Eastern Michigan University Halle Library

In the Children’s Literature Alcove, you’ll find a spot to slow down, hang out, or just exist for a minute between everything going on this summer. Puzzles if you want something to figure out. Board games if you brought friends. Coloring pages if your brain wants something easy. It’s free, calm, and honestly kind of underrated. Just a low-key place to spend time with yourself or with friends.

Business is global and communication shapes it. "Global Advances in Business Communication" features peer-reviewed research exploring how communication drives business across cultures, industries, and borders. Explore the journal at commons.emich.edu/gabc

Discover documentaries, world cinema, independent film, and educational streaming through Kanopy, available to EMU students, faculty and staff through Halle Library.

Explore collections including:
🎬 Film Studies selections
🌍 International cinema
📚 Documentaries & current events
🎓 Faculty instruction picks
🎞 Classic and independent film

Available on or off campus with your EMU login at kanopy.com/en/emu

Research that challenges, questions, and improves education. Impact: Journal of Community & Critical Inquiry in Education explores scholarship focused on educational practice, equity, and critical reflection. Browse the journal at commons.emich.edu/impact

Knowledge. Access. Support. Collaboration. Community. The best kind of data center.

Summer classes are in full swing, and Halle Library is here for every study session. Whether you’re looking for a quiet corner to focus, a collaborative workspace, or just a change of scenery between classes, there’s a space for you here. What’s your favorite place to study in Halle?

Stories, language, and culture shared across generations. The María Luz García Book Series preserves multilingual works celebrating Ixil language, storytelling, and cultural knowledge. Explore books that connect readers through language, history, and tradition at commons.emich.edu/sac_books

Happy Pride Month from Halle Library! 🌈
We celebrate the stories, voices, experiences, and perspectives that make our community stronger. This June and throughout the year, everyone belongs here.

On this day in 1998, Halle Library opened its doors to the Eastern Michigan University community.

At the time, the library was described as a "cybrary," reflecting its blend of traditional library collections and emerging technologies. The new building featured hundreds of computer workstations, multimedia labs, network connections throughout the facility, an automated retrieval system, collaborative study spaces, and a vision for supporting learning in new ways.

Nearly three decades later, much has changed. The technology has evolved. Services have adapted. Spaces have been renovated and reimagined. Students now carry devices more powerful than many of the computers that filled the building in 1998.

For 28 years, Halle Library has been a place to study, research, create, collaborate, teach, discover, and connect. It has supported generations of students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community members while continuing to evolve alongside the university it serves.

One of our favorite opening stories happened before the library welcomed its first visitors. On April 16, 1998, more than 400 students, faculty, staff, administrators, community members, and children from EMU's Children's Institute formed a 900-foot human chain to help move books from the previous library building (currently CHHS/Porter) into Halle Library. The first book passed was an 1852 teaching text from the university's first library.

The clock tower still stands, the carillon still plays, the ARC still retrieves materials, and thousands of people continue to make Halle Library part of their EMU experience. Thank you to everyone who has studied, worked, taught, learned, researched, collaborated, and built community here over the past 28 years.

Here's to the next chapter. 💚

Need help with your Summer Semester assignments? Halle Library offers 24/7 Ask a Librarian chat through our website for support all summer long, any time of day.

Get help with:
📖 Finding articles
📝 Citations
🔎 Research questions
💻 Navigating library resources

Whenever questions come up, help is just a click away at Halle Library: emich.edu/library