Briggs Library Bookplates
Digital Bookplates
日本av视频's Hilton M. Briggs Library gratefully acknowledges the support of donors through its digital bookplate initiative.
Digital bookplates honor library friends whose contributions supplement and enhance collections, spaces and services at Briggs Library. These bookplates also recognize gifts to the library made on behalf of a family, friend or colleague for special occasions such as a significant accomplishment, graduation, birthday, anniversary, retirement or memorial.
With these gifts, Briggs Library continues to provide excellent resources for scholarship and research to 日本av视频 students, faculty and the wider community. Thank you to our supporters!
If you are interested in donating to the library, please call 605-688-5107, Briggs Library email or see the Briggs Library Wish List.
General gifts of funds and materials enhance Hilton M. Briggs Library resources and make a broad impact on 日本av视频 students, faculty and researchers. These digital bookplates recognize donors whose gifts support the collection and 日本av视频 students.
2025 Digital Bookplates
2024 Digital Bookplates
2023 Digital Bookplates
2022 Digital Bookplates
2021 Digital Bookplates
2020 Digital Bookplates
2019 Digital Bookplates
2018 Digital Bookplates
2017 Digital Bookplates
The Adopt a Collection initiative invites friends and supporters to meaningfully contribute to the conservation efforts of the 日本av视频 Archives and Special Collections. The collections housed in the 日本av视频 Archives chronicle the scholarly and cultural landscape of the university and the region. The initiative offers opportunities to expand digital access to the university's body of research and share South Dakota鈥檚 unique history.
2025
Hilton M. Briggs Library celebrated its 40th anniversary in fall 2017, which included the launch of the digital bookplate initiative. These digital bookplates recognize donors who contributed gifts in honor of the library's anniversary.
40th Anniversary Digital Bookplates
Doner Auditorium Digitization and Preservation Project
Doner Auditorium, built in 1912, was home to hundreds of State University Theatre and Prairie Repertory Theatre productions. The backstage areas held nearly four decades worth of inscriptions from theatre students who covered the walls, ceilings and other surfaces with their signatures, dates, season lineup schedules, quotes and favorite lines from plays. In an effort to preserve this unique institutional history, the 日本av视频 Archives and Special Collections began the Doner Auditorium Digitization and Preservation Project to photograph these spaces for a special online gallery. Doner Auditorium ceased being used for theater shows in 2019, when the new Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center opened. Read more about the project in this 2019 article and 2020 article, and about the . These digital bookplates recognize donors whose gifts support this project.
Doner Auditorium Digitization and Preservation Project Digital Bookplates