.gov/item/2012593215/

From South Dakota State News September 25, 2014:

Grover Cleveland of New York and Benjamin Harrison of Indiana served as presidents of the

United States during the last years of territorial status and first years of statehood for South

Dakota.

After initially opposing statehood, the lame duck President Cleveland signed the Omnibus

Enabling Act on Feb. 22, 1889, that established the process for southern and northern Dakotans

to achieve statehood. He and other outgoing Democrats got on the statehood bandwagon after

pro-statehood Republicans beat them in the previous election.

At 3:40 p.m. EST on Nov. 2, 1889, President Benjamin Harrison signed almost identical statehood

proclamations that created North Dakota and South Dakota. No one will ever know which state

was the 39th or the 40th to enter the Union because Harrison covered and shuffled the

documents before and after signing them. He proudly declared, “They were born together – they

are one and I will make them twins.”

http://news.sd.gov/newsitem.aspx?id=16766

South Dakota Agricultural College: Est. 1881

• 1881: The South Dakota Territorial Legislature chartered the college

as a land grant college under the Morrill Act of 1862

• 1884: The first building, Old Central is erected and classes held

• 1886: U.S. documents and two private donations comprise the library

collection

• 1889: Passage of the Enabling Act (25 Stat. 676, chs. 180, 276-284,)

allowed the Dakota Territory, Montana and Washington to apply for

statehood

• 1889: Nov. 2, 1889 South Dakota and North Dakota were

simultaneously admitted to the Union, South Dakota Agricultural

College Library is designated a Federal Depository Library

Historical Perspective of Federal Government

Information

• FDLP established 1813 by Congressional Resolution

• Printing Act 1860 established Government Printing Office to centralize

government printing

• Title 44 Chapter 19 U.S. Code established legal requirements for federal

depository libraries (FDLP Handbook, http://www.fdlp.gov/administration/handbook ).

• 1,250 depository libraries serve as one of the vital links between "We the

people" and our Government. (FDLP Desktop, http://www.fdlp.gov/home/about).

• Purpose: to provide free, easy, permanent access to federal government

information

2014: Celebrating 125 Years as the Largest Federal

Depository Library in South DakotaSouth Dakota State University Hilton M. Briggs Library, Brookings, SD

• Selects 77% of all items distributed through the Federal Depository

Library Program

• 243,000 paper documents

• 227,960 microforms

• 4465 electronic media

• 82,000 online documents

Serving the Government Information Needs of South

Dakota

• Depository designation in 1889 as a land grant institution

• Selective depository status in 1987 in partnership with the Regional

Depository Library at the university of Minnesota

• State Government Publications depository 1975 and 2013 in

partnership with the South Dakota State Library

• Select resources in multiple formats in support of university and state

federal government information needs

• Provide reference and research support in the use of government

information

• Provide regular instruction and promotion of the use of government

information.

Serving the State Information Needs for South Dakota

• Newly defined rules for state publications distributions to South

Dakota Libraries

• Reduced the number of state depositories from 8 to 2

• South Dakota State University selected as one of the 2 designated

state depositories in 2013

• Responsibility to retain and make accessible all state publications

obtained through the program

• Discard publications according to procedures set by State Library

• Promote state publications through orientations or workshops

State Publications Collections Growing Pains

• September 19,1975 Meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee on State

Documents at South Dakota State University reported 509 items

received in seven monthly shipments:

− 276 Periodicals (cataloged)

− 167 Vertical File

− 66 Acquisitions (cataloged)

• Concerns of the committee:

− Need additional sections for the Kardex

− Duplicates: to catalog or not to catalog

• Today: 36,351 retained