Celebrate Legacy Week with Kelvin Smith Library!
Learn more about an exhibit, contest, and the University Archives.
Homecoming and Alumni Weekend University Archives Exhibit
Join Kelvin Smith Library in Celebrating Legacy Week with a special exhibit on the first floor sharing the history of CWRU’s Thanksgiving football games and WRUW, the university’s radio station. The exhibit highlights memorabilia and photographs that have shaped our university’s traditions. If you’d like to learn more about the history of the University’s radio station, view the library’s digital exhibit, WRUW: 50 + Years On.
DigiLab Instagram Contest for Students
To celebrate Legacy Week even further, the library’s Digitization Lab is hosting a social media contest.
CWRU students are encouraged to visit the exhibit on the first floor, share a photo, and tag @cwrudigilab. The first five students to complete the steps will win a $20 Amazon gift card. To learn more about the contest and to get a free Digital Case bookmark and pin, please visit the exhibit on the first floor near the stairs. Don’t forget to follow the DigiLab on Instagram!
Explore Digital Case and the University Archives
Don’t miss the opportunity to learn more about the history of Case Western Reserve University and its predecessor institutions: Case Institute of Technology and Western Reserve University through the University Archives. View a comprehensive collection of records and photographs created by University Archivists featuring athletics, buildings, people, university life, and more.
In Digital Case, the University’s online source for curated digital content from University Archives, CWRU Special Collections, and Partner Institutions, find digitized student yearbooks and newspapers.
The yearbook collection represents all of CWRU's 19 current and historic schools and colleges and includes information and images about individual students, student clubs and organizations, athletics, performances, the campus, faculty, administrators, and major events.
The newspaper collection consists of digitized versions of nine student newspaper titles held in the Case Western Reserve University Archives, including Western Reserve Collegian, Western Reserve Souvenir, The Adelbert, The Case Tech, The Reserve Weekly, The Reserve Tribune, Cleveland College Life, The Mather Record, and The Observer.