Monthly Archive Index for KSL News Blog

The Web of Knowledge gets a new interface, the October Research Spotlight!

The ISI Web of Knowledge is a research portal that includes a citation database and other diversified scholarly information in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities.

Over the next few months, ISI will be transitioning to a new interface. Currently, Case Western Reserve University students, faculty, and staff have dual access to both the new and previous versions of ISI Web of Knowledge. As you become more familiar with the new features and functionality, please make the new ISI Web of Knowledge your primary portal. At any time, you may access the new interface from the [Access the new version] button on the top, green menu bar of the current version.

Read more about the ISI Web of Knowledge changes in the KSL October Research Spotlight!

Kelvin Smith Library All-Campus Open House, October 3rd!

Take some time to take a quick look at some of KSL's featured services, resources, and spaces, while you get some food & have some fun. We know free time is limited so we're hosting a lunchtime Open House on Wednesday, October 3 from 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Come for food, fun, freebies, prizes, and more!

Here's a small sample of what you'll see:
- Spend a few minutes at the GIS table, see how data & maps are added to your research. Learn how to print your presentation posters on KSL's large format printer, too!
- Watch reference librarians show top web sites for research, SAGES, & more, in a quick, casual setting (hint: they always have the great gifts.)
- Get the most out of your Case ID & Library Account/PIN with OhioLINK borrowing and OhioLINK remote access.
- It's time to check out a laptop in the Freedman Center or learn more about the what you can learn in a CaseLearns class and what equipment is new this year, for you to use.
- Now easier than ever to enter, upload items, and create hotlists of readings, see how the new Course Reserve/E-Reserves software has real-time web-based tracking, just like ILLiad. Faculty can always see the status of the class, including how often items are read.
- Find out how you can save time whenever you're in a hurry, or during 24x7, by using the SelfCheckout machine on the Main Service Desk. One card-swipe by library staff will ensure that you can use your card at midnight or 3 a.m.
- Need a travel guide, a best seller, a novel? See what's new in the CPL@Case-KSL collections and take out some French-language or Italian magazines, audio books, or popular reading. KSL library staff can register you in the Cleveland Public Library system so you can use this public library collection.

Learn a lot in a few minutes, at as many displays as you can fit in! Enjoy some food, free gifts, prizes, and fun on Wednesday, October 3rd. We'll see you there!

What's A Library PIN & Why Do You Need One?

If you are enrolled at or employed by Case, you have a library account on the Case Catalog. One of the best features of your library account is your PIN, since it gives you enhanced borrowing services and more!

Unlike the academic PIN that is assigned to you and used in classes, you choose your Library PIN, just like you choose your bank ATM PIN. (It's encrypted and protects your data just like your ATM PIN does, too.)

Why do you need a PIN? Renew items online from any computer, anywhere, if you set a PIN in your library account. With the advance courtesy library emails that tell you an item is due in 2 days (or overdue 1 day, if you miss the advance notice), the email has a link to your account so you can Renew Online. Use it to renew your Case & OhioLINK books up to 4 more times after take out the books.

Find out more about your Library PIN and what it can do for you!

KSL Main Service Desk staff is always ready to help you set up your PIn the first time, or to delete it if you have forgotten it. Contact them at smithcirc@case.edu or at 368-3506.

Better than David Letterman's Top 10!

Number One on The Observer's Top 10 Sources for Case students" is a great number to be!

Whether it's the intriguing 30 miles of moveable shelves or the great spaces & places for you, that #1 ranking shows appreciation for the millions of things you can find here, and more importantly...for the people who can help you get exactly what you need!

Thanks to all of the students who helped the Observer compile the article data for ranking, and who also found the treasures on the moveable shelves, a favorite place amongst 900 seats, Reserves & Electronic Reserves, and beautiful spaces so you can get your work done.

Come back, to find even more...like 24x7, or the room with the fireplace...

Free Classes, at CaseLearns!

Save time by taking a class through CaseLearns, the free classes that help you get ahead on your research strategies, improve your projects, or enhance your productivity at work!

Classes vary in length to suit your time—from an hour on Copyright and You, to several hours for working on different levels of Microsoft Office Suite tools, Medline searching, ArcGIS [fee], Refworks, Digital Imaging, and much more.

Try a Saturday two-hour course that will return ten-fold riches:
Navigating Electronic Information Resources
Sat. Nov. 10, 10:00 a.m.-Noon
Find effective ways to find just what you need amongst the hundreds of databases and thousands of electronic journals. Instructor & Librarian Mark Eddy will help you reach your destination with strategies for searching and results!

Explore CaseLearns Semester Calendar of classes, online registration, and Attendance Policy & Requirements. Classes are offered throughout the day and week, 9 a.m.- 6 p.m., including Saturday sessions and Freedman Center Sunday Series.

