Lisa Lindell

Catalog Librarian and Professor
South Dakota State University, Hilton M. Briggs Library, Box 2115, Brookings, SD 57007-1098
Telephone: (605) 688-5561, E-mail: lisa.lindell@sdstate.edu

Library Activities
Lisa helps provide bibliographic access to the library's resources, both print and online. She also serves as the library's bibliographer and liaison for the Economics, English, and Mathematics Departments.


Professional Memberships
Member of the South Dakota Library Association
Member of the Mountain Plains Library Association
Member of the American Library Association and ALA's Library History Round Table


Education
B.A. (English, German, and Mathematics), Augustana College
M.A. (Library & Information Studies), University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.A. (English), South Dakota State University

Research Interests
Areas of research and publication include the literature of the Great Plains and regional, local, and library history. 

Publications

Lindell, Lisa (2008). "Sowing the seeds of liberal thought": Unitarian women ministers in nineteenth-century South Dakota. South Dakota History, 38, 148-180.

Lindell, Lisa. (2007). [Review of the book The American Midwest: an interpretive encyclopedia]. South Dakota History, 37, 175-176.

Lindell, Lisa R. (2005). A "splendid service": the South Dakota Free Library Commission in the 1930s. South Dakota History, 35, 249-271.

Lindell, Lisa R. (2005). [Review of the book The encyclopedia of the Great Plains]. South Dakota History, 35, 89-90.

Lindell, Lisa. (2004). Bringing books to a "book-hungry land": print culture on the Dakota prairie. Book History, 7, 215-238.

Lindell, Lisa. (2004). "No greater menace": Verne Sankey and the kidnapping of Charles Boettcher II. Colorado History, 10, 37-56.

Lindell, Lisa R. (2003). The "quickening power" of education: women students at South Dakota State University, 1885-1920. South Dakota History, 33, 18-45.

Lindell, Lisa. (2003). "A few good books": South Dakota's country school libraries. Libraries & Culture, 38 (1), 24-49. 

Lindell, Lisa R. (2001). Camp Cody library: books for World War I soldiers. New Mexico Historical Review, 76 (3), 285-308.

Lindell, Lisa R. (2000). Collegiate life from both sides of the desk: South Dakota State University in the 1880s. South Dakota History, 30, 167-199.

Lindell, Lisa. (2000, Spring). Lot 1, Block 4: searching for the grave of Anthony Morse. Canadian-American Journal of History & Genealogy for Canadian, French & Metis Study, 5, 6-10.

Lindell, Lisa. (2000). SDSU collegian index, 1998-2000. Brookings, SD: Hilton M. Briggs Library, South Dakota State University. 44 pp.

Lindell, Lisa. (1998). SDSU collegian index, 1996-1998. Brookings, SD: Hilton M. Briggs Library, South Dakota State University, 59 pp.

Lindell, Lisa R. (1997). Conquering a wilderness: destruction and development on the Great Plains in Mari Sandoz's Old Jules. Heritage of the Great Plains, 30 (2), 43-53.

Lindell, Lisa. (1997). Searching for Sissa. Swedish American Genealogist, 17 (1), 23-28.

Lindell, Lisa R. (1996). Recasting epic tradition: the dispossessed as hero in Sandoz's Crazy Horse and Cheyenne Autumn. Great Plains Quarterly, 16 (1), 43-53.

Lindell, Lisa. (1996). Lakota times/Indian country today cumulative index, 1991-1995. Brookings, SD: Hilton M. Briggs Library, South Dakota State University, 340 pp. [Issues of Indian country today from January 1996 to the present are indexed in electronic form and are available to anyone having access to the South Dakota Library Network.]

Haas, Nancy, & Lindell, Lisa (Eds.). (1996). Marghab rare book collection: Hilton M. Briggs Library. Brookings, SD: Hilton M. Briggs Library, South Dakota State University, 20 pp.

Lindell, Lisa. (1996). SDSU collegian index, 1994-1996. Brookings, SD: Hilton M. Briggs Library, South Dakota State University, 72 pp.

Lindell, Lisa. (1993). Visionaries of the American West: Mari Sandoz and her four Plains protagonists. Unpublished master's thesis, South Dakota State University, 97 pp.

Marshall, Nancy, & Lindell, Lisa (Eds.). (1993-1999). Conspectus [library's semiannual newsletter]



Updated: 10 July 2008 by ll