Library News
Maya Angelou’s Life and Works
Posted on August 28th, 2014
Maya Angelou: April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014
In the spring of this year we lost one of our most beloved writers…
5 ways she will be remembered:
♦ Poet laureate
She was the first African-American woman to read poetry at a presidential inauguration (President Clinton’s, 1993).
♦ Prose writer
She was best known for her 1969 memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
♦ Civil rights leader
She worked with both Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.
♦ Artist
She was a talented dancer, actress, film director, and producer.
♦ Intellectual
She earned the Presidential Medal of Freedom, a National Medal of Arts, three Grammy Awards, and more than 30 honorary degrees. She was also nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award.
These notable facts about Angelou are from a post “Maya Angelou: 5 Ways She Will be Remembered” by Husna Haq on the “Chapter & Verse” blog, a literary blog of the Christian Science Monitor.
In celebration of the life of poet laureate Maya Angelou, the following resources from the library’s collection have been put on display in the 3000 S corridor of Booth Library. Visit the library to check out the books, or follow the links to the catalog record, or right into the electronic book.
♦ Poems and essays
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
PS3551 .N464 Z466 2009x (Book stacks)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
PS3551 .N464 Z466 2009x (Read and Relax)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
E185.97 .A56 A3 1969 (Book stacks)
The Heart of a Woman
Maya Angelou
PS3551 .N464 Z465 2009
Letters to My Daughter
Maya Angelou
PS3551.N464 Z468 2008
A Song Flung Up to Heaven
Maya Angelou
PS3551.N464 Z476 2002
Still I Rise
Maya Angelou
PS3551.N464 A8 2001
Phenomenal Woman
Maya Angelou
PS3551.N464 P48 2000
Maya Angelou: Poems
Maya Angelou
PS3551.N464 A6 1993x
Even the Stars Look Lonesome
Maya Angelou
PS3551.N464 E94 1997b
All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes
Maya Angelou
PS3551.N464 Z463 1997x
A Brave and Startling Truth
Maya Angelou
PS3551.N464 B7 1995
On the Pulse of Morning
Maya Angelou
PS3551.N464 O53 1993
Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now
Maya Angelou
PS3551.N464 W68 1993
I Shall Not Be Moved
Maya Angelou
PS3551.N464 I17 1990
♦ Juvenile works
Maya Angelou
By Maya Angelou
811 An43ma
Maya Angelou
Miles Shapiro
818 SH22M
Kofi and His Magic
Maya Angelou
966.7 An43kof
My Painted House, My Friendly Chicken, and Me
Maya Angelou
704.042 An438my
Life Doesn’t Frighten Me
Maya Angelou
811 An43li
Water, water, everywhere?
Posted on August 28th, 2014
At this time of the year, many parts of the country are facing seasonal (or ongoing) water scarcity or water contamination issues. Here are a few related government documents addressing the issue. They are all part of the Booth Library government information collections.
News Gathering illus. by Frederick Dielman
From NPR: Toledo Water Ban Persists After New Test Results Cause Concerns
GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS–WATER QUALITY
GovDocs PDF file: Farmers Undertake Environmental Land Stewardship Act, 2014
Federal GovDocs online EPA report : The State of Colorado Did Not Fully Assure That Funds That Mining Wastes and Remove Contaminants from Water Were Effectively Spent, 2014
Federal GovDocs online–Public Health and Drinking Water Issues, 2011
State of Illinois GovDocs: Our own state’s latest water quality report Illinois State Water Survey Annual Report, 2004-2005
Escape to the Past: New and Popular Historical Fiction
Posted on August 27th, 2014
Because historical novels can whisk readers away to a different time and place, they can be great choices for summer reading. Here’s a list of 30 new and popular titles covering a wide variety of eras and locales.
All are available for checkout. Click on each title to jump to Booth Library’s Online Catalog and get a synopsis and shelf location for each book.
