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Open Educational Resources (OER) Funding Opportunity for Faculty

Posted on February 8th, 2024


Booth Library and the FDIC are partnering to extend an opportunity for funding for EIU faculty interested in creating and adopting Open Educational Resources (OER) materials: textbooks and textbook alternatives, and other materials like simulations, case studies, videos, assignments, quiz banks, lecture slides, lab manuals, etc. The use of OER is a proven means for reducing the cost of education and enhancing student success, and an extensive corpus of high-quality materials exists and is readily available – to learn more visit: OER LibGuide at Booth Library

The Illinois State Library has announced a grant program to support the creation of OER content at institutions of higher learning, and academic libraries can apply for project funding.  

To qualify you must begin to use the new OER content in the 2025 academic year. EIU faculty with successful proposals under this State Library program will receive a one-time payment of $4,000, during the Summer 2024 semester, to support OER development and adoption.  

Following the OER implementation, the faculty member will assess the OER content. Refinements and adjustments will be made in Summer 2025. Once that review process is complete and the OER materials finalized, participating faculty will receive another $1,000 at the project’s completion. 

An array of supports will be provided to participating faculty by the FDIC and Booth: instructional design, integration of content into D2L, proofreading, and copyright and accessibility consultations; along with help in discovering existing content. 

  1. Author – Create and adopt a substantially new open textbook or open course where it is possible to demonstrate that quality resources are not currently available to meet learning objectives. 
  1. Revise/Remix – Update existing OER with major revisions or develop custom course content from multiple open educational resources and original open content to support learning objectives not met by existing open resources. 
  1. Ancillaries – Adopt existing OER and create ancillaries such as quiz banks, lecture slides, or lab manuals. 
  1. Update – Update and adopt existing OER that requires minor editing for currency or relevance, without major changes to the content or structure. 

The proposed OER projects have to be specific to a course the faculty member teaches, and funding requires a commitment to use the created OER, at least once by Spring 2026 and for three years following. In addition, the State Library requires an evaluation component focused on the implementation of the OER material, which includes some data collection for enrollment and student outcomes. Participating faculty may have a role in compiling this data for reporting. 

  • available at no cost to students  
  • shared via an online repository, like LibreTexts, OER Commons, or the Open Textbook Library  
  • made available for printing through a printing platform such as XanEdu 
  • available with the license of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International  

Note regarding open content and academic integrity: LibreTexts allows faculty to determine access to materials. In other words, they can be marked Instructor Only and then only someone with a verified instructor account would have access. 

To express interest in participating in OER@EIU, please complete this Expression of Interest questionnaire by no later than February 25, 2024. If you have multiple courses for which you are interested in creating OER for this grant, please make separate submissions if you have multiple courses. The grant proposal from EIU to the Illinois State Library must be submitted by the end of March, so expressions of interest after February 25, might not be considered.  

Virtual information sessions will be held on via Zoom: 

In addition, feel free to email Brian Keith, Dean of Library Services, at bwkeith@eiu.edu and Michael Gillespie, Director of the FDIC, at mgillespie@eiu.edu

Thank you for considering participation in this important new opportunity and for helping spread the word to other faculty colleagues. Open Educational Resources play a crucial role in fostering a more inclusive, accessible, and collaborative education system, aligning with the principles of openness and equity in learning. OER also advances EIU’s various educational, economic, and social goals.  

Expression of Interest questionnaire

15th Annual Awards for Excellence in Research and Creativity.

Posted on February 8th, 2024

The competition is open to all undergraduate and graduate students in any major. Entries may be a research paper or thesis, artistic work, exhibit, musical work, video, podcast, documentary, oral history, performance, data analysis or visualization, or other formats. As long as the student(s) used library resources to complete the project within the last 12 months, it is eligible for the competition. Participants have a chance to win cash prizes up to $300. To be eligible for these awards, participants must submit their entries electronically before the deadline of 11:59 p.m. CST on February 29, 2024. This award is an excellent opportunity for students to showcase their academic expertise and innovative creations! Thank you for announcing this super opportunity for our students to share their scholarly work and become part of the critical conversations in higher education!
Additional info on how to apply: eiu.edu/booth/awardsforexcellence/

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 January 18th, 2024

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 here.  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.  The Keep presents the digital life and history of Eastern Illinois University in a variety of formats, from photo galleries of important events like Commencement and the Investiture of a new president, past editions of The Warbler- EIU Yearbook spanning from the 1920s onward, to collected scholarship like master’s theses and faculty research. Online collections like the historical publications of EIU’s Alumni Services extends the reach of our institution worldwide – Alumni Services publications have been downloaded over 17,000 times to 108 countries around the world, from Athens to Bangkok and Lagos to Shanghai. With the recent record recruitment numbers of international students, the increased digital footprint of EIU via online collections of the Eastern Alumnus, Old Main Line, and ForeverEIU, can only be a boon.” 

