November 09, 2009
Kathryn Karipides collection
A new collection is available in Digital Case entitled, 'Kathryn Karipides Collection, Photographic series and programs, 1970-1976; 1978-1996'. The collection includes many photographs taken at the performances, as well as digital copies of entire programs from many of these dance events.
The images can be viewed using the Cool Iris feature, which can be accessed by clicking the images tab once you are in the collection, and then click on the Cool Iris button (or by clicking here)
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July 02, 2009
Stecher Collection of Darwiniana
The Robert M. Stecher Collection of Charles Darwin Books and Manuscripts is an outstanding resource for the study of Charles Darwin. It is an excellent example of what a knowledgeable and enthusiastic collector can do for scholarship. Over a period of thirty-seven years, Dr. Stecher collected both the works of Darwin and other 19th century naturalists and those writings that influenced Darwin's thought. Over 175 manuscript letters by Darwin, his family and his contemporaries (such as A.R Wallace, Grant Allen, Henry W. Bates, J. Brodie Innes and many others) are also an invaluable part of the collection. These letters document Darwin's daily life and reveal the struggle of the Victorians to formulate and accept the theory of evolution.
A link to the collection is here.
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June 05, 2009
United States Steel Corporation Annual Reports
The United States Steel Corporation Annual Reports are now up in Digital Case, beginning with the first issue in 1902. In 2003 a Library Opportunity Grant was awarded to Kelvin Smith Library and the Weatherhead School of Management(WSOM) to digitize and make publicly available 100 years of the annual reports for U.S. Steel. Faculty in the WSOM have a continuing interest in business and accounting history. Of particular interest is the longitudinal/historical developments for various steel and auto and auto supply companies. U.S Steel Corporation is particularly important because it is the first billion dollar capitalized corporation to emerge in the United States. As such it serves as the prototype of what was going to happen in business during the 20th century. Having a full picture of the financial reporting over the 100 years will give not only business scholars but researchers in history, law, political science and other fields a valuable “window” into how the process developed and changed over time.
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April 21, 2009
Year of Darwin collection
New collection in Digital Case: Year of Darwin
Beginning in the Fall of 2008 and proceeding through the Spring semester, departments from across Case Western Reserve University will sponsor events and programs celebrating Charles Darwin's life, his work and the diverse ways in which evolutionary theory continues to influence research and thought in biology and other fields. Some of these events will be intended primarily for an academic audience and others will be intended for the general public. On a roughly monthly basis, prominent individuals who have contributed significantly either to the progress or the popularization of evolutionary science will be coming to Case to deliver lectures and participate in the celebration.
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April 20, 2009
Annual Editions of Encyclopedia of Cleveland History Now Available
Digitalcase is now creating annual snapshots of the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History (ECH) collection. There are 3 collections currently listed. A 2008,2009 editions as well as every article showing in one collection. KSL will continue to create these on an annual basis.
http://library.case.edu/digitalcase/BrowseCollections.aspx?PID=ksl:AnnualECHCollection
Also, as part of the ECH annual editions, KSL has implemented a feature in Digitalcase that allows multiple versions of a particular object to be presented in the Digitalcase interface. This feature which can be seen below, shows all versions of an object to be displayed in a timeline fashion. This will be useful for displaying serialized publications as well as Encyclopedia collections like ECH.
http://library.case.edu/digitalcase/DatastreamListing.aspx?PID=ksl:ech-oovir1&COLPID=ksl:ech-2009
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March 02, 2009
Case Stories collection
The CASE Stories project provides a rare look at individuals whose dedication to Case Western Reserve University helped create our rich legacy of excellence in higher education. A new Digital Case collection of the original sound wave files as well as the podcast mp3s will be posted as the project progresses (link to collection). For this initiative Kelvin Smith library staff combined elements of oral history, knowledge capture and web 2.0 technologies to create a new approach to understanding, preserving and presenting the history of Case Western Reserve University. The CASE Stories blog will include the podcasts from this project, as well as provide some additional information.
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January 28, 2009
Original Leaves from Famous Books collection available
A new image collection is available of original leaves and captions as collection by Otto Ege from famous books, dating between 1122 A.D. - 1923 A.D. A few examples include: The Koran Manuscript (1122, printed in Cairo), Livy's The History of Rome (1436, printed in Italy), and Erasmus' Adage Printed by Jerome Froben (1528, Basle). These leaves are great examples of early printing techniques. These images are owned by Special Collections, Kelvin Smith Library, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. Permission to reproduce and/or publish can be obtained by contacting Special Collections at 216-368-2993.
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January 09, 2009
NEW: Case Archives Image Collection
Digital Case has just added a wonderful collection of high quality historical images organized by people, places, events & activities and things having to do with Case Western Reserve. From football games to lecture series to presidents' inaugurations, a wide range of CWRU's ceremonies, performances, scholarly and social events are represented. Currently the collection contains images only. Digitization of the University's video, audio cassette, phonograph, and film heritage, spanning over 60 years, will make this rich documentation conveniently accessible and usable in ways not previously possible. The collection contributed by the University Archives department is available as of 2:00 pm on Friday 1/10/09.
