EIU Booth Library

National Library Week

Date:               April 6-12, 2025

Location:         Booth Library

Join Booth Library and American Library Association in celebrating National Library Week, April 6-12, 2025. Booth Library has daily events planned to celebrate our resources, our patrons, our faculty and staff. It’s a great week to check out Booth Library!

All Week:

• CSI Discovery Hours, MTWR 4-5:30 p.m. in the Center for Student Innovation.
  Explore the technology resources available for you in the CSI!
• Art Exhibit, featuring works by Life Drawing students from EIU Department of Art + Design, Marvin Foyer.

Monday, April 7

• Right to Read Day  On #RighttoReadDay, April 8, contact your congressman
  to stand up to censorship as part of a national day of protest.

Tuesday, April 8

• National Library Workers Day
  Show your appreciation for the library employees who work for you!
• Sewing Machine Workshop - 4-5:30 p.m. in the Center for Student Innovation.
• Authors@EIU 5-7 p.m. in the West Reading Room.
  Booth Library invites the campus and community to join us for the Spring 2025 installment of our speaker series, recognizing two recently published EIU faculty:  

  Mari Kita, Ph.D., Sociology
  Offender Care and Support by Families in Contemporary Japan, Routledge, December 2024     

  and           

  Niall Nance-Carroll, Ph.D., English
  Child Activist Literature at the Turn of the 2020s, Lexington Books, October 2024

  The event will begin with a shared reception at 5 p.m. Presentations will begin at 5:30 with introductory remarks, author presentations, and question & answer sessions for each author.

Wednesday, April 9

• Library POP UP @ South Quad Dining: Summer Reading 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. outside the South Quad Dining Center
  Books you can peruse and choose, and check-out on the spot!
• 3D Printing 101 in the Center for Student Innovation 
• Awards for Excellence in Student Research and Creative Works 4:30-5:30 p.m. in the West Reading Room
  This program promotes and recognizes excellence in student research, and encourages students to enhance their studies by utilizing the wealth of information available at Booth Library and other research venues. All entries are original works completed by Eastern students within the last 12 months. Award recipients are selected on the basis of excellence, creativity and the use of research resources. A digital copy of award entries will become part of the Library’s institutional repository.

Thursday, April 10

• Take Action for Libraries Day Please select Booth Library as the destination for your online gift to EIU.
• New Works Festival - "You Are What You Love: Owning Your Influences," 5-6 p.m. in the West Reading Room, Booth Library
  Join EIU Departments of English and Theatre for a conversation with visiting playwright Matthew Freeman, part of the 2025 New Works Festival.

Friday, April 11

• Green Screen 101 in the Center for Student Innovation's Creative Reality Studio.
• Green Screen Photo Op - 3-4:30 p.m. on the CSI Landing.
  Celebrate your Right to Read and practice your Green Screen skills!

Submit your entries for our Comic Fest Logo Contest!

• Think you’ve got the design skills to bring EIU Comic Fest to life? Here’s your chance! The EIU Comic Fest Logo Contest is accepting your artwork through April 15, and the winner will take home a $300 prize! Start sketching, get designing and show us what you’ve got!
  
  Be sure to mark your calendars for Comic Fest on Saturday, September 27! Booth Library is transforming into a comic paradise. Come for the comics, escape room, games, artists alley, cosplay, costume contest, trivia, speakers, workshops, posters and displays, you won’t want to miss it!