The ICC Library provides its customers with a rich and varied collection including print and electronic resources. Both library locations have computers available to ICC users and community members.
The Illinois Central College (ICC) Library consists of two campus locations: East Peoria and Peoria. It serves the residents of all, or parts of, ten counties in Central Illinois: Peoria, Tazewell, Woodford, Bureau, Logan, Marshall, Livingston, McLean, Stark, and Mason.
The ICC Library plays a key role in supporting the college faculty and students in their study and research.
Technology services are also available at the library including printing, scanning, faxing, and copying.
Reference services are provided by friendly and skilled librarians in-person, via phone, text message, and online through chat and email. The library also reaches out to the community with social media networks to facilitate communication with users while promoting our services.
The East Peoria library location was remodeled in 2015 to create better study areas and flow. As part of the renovation, the Learning Commons was created to host tutoring, instruction sessions, and workshops. In 2017, the Peoria library moved to its newly constructed home in the Student Resource Center.
Pursuant to Public Act 103-0100 of the Illinois General Assembly the ICC Library reaffirms it's commitment to the principles of intellectual freedom and the American Library Association Library Bill of Rights.
The American Library Association affirms that all libraries are forums for information and ideas, and that the following basic policies should guide their services.
I. Books and other library resources should be provided for the interest, information, and enlightenment of all people of the community the library serves. Materials should not be excluded because of the origin, background, or views of those contributing to their creation.
II. Libraries should provide materials and information presenting all points of view on current and historical issues. Materials should not be proscribed or removed because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval.
III. Libraries should challenge censorship in the fulfillment of their responsibility to provide information and enlightenment.
IV. Libraries should cooperate with all persons and groups concerned with resisting abridgment of free expression and free access to ideas.
V. A person’s right to use a library should not be denied or abridged because of origin, age, background, or views.
VI. Libraries which make exhibit spaces and meeting rooms available to the public they serve should make such facilities available on an equitable basis, regardless of the beliefs or affiliations of individuals or groups requesting their use.
VII. All people, regardless of origin, age, background, or views, possess a right to privacy and confidentiality in their library use. Libraries should advocate for, educate about, and protect people’s privacy, safeguarding all library use data, including personally identifiable information.
Adopted June 19, 1939, by the ALA Council; amended October 14, 1944; June 18, 1948; February 2, 1961; June 27, 1967; January 23, 1980; January 29, 2019.
Inclusion of “age” reaffirmed January 23, 1996.
For more information about interpretations of the Library Bill of Rights see - Interpretations of the Library Bill of Rights.
For more information about Public Act 103-0100 see - Illinois General Assembly.