Kelvin Smith Library

Black Voices in Special Collections features books and archival materials from Kelvin Smith Library Special Collections spanning different genres, periods, and styles, but share a common thread of celebrating the Black experience and expression. The exhibit includes contributions from some of the…

As of Jan. 1, Case Western Reserve University’s network of libraries has agreements with Elsevier and Springer Nature—through OhioLINK—increasing opportunities for CWRU authors to publish at no cost with seven total publishers. The Elsevier agreement covers open access (OA) publishing fees in…

Students are invited to gather their friends and join Kelvin Smith Library for the first game night of the spring semester Wednesday, Jan. 31, from 7 to 9 p.m. This event will feature a trivia competition. Students can create teams of up to six people. All members of the winning team will receive…

Join Kelvin Smith Library in recognizing Black History Month with a film screening of A Trumpet at the Walls of Jericho (2005) Friday, Feb. 2, from 3 to 5:30 p.m. in the Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship. This film is director Mike Kirk’s historic documentary profiling Black abolitionist…

Beginning Jan. 1, Case Western Reserve University’s network of libraries now has agreements with Elsevier and Springer Nature—through OhioLINK—increasing opportunities for CWRU authors to publish at no cost with seven total publishers.  The Elsevier agreement covers OA publishing fees in eligible,…

The submission deadline for Kelvin Smith Library’s Art of STEM Competition is Wednesday, Jan. 31. The fifth annual contest celebrates scientific work presented through creative visuals and explanations. Case Western Reserve University faculty, students and staff, Cleveland Institute of Art…

CWRU's University Libraries received the 2024 Library Excellence in Access and Diversity (LEAD) Award from Insight Into Diversity magazine, the largest and oldest diversity and inclusion publication in higher education. The campus libraries include the Kelvin Smith Library, the Judge Ben C. Green…

Wednesday, January 31, 2024 from 7 to 9 pm in KSL's LL06 classroom. Gather your friends and join us for our first Game Night event of the Spring Semester...Trivia!  Bring a team of up to six people, or be matched with a group when you arrive. Each member of the winning team will receive an Amazon…

In 2021, Case Western Reserve University’s Kelvin Smith Library acquired the archive from Karamu House, the oldest African-American producing theater in the United States known for nurturing the careers of Ruby Dee, Robert Guillaume and Langston Hughes. The archive consists of records of the…

Faculty, staff, and students now have access to all journal titles from Taylor & Francis - adding over 2,000 new online journal titles to the CWRU Libraries collections. The need to provide access was driven by library user suggestions and turnaway data across the journals package. The Kelvin…