2007-08 KSL Digital Library Lecture Series Opens with Harvard Presenter

Join us Thursday, September 27 for Stephen Chapman's lecture on challenges in creating and sustainable digital collections. Harvard University's Open Collections Program Manager, Chapman will speak on the changing technological environment and how collections—and libraries—will meet the needs of today's researchers, and of the future.

Content and Context in the "Mutable Cloud", Selected Challenges in Presenting and Preserving Digital Collections
Thurs. September 27, 1:30 p.m.
Kelvin Smith Library, 2nd floor Dampeer Room
Seating on a first-come basis.
Free to the Case and Ohio academic and library community.

Read more information about Stephen Chapman, the upcoming November lecture, and the Digital Library Lecture Series. Download & save a copy of the 2007-08 Digital Library Lecture Series Brochure and share with your colleagues!

Brown Bag Lunch Series Sept. 19: Come to "What is Web 2.0? "

Bring a lunch & learn more about Web 2.0, and see what it means for learning, libraries, and you! You'll see a variety of applications for Web 2.0 in the first Brown Bag Lunch Series of 2007-08.

Wednesday, September 19, 2007
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Kelvin Smith Library, 2nd floor Dampeer Room
Presenter: Brian Gray, KSL librarian for Engineering, Mathematics & Statistics
Beverages & desert are provided, with your RSVP
RSVP for this event: call 368-2992, or email Gail Reese

Brown Bag Lunch Series are lunchtime events (approximately one hour) with featured speakers & informal discussion about a particular topic. Case and the UCI community are invited— please RSVP so that beverages & desert can be arranged for you.

Suggestions for lunchtime topics are welcomed! The Brown Bag Lunch Series is sponsored by the Case Libraries. Web 2.0 is hosted at KSL, and future ones may be held at other Case Libraries. Join us!

Treasures Online from the 1400s -1700, the September Research Spotlight!

Travel through time with Early English Books Online (EEBO), a compilation of virtually every work printed from 1473 to 1700 in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America (plus works in English printed elsewhere.)

Study a ballad, a broadside, a sermon or Shakespeare, an almanac or an auction catalog, royal proclamations, a pamphlet from 1600, or liturgies from the 1549 Book of Common Prayer. Experience the Restoration, the English Civil War, Galileo, or early women writers and much more as EEBO offers esearchers of all disciplines an unparalleled view into another world.

Enjoy Basic and Advanced searching, sorting, easy marking of page records, and highlighted stable URLS you can use in your documents or KSL Course Reserves. Get started with Recommended Titles that include PDF handouts showing interdisciplinary uses in Languages, Music, Religion, Science, Travel and Exploration, and English Literature, so you can find Chaucer...or dueling.

Read more about Early English Books Online (EEBO), the KSL September Research Spotlight!

A Case-only resource—EEBO remote access requires an active VPN connection.

24x7 Returns!

Really get started on your new year, now that the holiday weekend is over—24x7 returns to help you get ahead! Meet together with your study group, or find a quiet place to decompress and focus on your studies...Kelvin Smith Library's 24x7 service is there when you need it.

WHEN?
24x7 begins at the close of Regular Business Hours on TUESDAY night, when the library staff finish the Regular Business Hours at Midnight and a Security Officer takes over to provide a quiet, safe, secure place for you to do your work. 24x7 is in effect Fall & Spring Semesters when classes are in full session—24x7 takes a break during Fall Break and Thanksgiving holidays, so check back for changes!

HOW DOES IT WORK?
So that you never have to worry about who else is in the building with you at 2:30 a.m., 4:30 a.m., etc., your Case ID is required. No exceptions. Use your ID in the card reader at the main door, and show it to the Security Officer when asked. If anyone behind you wants to come in with you, first ask to see their ID before you let them come in on your ID. KSL is a big place, and KSL is serious about security. Just like dorms and other buildings that require security, IDs are required in KSL for everyone's safety at night.

WHAT CAN YOU USE?
Enjoy the 900 seats & tables, and all the collections in the public spaces, Group Study Rooms, wireless access (make sure your laptop is registered on the network), and after a few hours...the Lower Level vending machines. KSL SelfCheckOut computer and printers are rebooted around 4:15 a.m. so save your work frequently at night. Also note that between 2 a.m. and 5 a.m., Case Housekeeping may ask you to take a quick break from the Group Study Rooms so they can vacuum the rooms—help keep KSL clean for all to use by giving them a few minutes to do their jobs.

KSL has nearly 100 hours a week of staffed library hours & services for anyone with research needs. When 24x7 is operational, visitors are welcome to return during Regular Business Hours.