Library News
Watch nearly 700 popular movies with Feature Films for Education
Posted on January 17th, 2025
Booth Library’s new subscription to Feature Films for Education, a streaming video collection from Infobase, has almost 700 popular movies available to stream. Included are recent blockbusters, classic cinema, dramas, musicals, science fiction, documentaries, animation studies, Academy Award winners, and more. The films were chosen for their suitability for instructional purposes and can be linked within D2L. And for students, there’s a great selection here if you’re having a movie night in the dorm. We recommend using a browser other than Firefox to access the collection, since Firefox has trouble loading the videos.
The videos come with public performance rights for campus use, so they can be shown outside the classroom for campus events as long as admission isn’t being charged.
New library acquisitions for December
Posted on January 14th, 2025
Booth Library’s collections are continually growing to meet the research and information needs of the EIU community. During December 2024, Booth Library acquired and cataloged 235 physical items (books, DVDs, government documents, archival resources, and more) and 30,730 electronic resources (including ebooks, ejournals, digital audiobooks, and streaming videos). Included in the December e-resource list are over 28,000 digital graphic novels, manga, and comics from Booth’s new Comics Plus database. 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.
EIU Recognizes International Holocaust Remembrance Day with Traveling Exhibit
Posted on January 10th, 2025
Courage to Remember, a traveling exhibit about the Holocaust, will be displayed at Eastern Illinois University in Booth Library from January 27, 2025, to January 31, 2025. January 27 marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The exhibit will open that day at noon with a public reception, including a welcome from Jay Gatrell, EIU President.
Created by the Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance, the exhibit features large illustrated panels with historical photos, maps, and first-person accounts. It presents a chronological journey through the events of the Holocaust, exploring how prejudice and discrimination escalated into violence and genocide.
“We are very excited that Eastern Illinois University is hosting this exhibit,” said Dr. Brian Kahn, a longtime member and previous chair of the Holocaust Education Center of the Champaign-Urbana Jewish Federation, the exhibit’s sponsor. “Holocaust survivor Dr. William Gingold brought this exhibit to our area, and it is an excellent educational tool for teaching about the Holocaust,” he added.
Rebecca Lawson, EIU alumna and local educator, echoed this sentiment: “Getting to a major Holocaust museum is not easy for most people in our area, and this exhibit will give people a similar experience on a smaller scale without having to travel very far.”
International Holocaust Remembrance Day honors the memory of Holocaust victims. EIU’s hosting of Courage to Remember serves as an opportunity to foster historical awareness, promote critical reflection on the consequences of hatred, bigotry, and intolerance, and to reaffirm its commitment to human rights and the university’s mission to prepare students as informed and empathetic global citizens.
Courage to Remember will be displayed in the West Reading Room of Booth Library, 600 Lincoln Ave., Charleston, Illinois. The exhibit is free and open to the public from 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.
New library acquisitions for November
Posted on December 11th, 2024
Booth Library’s collections are continually growing to meet the research and information needs of the EIU community. During November 2024, Booth Library acquired and cataloged 281 physical items (books, DVDs, government documents, archival resources, and more) and 2641 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.
Manga, Graphic Novels, and More – Now at Your Fingertips with Comics Plus!
Posted on December 5th, 2024
Booth Library’s collection of graphic novels and comics just got much bigger. Our new subscription to Comics Plus includes nearly 27,000 digital comics, graphic novels and nonfiction, manga, and children’s picture books – all with no checkout limits or simultaneous user restrictions.
To access Comics Plus, first create an account, then use your login and password to browse and read the collection.
Your login credentials for Comics Plus can also be used with the iOS or Android apps. Within the app, choose “Eastern Illinois University IL” as your school.
Join us for an Exhibit Opening and Artist Talk
Posted on November 22nd, 2024
Booth Library invites the EIU campus and greater community to a reception celebrating the launch of a new exhibit: Upcycled Fashion, a Make-Do & Mend Class Project. Join us on Tuesday, December 3, 2024 at 10 a.m. in the library’s Marvin Foyer for light refreshments and discussion by our featured designers.
