Kelvin Smith Library
March 17, 2020
By Erin Smith, research services librarian for the humanities Hello from Kelvin Smith Library! The semester is well underway, and now is a good time to start thinking about how to utilize your resources in regards to your research. Whether you are in the brainstorming stage, the investigative…
March 04, 2020
Join the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women and the Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship for a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. The event will be held Wednesday, March 18, from 1-5 p.m. in Kelvin Smith Library's Freedman Center. In honor of Women's History Month, the event will focus on adding to and…
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…