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Freedman Fellows Presentation Series, The Myth of Dresden: Origins & Manifestation of the German Victim Discourse I
Join us February 8th for the next event in our presentation series, featuring Freedman Fellow Susanne Vees-Gulani (Associate Professor, Modern Languages & Literature).
Since a February 1945 firestorm caused by heavy air raids largely destroyed Dresden, this German baroque city has served as a symbol for the brutality of warfare and suffering. Vees-Gulani challenges the unquestioned acceptance of the Dresden victim status, since the city was in fact neither an unjustified military target nor was the level or timing of the bombings exceptional.
Vees-Gulani explores the reasons for this misinterpretation, based on data from the 17th century to 1945, such as paintings, postcards, photographs and tourist guides, that helped create an image of Dresden of mythic dimensions. The goal is to design a database and subsequent visualizations that communicate the various connections successfully and help better understand the complex interplay between historical facts, victim narrative and cultural representation.
Co-presenter Richard Wisneski (Team Leader for Acquisitions & Metadata, Kelvin Smith Library) will describe various metadata approaches to Dr. Vees-Gulani's project, with the pros and cons of each. Attention will be given to metadata strategies and planning.
This presentation is free to attend. Pizza and beverages will be provided.
WHEN: Friday, February 8 | 12:30pm – 2:00pm
WHERE: Kelvin Smith Library, Room LL06 (Lower Level)
About the Program: The Freedman Fellows Program is a partnership with the College of Arts and Sciences and Kelvin Smith Library. This program aims to identify and support scholarly research of faculty at Case Western Reserve University. Awards are granted to faculty to sustain projects that are currently active, hold scholarly or instructional value, integrate the use of digital tools, and have clear project outcomes in support of digital scholarship.
To learn more about the Freedman Fellows Program and its recipients, click here.
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CWRU Students Awarded Prizes in Knovel University Challenge!
Congratulations to Amy Wen and Karin Lee, 2nd year graduate students in Biomedical Engineering, for their success in the Knovel University Challenge!
Knovel is a database with full text of over 2,000 leading reference handbooks, conference proceedings and statistical data for researchers in the applied sciences. Its University Challenge asks students to use Knovel to answer questions correctly each week for a chance to win prizes.
This year’s contest had 4,500 student participants and unprecedented global participation. As challenge winners, Amy received a Western Digital HD Live Streaming Media Player and Karin was awarded Beats By Dre Tour Earphones.
Neither winner had previously participated in the challenge, but after playing Amy says that Knovel will help save time in locating information she needs for research. Her favorite features are the interactive tables and graphs that allow you to easily sort through data. Karin says that Knovel gives her a wider range of resources for both schoolwork and lab work. Her favorite aspect of the database is that it gives easy and organized access to many different resources and references.
In terms of participation in the challenge CWRU finished in the top ten schools, landing at #8 with 124 players. Great job to all involved!
Learn more about Knovel and the University Challenge here.
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Access to SPIE Digital Library and eBooks Available through Feb. 27
Kelvin Smith Library is pleased to offer a trial to the SPIE Digital Library and eBooks over the next 6 weeks. Access is now active at http://spiedigitallibrary.org/ through February 27, 2013. Remember to be on the campus wired network, Case Wireless, or VPN to gain full access. Please provide feedback or comments of interest to Brian Gray (bcg8@case.edu) as we explore a resource suggested by faculty in several departments.
SPIE Digital Library contains the world’s largest collection of optics and photonics research with over 375,000 papers from conference proceedings, peer-reviewed journals and eBooks. Content covers the broadest range of applied optics and photonics science and engineering papers anywhere.
Just some of the technologies covered are:
· Astronomy
· Biomedical Optics and Medical Imaging
· Defense and Security
· Electronic Imaging and Signal Processing
· Illumination and Displays
· Lasers and Sources
· Mathematics
· Micro/Nanolithography
· Nanotechnology
· Optical Design and Engineering
· Optoelectronics and Communications
· Remote Sensing
· Sensing and Measurement
· Solar and Alternative Energy
The User Guide (http://www.sdlinfo.org/library/documents/DL-User-Guide-2011.pdf) provides a more detailed description of the content and features.
