Brookens Library is committed to providing all members of the university community with equitable access to library resources and services. The library provides a range of services for individuals with disabilities who may require assistance in order to access and use our resources.
Brookens Library strives to provide the students, staff, and faculty of UIS as well as the surrounding community with the resources and services necessary to achieve life-long learning. To this end, we develop and refine policies designed to insure the safe, legal, and equitable use of, and access to, information and information sources.
Brookens Library (BRK) is located between the Health and Sciences Building (HSB) and the Public Affairs Center (PAC).
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Brookens Library is committed to providing all members of the university community with equitable access to library resources and services. The library provides a range of services for individuals with disabilities who may require assistance in order to access and use our resources.
Group study rooms seating up to 4 people are available on all levels of Brookens library and are available on a first come, first served basis. Reservations are not available.
The computers in Brookens Library are provided for the use of all students, faculty, staff, and community members. All activities must adhere to the UIS Guidelines for Acceptable Use of Information Technology Resources.
Student, faculty, and staff should use their NetID and password to login to the computers.
There are one black and white printer in the library on the main floor and one in the PAC lobby near the ticket booth. Black and white print jobs are $0.22 per page.
There is one color printer in the library on the main floor. Color print jobs are $0.30 per page.
Masters projects and theses are an important record of the scholarly activities of a university's students. University Assembly Bill 6-13 "Policies on Graduate Study" of 1978 stated that "the written portion of the [masters] project must be filed in the University Library."