EIU Booth Library

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.