Your Library Account is where you can view items you currently have checked out, renew items, and check the status of requests. Follow the steps below to access your account.

1. If you already use Libby skip to step 3.

If you're at the very beginning of the process, the Start Your Research guide is a great place to start.

Your i-Card (aka your student or faculty/staff ID) serves as your library card. In order to checkout materials, you must have your i-Card with you.

If you are not a student, faculty, or staff member, special borrower cards are also available. You can apply for a reciprocal card here, or contact the Main Desk of the library at (217)-206-6605.

If you need help getting your i-card when you first arrive, please reference our i-card FAQ.

Advertisements for student employment for the library, or anywhere on campus, will be posted on Career Connect. Students seeking on-campus employment must apply via Career Connect.

In order to apply, students must have an approved resume uploaded to Career Connect. (If you have trouble logging in to the Career Connect website call them at (217) 206-6508

We've created a research guide to help you along the research process. It includes information to help with selecting keywords, using search operators, building your search in a database, evaluating your sources, and exploring the range of resources Brookens Library has to offer.

An empirical article is a research article that reports the results of a study that uses data derived from actual observation or experimentation.

You have a few different options to find articles with citations and we've broken them down based on different databases you can use to search: 

Google Scholar: 

Every book has a location and its own unique call number. You can find the location and call number of the book online in our catalog. Once you have the location and call number, you can find the book.

In terms of location: CINRC, Popular, New Books, and Reference are located on the 2nd floor; hard copy Periodicals and Magazines are located on the 3rd floor; and the Curriculum Collection, General, and Oversize are located on the 4th floor.

The Friends of Brookens Library of the University of Illinois Springfield is a service organization established to support to the library. Membership rates start at $50.