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Let There Be Rock: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Library & Archives on the Case Catalog

Rolling Stones, Santana, Bob Seger, Boz Scaggs and more are now on the Case Catalog, as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum's Library & Archives becomes an affiliated library of CWRU.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum's Library and Archives is the world's most comprehensive repository of written and audiovisual materials relating to the history of rock and roll. It is another element of building greater Cleveland as a center for the study of rock and roll music.

Expanding Access
The Rock Hall's Library and Archives has partnered with Case Western Reserve University to become one of CWRU's Affiliated Libraries. This arrangement allows the Rock Hall's Library and Archives to share CWRU's online catalog for the cataloging and searchability of its materials. Additionally, this allows the Rock Hall's Library and Archives to be a member of the library consortium OhioLINK, making the Rock Hall's holdings visible to a wider audience and providing its on-site researchers access to numerous OhioLINK electronic resources. The Rock Hall joins an esteemed group of cultural institutions that are already among CWRU's Affiliated Libraries, including the libraries of The Cleveland Institute of Music, the Cleveland Institute of Art, and the Siegal College of Judaic Studies.

Visit A New Library

Case faculty, staff & students are welcome to visit and use the main reading room and are encouraged to have the Rock and Roll Hall library staff scan their Case photo ID cards into the system. Since Researcher Cards are required when archival or audio-visual materials are requested, this will expedite access so you can experience a wealth of primary research materials: the industry, people, posters, promotional materials, interviews, personal papers of founders of record companies, handwritten lyrics & sheet music, and much more.

You could travel back in time with archival collections like the photos of the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, or the 1991 Blossom Lollapalooza Festival. Director of Library and Archives Andy Leach says one of his favorite things are the Scotty Moore Papers, personal files from Elvis' first lead guitar man in the early '50s and a critical person in the beginnings of rockabilly. Click that link for Moore and you'll find The Sun Sessions CD, A Tribute to the King by Scotty Moore & Friends: live at Abbey Road Studios (video recording), and other items on the Rock Hall Catalog. Left-side facets (Events, Genre) help you discover music in a new way.

Learn more before you go—the main site has Quick Links for Catalog, Location & Parking, Staff. Tabs along the top of the page have important details about visiting and accessing this significant collection, and finding out more about this latest addition to Case and to Cleveland.

Book Image: Put The Needle On The Record: the 1980s at 45 revolutions per minute

2012 Freedman Fellows Announced

Congratulations to the 2012 Freedman Fellows Program Award Recipients whose proposals aim to integrate new technologies & information sources. The program requirements for innovative scholarly or creative projects are reflected in their winning proposals, and the Fellows will also serve as a model for the program's efforts to build a learning community around digital scholarship.

All award winners plan to use digital platforms to further understand & expand their work, and as one fellow says, to "forge collaboration across disciplines." A program that has awarded over $100,000 to further digital scholarship, the Freedman Fellows Award Program welcomes the 8th group of fellows:

• John Grabowski, Associate Professor, History
• Brian Gran, Associate Professor, Sociology
• Susanne Vees-Gulani, Associate Professor, Modern Languages & Literatures
• Stephen Hefling, Professor, Music
• Paul Iversen, Associate Professor, Classics

2012 Fellows will meet this spring and also throughout the year, sharing experiences with the other fellows...and beyond. They'll also present their progress in a series of events that will be open to anyone with an interest in their projects. Interested audiences will see GIS mapping applied to child trafficking in NE Ohio, or learn more about the classics & the Antikythera Mechanism. A wealth of information about Mahler's works will reach global scholars, Cleveland's history will find a new future in its past & become even more interactive, and German culture will be expanded from a published print work. Congratulate the new Fellows & watch for news updates!

The Samuel B. and Marian K. Freedman Digital Library, Language Learning, and Multimedia Services Center is a partnership between the College of Arts and Sciences and the Kelvin Smith Library.

