Library News
New additions to Booth’s collections for February
Posted on March 14th, 2025
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.
Discover What’s New at Booth Library: Collaboration Expo on March 26
Posted on March 14th, 2025
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:
- Enhance your teaching with customized instruction, research skills workshops, and embedded learning resources.
- Strengthen student research skills with information literacy, AI literacy, and digital scholarship.
- Engage in active learning with collaborative spaces and technology-integrated coursework.
- Explore digital & multimedia projects, creative assignments, and faculty-led research initiatives.
- Showcase your research through The Keep and gain scholarly recognition.
- Uncover rare materials and primary resources on a behind-the-scenes tour of the University Archives.
What will you leave with?
- New ways to integrate technology into your classroom.
- Fresh ideas to collaborate with the library to boost student success.
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!
Booth Library’s new Open Access agreement with Cambridge University Press
Posted on March 14th, 2025
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).
Celebrate Women’s History Month: Booth Library Presents Jane Addams & Hull House Exhibit Launch
Posted on March 6th, 2025
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).
Level Up Your Tech Skills This March at the CSI
Posted on March 5th, 2025
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:
- Begin your podcasting journey in the CSI’s Podcasting Studio by first attending Podcasting 101 hosted on Friday March 7th from 1 pm-2:30 pm and Wednesday March 12th from 4 pm-5:30 pm.
- Unlock your movie-maker skills during Green Screen Image & Video Production hosted on Tuesday March 11th from 4 pm-5:30 pm.
- Learn how to turn your ideas into reality during the 3D Printing Workshops hosted on Tuesday March 25th from 4 pm-5:30pm.
- Only interested in green screens? Come to Green Screen Image 101 hosted on Thursday March 27th from 4 pm-5:30pm.
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.
