Library News
African American History Month
Posted on February 4th, 2016
Booth Helps Celebrate African American History Month at EIU. Librarians at Booth have curated dozens of books from the collection to help EIU celebrate. See Refnews for the full story.
What is “big-data” and why should you care?
Posted on November 11th, 2015
definition, ethics, (Science Friday piece on bias in algorithms) six provocations for big data: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1926431
booth collections on big data data science
encyclopedia entries
Reference news posts call for crowdsourcing pictures
Posted on October 15th, 2015
Were you there? Do you know someone who was? Reference News, (shining light on the gems in our collections) has published a call to crowdsource the Million Man March pictures stored in the CARLI Digital Collections.
Pianos and Guitars not too loud for Booth
Posted on October 12th, 2015
Booth makes electric guitars available for checkout and provides high end mixing and recording software for patron use. See the full post on Refnews
Adaptations redux in Refnews
Posted on October 8th, 2015
Our “books into movies” display is so popular we made another one! Read the RefNews post about it.
New Refnews post: Civil War and historical fiction
Posted on September 20th, 2015
A new post in Refnews by Librarian Sarah Johnson explores the Civil War through Historical Fiction.
“Find it @ EIU” becomes “Get Full Text” …and you get your articles faster!
Posted on August 26th, 2015
You might notice a slight change in the way you retrieve articles from the library databases this semester.
For the past several years Booth Library has been using a service we call 
. You see it when your database search returns a citation to an article but not the full-text.
Now we are using the
service. Read on…
New Entomology Book Display
Posted on August 21st, 2015
The “Refnews” blog has posted a new entry detailing a display of books on insects and entomology from the Booth collections. Crawl over and check out the bugs! booth.eiu.edu/insects
Parks and Recreation
Posted on April 30th, 2015
As the weather warms and we think of the time off ahead, Booth has a fantastic display of information online and in print related to National Parks and Recreation of all kinds, Take a look in the reference room and at the Reference News post
Asian-Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Posted on April 26th, 2015
May is Asian-Pacific Islander Heritage month across the United States. EIU is celebrating in April and Booth is joining in through this “Reference News” post.
