Kelvin Smith Library
February 18, 2019
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…
February 18, 2019
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…
February 13, 2019
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…
February 13, 2019
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…
February 12, 2019
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…
February 12, 2019
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…
February 11, 2019
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…
February 11, 2019
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…
February 08, 2019
The Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) named Kelvin Smith Library the university recipient of the 2019 Excellence in Academic Libraries Award. Sponsored by ACRL and GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO, the award recognizes the staff of a university library for programs that…
February 07, 2019
Students are encouraged to put away their laptops and screens and experience a night of board games at the first Kelvin Smith Library Game Night of the semester. The event will be held today (Feb. 7) from 7 to 9 p.m. in the library’s Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship. Snacks and sodas will…