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The Hilton M. Briggs Library Records document the administration, operations, and development of the library at South Dakota State University. The collection includes administrative files, cataloging records, collection development files, committee minutes, financial documents, library serials records, off-campus relations, reports, publications, newsletters, photographs, policies, and materials related to circulation, interlibrary loan, reserves, acquisitions, bindery, and special events. Committee records cover groups such as the Social Committee, Publicity Committee, Collections and Connections Committee, Exhibits and Arts Committee, Staff Development Committee, University Library Committee, and Faculty and Staff Library Committees. Materials span library services, staffing, budgeting, technology initiatives, outreach, strategic planning, and special collections management.

This collection odocuments the growth and transformation of Hilton M. Briggs Library from its dedication in 1977 through subsequent decades. It reflects the library’s evolving role in supporting academic programs, research, outreach, and technology integration. The records illustrate the library’s response to campus needs, statewide collaborations, and national trends in academic librarianship, making it a valuable resource for understanding the development of higher education libraries, library administration, and information services in South Dakota.

The Hofer/Loewen Family Papers primarily document the agricultural operations, political involvement, and personal history of the Hofer family in Beadle County, South Dakota. Spanning from 1947 to 2000, the collection includes detailed farm accounting records maintained through various record book formats, including those issued by South Dakota State College Extension, National Farmers’ publications, and Farm Credit Services. These ledgers provide comprehensive data on land use, livestock inventories, crop production, machinery, expenditures, and farm business summaries.

Also included are materials from Ben Hofer’s 1996 campaign for the South Dakota State Senate, such as advertising, posters, newspaper clippings, and promotional items. Additional content consists of biographical material on Ben Hofer and his father Josua Hofer, a funeral program, photographs, and a farm history written by Elise Waldner. Notably, the collection contains acreage measurements for Milford Township compiled by Josua Hofer in 1940, offering valuable local land use documentation. A series of calendars captures daily appointments and activities, contributing further insight into the family’s agricultural and civic life.

This collection offers researchers a longitudinal record of farm management in eastern South Dakota across five decades, illustrating evolving agricultural practices and rural economics. It also reflects the political and civic engagement of a farming family, particularly through Ben Hofer’s campaign materials and local documentation compiled by Josua Hofer. The materials offer researchers insight into mid-to-late 20th-century rural life, land use, and regional agricultural history in Beadle County.

The Ephemera series of the Norby Collection consists of printed and manuscript items primarily related to Brookings, South Dakota, and Brookings County. Materials include business cards, business envelopes, signs, calendars, bumper stickers, matchbooks, postcards, ribbons and badges, tokens, steno books, miscellaneous notes, and an appointment book containing excerpts from the Brookings Register. The series also includes framed ink drawings depicting Brookings, South Dakota State University, area towns, and county and farm scenes, as well as a framed photograph of the Sylvan Theatre at South Dakota State University and a framed poem. Dates range from approximately 1910 to 1998, with some materials undated. Items are arranged by format across two boxes.

This series provides evidence of everyday commercial, civic, and social activity in Brookings and surrounding areas across much of the twentieth century. These materials document local businesses, events, advertising practices, and community identity, and complement more formal records by preserving transient printed items that reflect daily life, local commerce, and visual culture.

The Norby Newspapers collection consists primarily of issues of the Brookings Register collected and preserved by George and Evelyn Norby. The newspapers span the years 1879 to 2003, with substantial annual coverage from 1890 through 2003. Early volumes are generally arranged by individual year, while later volumes and supplemental groupings include multi year spans and partial runs. The collection documents local, regional, and state news, including community events, agricultural developments, political activities, business growth, social organizations, and daily life in Brookings and surrounding areas. In addition to the Brookings Register, the collection includes a series of miscellaneous newspaper issues that supplement gaps or represent related local and regional publications. Materials are arranged chronologically by title and year within the Norby Newspapers series.

The Norby Newspapers collection provides a comprehensive and long term record of community life in Brookings, South Dakota, and eastern South Dakota from the late nineteenth century through the early twenty first century. The breadth and continuity of the Brookings Register holdings support research in local history, genealogy, journalism, agriculture, politics, and social change. Preserved through the sustained collecting efforts of George and Evelyn Norby, the collection represents a significant privately assembled archive that enhances institutional newspaper holdings and preserves fragile print materials that document over a century of regional history.

