Kelvin Smith Library

The last Kelvin Smith Library Game Night of the semester will be held Thursday, Dec. 6, at 7 p.m. in Room 215 of the library. The event, titled Trivia Night at the Library, will feature a game of trivia, with each member of the winning team receiving a $10 Amazon gift card. Teams can have up to…

After careful consideration, Kelvin Smith Library has decided to discontinue the campuswide institutional subscription to the RefWorks citation management tool. RefWorks user account activity has declined steadily in the past several years, with a 50 percent drop in active users in the past two…

The University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE) will host a session on how the Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship can assist faculty in making a more robust learning environment for students. The UCITE seminar will feature a discussion about how to incorporate digital…

The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA) has gifted 40 years of archives to Case Western Reserve University's Kelvin Smith Library. Thousands of items are included in the collection that will be made public for research and historical documentation of MOCA’s leadership in the arts and the…

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…