Kelvin Smith Library

On Wednesday, February 24, Anastasia Tsang, a student assistant at KSL, wrote a blog post on the library as part of an Instagram takeover with CWRU Undergraduate Admission. In her post, Anastasia shares her favorite spaces within the library and highlights services such as the Research Services…

Spring Semester 2021 Updates Welcome back to the Kelvin Smith Library! Our highest priorities are to ensure your health and safety and to provide a warm, inviting and productive space for your study and research. The library adheres strictly to all state and university public health guidelines…

Kelvin Smith Library invites all those interested in getting published to a series of webinars hosted by well-known publishers like IEEE, Elsevier, Wiley, ACS and Springer Nature. Editors and publisher representatives will discuss issues such as: How to write a scientific paper;How to choose a…

Gift creates the vice provost and Lindseth Family University Librarian position as national search for Hirshon’s successor begins Arnold Hirshon After more than a decade as Case Western Reserve’s vice provost and university librarian, Arnold Hirshon will retire at the end of 2021. And in…

As part of the Engineering Week (E-Week) activities, the KSL Challenge dared students to test their research skills with ten engineering source-related questions. We are very proud of the three participants with perfect scores! Guillermo Fiallos-Gonzalez, a Chemical Engineering major, class of…

Join the KSL challenge to celebrate Engineering Week (E-Week)!  February 24; 9am - 7pm Challenge your research skills by answering ten questions about engineering sources. The top three winners will receive prizes provided by KSL! Register Today! Engineering Week takes place each year to…

OhioLINK, Ohio’s academic library consortium, received $2.5 million from the Ohio Governor’s Emergency Education Relief (GEER) funds through the Ohio Department of Higher Education. As a result, Case Western Reserve University and other OhioLINK member institutions will receive new streaming videos…

The University Technology ([U]Tech) C.A.R.E. Center in Kelvin Smith Library is open by appointment only for drop-offs and pick-ups from 9 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. (last appointment) Monday through Friday. The [U]Tech C.A.R.E. Center is located on the lower level of the Kelvin Smith Library. A CWRU ID…

Thanks to a generous gift from the Graduate Student Council (GSC), Kelvin Smith Library now offers the Case Western Reserve University community access to the prestigious Oxford Handbooks Online, a collection of peer-reviewed, scholarly publishing resources encompassing more than 35,000 articles…

Stephanie Becker, digital collections manager at the Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship; Nora Blackman, archivist, and Anne Kumer, electronic resources metadata librarian, received an LSTA Metadata Mini-Grant from the State Library of Ohio, in conjunction with the Ohio Digital Network. The…