Kelvin Smith Library

What would you change about the first floor of Kelvin Smith Library? The library's staff invites students, faculty and staff to draw out their ideal rearrangement of resources in the library and discuss with others. The design charrette will take place today (Nov. 1) from 4 to 6 p.m. in Kelvin…

Put away laptops and phones and play old-fashioned board games with friends at Kelvin Smith Library’s third game night of the semester. This next Kelvin Smith Library Game Night will be held Thursday, Nov. 1, at 7 p.m. in the library’s Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship. Refreshments will be…

Kelvin Smith Library will host several training sessions next week for faculty and students to learn more about Scopus and SciVal. Faculty members will learn how they can improve their H-Index, shape their reputation, and find new opportunities to collaborate with peers. Students will learn how to…

University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE) and the Freedman Center will host four workshops for faculty about the Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship. These interactive workshops, which will take place on consecutive Fridays in the Freedman Center at Kelvin Smith…

Early classicists and archeologists of the 19th and 20th centuries used paper in an interesting way: As they could not bring entire stone structures back to an epigraphist's home institution, they used paper to make impressions of the inscriptions they wanted to study after leaving a cultural…

Meet Barney Taxel, a Cleveland food photographer and Case Western Reserve University alumnus, and Noelle Celeste, creator of Edible Cleveland, in Kelvin Smith Library’s O’Neill Reading Room on Friday, Oct. 12, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Taxel has chronicled Cleveland’s food scene for decades as a food…

Kelvin Smith Library recently added ProQuest Full-Text Dissertations to its database offerings. Individuals can use the program to read and download full-text dissertations and theses written by peers in their field. Members of the campus community can try out the program for full-text access to…

It is well known that Kelvin Smith Library provides books, articles and other resources to support research for faculty and students. However, many are not as familiar with the library’s potential to transform students’ classroom experiences. As a central campus hub for research and learning,…

Faculty can sign up now for the Kelvin Smith Library faculty study space lottery. The deadline to enter the lottery is Friday, Oct. 5. The lottery provides quiet spaces where faculty can conduct research and write, and use as an office or meeting place. Faculty members are assigned the space for…

A book bound by S.A. Neff Jr. Bibliophile and angler S.A. Neff Jr. will give a bookbinding demonstration and gallery talk on his works at Kelvin Smith Library Thursday, Oct. 4. While inspired by traditional bookbinding practices, Neff uses a contemporary approach that results in binding design…