Kelvin Smith Library

With the Crooked River Contrasts exhibit as a backdrop, Paul Nelson, historian of the Western Reserve Fire Museum, will give a lecture discussing the history of 15 major fires along the Cuyahoga River and the battles to extinguish them. Nelson’s lecture, titled “River Fire & Fire Boats:…

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to compose a haiku (three unrhymed lines of five, seven and five syllables) for Kelvin Smith Library’s 2019 National Library Week Haiku Contest. The first-place winner will receive gift cards to both Barnes & Noble and Target…

Kelvin Smith Library will host April Lancaster from the Cleveland Public Library for a discussion on The Library Book by Susan Orlean Wednesday, April 10, from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Dampeer Room. The Library Book chronicles the 1986 fire that destroyed 700,000 books in the Los Angeles Central…

The Open Science Framework is a solution for data management, project collaboration and research workflows in an open access world. Kelvin Smith Library, University Technology and the Center for Open Science will host a day-long workshop teaching easy, practical steps to increase the…

As part of Graduate Student Appreciation Week, graduate students at Case Western Reserve University are invited to Kelvin Smith Library's “Building Community Luncheon” Thursday, April 4, from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the library’s second-floor Research Commons area. Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate…

The last Kelvin Smith Library game night of the semester will be Trivia Night, hosted by the library and the Office of Undergraduate Admissions. Teams and solo players will be able to test their trivia knowledge while eating pizza Thursday, April 4, from 7 to 9 p.m. at Kelvin Smith Library, Room…

Dave Lucas, poet laureate of Ohio and full-time lecturer in Case Western Reserve’s Department of English, will celebrate the writings of Cleveland poet Hart Crane in Kelvin Smith Library’s Dampeer Room on March 25 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Known for his difficult and highly stylized modernist poetry,…

Before digital cameras made it easy to capture a rare bird, the tools of observation were pencils and brushes. Before Google Images, scientists and students turned first to the great works of scientific illustrations. Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to learn…

Kelvin Smith Library and the Judge Ben C. Green Law Library will welcome Travis McDade, the curator of law rare books and associate professor of library service at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, to campus for a talk. McDade is the country’s foremost expert on crimes against rare…

The way we work and live today demands students are adaptable to communicating using a variety of new media forms. While the traditional term paper remains a staple of academic output, alternate assignments can challenge students intellectually and creatively. They have the potential to motivate…