Booth Library

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 […]

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 […]

Booth Library’s collections are continually growing to meet the research and information needs of the EIU community. During January 2025, Booth Library acquired and cataloged 482 physical items (books, DVDs, government documents, archival resources, and more) and 10,980 electronic resources (including ebooks, ejournals, digital audiobooks, and streaming videos). Individual issues of current periodicals are excluded. All […]

Booth Library, the Writing Center, and the speech program are excited to announce a new partnership offering coordinated research and communication support—both oral presentations and writing—across all disciplines at the university. In addition to Booth Library’s expert research consultations, we will now offer consultations for presentation and writing assignments on a walk-up basis at Booth Library […]

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 […]

Booth Library now has early access to JSTOR’s cutting-edge interactive research tool.  This new JSTOR feature uses advanced technologies, including AI, to help you expand your research within JSTOR’s large collection of journal articles and ebooks.  It helps you find relevant materials faster by surfacing key points and arguments from the text you want to read, […]