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Booth Library
600 Lincoln Avenue,
Charleston, IL 61920
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Booth Library is a Federal Depository Library
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.
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.
600 Lincoln Avenue,
Charleston, IL 61920
Ask Us
book an appointment
email
(217) 581-6072
Booth Library is a Federal Depository Library
