Public Libraries -- South Dakota

Scope and Contents Contains files documenting the South Dakota State Library’s activities in administering and complying with the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA) between 1975 and 1976. Passed by the U.S. Congress in 1964 (P.L. 88-269) and amended in 1970 (P.L. 91-600), the Library Services and Construction Act provided federal assistance to public libraries to be used for implementing or improving library services, or for the construction of new library facilities. Section 6 of the amended law...

Scope and Contents Contains records documenting the South Dakota State Library’s involvement in the South Dakota Library Network (SDLN) between 1988 and 1989 and includes memoranda and correspondence, SDLN Advisory Council agendas and minutes, annual reports, and member library statistics. The majority of the records concern the implementation of a statewide automated library network that would initially include South Dakota’s six public colleges and universities, the South Dakota State Historical Research...

Scope and Contents From the Record Group: This record group contains records created and maintained by the South Dakota Department of Education and Cultural Affairs and includes meeting minutes, photographs, publications, correspondence, audio recordings of speeches and presentations, videotape recordings, grant files, school building specifications, budgets and other financial reports, architectural drawings of historic buildings, administrative subject files, posters, and annual reports.