Kelvin Smith Library
November 15, 2018
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…
November 13, 2018
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…
November 01, 2018
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…
October 30, 2018
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…
October 30, 2018
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…
October 22, 2018
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…
October 15, 2018
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…
October 05, 2018
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…
October 03, 2018
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…
October 03, 2018
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,…