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Five one-hour training sessions on Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, will be held Wednesday, April 11, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Kelvin Smith Library, Room 215. Scopus, which was recently made available by Kelvin Smith Library, delivers a comprehensive o...

New research aimed at reducing the number of sexual assaults—by changing how law enforcement investigates and prosecutes offenders—was made possible by a fellowship from Kelvin Smith Library’s Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship, This project and two others—both in the humanities at Case Wester...

The last Kelvin Smith Library Game Night of the semester will take place Thursday, April 5, at 7 p.m. in Kelvin Smith Library, Room 215. There will be a selection of board games available as well as a Trivia Night event. There will be snacks, soda and Amazon gift card prizes for the winners of Triv...

On Monday, March 5, a select sample of Case Western Reserve University students, faculty and staff received an email from Associate Provost and University Librarian Arnold Hirshon with an invitation to participate in the Kelvin Smith Library User Satisfaction Survey. The survey is designed to learn...

Kelvin Smith Library will have reduced hours over spring break beginning Friday, March 9. The hours will be: Friday, March 9: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, March 10: Closed Sunday, March 11: Closed Monday, March 12, through Friday, March 16: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, March 17: Closed The ...

Kelvin Smith Library has put in place a new one-year loan policy for Case Western Reserve University staff, the same loan period for CWRU faculty. This change will especially impact staff who are teaching and conducting research at Case Western Reserve. See more information....

Kelvin Smith Library will host Kelvin Smith Library Game Night: Blind Date with a Game Thursday, March 8, from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Freedman Center. Games will be carefully curated from a wide range of levels and themes. The games will be personally hand-wrapped and attendees will pick one to play at ...

Endangered Data Week is a new, collaborative effort to shed light on public datasets that are in danger of being deleted, repressed, mishandled or lost. This event is coordinated across campuses, nonprofits, libraries, citizen science initiatives, and cultural heritage institutions Kelvin Smith Li...

Kelvin Smith Library will host Essouma Long Wednesday, March 7, for two separate performances. This event, titled “The Mbom-Mvet: Epic Tales, Music, and Dance of Central Africa” will be held at 12:30 p.m. and 4 p.m. in Kelvin Smith Library, Lower Level 06. Born in Cameroon, Long is a modern-day ora...

Wikimedia’s gender trouble is well-documented. While the reasons for the gender gap are up for debate, the practical effect of this disparity, however, is not. Content is skewed by the lack of female participation. This represents an alarming absence in an increasingly important repository of shared...