The Subject Files series of the Norby Collection consists of topical files compiled and maintained by George and Evelyn Norby documenting the history and development of Brookings, South Dakota, and Brookings County, with limited material relating to South Dakota and communities outside Brookings County. The series includes clippings, publications, reports, ephemera, maps, directories, and related reference material organized by subject. City focused files document municipal government and administration, elections and officials, utilities, public services, ordinances and city code revisions, planning and development, historic preservation activities, parks and recreation, transportation including the airport and railroads, public institutions such as the library, schools, and hospital, and community events and commemorations including centennial materials and local responses to the September 11 attacks. County focused files include commissioner proceedings, courthouse and jail records, officials, census and atlas materials, early residents, fairs and festivals, towns and townships, veterans materials, weather, welfare, and local newspapers and newspaper history.

The files also contain substantial documentation on local organizations and clubs, including fraternal, civic, genealogical, and women’s groups, and extensive church files for Brookings and surrounding communities. Business files include materials on banks, local and regional companies, advertising, retail and service businesses, and community commerce, along with files on the Brookings commercial and residential historic districts, National Register applications, walking tours, and documentation of specific blocks and buildings. Education files include area schools and district materials, reorganization documentation, newsletters, and school related ephemera. South Dakota State University files include campus buildings and inventories, institutional events and traditions, alumni, athletics, museums, tours, and campus landmarks. Additional topical files cover named individuals, military service and wars, state government and elections, maps and travel materials, and cemetery, burial, and obituary reference resources including burial registers, cemetery locations, and plot maps. Researchers are advised to consult both the Brookings City and Brookings County files, as related material may be found in either grouping.

The Subject Files provide a locally compiled documentation set supporting research on civic administration, community development, historic preservation, education, religious life, commerce, and social organizations in Brookings and Brookings County. The combination of municipal and county materials, together with organizational, church, business, cemetery, and South Dakota State University documentation, offers contextual sources for local history and genealogical research and helps trace changes in the built environment and community institutions over time.

The Carol Hepper Collection documents the professional career and artistic exhibitions of contemporary American sculptor Carol Hepper, spanning the mid-1980s through the early 2000s. The materials reflect Hepper’s national presence in the contemporary art world, with records from major galleries, museums, and academic institutions across the United States. Included are exhibition catalogs, brochures, press materials, and digital media (CD-ROMs and video files) from solo and group exhibitions in venues such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Phillips Collection, the Portland Art Museum, and the North Dakota Museum of Art. The collection also contains documentation of academic appointments, artist residencies, and publications featuring Hepper’s work.

The collection is a comprehensive documentation of Hepper’s sculptural evolution and thematic explorations, including organic forms, material experimentation, and contemporary interpretations of landscape and structure. It serves as a valuable resource for research in late 20th-century American sculpture, women's contributions to contemporary art, and regional artistic networks.

The South Dakota State Climate Office Records document over a century of weather and climate data collection across South Dakota and parts of Iowa, Minnesota, and Wyoming. The bulk of the collection consists of daily weather observation sheets submitted by volunteer reporting stations, recording data such as precipitation, air and soil temperature, wind, and solar radiation. The detail and scope of observations vary based on the equipment available at each site. Materials are organized geographically by reporting location, including towns, research farms, and natural landmarks.

In addition to climatological data, the collection includes administrative and research materials such as master’s theses, grant proposals, legal case documentation involving weather data, radar output, storm and cloud photography, and drought and tree ring analysis. Specialized forms, including B-91 climatological reports, are also present, along with materials relating to significant weather events such as flooding and droughts.

This collection offers insight into long-term regional climate trends. It is a valuable resource for environmental research, agricultural planning, legal reference, public safety, and historical climatology.

The collection is composed primarily of color slides and black and white photographs documenting Wayne Scott Gardner’s research and teaching in plant pathology, dating from 1952 to 1987, with the strongest coverage from the 1960s through the mid 1980s. The materials focus on virus diseases of plants, particularly wheat streak mosaic virus, along with tobacco mosaic virus, barley stripe mosaic virus, maize dwarf mosaic virus, and other viral infections affecting wheat, corn, barley, tobacco, and related crops. Visual documentation includes field symptoms, laboratory preparations, ultrastructural studies, and comparative analyses of disease development across crop varieties and environmental conditions.

In addition to plant viruses, the collection contains extensive visual records of fungal and physiological plant diseases, including rusts, powdery mildews, charcoal rot, septoria, and other pathogens. Environmental and abiotic crop injuries are well represented through slides illustrating the effects of air pollution, sulfur dioxide, ozone, smog, frost, heat, drought, wind, hail, sleet, and winter stress on agricultural crops. Teaching slide sets, seminar materials, and student research components are included, as well as scientific reprints, correspondence, and literature that document Gardner’s research activities, instructional use of electron microscopy, and contributions to plant disease education and agricultural research at South Dakota State University.

