TECHNOLOGY
This technology allows you to access all the online library resources and to print through the Internet from your laptop, phone, or tablet.
What is Wifi?
Samuel Clemens used this riverboat pilot lingo as a pseudonym when he wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
What is Mark Twain?
This room is where you go to apply for a job in the library.
What is the administration office?
This woman one of the first and longest serving librarians of Eastern Illinois University, an ambulance driver in World War I and the person whose portrait hangs in the Marvin foyer. Some people say her eyes will follow you as you walk past.
Who is Mary Josephine Booth?
This 1997-2003 vampire-themed TV show had a librarian one of the central characters.
What is Buffy the Vampire Slayer?
This 19th century electric-powered technology takes you from the library’s atrium to the computer lab with almost no effort:
What is the elevator?
Lois Lowry wrote this 1993 dystopian children’s novel about a boy named Jonas during his thirteenth year as he is selected to be the “Receiver of Memory” It was been made into a movie of the same name in 2014.
What is The Giver?
The area where you find Best Sellers, thrillers, urban fiction.
What is the first floor? (What is the Atrium? is also acceptable)
The century in which Booth Library was built.
What is the twentieth century?
The current exhibit in Booth Library focuses on this 20th century decade.
What is (were) the 1960s?
The Pony Express is to a bullet train as the library card catalog is to the ?
What is the online catalog, (acceptable: what is the computer, what is the Web/Internet)
This author wrote the novel of the same name that became the cult classic 1999 film Fight Club. He has also written several other books with similarly shocking premises, some of which are entitled: Choke, Snuff, Pygmy and Damned.
Who is Chuck Palahniuk?
The floor where the first season of Mad Men on DVD is found.
What is the fourth floor?
Books with the call numbers in the E 460s are located on the 3rd floor south and contain the history of which devastating 19th Century American war?
What is the Civil War?
DVDs for this hugely popular HBO show featuring dragons, knights, wargs and “white-walkers” can be found on the 4th floor.
What is “A Game of Thrones”?
This is how you access the library from a smart phone or tablet.
What is the mobile website?
Suzanne Collins young adult novel set in a future dystopia when children are pitted in against each other in a fight to the death.
What is "The Hunger Games"?
The area in the library where books and puppets about Winnie the Pooh are found.
What is the BTC or Ballenger Teachers Center?
This is the year that the Library reopened after a 25 million dollar renovation which joined the original 1948 library building and the 1968 expansion under a glass atrium.
What is 2002?
This carved figure in the Booth Library foyer is sometimes mistaken for the early video game character PacMan. The figure is actually a famously clumsy, round-ish and fragile nursery rhyme character.
Who is Humpty Dumpty?
This technology on the first floor of the library will feed you Funyons and Pepsi when you’re hungry.
What are the vending machines?
He was the author of "The Hobbit, or There and Back again" and the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy.
Who is J. R. R. Tolkien?
The floor on which the Circulation and Reference departments are located.
What is the third floor?
The author Kristina LaFerne Roberts, who has seven books of erotic fiction in the Booth Library Read and Relax collection, writes under this one word pseudonym.
What is Zane?