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Library North Door closed March 18 -19

Posted on March 8th, 2024


Due to an examination of the library’s north façade and roof by our Facilities team, the north doors, and lobby areas will be inaccessible on March 18th and 19th. Please only use the South entrance on these days.

Booth Library celebrates Authors@EIU

Posted on February 8th, 2024

Booth Library invites the campus and community to join us for the launch of a new speaker series this Spring semester, Authors@EIU. Six authors will be featured in three Spring 2024 Authors@EIU events to celebrate the research, scholarship and creative success of EIU faculty who have recently achieved publication of a book.


The library recognizes and celebrates the diverse, robust community of EIU teaching faculty who are contributing to scholarship or popular learning, through this series and has added the featured publications to the library’s collection.


Please mark your calendars to attend Authors@EIU, 5 p.m. in Booth Library’s West Reading Room:


February 28: Scott Meiners, Ph.D., Biological Sciences
Tree by Tree: Saving North America’s Eastern Forests, by Scott Meiners
Cornell University Press, 2023
Alexis L. Jones, Ph.D., Teaching, Learning and Foundations
Teaching is a Human Interaction: How Thoughtful Educators Respond, are Responsive, and Take Responsibility, by Alexis L. Jones
Information Age Publishing, 2023


March 13: Julie D. Campbell, Ph.D.,
English Women, Entertainment, and Precursors of the French Salon, 1532-1615, by Julie D. Campbell Amsterdam University Press, 2023
Bob Klein, Ph.D., Teaching, Learning and Foundations
The Middle of Somewhere: Rural Education Partnerships and Innovation, ed. by Sara L. Hartman and Bob Klein Harvard
Education Press, 2023


April 11: Stephen Eskilson, Ph.D., Art & Design
Digital Design: A History by Stephen Eskilson
Princeton University Press, 2023
Ryan Burge, Ph.D., Political Science
The Nones, Second Edition: Where They Came From, Who They Are, and Where They Are Going by Ryan Burge
Fortress Press, 2023


Events will include a shared reception at 5 p.m. Presentations will begin at 5:30 with introductory remarks, followed by presentations and question & answer sessions for each author.
All members of the Charleston and EIU communities are welcome, including students. Please join your colleagues in recognizing these accomplishments and for stimulating dialogues.

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 videophotographyVR 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.

Booth Library will host NEA Big Read: Reconsidering the American Dream

Posted on November 10th, 2023

Booth Library at Eastern Illinois University is once again hosting the National Endowment for the Arts Big Read. The theme, Reconsidering the American Dream, will be explored by reading and discussing two books: Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh, and Infinite Country by Patricia Engel. A limited number of free copies of the books are available at Booth Library. Discussion groups will be organized and plan to meet in January, February and March. Dates and details will be provided to participants in early January. Additionally, look for announcements of statewide public programs sponsored by Illinois Humanities. Further information about the Big Read can be found on the Illinois Humanities website

  • In support of The Big Read from the National Endowment from the Arts and Arts Midwest, LAB students will team with librarian David Bell to host a student led book club this spring. The theme, “Reconsidering the American Dream,” will be explored through the novel Infinite Country and the memoir Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth. Both books are available for checkout at Booth Library. Join members of the LAB at the following times:
    • Thursday, February 1 from 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. for a kick-off book talk event to learn more about the titles, discussion groups and how to get a copy
    • Thursday, February 29 from 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. for book discussion in Edgar Reading Room
    • Thursday, March 28 from 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. for book discussion in Edgar Reading Room
    • All events are open to students, faculty and staff. Questions? Contact David at dsbell@eiu.edu for more info

NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.

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