This collection documents evidence of mid twentieth century research and instruction in plant virology and plant pathology at South Dakota State University. The extensive documentation of wheat streak mosaic virus and related cereal crop diseases supports historical research into disease management, crop response to environmental stress, and the development of microscopy based plant pathology. The materials also contribute to the study of agricultural conditions in the northern Great Plains and the impact of air pollution and climate related factors on crop health.

The School of Communication and Journalism Records collection at South Dakota State University offers a view of the department’s academic, professional, and cultural history. The materials include a wide array of newsletters, pamphlets, programs, posters, reports, and instructional aids that document the department’s evolution, its educational initiatives, and its engagement with both students and the broader journalism community.

The collection features numerous departmental publications such as newsletters and bulletins that provided updates on internships, academic programs, and faculty activities. It includes promotional and commemorative materials from events like Journalism Week, Newspaper Day, the Lusk Lecture, and various banquets and conferences. These materials reflect the department’s commitment to fostering professional development and celebrating milestones in journalism education.

A significant portion of the collection is devoted to student involvement and experiential learning. The South Dakota Observer, a newspaper entirely produced by students—from writing and editing to typesetting and printing—serves as a central artifact of the department’s hands-on approach to journalism training. Other student-centered materials include style guides, course announcements, and workshop pamphlets, which illustrate the department’s emphasis on practical skills and industry standards.

The collection also highlights the department’s efforts to engage with underrepresented communities, particularly through materials related to American Indian journalism and media. Pamphlets and programs from career conferences and symposia underscore the department’s role in promoting diversity and inclusion within the field.

Instructional resources such as transparencies, slides, and visual aids used in teaching courses on media history and design are also present, offering insight into the pedagogical strategies employed by faculty. Administrative documents, including annual reports and institutional reviews, provide context for the department’s internal development and external recognition, including national awards and accreditations.

This collection is a resource for understanding the history of journalism education in South Dakota and the broader Midwest. It captures the department’s leadership in printing and rural journalism, its dedication to student learning, and its contributions to the professional journalism landscape.

This collection comprises the administrative, instructional, research, and outreach records of the College of Agriculture and Biological Sciences at South Dakota State University. Materials primarily originate from the Office of the Dean and include correspondence, newsletters, planning documents, annual reports, promotional brochures, conference materials, curriculum outlines, and extensive budget and salary records. Of particular note are salary lists for individual departments, financial reports for the Agricultural Experiment Station and the Cooperative State Research Service, and documentation of cooperative agreements with international institutions.

The collection also includes strategic planning reports, departmental reviews, and publications such as Ag Bio Newsletter, Growing South Dakota, and South Dakota Farm and Home Research, which highlight the college’s communication efforts and research dissemination. Visual materials include photographs of faculty, students, research farms, laboratories, and outreach events. The records reflect the college’s central role in shaping agricultural and biological sciences education, conducting applied research, supporting statewide extension services, and fostering economic and rural development in South Dakota and the region.

The President’s Office Records document the administrative, academic, and strategic functions of South Dakota State University from the early 20th century through the early 21st century. The records include correspondence, reports, committee minutes, planning documents, speeches, memoranda, and audiovisual materials produced by or related to university presidents and their offices. Topics covered include accreditation, budget planning, academic programs, institutional governance, state and federal relations, student life, campus facilities, faculty affairs, strategic planning initiatives, and major university events. The collection also contains materials related to presidential inaugurations, annual reports, and university outreach, including relationships with the Board of Regents and external stakeholders.

This collection offers comprehensive insight into the leadership and institutional development of South Dakota State University across decades. It reflects evolving administrative structures, academic priorities, and university responses to local, state, and national challenges. The records are valuable for understanding higher education governance, policy formation, and SDSU’s role as a land-grant institution. The inclusion of strategic initiatives such as the “Lead Forward Land Grant” and “Impact 2018” planning frameworks highlights long-term visioning and institutional advancement.

The records primarily include annual reports, departmental assessment findings, and student performance data across academic levels. Key components include entering student profiles, mid-program and senior-level assessments (e.g., CAAP exams), credit by examination processes, faculty profiles, and comprehensive assessment plans from colleges and departments such as Agriculture, Engineering, Nursing, and Education. The collection also includes extensive documentation of curriculum development, survey instruments, graduate program reviews, and correspondence between assessment coordinators and department chairs. These materials reflect both internal and external evaluation processes, accreditation reviews, and efforts to improve institutional effectiveness.

