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Celebrate Preservation Week at Kelvin Smith Library through May 2
Kelvin Smith Library will host free events throughout the week to celebrate Prevention Week, which is an annual national event sponsored by the Association of Library Collections and Technical Services (a division of the American Library Association). It was created to increase public awareness of…
Event to feature presentations on the intersection of literature, technology
“Reading Interfaces: Inquiries at the Intersection of Literature and Technology,” an exhibition and colloquium exploring contemporary works of electronic literature, poetic production and reception across media will be held today (April 8) through Friday, April 10, on the first floor of Kelvin…
Learn more about Scalar publishing platform with webinars at Kelvin Smith Library
Kelvin Smith Library will host two webinars in April for the Alliance for Networking Visual Culture (University of Southern California) on the born-digital, open source, media-rich scholarly publishing platform, Scalar. This free publishing platform is designed to make it easy for authors to write…
Renowned Cleveland book collector to discuss life of Rockwell Kent at Kelvin Smith Library on April 16
Robert H. Jackson, renowned Cleveland book collector and Kelvin Smith Library Distinguished Visiting Scholar, will recount his adventures following famed American painter, illustrator and writer Rockwell Kent’s footsteps in Greenland. Jackson will present "Voyaging with Rockwell Kent: To the Ends…
Attend opening reception of "Art of STEM" exhibit at Kelvin Smith Library
Celebrate the creativity of science at the opening reception of Kelvin Smith Library's "Art of STEM" exhibit with a free reception Wednesday, April 1, from 4 to 6 p.m. The science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) related digital images that were entered in the corresponding art competition…
Faculty: Submit proposals for Freedman Fellows support by March 31
The Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship at Kelvin Smith Library is accepting proposals for the 2015 Freedman Fellows Program. This program—supported by the College of Arts and Sciences, Kelvin Smith Library and the Freedman Fellows Endowment established by Marian K. and Samuel B. Freedman—is…
ITS@KSL CARE Center to open March 9
Information Technology Services (ITS) will open a new Customer Assistance Resource and Education (CARE) Center in the Kelvin Smith Library (KSL) on March 9. The new facility will be located in the lower level of the library, adjacent to room LL06. The library location joins ITS’ two existing CARE…
Help improve Wikipedia coverage of women, art at March 7 ”edit-a-thon”
Members of the campus community are invited to take part in an “edit-a-thon” to improve Wikipedia coverage of women and the arts on Saturday, March 7, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Kelvin Smith Library. A 2011 Wikimedia survey found that fewer than 13 percent of Wikipedia contributors are female. The…
Win up to $2,000 in the Kelvin Smith Library Redesign Competition 2.0
How would you redesign Kelvin Smith Library? Form teams and compete in Kelvin Smith Library’s Student Redesign Competition 2.0. This team-based competition challenges students to propose changes to any physical space within the library to build upon its transformation into an intellectual center…
View Kelvin Smith Library's online annual report
Take a look at the Kelvin Smith Library's Fiscal Year 2014 annual report to learn how significant milestones at the library over the last year were "Powered by You." The report, available now at library.case.edu/ksl/annualreport/2014, provides an overview of the many ways that students, faculty,…