Alumni and Community Privileges

KSL is open to alumni and community members during designated hours of the week. See the KSL Hours page or call the KSL Service Center at 216.368.3506 for current access hours. Please note that library hours may be reduced during holidays and academic break periods. In accordance with KSL’s ID Policy, all alumni and community members must present a valid government-issued photo ID at the door to enter the building.

Note: University policy requires that individuals 16 years of age and under must be accompanied by an adult at all times in the library. Unaccompanied minors needing assistance with government information or government publications should contact a Research Services Librarian or staff at the Service Center desk prior to visiting the library.

There are four designated computers available for alumni and community access at KSL. Community visitors are allowed 2 hours of computer use per day. To login to a computer, community visitors will need to visit the KSL Service Center and sign in. Visitor computers shut down 30 minutes prior to the end of community visitor access hours for the day. Login access ends 60 minutes prior to the end of community visitor access hours for the day.

• Computers are for educational research purposes. Library resources are not to be used for commercial endeavors. Electronic content licenses are for personal educational use only.

• Remote access to electronic content is currently restricted to CWRU faculty, students, and staff. Alumni and community members may use designated community computers at CWRU libraries to view electronic content.

 All patrons are required to comply with copyright laws and acceptable use policy.

There are two WEPA printing stations on the main floor of KSL, one is a color printer while the other is exclusively black and white. WEPA is a cloud-based printing network that allows anyone with an internet connection to upload documents and print anywhere a WEPA kiosk is located.

Community members and alumni can create a WEPA guest account. Guest accounts have full access to the WEPA network. While an account is not required to print or pay for print jobs, the available options to print are more limited.

Patrons without a WEPA account can print from a USB drive or cloud service at the kiosk. Jobs can also be printed in advance using the print driver or email-to-print and released using a code. Patrons can pay at the time of printing with a credit card, PayPal, or a $5 WEPA print card available for purchase near the entrance of KSL. WEPA print cards must be purchased with cash.

For more detailed information on how to print with WEPA, visit the WEPA website.

Alumni have borrowing privileges from KSL, The Lillian and Milford Harris Library, OhioLINK, and SearchOhio libraries. Alumni cards give you up to 5 concurrent OhioLINK transactions.

CWRU alumni login under "Visitors" at My Account. You will need your Library Account Number to login. The first time you login, leave the PIN field blank and then create one at the following prompt.

If you have forgotten your PIN, or need help obtaining your Library Account Number, call KSL's Service Center at 216.368.3506.

Licensing restrictions do not allow alumni access to all of the Case online resources that are available to current students. KSL provides access to selected research databases covering a wide variety of subjects. Access the full list of databases available to alumni. For more details about these databases and recommended free web resources, visit the Alumni Research Guide.

If you are an alumni trying to access a database from the KSL homepage "Search" bar, please use the "Guest" tab.

KSL's Freedman Center offers limited resources for alumni use. Alumni are welcome to use the Freedman Center lab with scanning equipment and research stations, the A/V capture studio, and the selfie studio. (Alumni do not have access to KSL's equipment borrowing program.)

For more details on the types of equipment and resources available, visit the Freedman Center page.

Draw on expert reference assistance to navigate the selected databases. Research Services Librarians can be reached via email, text messaging, phone, visits, or live chat service to get you started using the alumni databases. Ask A Librarian now for help.

Contact alumni services at KSL by email at kslalumni@case.edu. 

Patrons of OhioLINK or SearchOhio Member Institutions may borrow items from KSL. For example, a Kent State University patron may check out books from KSL, or a CWRU patron may check out books from John Carroll University. In order to borrow, community patrons must have an ID from their home institution with them.

For more specific information, visit the OhioLINK and SearchOhio pages.

Community patrons may also use KSL materials inside of the library, although some in-house resources carry restrictions.

Community members have the option to save digital scans of material with KSL's KIC scanners located on the first floor of the building. These scanners allow patrons to email a pdf of the scanned documents to themselves or download the documents onto a USB drive. 

For more information on how to use the KIC scanners, visit the KIC Scanning Research Guide.

Questions about community privileges and access can be answered by phone at 216.368.3506 or through email at smithcontact@case.edu.