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.
Reference services are provided by professional librarians in-person, via phone, and online through chat and email. The library also reaches out to the community with social media networks to facilitate communication with users.
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. Since then, the Library has been enhanced with new furniture pieces and the creation of 4 student study rooms with technology. In 2017, the Peoria library moved to its newly constructed home in the Student Resource Center.
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.
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.
Find tutorials and informational videos about how to use the ICC library and online library tools.
The ICC library is a member of the Consortia of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI).CARLI’s “138 member libraries–individually and collectively–are committed to meeting the information and research needs of their 650,000 students, faculty and staff.” The integrated library system, I-Share, serves over 80 institutions, including ICC.
The Illinois Central Library is a member of the NILRC (Network of Illinois Resources in Community Colleges) consortium. NILRC "is one of the oldest community college learning resources cooperatives in the nation. It began as a grassroots organization formed to meet the needs of Community College learning resource centers. NILRC has become a leader in the development and use of a variety of instructional resources and technologies."
This award granted by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) recognizes “an outstanding community college, college, and university library each year. This award is to recognize the accomplishments of librarians and other library staff as they come together as members of a team to support the mission of their institution.”
