Kelvin Smith Library

All international students are invited to join the Center for International Affairs for a special event to learn about all the Kelvin Smith Library has to offer the Case Western Reserve University community. This International Student Success Series event will feature a personalized, hands-on tour ...

All students, faculty and staff are invited to participate in a walking tour of four campus libraries: Kulas Music Library, Judge Ben C. Green Law Library, Lilian & Milford Harris Library and Allen Memorial Medical Library. The tour will take place Thursday, Feb. 21, from 3 to 4:15 p.m. The group ...

The third session in the Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship and University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE) workshop series will be held Tuesday, Feb. 19, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the library’s Freedman Center (on the first floor). The session is titled “Wrangling Da...

Kelvin Smith Library will provide free tickets to Orchid Mania at the Cleveland Botanical Garden to researchers who sign up for an ORCID ID today (Feb. 18) through Friday, Feb. 22. Postdoctoral and doctoral students need only bring a screenshot of their ORCID profile page to the library’s administr...

More than 150 years of information about Case Western Reserve University student life is available now through Kelvin Smith Library. Written by students for students, student newspapers are a particularly important source of information about student culture and university history. “The rich histor...

Kelvin Smith Library will host a Digital Scholarship Mixer for those who are interested in incorporating digital research methods into a project or curious about digital humanities and scholarship. The event will take place Friday, Feb. 15, from 3 to 4 p.m. in Kelvin Smith Library's Freedman Center ...

OpenAthens is the library’s new authentication system and has replaced VPN for off-campus access to most resources. It requires no action other than signing in through Case Western Reserve University's Single Sign-On. With OpenAthens, members of the campus community can access nearly all of the lib...

The African-American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920, [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsKelvin Smith Library will host Herbert Woodward Martin, professor emeritus at the University of Dayton, for a presentation of Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poetry. Dunbar (1872-1906) was among the first African-Ameri...

The University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education and the Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship are collaborating to offer a workshop series to help faculty to learn about digital scholarship and incorporate that knowledge into their teaching. The series is composed of five sessions,...

Students, staff and faculty are invited to get a different view of Kelvin Smith Library with a behind-the-scenes tour Tuesday, Feb. 12, from 3 to 4 p.m. Stops on the tour will include: Where the library keeps its most prized collections; The preservation lab; and The book freezer, which is u...