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December 30, 2008
Michelson-Morley Centennial Symposium 1987
New collection of videos and text from the Michelson-Morley Centennial Symposium 1987, which took place October 30-31 at Case Western Reserve University. The symposium commemorates not only the centenary of the Michelson-Morley experiment, but also the broad-ranging creativity of the men who performed it. Organized and coordinated by the Michelson-Morley Centennial Celebration (an Ohio non-profit corporation), the Festival has elicited the participation of thirteen of Cleveland's educational and cultural institutions in an extraordinary cooperative enterprise. (written by Dorothy Humel Hovorka)
Modern Physics in America derives from the theme from the original Michelson-Morley experiments in the summer of 1887. The focus on the symposium is the progress and research during the hundred years which separate the experiments and date the symposium. This point in time during the summer of 1887 has been referred to as the beginning of modern physics. Most of the major areas of physics are reflected in the symposium, including many world-renowned scientists.
The text in the collection includes the complete scan of a 22 page pamphlet, 'Modern Physics in America', published by the university for the symposium. This includes a forward by Dorothy Humel Hovorka, an introduction by William Fickinger and Kenneth L. Kowalski and the 'Celebration' essay by John Schoff Millis.
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October 27, 2008
New RSS Feed for Recently Added Content
An RSS feed has been posted to the Digital Case front page, which will display content 
uploaded to Digital Case for the past 3 days. RSS feeds provide a flexible and dynamic way to monitor content changes. This feed will keep you updated with the new content being added to Digital Case. This can be a great way to see what's being added to Case Western Reserve University’s digital library.
Don’t forget to check out all the other feeds being offered by Kelvin Smith Library at http://library.case.edu/ksl/rss.html
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September 11, 2008
PUBMED Central Available 9/22/08
** UPDATE 9/22/08 @ 9:00 am :**
This collection is fully available and both searchable and browesable in digitalcase. Collection can be found at http://library.case.edu/digitalcase/BrowseObjects.aspx?PID=ksl:PubMedCentral.
** UPDATE 9/17/08 @ 9:30 am :**
This collection is currently available in digitalcase and can be found at: http://library.case.edu/digitalcase/BrowseObjects.aspx?PID=ksl:PubMedCentral. However this collection is not yet searchable. The index job has started and willl be completed by sometime 9/18/08. After the completion of the index job, this collection will become searchable. This collection is scheduled to be updated every Saturday morning.
We are creating a collection of Case Faculty medical research that we are harvesting from Pubmed Central. This collection will highlight all the federally funded medical research output from Case that has been deposited with Pubmed. Recently, legislation was passed mandating that all federally funded research must be deposited with pubmed and thus will allow digitalcase to represent this important information on into the future. We expected this collection to be available on Monday 9/15/08
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July 02, 2008
Just Added: Case TV Collection
July 1st: We have officially launched the Case TV archive collection in digitalcase. Check out this collection from the following location: http://hdl.handle.net/2186/ksl:CaseTV. The collection is updated with new content weekly on Sunday so check back regularly.
We are exploring the idea of presenting video via Digital Case that is streamed from ITAC’s infrastructure. Long-term, we are considering the feasibility and financial model for archiving all Case TV video content produced by ITAC. In the short term, we plan to organize and present objects in the Case TV.
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April 22, 2008
Case Pluralism Project
Items have been added to the Case Pluralism Project, from the Department of Religious Studies.
These materials include student reports and other documents from the Case Pluralism Project, designed and conducted by Timothy Beal and students in RLGN 399 Senior Seminar in Religion, Spring 2003 at Case Western Reserve University. Case Pluralism Project
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April 18, 2008
Search Results Improvements
The following are changes currently being developed and test. We will launch these new features at the end of April 2008.
1) Currently we only display 5 items per page on any listing screen. We should allow these numbers to be configurable up to 50 items per page on BrowseCollections.aspx page
2) Navigation controls on the top and bottom of the page on all browsing screens
3) Sorting on search results page by title, creator, publish date ‘identify on search results page that the default sort order is by relevance as determined by the search algorithm
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Pubmed - Medical School Research Collection
We are currently compiling a collection that represents Case Medical School research deposited in Pubmed. This collection will hold roughly 2000 pieces of research involving Case Western faculty and researchers. We will create a process to harvest new materials on a weekly basis in order to allow the collection to remain current.
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April 03, 2008
TEI Book Presentation
There is a requirement to create book browsing functionality to supplement existing features of digitalcase. This functionality will be
used to take TEI Encoded files. These files today are presented as XML files for patrons to download and do as they wish. We want to create functionality on our site to render these TEI encoded documents and allow patrons to experience these text files as if they were in their original book form.
This project will be started the week of April 28. We expect this project to be completed in the middle of June 2008.
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