New Mahler Research Tool by a 2011 Freedman Fellow

The powerful symphonies and songs of Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) have enjoyed enormous growth in popularity since the mid-1960s. Along with increased recordings and scholarly interest in his works, however, there’s also been a growing critical need for a detailed catalog of musical manuscripts and editions. It's a need that will be met by a 2011 Freedman Fellow.

For Dr. Stephen E. Hefling (Music) the 2011 Freedman Fellow Program Award offered new opportunities and support for him to transform Edward Reilly’s lifetime work into a searchable database. Inheriting the work, Hefling was determined to “explore emerging digital tools for annotation and linking of images, sound files, and text in ways that will facilitate the use of the Catalogue by scholars, students, and musicians…expanding the positive impact of this project.”

The result, the Reilly Digital Catalogue of Mahler’s Musical Manuscripts, will be an essential tool that has been lacking for Mahler’s works. Editing and revising the original file ensures uniformity for indexing and transfer to other digital formats, with standardized terms that will allow transformational data manipulation and reorganization by users. Kulas music librarian Stephen Toombs has contributed expertise to the project and says that the incorporation of digital technologies will generate “new understanding of the source material relating to the genesis of Mahler’s work.” and notes that the final result will be a “state of the art musicological research tool.” Hefling says there is global interest as well as U.S. excitement about the project, with potential for additional support from other Mather enthusiasts.

“For Anyone, An Immersion into Mahler with New Levels of Scholarly Content”
Like other Freedman Fellows Program award recipients, Hefling notes and appreciates the “highly collaborative” environment on his project, citing scholars, technical staff expertise, Baker Nord staff and the Kelvin Smith Library. “Others can get started when they wouldn’t have been able to do so otherwise….I can’t imagine getting anywhere close to this point without the Freedman Fellow Award.”

KSL Experiments with Patron Driven Acquisitions

Kelvin Smith Library has initiated a Patron Driven Acquisitions (PDA) pilot program. An allocation from the monograph funds has been ear-marked to experiment with a model of delivery that allows patrons to tell the library what they need and will actually use. CWRU patrons will have the opportunity to select items listed in the catalog that will initiate a purchase of that item (whether print and/or e-book). The Research Services Librarians have defined the books included in this pilot based on current collections profiles to represent areas across all disciplines. This initial pilot program will include 2012 print and online books from the following disciplines: economics, engineering, history, marketing, political science, and religious studies. Data will be collected on format of materials requested, subject areas selected, and user feedback. The pilot program will help to define the process and allocation for further implementation in the 2012-13 fiscal year, which will include more subject disciplines.

Celebrate Preservation Week 2012 @KSL

Libraries and organizations all over the country celebrate Preservation Week: Pass It On, April 22-28, 2012 with resources that help to preserve personal and shared institutional collections. Preservation Week can help you safely preserve your collections, too, whether it's paper, textiles, photographs (digital and print) or family memorabilia.

KSL Expertise & Opportunities
Kelvin Smith Library is fortunate to have a Preservation Officer and department that supports Preservation Week with informational materials, a series of webinars for the public, and personal conservation appraisals. Expertise that preserves items for generations of researchers is available to everyone during Presentation Week:

• Free resources: information table with sources for preserving personal collections. Main floor, KSL.

• Webinars: presented by nationwide experts & shown on the big screen in LL01. Free, open to the public. Or, register online & watch from your computer.

• Individual conservation appraisals: bring your items to the webinars at KSL, get expert advice on preservation options.

Webinars
Tuesday, April 24, 2pm-4pm. "Taking Care—Family Textiles." Webinar presenter: Bronwyn Eves, project manager of Illinois Collections Preservation Network. Lower Level 01 room, post-webinar Q&A and consulting opportunities. (Or, register for viewing on your own computer.)

Wednesday, April 25, 3pm-4pm. "Saving Cherished Memorabilia: Preservation Tips for Family Historians." Webinar: staff members, Library of Congress. Lower Level 01 room, post-webinar Q&A and consulting opportunities. (Or, register by April 22 for limited access on your own computer.)

