Kelvin Smith Library
March 23, 2016
Kelvin Smith Library staff work to acquire new resources for the benefit of Case Western Reserve University researchers. Recently, the library initiated several new trials, including: SAGE Video: View the latest insights from marketing practitioners at brands including Kellogg’s and…
March 22, 2016
As part of the inaugural Cleveland Humanities Festival, Kelvin Smith Library and the Western Reserve Historical Society have partnered for a new exhibit, “Everybody Look What’s Going Down,” which will be open through Aug. 1. The U.S. war in Vietnam, along with other social justice issues, was a…
March 04, 2016
Wikipedia’s gender trouble is well-documented. In a 2011 survey, Wikimedia found that fewer than 13 percent of its contributors are women. The reasons for the disparity are hotly debated; however, the effect is not, organizers of Case Western Reserve's Art + STEM + Feminism Edit-a-Thon say. Content…
March 03, 2016
The CaseLearns schedule for March is available now for students, faculty, staff and alumni. The resource, which is available through Kelvin Smith Library, offers free courses on topics from the basics of making a research poster to understanding the fundamentals of patents. The March CaseLearns…
March 02, 2016
Kelvin Smith Library’s first floor needs some color—and library personnel want your help adding it. The Create a Column competition, designed to build a more welcoming, dynamic environment, is open to all Case Western Reserve University students, faculty and staff, and students from the Cleveland…
February 25, 2016
Kelvin Smith Library will run a variety of programs during midterms week, Feb. 29-March 4, to help alleviate stress and add some fun to student workloads. These resources will be available in addition to the Ask A Librarian service, which can be found at library.case.edu/ask.
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February 16, 2016
On Monday, Feb. 15, a sample of CWRU 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. Designed to learn more about the experiences of library users…
February 12, 2016
Join the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women and the Kelvin Smith Library for lunch and an information session about digital scholarship through the Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship. The session will be held Monday, Feb. 29, from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Freedman Center for Digital…
January 27, 2016
Joint statement urges parents, young adults and physicians to act to increase vaccination rates In response to low national vaccination rates for the human papillomavirus (HPV), Case Comprehensive Cancer Center has joined 69 of the nation’s top cancer centers in issuing a statement urging for…
January 13, 2016
Kelvin Smith Library will host a lecture on mid-20th century American biblioclasm, which is the destruction or mutilation of books, Wednesday, Jan. 20, at noon in the library’s Freedman Center. Lisa Fagin Davis, executive director of the Medieval Academy of America, will present "Picking up the…