Kelvin Smith Library
February 06, 2019
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…
February 06, 2019
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…
February 04, 2019
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…
January 24, 2019
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…
January 18, 2019
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…
January 18, 2019
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…
January 17, 2019
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…
January 16, 2019
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…
January 15, 2019
The Social Justice Institute and the Kelvin Smith Library invite the Case Western Reserve University community to the opening of a new exhibit, Thirty: Exploring Artistically the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The opening will be held Thursday, Jan. 24, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in the Kelvin…
December 12, 2018
Do you collect books or manuscripts? How did you get started, and why do you collect what you have chosen to collect? If you have a collection of 10 or more books or materials that share a unifying theme, consider entering the Kelvin Smith Library Student Book Collecting Contest for a chance to win…