Thursday, April 26, 2pm-3pm. "Preserving Your Personal Digital Photographs." Webinar presenter: Bill LeFurgy, Digital Initiatives Manager, National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, Library of Congress. Lower Level 01 room, post-webinar Q&A and consulting opportunities. (Or, register for viewing on your own computer.)

Prior appraisals included paper lampshades, Japanese print repair, paintings, measured drawings & more. Preservation Week is an initiative of the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS), a division of the American Library Association.

Buddhist Scriptures, Update from a 2011 Freedman Fellow

William E. Deal (Ph.D., Departments of Religious Studies, and Cognitive Science) crosses time and cultures with Chinese writings of Buddhist scriptures, and does it with skills from his 2011 Freedman Fellows award. As the 2012 Freedman Fellows Award Program announced the criteria and the April 2 deadline for new project submissions, Deal shares progress on his project:

Nearly 20 years ago, Deal meticulously color-coded by hand the content categories of some of the tales from the Japanese Buddhist text Hokke genki, "Miraculous Tales of the Lotus Sutra," in order to see the people, events, regions of 11th century Japan.

A Larger Perspective
Written in Chinese, the tales served as inspirations for later Japanese Buddhist texts, says Deal, as his 2011 Freedman Fellows award and newly gained skills now allow him to apply digital textual and spatial analysis tools to the texts. Using XML and TEI to analyze and interpret the tales unlocks the complexity of the texts and also "dramatically changes what is possible," beyond reading texts. Using digital technologies, research is possible in new ways: one can see word frequencies, the relationships of those content categories on a larger scale, the scope of Buddhism in 11th century Japan via GIS, and a developing concordance of key words in context.

"I love that we can do projects now, as the Freedman Fellows Awards Program has evolved."
Deal's 2011 project was designed as phases of a multi-year project, and he's aiming for wide availability with an iOS app & a sustainable online presence. Scanning the tales with Unicode for Japanese and Chinese languages, he's adding English translations and believes the interdisciplinary and collaborative nature of the Freedman Fellows Program and projects are unique. While other programs exist, he says "they are nothing quite like what we have here."

The word cloud from one of the stories merely gives a glimpse into the revelations and potential of his project's work. "In some ways, we're pioneers," reflects Deal. "It's why the Freedman Fellows is so important to me. We build new models, not copy others. It's a huge opportunity!"

The Samuel B. and Marian K. Freedman Digital Library, Language Learning, and Multimedia Services Center is a partnership between the College of Arts and Sciences and the Kelvin Smith Library.

Cleveland Play House Archives @Kelvin Smith Library

Kelvin Smith Library is the new home of the Cleveland Play House Archives, in another collaborative effort between the university and America's oldest regional professional theater company. Join us on Monday, March 26 as Arnold Hirshon, Associate Provost and University Librarian, hosts an event for the public that showcases some of the artistic and historical items of the new collection.

A Thousand Boxes, Thousands of Letters, A Look Into Our Past
For researchers the 1,000 boxes from CPH can reveal the stories of American regional theater as well as the cultural environment of NE Ohio and its artistic community. From board minutes to scripts, stage drawings to producer's notes & more, the new archives expands opportunities for valuable primary research. Read a Tennessee Williams playscript from the Kelvin Smith Library collections, and then delve into the CPH Archives & read his letters to artistic directors & find review clippings from area newspapers of the times.

With partnerships long in place for university graduate programs and undergraduate internships, the CPH Archives' new home at CWRU also expands with the expertise of KSL staff who will oversee its organization and curation. Ultimately, selected items will reach into the digital environment for global researchers.

Attend the Event
Learn more about the special exhibit and event on March 26, 4 pm at the Kelvin Smith Library in the 2nd floor O'Neill Reading Room. Please register online by 3/22/12 to attend this event or call KSL Administration at (216)368-2992.

Read more details & remarks and view images from the March 18, 2012 announcement in The Daily, the online newspaper of Case Western Reserve University.

