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5 Things you need to know about KSL!
Kelvin Smith Library invites you to celebrate National Library Week 2023 with the theme of ‘There's More to the Story,' suggesting that your campus library is so much more than books. Library staff actively support research and teaching, collaborate with CWRU and community partners for relevant…
Special collections massive acquisition offers sensory experience in music history
When David Rothenberg, PhD, professor and chair of Case Western Reserve University’s Department of Music, teaches classes about early music history he often relies on digital resources and replicas of old music books. But a recent acquisition by Kelvin Smith Library’s Special Collections created…
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Enter Kelvin Smith Library’s Six Word Story Contest for a chance to win an Amazon gift card
To celebrate National Library Week (April 23–29), Kelvin Smith Library is hosting a Six Word Story Contest.The theme of this year's National Library Week and the contest is “There's More to the Story.”  What else can you find at Kelvin Smith Library besides books? Study spaces? Your friends?…
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Freedman Fellows Forum
Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to a forum and reception celebrating the progress (and results) of the 2022–23 student and faculty Freedman Fellows. The forum will be held April 28 from 10 a.m. to noon in the Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship at Kelvin…
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Entrepreneurship Speaker Series
Leading a Commercially Successful Company with a Social Mission Join us on Wednesday, April 26, 4 - 6 PM for the Case Western Reserve University Entrepreneurship Speaker Series in collaboration with the Kelvin Smith Library, featuring Steve Potash and Loree Potash (MSL '75), co-founders of…
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Last Session of the Grad Publishing Series!
Join us for the last session of the Graduate Student Publishing Series this Wednesday, April 12 from 4 - 5 p.m. in the Freedman Center Collaboration Commons. Information overload makes it more difficult for publications to be discovered. Enjoy refreshments and hear recommendations from KSL…
VIBE Painting Pop-Up
As we're winding down the semester, take a break and join DeAnne Smith, Cleveland Institute of Art painting student, and Kelvin Smith Library in a pop-up painting session in the first floor Art Gallery on Friday, April 21 from 12:45 - 2 PM. Enjoy a moment in time to tap into your favorite music…
HoloU partners with KSL
HoloUniversity (HoloU) is a collaboration between UTech, the Interactive Commons (IC), and the Kelvin Smith Library (KSL). Collectively, we work together to bring mixed reality into everyday curriculum. The IC designs and develops custom apps, UTech Teaching and Learning Technologies (TLT) works…
Students delve into digital world inside Kelvin Smith Library
Kelvin Smith Library and the Seminar Approach to General Education and Scholarship (SAGES) program are helping students navigate and decipher social media and online communications. “Knowledge of Our Digital World from Social Media to Wikipedia,” a class that debuted in fall 2022, familiarizes…
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Braided Memories Exhibit and Reception
Braided Memories is on display in the Kelvin Smith Library Art Gallery through April 21, 2023. A unique collaboration between Chilean Jewish poet Marjorie Agosín and Chilean Jewish photographer Samuel Shats, the multimedia exhibit captures the experiences of immigrants through its …