CAA to vote on 11 items during Thursday meeting at Booth Library
Staff Report
April 17, 2019
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The Council on Academic Affairs will vote on 11 items during their meeting Thursday at 2:30 p.m. in the 4440 room of Booth Library. The items include a new concentration, one revised major, one new minor, seven new courses and one revised course. Seven on the items are music related, including...
Winners chosen for Edible Book Festival
Valentina Vargas, Multicultural Reporter
April 8, 2019
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Colorful cakes and festive fruits representing popular children’s and young adult books were on display for the ninth annual Edible Book Festival Monday, kicking off the 2019 National Library Week celebration. This year’s Judges Book Award winner was “Edible Bug Escape,” inspired by Bob Baner’s...
Edible Book Festival to kick off National Library Week
Staff Report
April 3, 2019
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The ninth annual Edible Book Festival, which is sponsored by Booth Library, is set for 9 a.m. Monday in the Marvin Foyer of the library and will kick off National Library Week. An “edible book” is something that looks like a book or is book-themed and is made out of food, according to a press r...
Reception held to honor students’ artwork
Leah Goldstein, Contributing Writer
March 28, 2019
Booth Library held a reception for students who created paintings aligned with the theme, “On The Shoulders of Giants: The Moon and Beyond,” on Thursday. The theme was chosen because of the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, so Booth Library faculty wanted art to accompany to the exhibit an...
Awards for Excellence applications due Friday
Analicia Haynes, Editor-in-Chief
March 18, 2019
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Applications for Booth Library’s Awards for Excellence in Student Research and Creativity are due by noon on Friday. Beth Heldebrandt, the public relations director for Booth Library, said any undergraduate or graduate student in any major could submit their research paper, project, art project, pr...
Library to keep permissions, leadership over its IT services
Analicia Haynes, Editor-in-Chief
January 9, 2019
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Booth Library will maintain permissions and leadership over library technology services under the new information technology centralization plan that started in July 2018. The plan came to filtration after the Vitalization Project when Workgroup No. 2 recommended a reorganization of the IT structure on...
Booth dean outlines plans for new semester
Jelan Buchanan, Staff Reporter
September 10, 2018
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Zach Newell, the new dean of Booth Library, said he wants to improve the library by engaging the students in more meaningful ways. Newell said the goals for the library are to figure out what is working well for it and what could use some improvement to make the library stand out and be even better. Beth...
Booth Library offering tours Monday through Thursday
Corryn Brock, Staff Reporter
August 27, 2018
Students can see what resources are available in Booth Library from guided tours that are being offered until Sept. 13. Students, faculty and staff can begin tours by stopping by the Reference Services/ Research Help desk located on the north end of the building. The scheduled tour times are 10 a.m. a...
Booth Library to upgrade online catalog
Staff Report
July 13, 2018
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Booth Library will upgrade the online catalog on July 23, most of the features and functions will remain the same, but new features will be added to improve the catalog. According to a press release, the upgrade will provide easier access to lists of materials users have checked out, the ability to...
1,000 new items cataloged by Booth Library in March
Staff Report
April 10, 2018
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Booth Library acquired and cataloged over 1,000 new items in March. These include donations to the library, re-cataloged items, government publications and consortium-wide purchases. Some of the titles in government publications are “Out of the Crucible: How the US Military Transformed Combat C...
Spring book sale coming to Booth
Parker Valentine, Staff Reporter
April 1, 2018
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Booth Library will hold their biannual spring book sale next week. On Wednesday, April 11, Booth Library will be selling hundreds of paperback fiction novels as well as many different academic books in a diverse range of subject areas. The library will hold the sale from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. if weather...
Booth Library records millionth download for ‘The Keep’
Staff Report
February 12, 2018
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The 1-millionth download for Booth Library’s institutional repository, The Keep, was recorded on Feb. 6. The day’s biggest downloads were “Stress as a Moderator of Visual Perception: Do Elevated Stress Levels Interfere with Visual Cognition,” a graduate thesis by Ashley Ebersole, and “The...