2011 Freedman Fellows Share Projects--Apply Now for 2012 Awards

The Freedman Fellows Award Program 2012 is open for proposals, and the 2011 Fellows share their experiences in this profile series that takes research through centuries, countries, cultures. Read the details for proposal guidelines, criteria, the April 2 deadline & more, as you enjoy another 2011 Freedman Fellow profile:

Wattaeau's Paris: Arts and Intersections
Georgia Cowart (Professor, Musicology) claims she was a novice in the digital world even as she recognized that faculty were "all becoming more aware of the possibilities for digital scholarship." Sharing her project's progress, she joins other 2011 Freedman Fellows in noting that staff support (early on, varied, and continuing) is a hallmark of the program and is appreciated by the Fellows. The valuable advice she's received along the way has allowed her to "shape a methodology beyond what I could have developed on my own."

A Sense of What Is Possible
Cowart's project aims for a new view of 18th century Parisian culture with an annotated digital archive of Watteau's Paris. Such a digital project would complement other works about the growing body of works about the French art, music, dance, and theater. Cowart emphasizes that sharing the Fellows experience is invaluable so that others can see how the instruction, advice, and introductions to new areas can be beneficial as Fellows move on to more independent work. "The most crucial component for me was to get a sense of how I could create a digital dimension that would support, rather than steal time from the research I was already engaged in."

Her project can take advantage of digital materials and bring new dimension of music, performance, and art to scholarly works in a digital archive that could let you stroll geo-tagged gardens of Versailles to see how they influenced Watteau's garden architecture. Innovative annotations can foster increased multi-institutional & interdisciplinary digital projects and shared expertise. Cowart also sees evolving best practices in intellectual property & collaborative publications as she continues to work with Circle institutions like CMA and CIA.

For Georgia Cowart, there'll always be Paris...and Watteau, but she'd like it to be shown and known in new ways through her Freedman Fellows Award Project. Reflecting on her progress, she says she "appreciates the Program's willingness to accept repeat applications...my work with digital resources has blossomed."

Image: Antoine Watteau, Les fêtes vénitiennes (c. 1718), a painting Cowart has been able to interpret through its connections with a 1710 operatic work.

Feature: 2011 Freedman Fellows, as the 2012 Program Opens

Case faculty are invited to submit proposals for this year's Freedman Fellows Award Program, in existence since 2005 to help faculty bring their research & teaching projects to fruition with digital technologies, tools, and support.

Read more about the 2012 program criteria, and enjoy these weekly features about the 2011 Freedman Fellows Award winners and their developing projects, like Putting the Adelbert Two-Step and Cleveland Music Publishing On the Map:

Music department faculty Daniel Goldmark knows what musical life in Cleveland was like 100 years ago, when "There was a theme song for everything, from vaudeville to Cleveland's Peerless Motor Car Company, & the Great Lakes Exposition of 1936-37." He's researched & acquired 900+ pieces of Cleveland-produced sheet music, covering musical genres from 1890-1950s, including the theme song for the Exposition. Goldmark says his Freedman Fellows 2011 project is about "the presentation of the Cleveland musical story, the diversity of publishers, and how the mass media in music started."

Goldmark's plan to apply GIS (geographic information system) to his project will take people to the publishers' houses, theaters, and streets of a city that had a thriving sheet music publishing industry like Chicago & New York City, revealing trends & relationships beyond the sheet music. A scanned border detail (above) from the Adelbert Two-Step (James D. Johnston) might be mapped to 365 Bond Street in Cleveland, the theater, to performers, and ultimately to an 1896 Billboard review of this baseball song.

Take An Historic Musical Journey
Music, metadata, images and information in his project will ultimately take you on a musical journey through Cleveland's sheet music trade and its local history, perhaps to a local landmark via sheet music covers like The New Euclid Arcade March Two Step by Louis C. Snyder.

Now planning details for a searchable database, embedded music files, & interactive web portal, Goldmark will bring it to life, and says of his 2011 Freedman Fellows Award, "It's knowing that support is there, as a scholar. I know about this part of my project—and I know that technology makes it possible."

The Samuel B. and Marian K. Freedman Digital Library, Language Learning, and Multimedia Services Center is a partnership between the College of Arts and Sciences and the Kelvin Smith Library.