Students from the FMD 2234 Apparel Construction class along with Deborah Reifsteck, Senior Instructor of Fashion Merchandising, will discuss how they designed, developed and constructed class projects inspired by the resourceful repurposing of items during World War II to conserve various materials. Their completed projects are featured in a Booth Library exhibit, which also includes a book display of related publications that are available for checkout.
Featured designers include:
Lauren Bauman
Kaliyah Caples
Mikey Collman
Mikayla Harris
Emma Hill
Kendall Holtzhouser
Claire Meek
Gracie Jo Milby
Alexis Moore-Jones
Ashaureah Reed
Wyatt Stanley
Kajah Williams
Light refreshments will be served. The exhibit will continue through January 8.
New library acquisitions for October
Posted on November 18th, 2024
Booth Library’s collections are continually growing to meet the research and information needs of the EIU community. During October 2024, Booth Library acquired and cataloged 570 physical items (books, DVDs, government documents, archival resources, and more) and 4630 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.
Access over 2,700 ebooks through MIT Press Direct to Open
Posted on November 6th, 2024
Booth Library has signed on with MIT Press’s Direct to Open (D2O) initiative, joining over 300 libraries in helping fund the Open Access publication of a wide selection of new books from the MIT Press for 2025. Through the D2O program, 80-90 ebooks each year are made available online, free to read by everyone. Open Access is a set of principles and practices to support making access to scholarly materials more inclusive and equitable.
Thanks to Booth’s participation in D2O, our campus now has access to an archive of over 2,700 MIT Press ebooks that would otherwise be paywalled. This new collection covers topics across the social sciences, sciences, and humanities. Check out the new collection online to download and read the ebooks (look for the green Open Access or Available icons). The ebooks are also discoverable through Booth’s online catalog.
Please contact your subject librarian or Sarah Johnson, Head of Collection Management (sljohnson2@eiu.edu), with any questions.
Authors@EIU- October 28
Posted on October 14th, 2024
Booth Library continues “Authors@EIU” series
Booth Library invites the campus and community to join us for our speaker series this Fall semester, Authors@EIU. The event will showcase the expertise in our community and will provide an opportunity to explore exciting and timely topics.
Two authors will be featured in our Fall 2024 Authors@EIU event to celebrate the research, scholarship and creative success of EIU faculty who have recently achieved publication of a book. This recurring series launched in Spring 2024 and will be a continuing event on the EIU campus.
Please mark your calendars to attend Authors@EIU, Monday, October 28 at 5 p.m. in Booth Library’s West Reading Room:
Linda Ghent, Ph.D., Economics Seinfeld and Economics: Lessons on Everything from the ‘Show about Nothing’, 2nd edition, by Linda Ghent Independently Published, January 2024
Amie Whittemore, Ph.D., English
Nest of Matches, by Amie Whittemore Autumn House Press, March 2024
Events will include a shared reception at 5 p.m. Presentations will begin at 5:30 with introductory remarks, followed by presentations and question & answer sessions for each author.
The library parking lot off 4th Street and adjacent to the library’s accessible south entry offers parking, including accessible spaces. Parking on the EIU campus is free and open to the public after 5 p.m.
Members of the general public, and the press are most welcome. Please join us for interesting presentations and dialogues.
Fall Book Sale
Posted on September 12th, 2024
Booth Library will host its Fall Book Sale from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 18 outside the south entrance of the library.
A large selection of books in all subject areas and hundreds of paperback fiction titles will be available for purchase. No patrons will be allowed to browse or purchase items prior to the 9 a.m. start time. Paperbacks are $1, and Hardbacks are $2.
All items have been donated by the campus and local communities. The proceeds from the sale are used to enhance library programs and services.
In case of inclement weather, the sale will be postponed or moved inside. For the latest information, check the library website, www.library.eiu.edu, or find Booth Library on Facebook or Instagram.