We invite you to explore The Keep by visiting https://thekeep.eiu.edu/.  

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.

Counseling and therapy streaming videos available!

Posted on May 18th, 2022

Booth Library acquired three collections from Alexander Street Press’s Counseling and Therapy in Video series of streaming videos, completing our acquisition of the full library of content (Volumes I-V).

Volume III includes films about the founders of theory and the progression of practices to today. These titles present a firm grounding in the theoretical modalities of counseling and psychotherapy while expanding into new and emerging areas such as social media, veterans, cyberbullying, mindfulness, and neuroscience.

Volume IV focuses on prevalent issues in counseling, such as the rise in cases involving underserved populations, racial trauma, and veterans suffering from PTSD. This volume delivers content aligned with the CACREP eight common core areas, and introduces the DSM-5® and ICD-10. It includes 300 hours of video, 90% created since 2012; 400 transcripts from real therapy sessions; 1,200 hours of expert-led presentations, lectures, and workshops; and 45,000 pages of ebooks and periodicals.

Volume V, the Symptom Media Collection, has comprehensive DSM-5® / ICD-10 coverage with built-in assessments to assess comprehension. Ideal for counseling, psychology, social work, nursing and other behavioral health care courses, Volume V helps students better recognize mental health disorders and provides accurate diagnoses via 400+ streaming mental health videos aligned to DSM-5®/ICD-10 content. Assessment options included.

EIU students, faculty, and staff can access these videos from both on- and off-campus. Please ask a librarian for further assistance, or consult with your subject librarian.



Many facets of The Keep

Posted on May 4th, 2021

This week is National Library Week across the USA! It is a time to celebrate our nations libraries, library workers’ contributions and promote library use and support.

The theme for National Library Week 2021 is “Welcome to Your Library.” 

During the pandemic, library workers continue to exceed their communities’ demands and adapt resources and services to meet their users’ needs during these challenging times. Whether people visit in person or virtually, libraries offer endless opportunities to transform lives through education and lifelong learning. All this week we will be posting news items about some of the many information resources Booth Library offers our community beyond 4 walls. Today’s entry lists the variety of services provided to our community by Scholarly Communications Librarian Todd Bruns and the Institutional repository at EIU, The Keep.

Many people know The Keep as the repository of open access archive of the scholarship, creative output and administrative records of Eastern Illinois University. Since its adoption, more than 2.5 million documents have been downloaded around the world from The Keep.

What most people don’t know is that The Keep is also a publishing platform. EIU currently hosts the publication of six peer-reviewed journals.

The Keep serves as conference and event site platform which allows a fully functioning submission, review and publishing space for physical and virtual conferences.

The Keep is also a valuable platform to feature EIU’s wonderful faculty. The Selected Works pages within The Keep create a powerful and versatile website for faculty to maintain a record of their scholarly output. Selected Works Galleries can be organized by department or expertise and embedded within external sites.

Perhaps best of all, participating in The Keep means that our university’s scholarly and creative output is optimized for discovery by scholars, students and prospective students around the world in Google, Digital Commons Network, and all major search engines.

Collection Spotlight: Gale eBooks

Posted on April 10th, 2021

This week is National Library Week across the USA! It is a time to celebrate our nation’s libraries and library workers’ contributions and promote library use and support.

The theme for National Library Week 2021 is “Welcome to Your Library.” 

During the pandemic, library workers continue to exceed their communities’ demands and adapt resources and services to meet their users’ needs during these challenging times. Whether people visit in person or virtually, libraries offer endless opportunities to transform lives through education and lifelong learning. All this week we will be posting news items about some of the many information resources Booth Library offers our community beyond 4 walls. Today’s entry features electronic books from the publisher Gale.

For anyone looking for a good starting point for their research, Gale eBooks includes over 450 encyclopedias, guidebooks, and other reference sources on a variety of subjects: the arts, business, education, literature, politics, science and medicine, and more.

This searchable and browsable electronic collection is accessible to EIU users from on- and off-campus. 

Search through Gale eBooks to get background information on your research paper topic. If you haven’t picked out a topic yet, browse through the Table of Contents of any book to find possible subjects to write about.

For questions about using Gale eBooks, please ask a librarian.

Collection Spotlight: American Periodicals

Posted on April 6th, 2021

This week is National Library Week across the USA! It is a time to celebrate our nation’s libraries and library workers’ contributions and promote library use and support.

The theme for National Library Week 2021 is “Welcome to Your Library.” 

