Library Services -- South Dakota

Scope and Contents Contains records generated by the South Dakota State Library in its role as an associated state agency to the Bibliographic Center for Research between 1975 and 1982. The Bibliographic Center for Research, Rocky Mountain Region, Inc. (BCR) was founded in 1935 as a not-for-profit resource sharing organization focused on assisting researchers and libraries with locating materials held in libraries outside their local community. More recently, the BCR operated as a multi-state regional library...

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 files documenting the South Dakota State Library’s activities in administering and complying with the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA) between FY 1977 and 1982. Passed by the U.S. Congress in 1964 (P.L. 88-269), 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. Records include memoranda and correspondence, long...