Kelvin Smith Library

Kelvin Smith Library (KSL) has a lot to offer to help make your first year successful! Contact your Library Advisor to help answer questions, assist you with developing search strategies and navigating through all the resources and services available to complete assignments.  Collaboration Rooms…

KSL offers monthly game nights throughout the academic year. This year, we're kicking off the semester with Trivia Night on Wednesday, September 7, 2022 from 7:00-9:00 PM in the LL06 classroom (located on the lower level). Bring a group of friends or come on your own! Teams of up to six can play…

Beginning Monday, August 29, 2022, KSL will offer study spaces throughout the first floor of the building all night long - Sunday through Thursday nights. If you are studying on any other floor before midnight, we kindly ask you to move to the first floor from midnight until 8 a.m. At 8 a.m. the…

On Aug. 22, 1,550 first-year students and their families visited Kelvin Smith Library to attend the Information Fair, one of the first events during new student Orientation Week. 46 groups representing various campus offices and departments gathered on the library’s first and second floors, ready…

The Walter Freedman and Karen Harrison Freedman Student Fellowships provide funding for undergraduate and graduate students to complete targeted digital projects under the guidance of Kelvin Smith Library’s Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship team. The deadline to submit applications for the…

Kelvin Smith Library will once again accept course book requests for reserve. As usual, requests can be submitted via the form on the library’s website. The course reserves staff members recommend requests be submitted by Monday, Aug. 15—two weeks before the first day of classes. All standard…

To help Case Western Reserve University researchers maximize their scholarly impact, Kelvin Smith Library will present the Research Impact Challenge June 6–10. Those who join the challenge will receive an email each day of the challenge with an activity designed to help increase the visibility and…

The deadline to submit applications for the 2022-23 Freedman Student Fellowship program is Sept. 9. The program will provide undergraduate and graduate students the ability to partake in an internship or grant track. This annual award funds well-defined research projects that involve the…

You're officially alumni! Take KSL on your personal lifelong learning journey and apply for your alumni card today. Benefits include access to valuable databases and services!  

Kelvin Smith Library will offer extended hours for finals through May 5. The hours are: April 28–29:  8 a.m.–2 a.m.April 30: 9 a.m.–2 a.m.May 1: noon–2 a.m.May 2–4: 8 a.m.–2 a.m.May 5: 8 a.m.–5 p.m. (early close, finals end). View information about regular hours.