Booth Library’s annual Periodical and Standing Order Review is currently underway. The lists of periodicals and standing orders selected for cancellation are now available for review. This annual exercise is designed to ensure that library collections continue to meet the needs of library users. Titles are added or canceled based on input from the relevant academic departments.
Questions about the review can be addressed by individual subject librarians.
Booth Library’s collections are continually growing to meet the research and information needs of the EIU community. Last month, Booth Library acquired and cataloged 379 physical items (books, DVDs, government documents, archival resources, and more) and 1796 electronic resources (including ebooks, ejournals, digital audiobooks, and streaming videos). Individual issues of current periodicals are excluded. All items are discoverable through the library’s online catalog.
New acquisitions include items selected for purchase by Booth’s subject librarians, donations, re-cataloged library items, freely available government publications, and consortium-wide purchases.
Please contact your subject librarian with any questions.
National Library Week is an annual celebration of libraries, librarians, and library workers. From April 6-12, join Booth Library during our events and activities dedicated to National Library Week! We have a week full of opportunities for readers, learners, and all patrons of Booth Library to come together and have fun!
Monday, April 7th
Tuesday, April 8th
Wednesday, April 9th
Thursday, April 10th
Friday, April 11th
Along with these events and activities, we have our regularly scheduled CSI discovery Hours; visit the CSI on Monday-Thursday from 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m. to explore our collection of technological equipment and services!
Booth Library’s collections are continually growing to meet the research and information needs of the EIU community. During February 2025, Booth Library acquired and cataloged 356 physical items (books, DVDs, government documents, archival resources, and more) and 3845 electronic resources (including ebooks, ejournals, digital audiobooks, and streaming videos). Individual issues of current periodicals are excluded. All items are discoverable through the library’s online catalog.
New acquisitions include items selected for purchase by Booth’s subject librarians, donations, re-cataloged library items, freely available government publications, and consortium-wide purchases.
Please contact your subject librarian with any questions.
Library Collaboration Expo
📅 March 26, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. (Drop-in event)
📍 Booth Library — Pizza & prizes!
If you haven’t visited Booth Library lately, now’s the perfect time to stop by! Join us for a drop-in event designed to spark ideas, foster connections, and show you how the library can support you and your students.
Whether you’re redesigning a course or looking for innovative ways to engage students, we’re here to help.
At the Library Collaboration Expo, you’ll learn about:
What will you leave with?
Stop by for pizza, prizes, and engaging conversations — and discover how Booth Library can be your partner in teaching and research. We’d love to collaborate with you!
Thanks to Booth Library’s new Read & Publish agreement with Cambridge University Press, EIU faculty and other campus authors can publish articles Open Access (OA), if accepted, in hundreds of Cambridge’s journals at no charge. Please see more details on our agreement at the Cambridge website and their step-by-step guide for authors, and visit their Eligibility Checker tool to see the list of journals available for free OA publishing. As an added benefit of this agreement, everyone at EIU now has access to the Cambridge University Press 2025 full collection of over 400 journals, including leading titles across the humanities, social sciences, and science, technology, and medicine.
Open Access (OA) is a set of principles and practices designed to make scholarly materials freely available. OA publishing allows for greater visibility and accessibility, allowing scholars worldwide to discover relevant articles and read them without paywalls. Academic libraries promote OA to ensure equitable access to scholarly research, breaking down financial and legal barriers that restrict knowledge sharing. For additional OA publishing opportunities for EIU researchers through Booth Library’s agreements, and other information on how Booth is supporting publishers’ OA initiatives, see our LibGuide.
For questions, please contact your subject librarian or Sarah Johnson, Head of Collection Management (sljohnson2@eiu.edu).
Booth Library invites the EIU campus and greater community to celebrate Women’s History Month through the launch of a new exhibit: Jane Addams and Hull House. Join us on Thursday, March 13, 2025, at 5 p.m. in the library’s West Reading Room for light refreshments and discussion by the students who curated the exhibit, followed by a documentary screening.
This exhibit is a collaboration project as part of Killeen Reidy and Lauren Clark’s internship for professional writing at Booth Library. Reidy and Clark will explain their research and design process to curate the Jane Addams and Hull House displays, followed by a documentary screening of Jane Addams: Together We Rise — A Chicago Stories Documentary from a PBS affiliate in Chicago, also in the West Reading Room. Reidy and Clark’s exhibits are featured in the Reference Hallway adjacent to the Marvin Foyer, with a book display of Jane Addams’ written works that are available for checkout.
Reidy and Clark are both English majors: Reidy with an emphasis in Literary Studies and Clark with an emphasis in Professional Writing.
Light refreshments will be served. The exhibit will continue until the end of Women’s History Month (March 31).
This March, the Center of Student Innovation will be hosting a number of events to help you advance your technology skills! No prior experience with these technology concepts is required; the CSI offers workshops and learning labs dedicated to guiding beginners into tech-savvy users! Find out more about the technologies available at the CSI this March:
All events take place in the Center of Student Innovation, located at the 1000 level of Booth Library. Look through all of the events hosted by the CSI by following this link. Contact the CSI at csi@eiu.edu for more information.
Booth Library’s collections are continually growing to meet the research and information needs of the EIU community. During January 2025, Booth Library acquired and cataloged 482 physical items (books, DVDs, government documents, archival resources, and more) and 10,980 electronic resources (including ebooks, ejournals, digital audiobooks, and streaming videos). Individual issues of current periodicals are excluded. All items are discoverable through the library’s online catalog.
New acquisitions include items selected for purchase by Booth’s subject librarians, donations, re-cataloged library items, freely available government publications, and consortium-wide purchases.
Please contact your subject librarian with any questions.
Booth Library has made great efforts to ensure that the EIU community has access to scholarly materials, such as research articles and journals, that may be otherwise inaccessible due to paywalls. Booth has negotiated with publishers to support Open Access; Open Access (OA) allows research resources to be distributed online without barriers. Booth has made OA arrangements with the American Institute for Physics, American Physiological Society, Project Muse, and other publishers. Through these arrangements, numerous scholarly materials are freely available to the staff and students of EIU.
A complete list of Open Access arrangements and license agreements along with more information about Booth’s contributions to Open Access can be found in this LibGuide.
Please contact your subject librarian or Sarah Johnson, Head of Collection Management (sljohnson2@eiu.edu), with any questions.
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