Get There Faster with Quick Links!

You've probably noticed a lot of things have been happening around the Library lately, including a redesign of the library website earlier this semester. Since that time we have been getting feedback through our website, from our Librarians in the field, as well as feedback sessions we have been conducting here in the Library.  What we've heard is that many of our users would like quicker access to the things they use the most.  This has resulted in our bringing back an updated version of our KSL Quick Links, a short cut section of links on the right-hand side of our homepage.  Through all this feedback we've compiled, we've gathered the top requested links and have added them there.  As we continue listening to our users, and as people's needs change, these changes will be reflected.

Please keep the feedback coming!  Our Feedback button is always in our footer, and you can access it directly here.

Now Open: Proposals for 2012 Freedman Fellows Award Program

In its 8th year, the 2012 Freedman Fellows Award Program begins by inviting faculty proposals for this year's awards. Since 2005, over $100,000 in awards have helped faculty integrate multimedia technologies and digital tools into the curriculum, and varied staff and resources have helped to shape the Fellows' projects into new teaching and learning experiences.

Read more about the Freedman Fellows Program 2012, the application criteria, the April 2, 2012 proposal deadline, and more. Enjoy these weekly features about the 2011 Freedman Fellows Award winners, as they describe how their projects have developed.

Visualizing Nanoparticles
Physics faculty Robert W. Brown, one of the 2011 Freedman Fellows says that he became interested in 3-D effects after an introduction to Freedman Center tools, because his work in nanoparticle behavior was relevant to so many things. When the spring 2011 Freedman Center call for proposals came, opportunities called, too: "it was a match made in heaven!"

Reflecting on the award project nearly one year later, Brown recently showed an animation of nanometer-sized magnetic particles. Brown prefaced the demonstration by saying that he knew the particles rotated & had different frequencies. But the work done through the 2011 Freedman Fellows Program award allowed his project staff to write code to focus on data visualization for a "a microscopic understanding of how nanoparticles behave." Seeing is believing, and his audience saw nano particles self-assemble into agglomerates...and then self-assemble hierarchically into new structures.

Brown, principal investigator, Timothy Atherton, co-investigator (Physics faculty) and Phillip Durachinsky (Physics graduating senior 2012) applied code to data so that images are dynamically generated by OpenGL animation. The results, says Brown are "totally new views, instead of just looking at a slice on a slide!"

The excitement of seeing research come to life also stimulates ideas for future opportunities like applying audio waves, developing future Freedman Center skill sets, and putting research data, animation & text up on the Visualization Wall in KSL.

More importantly for Brown, the results also meet three of his Freedman Fellow project goals:
• more effective publications, with embedded media
• more persuasive oral/slide and e-poster conference presentations
• more compelling classroom experiences

"A moving picture is worth a thousand words, and graphical tools help learning enormously," said Brown. "We should teach with more of this!"

The Samuel B. and Marian K. Freedman Digital Library, Language Learning, and Multimedia Services Center is a partnership between the College of Arts and Sciences and the Kelvin Smith Library.

Spring or Summer Abroad? Learn the Language Basics in the Freedman Center

Before you go abroad, step into the Freedman Center! Our self-paced Pimsleur language learning series can get you started talking with the locals. Each listening-based lesson takes about 30 minutes to complete during which users are instructed to recall and form phrases to strengthen memory.

We offer...
Brazilian Portuguese 1-3
Chinese/Cantonese 1
Dutch 1
Egyptian Arabic 1
French 1-3
German 1-3
Greek 1
Hebrew 1
Hindi 1
Italian 1-3
Japanese 1-3
Polish 1
Mandarin 1-3
Russian 1-3
Spanish 1-3
Turkish 1

Have a question for the Freedman Center? E-mail us: freedmancenter@case.edu

Case Winner in Knovel University Challenge

Case produces a winner in the annual Knovel University Challenge and KSL is pleased to present the a $500 American Express gift card prize to Andrew Steele. One of 18 students to win prizes, Andrew was one of 5,600 students in the global contest that required 3 correct answers through the Knovel contest widget. Over 600 universities were represented from 93 countries.

