Library News
Don’t let finals week BUG you!
Posted on April 25th, 2024
Don’t get swarmed by finals- Booth Library has plan many activities to help students focus, relax and succeed leading to the end of the semester.
On April 29 & 30, members of All Things Pawsitive will bring certified therapy dogs to greet students from 2-4 p.m. at the library’s south entrance (by the clock tower). Color your own 3D printing cicada from 2pm-3pm on Booth Bridge. While supplies last! At 4 p.m. April 29, free snacks will be served to students while supplies last.
Coloring sheets and puzzles will be available to take and complete on your own. In addition, a jigsaw puzzle will be set up on the main floor. Or, join our Lego challenge in the Marvin Foyer!
While you’re at Booth, let your friends and families know how you’re preparing for final exams by sending them a “Buzzing through finals at Booth Library!” postcard. Students are encouraged to fill out and address a postcard, then place it in the mailbox. Your friends at Booth Library will mail it for you!
Zero Balancing sessions will again be offered by EIU’s Dr. Misty Rhoads in the library’s Edgar Room. During the sessions, participants will remain fully clothed and lay face up on a massage table while Rhoads works with pressure points in the body to help relieve body aches, release stress and boost well-being. Appointments are requested for these 15-minute free sessions. Visit https://calendly.com/dochealthed2010/zero-balancing-sessions?month=2024-04 to reserve a spot! Sessions are offered from
April 29: 10am-12pm
April 30:11am-1pm
May 1: 10am-12pm
All activities and refreshments are free.
2024 Periodical and Standing Order Review
Posted on April 17th, 2024
Booth Library’s annual Periodical and Standing Order Review is currently underway. The lists of periodicals and standing orders selected for cancellation are now available for review. This annual exercise is designed to ensure that library collections continue to meet the needs of library users. Titles are added or canceled based on input from the relevant academic departments.
Questions about the review can be addressed by individual subject librarians.
Eastern Illinois University’s Digital Archive, The Keep, Reaches Major Milestone
Posted on December 18th, 2023
Booth Library is proud to announce a milestone in the preservation and sharing of the creative and scholarly work of Eastern Illinois University. The Keep, EIU’s digital archive, has just posted its 100,000th object.
The historic 100,000th object, posted on December 12, 2023, is a photograph from the investiture ceremony of Jay Gatrell. The photograph captures a significant moment in the university’s history, and through serendipity represents a historic accomplishment for The Keep. The 100,000 entry can be viewed at https://thekeep.eiu.edu/gatrell_investiture/39/. The image was created by Jay Gabriec, the university photographer, who has contributed a remarkable collection of over 1,300 entries to The Keep.
The Keep is the EIU institutional repository, a digital archive of faculty scholarship, student and professional journals, graduate theses, undergraduate honors papers, EIU historical documents, committee documents and more. The mission of The Keep is to digitize, preserve and promote the scholarly and creative output of EIU, optimizing the content for easy online discovery.
Todd Bruns, Head of Scholarly Communications, shared appreciation of hitting this milestone, “I am beyond thrilled that we have passed the milestone of 100,000 works posted in The Keep, making our institutional repository one of the largest in the state of Illinois, second only to the University of Illinois Champaign Urbana. Since we launched The Keep in the fall of 2010, the content has been wildly popular with over 5.5 million downloads to over 235 countries and over 57,500 institutions from Greenland (54 downloads) to New Zealand (18,915 downloads).As we move into the second decade of The Keep, I’m excited to see the growth of our repository increase exponentially as we transition to empowering faculty, staff, and students to directly and easily add their content to the platform. Additionally, Library Services will soon be providing new digital scholarship tool with a Digital Exhibit platform and a Research portal, a research information management system. These combined resources will tell the story of EIU as a research institution, digitally archiving and preserving institution, digitally archiving andpreserving EIU history, student life, academic scholarship, events, and more for the benefit of current and future scholars. This milestone achievement is one that truly belongs to all of us.”
For further details about The Keep and Booth Library, please visit https://thekeep.eiu.edu/. This milestone achievement is a demonstration of the collective efforts of the entire EIU community.
Image displays a density map of downloads from The Keep by region, since 2010.
Booth Library Now Offers Free Online Access to the New York Times
Posted on December 11th, 2023
EIU students, faculty, and staff now have free online access to the New York Times through Booth Library! We are thrilled to offer this new service to better serve our students and the EIU Community as a whole.
The complimentary subscription is available to anyone with an eiu.edu email address- including retired employees and emeritus members!
Online access to the New York Times through EIU Library includes:
- 24/7 Breaking News
- Archives (dating back to 1851) timesmachine.nytimes.com/browser
- Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality – found in the App; NYT stories told through enhanced technology
- Daily 360 content – two dimensional, 360° views (with mobile device or using a mouse)
- Podcasts (including The “Daily” podcast)
- All multimedia, including video, photography, VR features, and new multimedia to come.
- Newsletters (there are a variety of topics that you may subscribe to)
- Spanish and Mandarin Chinese versions of NYTimes.com.
Activate your access to The New York Times, compliments of Booth Library here.