During the pandemic, library workers continue to exceed their communities’ demands and adapt resources and services to meet their users’ needs during these challenging times. Whether people visit in person or virtually, libraries offer endless opportunities to transform lives through education and lifelong learning. All this week we will be posting news items about some of the many information resources Booth Library offers our community beyond 4 walls. Today’s entry features the historical American Periodicals primary source collection.

If you’re researching topics from U.S. history, check out Booth Library’s American Periodicals collection for digitized images of American magazines and journals from colonial times through the early 20th century.

Looking for examples of 19th-century magazine ads, political and social commentary, editorial cartoons, recipes, or articles written during and about the Civil War or Reconstruction? You can search in American Periodicals to find what you need. Use the Document Type limiter to narrow down your search by type of item.

This primary source database includes early American short stories including some written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, general interest magazines like Ladies’ Home Journal and Vanity Fair, children’s publications, and many more. Because the PDF page images are taken from the original periodicals, the original typefaces, graphics, and layouts can be viewed.

American Periodicals can be cross-searched with any of Booth Library’s other databases on the ProQuest platform, such as British Periodicals, Early English Books Online, and the historical Chicago Defender, Chicago Tribune, and New York Times.

Need help with searching American Periodicals? Please ask a librarian.

Halloween Books @BoothLibrary

Posted on October 15th, 2018

book cover image

Horror Literature through History. (2017). M. Cardin (Ed.), An Encyclopedia of the Stories That Speak to Our Deepest Fears, Vol. 1. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood.

Spooky selections by Booth Library staff guaranteed to make your skin crawl. Enjoy with caution, you may not ever sleep with the light out again!

All of these titles are available for check-out in the main corridor of Booth Library. Take a look at a selection from our huge collection of horror literature and learn more about the genre.

 

 

 

  • August House Book Of Scary Stories: Spooky Tales for Telling out Loud
  • 808.83 Au451
  • summary | details
  • Book Of Hallowe’en
  • Kelley, Ruth Edna.
  • GT4965 .K4
  • summary | details
  • Call Of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
  • Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937.
  • PS3523.O833 A6 1999
  • summary | details
  • Country Living Handmade Halloween: Ideas for a Happy, Haunted Celebration
  • Lovén, Zazel.
  • TT900.H32 C68 1999
  • summary | details
  • Dracula’s Guest and Other Weird Stories: With the Lair Of the White Worm
  • Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912.
  • PR6037.T617 A6 2006x
  • summary | details
  • Ghosts Of the Heartland: Haunting, Spine-chilling Stories from the American Midwest
  • PS648.G48 G47 1990
  • summary | details
  • H.p. Lovecraft.
  • Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937.
  • PN6727 .L68 2002x
  • summary | details
  • Hallowe’en; Its Origin, Spirit, Celebration, and Significance As Related in Prose and Verse, Together with Hallowe’en Stories, Plays, Pantomimes; and
  • Schauffler, Robert Haven, 1879-1964,
  • GT4965 .S4
  • summary | details
  • Halloween How-to: Costumes, Parties, Decorations, and Destinations
  • Bannatyne, Lesley Pratt.
  • GT4965 .B29 2001
  • summary | details
  • Heart-shaped Box
  • Hill, Joe.
  • PS3608.I4342 H43 2007bx
  • summary | details
  • Jack the Ripper: A Journal Of the Whitechapel Murders 1888-1889
  • Geary, Rick.
  • PN6727.G4 J33 1995
  • summary | details
  • Little Book Of Hallowe’en
  • Sechrist, Elizabeth Hough, 1903-1991.
  • GT4965 .S45
  • summary | details
  • Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Frankenstein, Or, the Modern Prometheus
  • Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.
  • PR5397 .F7 2003
  • summary | details
  • More Annotated H.p. Lovecraft
  • Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937.
  • PS3523.O833 A6 1999b
  • summary | details
  • My Favorite Thing Is Monsters
  • Ferris, Emil,
  • PN6727.F4646 M9 2016x
  • summary | details
  • New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft
  • Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937,
  • PS3523.O833 A6 2014
  • summary | details
  • Stephen King Universe: A Guide to the Worlds Of the King Of Horror
  • Wiater, Stan.
  • PS3561.I483 Z915 2001x
  • summary | details
  • Supernatural in Fiction
  • Kelley, Leo P.,
  • PR1309.G5 K4x
  • summary | details
  • Trick or Treat: A History Of Halloween
  • Morton, Lisa, 1958-
  • GT4965 .M675 2012x
  • summary | details
  • Victorian Ghost Stories: An Oxford Anthology
  • PR1309.G5 V54 1991
  • summary | details
  • Works Of Edgar Allan Poe.
  • Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.
  • PS2600 .G01 2001
  • summary | details

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