Kelvin Smith Library
February 28, 2020
Students are invited to take a break from studying and attend Game Night at Kelvin Smith Library on Thursday, March 5, from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Freedman Center. Refreshments will be available throughout the event. Get more details and register to attend.
February 18, 2020
Michael Phelps, executive director of the Early Manuscripts Electronic Library, will deliver a presentation today (Feb. 19) from 4-6 p.m. on the subject of the Sinai Palimpsests Project, in which researchers used spectral imaging to recover erased texts from 6,800 pages of palimpsest manuscripts at…
February 17, 2020
Join us for a dialogue on Tuesday, February 25, 2020 from 4:00 - 5:00 pm in Kelvin Smith Library's Dampeer Room located on the second floor. The Bamileke Writers will be presented by Professor Gilbert Doho, from the CWRU Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. To promote…
February 14, 2020
Students who have built a collection of 10-50 books based on a theme are encouraged to enter a book collecting contest sponsored by Kelvin Smith Library. Winners are eligible to participate in the National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest. Cash prizes for the top three collections will be…
February 10, 2020
Join us, Tuesday, February 11th, from 1-2:30 pm in the Freedman Center Collaboration Commons located on the first floor of KSL. Learn how to load, analyze and produce maps of census data in open-source software (QGIS). Laptops with preloaded software and data will be provided. This session is…
February 10, 2020
Come experience virtual reality with the Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship team in our dedicated VR space located on the first floor of KSL! Educational and recreation VR experiences are available. Wednesday, February 12th from 1-3:30 pm.
February 10, 2020
Join us in the Freedman Center on Thursday, February 13th from 3:30-4:30 pm to meet the Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship Team and a few of this year's Freedman Fellows working on research collaborations. Learn about tools and resources that all CWRU community members can access and use to…
January 29, 2020
Frederick Douglass’ commencement address at Western Reserve College in 1854, along with speeches by Martin Luther King Jr. during his visits to Cleveland, will be featured in a program at Kelvin Smith Library on Tuesday, Feb. 4, from 12:30-2 p.m. in the O’Neill Reading Room on the library’s second…
January 29, 2020
In response to the growing and varied data storage and sharing needs of CWRU’s students, faculty and staff, Case Western Reserve University now has an institutional account with the Open Science Framework (OSF). The Open Science Framework provides unlimited, free, permanent, cloud-based storage for…
January 28, 2020
Tuesday, February 4, 2020; 12:30 – 2:00 pm
Kelvin Smith Library, 2nd floor, O’Neill Reading Room Frederick Douglass was a Martin Luther King, Jr. of the 19th century. Both men were ambassadors for their platform, the Abolitionist and Civil Rights movement. A century apart, they fought for racial…