Kelvin Smith Library
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.
Librarian on Call
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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…
December 21, 2015
Kelvin Smith Library now offers Kanopy, a video-streaming service featuring educational and documentary films for faculty to use in classes, students to use in activities and researchers to use in support of their work. The films, which cover a variety of topics, can be embedded into Blackboard…
November 23, 2015
As part of its ongoing efforts to provide a safe and supportive environment to the Case Western Reserve University community, Kelvin Smith Library will alter its schedule for general public access. Effective Monday, Nov. 30, regular access hours of operation for the general public and…