This collection offers insight into institutional assessment practices from the 1990s through the early 2000s. It serves as a vital resource for researchers studying educational measurement, academic program evaluation, student learning outcomes, and institutional accountability in higher education. It is also useful for program administrators engaged in curriculum improvement and accreditation.

The records document the activities, administration, and history of the Brookings Rotary Club from 1920 to 1999. Materials include foundational documents such as the 1920 charter, by-laws, and constitution; correspondence, committee reports, and assignments from the 1960s through the 1990s; district conference planning and reports to the District Governor spanning 1957–1999; and membership directories from 1943–1999. The collection also contains certificates, awards, attendance records, banquet programs, president’s plans, and a book project. Extensive newsletters titled Rotary Cog date from 1920–1998, along with clippings, photographs, and a club history compiled between 1955 and 1995. Additional materials include a songbook, records of Rotary Foundation scholarship activity, and summaries of club plans and objectives.

The collection provides documentation of the Brookings Rotary Club’s organizational development, community involvement, and participation in Rotary International programs over nearly eight decades. It reflects local leadership, service initiatives, and the continuity of civic engagement in Brookings, South Dakota.

This collection is composed of local and national records of the South Dakota Paint Horse Club, a non-profit organization affiliated with the American Paint Horse Association. The records document the club’s mission to promote the paint horse breed through administrative oversight, public outreach, and event coordination.

Materials include foundational documents such as by-laws, certification of incorporation, directories, contracts, and meeting minutes, as well as extensive correspondence, financial statements, and memoranda. The collection also features Hoofprints, the club’s official newsletter, which contains updates on officers, show schedules, membership, and organizational developments.

Additional records pertain to programs, futurity events, horse shows, stallion auctions, and national and regional events, including participation in the South Dakota State Fair and the Rapid City Convention. Newspaper articles, awards, rule books, and documentation related to club governance and judging are also present. Audiovisual content includes taped meetings.

These materials illustrate the club’s significant role in promoting the paint horse breed both within South Dakota and nationally from its founding in 1970 through its closure in 2021.

The James K. “Tex” Lewis Papers comprise research data, field notes, correspondence, publications, photographs, and teaching materials that document Lewis’s extensive range management research and instructional activities. The bulk of the materials pertain to Projects 216, 217, 239, and 421, long-running studies on forage production, grazing systems, livestock weight monitoring, and soil moisture dynamics conducted primarily at the Cottonwood Range Field Station, but also at Antelope Range Field Station, the Badlands, and other locations. The collection includes detailed observational and statistical data (e.g., point frame data, clip plot studies, Vegometer readings, and remote sensing imagery), climatological records, experimental livestock weights, soil analyses, and related environmental assessments. Boxes also include datasets used in simulation modeling (e.g., SPUR) and course materials for RANG, AS, and WL courses taught by Lewis.

Additional documentation reflects collaboration with national and regional entities such as the American Grassland Council, Society for Range Management, Great Plains Agricultural Council, and Bureau of Land Management. Also included are aerial photographs, GIS data, proposals, and internal reports, showcasing the depth and scientific rigor of Lewis’s methodology. Later series feature writings, technical guides, and training materials used in both academic and governmental range science settings.

This collection is a resource for understanding mid- to late-20th-century range science and ecosystem monitoring in the Great Plains. James K. Lewis’s work contributed significantly to innovations in grazing system design, range condition monitoring, and statistical modeling of range-livestock interactions. His leadership in integrating remote sensing, climatological data, and ecological classification methods helped shape contemporary range management practices. The materials are particularly valuable for researchers interested in the evolution of land use planning, sustainable grazing systems, and interdisciplinary range-livestock ecology. The inclusion of raw data and simulation outputs enhances the collection’s potential for longitudinal environmental and climatic studies.

This collection includes materials related to the personal and professional lives of Elmer and Cecile Sexauer, such as postcards, diaries, scrapbooks, and essays written by Cecile during her college years. It also contains items like agricultural reports presented to Elmer, certificates from their 50th college reunion, and various family papers. Travel diaries and over 400 postcards document their trips across the U.S., Mexico, the Caribbean, Europe, Canada, and Japan.

The collection offers valuable insight into the lives of Elmer and Cecile Sexauer, highlighting their family history, travels, and involvement in organizations like the Grain and Feed Dealers National Association. It serves as an important resource for understanding their personal experiences and social networks in the early 20th century.