Kate Atkinson, Life After Life
20th-century England
Sarah Blake, The Postmistress
World War II England
Barbara Taylor Bradford, Cavendon Hall
World War I England
Amanda Coplin, The Orchardist
Early 20th-century Washington State
Bernard Cornwell, 1356: A Novel
Medieval England
Laurel Corona, Penelope’s Daughter
Ancient Greece
Anton DiSclafani, The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls
1930s South
Sarah Dunant, Blood & Beauty: The Borgias
Renaissance Italy
David Ebershoff, The 19th Wife
19th-century Utah
Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists
Malaya, 1949
Ariana Franklin, A Murderous Procession
Medieval England
Margaret George, The Memoirs of Cleopatra
Ancient Egypt
Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things
19th-century America
Daisy Goodwin, The American Heiress
Victorian England
Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl
Tudor England
Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants
Depression-era America
Nancy Horan, Under the Wide and Starry Sky
19th-century Europe, California, and the South Seas
Conn Iggulden, Emperor: The Gates of Rome
Ancient Rome
Hannah Kent, Burial Rites
19th-century Iceland
Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings
Early 19th-century Charleston, South Carolina
Barbara Kyle, The King’s Daughter
Tudor England
Valerie Martin, The Ghost of the Mary Celeste
19th-century America and at sea
Colum McCann, TransAtlantic
Newfoundland in 1909, Dublin in 1845, and New York in 1998
Jennifer McMahon, The Winter People
Early 20th-century Vermont
Kate Morton, The Distant Hours
World War II and modern England
TaraShea Nesbit, The Wives of Los Alamos
World War II-era New Mexico
Laura Joh Rowland, The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Bronte
Victorian England
Amy Tan, The Valley of Amazement
19th and early 20th-century Shanghai and San Francisco
James Wilde, Time of the Wolf
Medieval England
Welcome to Booth Reference News!
Posted on August 25th, 2014
We are delighted to launch a new information service to Eastern Illinois University students, staff and faculty. Beginning in fall 2014 the reference librarians at Booth library will be regularly posting reviews of reference resources, booklists, “virtual displays” and other information pieces that showcase the resources and research available at EIU’s Mary J. Booth Library. You will find the home of “Reference News” on the Reference Services pages of the Booth Web site, Facebook, and Twitter.
Welcome to govnews!
Posted on August 25th, 2014
Booth Library is pleased to launch a new information service , “govnews.” Govnews will share interesting and topical stories featuring government information found in the Booth Library Government Documents collections. We hope this service will enhance your knowledge and assist you with finding important and often hard-to-find Illinois State and Federal Government information.
Find out how Booth Library can help you – take a building tour
Posted on August 19th, 2014
Eastern students, faculty and staff members are encouraged to take a tour of Booth Library and find out what the library has to offer.
Twenty-minute tours will be offered regularly during the first five weeks of the semester. There’s no need to sign up, just come to the north lobby of the library to join in any of the tours at 10 a.m., 1, 3 and 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday, or 10 a.m., 1 and 3 p.m. on Fridays through Sept. 26.
During the fall semester, Booth Library’s regular hours will be from 8 a.m. to 1 a.m. Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and noon to 1 a.m. Sunday. For more information on the library, visit the website, www.library.eiu.edu; call 581-6072; or find the library on Facebook or Twitter.
Library honored for presenting informational and varied exhibits
Posted on August 16th, 2014
Booth Library has a history of hosting traveling exhibits from the American Library Association, National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Library of Medicine. Topics have ranged from the life of Queen Elizabeth I to Harry Potter to our award-winning Frankenstein exhibit.
Library staff has also created many of its own major exhibitions, including Teachers Tame the Prairie and Revolutionary Decade: Reflections on the 1960s. Other grant-funded programs, including America’s Music and Muslim Journeys, have earned national recognition.
Faculty and students from throughout campus are encouraged to participate in our exhibit and program series. Stay tuned for updates and ways to get involved in future programming.
