Kelvin Smith Library

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 deliver exe...

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 b...

Kelvin Smith Library will host a series of workshops to support faculty and graduate students in maximizing the impact of their scholarly publications. The workshop series will help attendees navigate the evolving publishing landscape, including copyright law, marketing research, online presence and...

Students who have a collection of 10 or more books and/or manuscripts that share a unifying theme can enter Kelvin Smith Library’s Book Collecting Contest for a chance to win $1,000. Participants must submit a 500- to 1,500-word essay describing the theme of their collection along with an annotated...

In conjunction with the “Thirty” art exhibit, the Social Justice Institute, Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence and Kelvin Smith Library will host an event to commemorate the United Nations World Social Justice Day Wednesday, Feb. 20, at 6 p.m. in the Kelvin Smith Library gallery....

The Personal Librarian Program is kicking off the new semester with a scavenger hunt with questions designed to challenge students about Kelvin Smith Library spaces and resources. Students must complete the challenge by Friday, Jan. 25. The first 50 students to complete the Winter 2019 Scavenger Hu...

Kelvin Smith Library’s new Safari Books Online platform is live. The new platform offers more content and greater functionality, including: No user limits (an unlimited number of people can use a resource at the same time); 40,000 new books and videos; and A mobile app, available at the Oreil...

Local author, attorney and historian James Robenalt will discuss the roots of the violent uprisings in Cleveland in the late 1960s, including the Hough Riot (1966) and Glenville Shootout (1968), and their political aftermath. His talk, titled “Ballots and Bullets: Black Power Politics and Urban Gue...

OpenAthens soon will replace VPN for all off-campus access to Case Western Reserve University’s library databases and resources. OpenAthens, the library’s new authentication system, will not require users take any action other than signing in with their network ID and password when prompted. For m...

Students, faculty and staff can better search Kelvin Smith Library’s collections for their next project. At the top-right corner of the library’s main page, there is a stronger, more robust search engine that will search across CWRU libraries for books, journals, newspapers and other holdings. Use ...