The University of South Dakota libraries house more than 600,000 volumes, including an extensive collection of government documents and more than 5,000 current periodical subscriptions. The general collection of more than 430,000 volumes is housed in the I.D. Weeks Library. The Weeks Library has seating for 500 readers, individual study carels, comfortable lounge chairs, tables, conference rooms, and a word processing laboratory. The professional library for the Medical School, the Lomman Health Sciences Library, is also located in the I.D. Weeks Library. The Law School Library is housed in the Law School building.
All libraries are available to all students.
The I. D. Weeks Library card catalog as well as other resources are accessible via dial-in computer or from microcomputers in any of the computer labs on campus. The research programs at the University of South Dakota are built around the reasearch interests of faculty and may draw upon the full facilities of the institution. The University General Research Fund provides financial support through a competitive small-grants program for faculty projects. Research appointments in the form of assistantships are available in the School of Education on a limited basis to graduate students who are fully admitted to a program. Special students and provisionally admitted students are not eligible for assistantships until they become fully admitted to a program.