730 New Items Added to Booth Library Collections in June
Posted on August 12th, 2014
During June, Booth Library acquired and cataloged 730 new items. The list can be viewed here. The list is arranged by location: Ballenger Teachers’ Center, Books, Electronic Resources, Illinois and Federal Documents, Maps, Media, Reference Collection, Special Collections and University Archives. The titles are listed by call number within each location. Please contact Karen Whisler, head of Collection Development, at 581-7551 or klwhisler@eiu.edu if you have questions.
653 New Items Added to Booth Library Collections in July
Posted on August 7th, 2014
During July, Booth Library acquired and cataloged 653 new items. The list can be viewed here. The list is arranged by location: Ballenger Teachers’ Center, Books, Electronic Resources, Illinois and Federal Documents, Maps, Media, Reference Collection, Special Collections and University Archives. The titles are listed by call number within each location. Please contact Karen Whisler, head of Collection Development, at 581-7551 or klwhisler@eiu.edu if you have questions.
Bruns named IR All-Star
Posted on August 5th, 2014
Todd Bruns, institutional repository librarian at Eastern Illinois University, has been named a 2014 IR All-Star by the bepress Digital Commons group.
Since the launch of EIU’s repository, The Keep, in early 2012, Bruns has dedicated himself to making it a successful, supportive and vibrant part of campus. The Keep, an electronic, open-access database, contains materials generated on campus or of local interest.
More than 30,000 documents have been added to the database, with more added daily. Those materials have been downloaded by users from across the world more than 234,000 times. The Keep is accessible through the library’s web site, www.library.eiu.edu.
“It is a great honor to be selected as one of the 2014 Institutional Repository All-Stars,” Bruns said. “There are so many IR managers doing excellent work in the field, so being selected has been very inspiring and humbling.
“My favorite aspect of repository work is seeing the benefit that people get from it, whether it’s the faculty member seeing their download counts, the student getting access to research they couldn’t normally get, or the increased visibility of our great institution,” he said. “When I see the realization dawn in people’s faces that the library is central to scholarly communication, that makes all the hard work very worthwhile.”
Bepress officials stated, “The Wesley Whiteside Botanical Garden collection is one of the most unique in The Keep, and a great example of the innovative ways Todd uses Digital Commons to showcase special collections and serve the campus community.”
Botany professor Wesley Whiteside taught at EIU for 27 years before retiring and leaving his expansive farmland, arboretum and botanical gardens to EIU in 2011. “With Todd’s initiative, the repository has since become an ‘online museum’ of the garden and an invaluable resource for the botany department, with its extensive documentation of the hundreds of species grown on the land,” the release said.
“Another example of Todd’s unique approach to displaying special collections in the repository is EIU’s theater arts collection, which uses the book gallery structure to display more than 50 years of production programs, reviews, articles, set/costume designs, and photographs from EIU’s theater department.”
Bruns has also positioned the repository as an essential resource for EIU’s graduate school and master’s program. After giving a presentation to the graduate school about the benefits of electronic theses and dissertations, he convinced the school to include a link directly to the graduate school’s website on all thesis and dissertation cover pages in The Keep, which has helped generate additional international traffic to the site.
In addition to his work on The Keep, Bruns is active with a number of publications, presentations and reviews. Along with Stacy Knight-Davis, Booth Library’s head of technical services, Bruns created a 2013 Digital Commons webinar, “Increasing the Visibility and Impact of Graduate Research with Electronic Theses and Dissertations.” His report, “The Keep at Two: The First Two Years of Our Institutional Repository,” highlights the growth, milestones and achievements of EIU’s repository as of September 2013.
In addition to serving as EIU’s institutional librarian, Bruns serves as a reference and research librarian at Booth Library. He may be contacted at 581-8381 or via email at tabruns@eiu.edu. To access The Keep, visit http://thekeep.eiu.edu/.