The general material consists mainly of essays written by Cecile Welch Sexauer during her college career. Also included is a Christmas card list of the Sexauer's for 1971, scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings, a book of Agricultural Department Reports presented to Elmer Sexauer in 1947, and certificates presented to the Sexauer's on the anniversary of their 50th college reunion. Some examples of their personal stationery, grade school papers from Elmer's youth, and a language paper of Laura Sexauer, Elmer's sister are also included.

A scrapbook of Elizabeth Anne Baker, age 9 weeks, chronicles her first visit to her grandparents’ home during Easter 1947. It was prepared by Jeannette Gagnon-Abbey for the Sexauer's.

The scrapbook was presented to Elmer Sexauer by the Grain and Feed Dealers National Association as a permanent reminder of the Forty-fourth Annual Convention held at Louisville, Kentucky October 13-15, 1940. Elmer was president of the Association at that time.
The postcards are composed of postcards from the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean that the Sexauer’s collected on their travels. There are over 400 postcards in this collection.

The Travels series consists of travel diaries hand-written by Cecile Sexauer. These diaries contain information about where the Sexauer's traveled and the customs, history and items of interest of these places. Some of the places the Sexauer's traveled to Europe, Canada, and Japan. Also included is a souvenir book of the Queen Elizabeth cruise ship.

This comprehensive collection documents the history, leadership, and activities of the South Dakota Association for Family and Community Education (SDAFCE) and its predecessor organizations, including the South Dakota Extension Homemakers Council and affiliated Home Demonstration Clubs. The records span from the early 20th century through the late 1990s and reflect decades of grassroots civic engagement, adult education, and rural community development led by women across South Dakota.

The collection includes administrative records such as constitutions, bylaws, financial statements, chairmen handbooks, guidelines, honorary certificates, and minutes from state and local meetings. It also features extensive newsletters, membership applications, correspondence, cross-stitch patterns, postcards, and program materials. A substantial portion of the collection is composed of club-level documentation—including enrollment records, secretary’s books, and scrapbooks—from Brookings, Moody, Minnehaha, Pennington, Perkins, Spink, and Clark counties. These materials illustrate the scope of educational projects, cultural programming, safety campaigns, and international outreach efforts conducted by local clubs.

Of particular note are items from the Susan Wilder Scholarship Committee, slide presentations on homemaker history, and artifacts such as wall hangings, podium cloths, gavels, and banners. The records also include documentation of SDAFCE’s collaboration with the South Dakota Cooperative Extension Service and participation in national and international homemaker associations.

This collection offers valuable insight into the role of rural women in shaping South Dakota’s educational and civic landscape. It is a vital resource for researchers studying women’s voluntary associations, cooperative extension history, home economics, and local grassroots leadership.

The collection consists of professional papers documenting leadership and participation in remote sensing, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), geospatial technology education, and satellite data access initiatives from approximately 1971 to 2018. Materials include correspondence, reports, proposals, grant files, conference and workshop materials, meeting records, instructional resources, technical documentation, imagery and mapping records, and administrative files.

Significant documentation pertains to AmericaView and South DakotaView programs, the Upper Midwest Aerospace Consortium and its Education Public Access Resource Center, and collaborative projects with federal agencies including USGS, NASA, USDA, and USAID. The records reflect the development of statewide geospatial infrastructure, Landsat data advocacy, K–12 geospatial education initiatives, university research administration, and applied remote sensing projects addressing agriculture, water resources, transportation, land use, and environmental monitoring.

Also included are course notes and teaching materials for geography and GIS courses, professional conference participation, university committee service, and records relating to the South Dakota State University Remote Sensing Institute and related research centers.

Pecora 16

Planning report for Master's in Geography

Presentation to USGS DOT-UAV [Unmanned Aerial Vehicles]

DE-DEMs - Drain-Enforced Digital Elevation Models

DEM - Digital Elevation Models

Bozeman, Montana

Las Vegas, Nevada

• UnESS - University Earth System Support Office
• CERES - Crop Explorer Research and Education Satellite

• Washington, D.C.
• CSREES - Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service

Moscow, Idaho

• Grand Forks, North Dakota
• UMAC: Upper Midwest Aerospace Consortium

Bozeman, Montana

• Grand Forks, North Dakota
• UMAC: Upper Midwest Aerospace Consortium

UMAC: Upper Midwest Aerospace Consortium

Transcripts, cashiers statements, correspondence

University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado

• Automatic Techniques for Animal County from Aerial Photography
• Operation Santa Claus

Nels Troelstrup

University of North Dakota / Upper Midwest Aerospace Consortium

ESRI - Environmental Systems Research Institute [GIS and Mapping software]

ESRI - Environmental Systems Research Institute [GIS and Mapping software]

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.