A first semester student who is starting his Masters in Applied Anatomy, Andrew was new to the Knovel database, but now regularly searches across the digital collections. He told KSL he enjoys browsing biochemistry, biology, and biotechnology the most.

Case has had winners in this contest before, and once again Case students make an impression, as Knovel used Andrew's comment on their contest announcement page: "The University Challenge is fun way to test what you've learned in the classroom."

Knovel is a database with full text of over 2,000 leading reference handbooks, conference proceedings, databases and statistical data for researchers in the applied sciences. Its analysis tools and other features plus 40 international publishers and professional societies give Case researchers cross-disciplinary research results from a single page. Added features offer customized content & results.

Knovel is licensed for Case researchers; off campus or wireless access requires an activated VPN session. Find Knovel on the Research Database list.

Research, Back to the Future: Elsevier Backfiles Available

Take your research back 3 or 4 decades or more to complete your next research topic, with the latest addition to the OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center (EJC). The Elsevier backfiles project, digitizing journals back to volume 1, has now given OhioLINK researchers another 3.4 million articles in the EJC.

• Explore the 1950s with titles like Tetrahedon & Journal of Molecular Biology
• Reach back to the 1960s with Nuclear Physics A & B
• Search the 1970s with Discrete Mathematics, Research Policy, World Development, Journal of Medieval History
• Discover the 1980s through Language & Communication
• Go back nearly 200 years The Lancet [Vol.1, No 1.] London, Sunday, October 5, 1823 [Price 6d]

The preface to the 1823 first issue of The Lancet reflects the 2012 goal of this backfile addition:
"Having for a considerable time past observed the great and increasing inquiries for such information..." Today we recognize that the added content (1823-1994) increases the EJC to 21 million articles and mirrors the 1823 desire for comprehensive scholarly content.

In December 2010 Eric Fingerhut, then Chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents remarked that the Elsevier backfile acquisition "speaks to the hard work and dedication of the OhioLINK community." CWRU researchers will certainly reap the benefits of the newly added content.

This historic journal backfile content was funded by a collective effort of the Ohio Board of Regents and all OhioLINK member institutions. EJC content is owned, not leased, by OhioLINK.

New Loan Policy for Freedman Center

Ever needed a camera just a few days longer? Almost done recording your audition but need an extra night with our Zoom Audio Recorders? Found a quiet space in the library with one of our laptops and need just a few more hours?

The Freedman Center will now allow for checking in and checking out equipment for an additional loan period. Bring in your borrowed device before it's due so our staff can check its condition and make sure at least 2 other devices of the same are available for our patrons and you will be granted another check out. As always, fines apply for any equipment not turned in on time.

Contact us at freedmancenter@case.edu or (216) 368-6004.

Illustrations, Enlightenment & More--Thursday Feb 23 Event

KSL invites you to an interesting and entertaining lecture on the intersections of culture & commerce, politics & religion and more, from today's perspective..back to the 1600s. Michael Suarez, SJ, University Professor and Director of Rare Book School, University of Virginia, provides this compelling discussion of culture and intellect, in Patrons and Illustrations: 17th Century British Books and the Coming of Enlightenment.

Advertising, networking, deception, history, art...enjoy history come alive with Michael Suarez, professor, noted author, research fellow, Marshall Scholar, and Editor in Chief of Oxford Scholarly Editions Online, a new initiative to publish complete texts of scholarly works from the 1400s to 1660.

Thursday, 23 February 2012
Kelvin Smith Library, 2nd floor Dampeer Room - 4 pm
Case Western Reserve University

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Kindle Fire Winner @KSL

KSL is pleased to announce the winner of the Kindle Fire, drawn from graduate students' names who participated in KSL focus groups in late January & early February. Christina Larson, Ph.D. student in Art History, is our winner and she looks forward to some personal reading on her new device.

Christina started her Ph.D. program in 2007, after completing her Masters degree at Case. Talking with librarians Catherine Wells and Brian Gray (pictured) after her award presentation, she remarked that "KSL has come a long way in the last couple of years." When asked what she and her focus group peers found most appealing, she quickly said "We are excited about the room we were in... a special place" where graduates can work together. Focus groups were held in the 2nd floor Graduate Research Commons Room.

Christina's focus is the artist Paul Sample, an American regional painter of the early 20th century. Her career interests are aimed at a museum role as well as teaching, and she has found the Cleveland Museum of Art an integral part of her academic life here. A former student assistant in KSL's Special Collections Department, she's well versed in using information resources to her advantage, and we wish her luck as she completes her dissertation.

Kelvin Smith Library staff thanks all the graduate students who signed up and generously shared their knowledge, opinions, and comments about their research today as well as for the future at KSL and Case.

Art Exhibit Brings the Farm to KSL

Visit the newest art exhibit @KSL and find out what a pink pig has in common with Squires, Sanders & Dempsey, a university trustee, and the name Wade. In addition to the display cases that hold the answer to that assortment of esteemed names is a watercolor exhibit done by CWRU alumni, enrolled in Continuing Education Summer in the Country program. Stop in on Monday, February 13 for the Opening Reception in the Cramelot Café, 3-4:30 pm, and enjoy the exhibits.

Thirty-eight framed watercolors showcase Squire Valleevue and Valley Ridge Farms through the seasons, with views of landscapes and buildings, along with intricacies of structures like fire escapes. Escape to one of the university's unique treasures, with the exhibit on the farm. (Shown: Detail, from Yoshiko Ikuta's Lower Farm)

Exhibit cases expand on the artistry, with a hand-scripted ledger book that shows a working farm's cider pressing dates. You'll see a blueprint of the farm and read about how it came to its current 389-acre size. Read more about it in the new book Case Western Reserve University Squire Valleevue and Valley Ridge Farms, a 2011 publication by Ana B. Locci and Chris Bond. Request a copy from OhioLINK and enjoy reading about the history of the university Farm.

This exhibit was organized & assembled by staff from KSL Preservation, University Archives & Special Collections, and student assistants.

Win Kindle Fire for Sharing Opinions on KSL

Graduate Students: A Kindle Fire could be yours! KSL knows you're busy, but we'd like to share an hour of your time & talk about what you use in library resources, spaces, and services. Register and participate in a session, and your immediate future might include a Kindle Fire!

We'll also talk about what the future@KSL might offer graduate students. We especially need Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Weatherhead graduate students to meet with library staff in informal discussions.

Share your knowledge & remarks on your research activities—we look forward to hearing from you. Registration is required, lunch is provided. Participants from all groups will be entered in a drawing for a Kindle Fire, which could change your research, too!

Sign Up for your school's session here: http://tinyurl.com/KSL-focus-group

• Social Science & Weatherhead Graduate Students: Feb 1, Noon -1:30 pm
• Arts & Humanities Graduate Students: Feb 6, Noon - 1:30 pm

Sessions are in the Graduate Research Commons room, SW corner (Severance Hall side), 2nd floor.

CaseLearns New Media Workshops

Time to register for Spring 2012 CaseLearns New Media Workshops! CaseLearns returns with a full lineup of New Media workshops with offerings from Digital Images & Digital Video to Desktop Publishing & Presentation Design.

This semester many of the workshops will take place in the new ACR (Active Collaboration Room), the completely remodeled KSL 215 classroom with high-tech features and comfortable new furniture. Another new offering is a series of workshops, "Tell Me About Technology." Part demonstration and part discussion, these one-hour workshops take place each Thursday on a variety of different topics ranging from e-books to Facebook!

Faculty who are interested in having students incorporate New Media projects into their courses are encouraged to contact the library's Creative New Media Officer Jared Bendis (jared.bendis@case.edu) He'll consult on project parameters, arrange for training sessions, and help faculty learn how best to take advantage of resources such as the Freedman Center and the Software Center.

Registration is required for CaseLearns, where classes continue to be posted. Please check back for new classes, and read more about the program and the Attendance Policy. We'll see you in a class, soon!