SPIE is an international not-for-profit society advancing an interdisciplinary approach to the science and application of light. Optics and photonics technologies enable researchers, scientists and engineers to help improve life.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Events @KSL!
Celebrate the life of Martin Luther King Jr. at the following events sponsored by Kelvin Smith Library:
Continuing the Legacy and Dream of Martin Luther King Jr.
Tuesday, January 22
Dampeer Room (KSL 2nd Floor)
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
A two-person tribute to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahalia Jackson. A WORD, A SONG will be performed by husband and wife team Prester and Bertha Lee Pickett of Pickett Line Productions. A light lunch will be served.
Based in Cleveland, Pickett Line Productions specializes in “Edutainment” projects that address culturally specific concerns in cooperation with particular goals of various agencies, organizations, groups or institutions. Mr. Pickett is an alumnus of CWRU.
How to Turn a Setback into a Stepping Stone
Wednesday, January 23
Dampeer Room (KSL 2nd Floor)
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Join a Brown Bag Book discussion of Lani Guinier’s memoir, Lift Every Voice: Turning a Civil Rights Setback into a New Vision of Social Justice. FREE copies of the book can be obtained from KSL for the first 20 readers who commit to reading and attending the book discussion.
For a copy of the book, contact Karen Thornton at karen.thornton@case.edu or 216.368.6511. Beverages and dessert will be served.
Come Walk in My Shoes
Thursday, January 24
Cramelot Café (KSL 1st Floor)
11:30 am - 4:00 pm
A film about the life of Martin Luther King Jr. will run continuously from 11:30 am to 4:00 pm in the café.
For more information about these programs, contact Gail Reese at 216.368.5291 or egr@case.edu.
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Freedman Fellows Presentation Series: Continuation of the Reilly Digital Catalogue of Mahler's Musical Manuscripts
The next event in our presentation series features Freedman Fellow Stephen Hefling. Currently a Professor of Music at CWRU, Hefling is widely regarded as America’s leading specialist on the composer Gustav Mahler (1860-1911).
In 2006, Hefling was the recipient of an important catalogue of Mahler’s manuscripts. This extensive and detailed catalogue was the result of a lifetime of work by another scholar, Edward R. Reilly. Despite Mahler’s significance as a composer, no such catalogue, print or online, exists.
Join Hefling as he presents an overview of Mahler’s working methods, which are fully documented in this online, searchable database. He will also give insight to future possibilities through a quick electronic visit to the Arnold Schoenberg Center in Vienna.
Co-presenter Stephen Toombs (Research Services Librarian for the Performing Arts and Classics) will describe how library staff assisted Hefling in translating Reilly’s catalogue raisonné of Mahler’s manuscripts into an Oracle database, which will become the foundation of a searchable online catalogue.
This presentation is free to attend. Pizza and beverages will be provided.
WHEN: Friday, January 18 | 12:30pm – 2:00pm
WHERE: Clark Hall, Room 206 (11130 Bellflower Road)
About the Program: The Freedman Fellows Program is a partnership with the College of Arts and Sciences and Kelvin Smith Library. This program aims to identify and support scholarly research of faculty at Case Western Reserve University. Awards are granted to faculty to sustain projects that are currently active, hold scholarly or instructional value, integrate the use of digital tools, and have clear project outcomes in support of digital scholarship.
To learn more about the Freedman Fellows Program and its recipients, click here.
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2012 In Review: Kelvin Smith Library's Annual Report
Now that the new year is upon us, take a moment to look back at some of Kelvin Smith Library's highlights in our annual report. From shifts in physical space to a rethinking of where and how knowledge is produced and shared, the accomplishments of the past year reflect a sustained effort to restore the library to a place of centrality within CWRU. See what we’ve been up to, as well as where we’re headed in 2013 and beyond.
View the report online at library.case.edu/ksl/annualreport
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Network Outage January 5th will Affect Library Resources
KSL services including http://library.case.edu, Digital Case and Course Reserves will be unavailable on Saturday, January 5th, 2013, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. EST, as maintenance is performed to the database that hosts them. This planned maintenance is part of a broader project that will upgrade several campus servers, resulting in improved availability and scalability of their applications.
Offline during the outage:
• Kelvin Smith Library Website
• Digital Case
• Course Reserves
KSL services available via offline links:
• Summon All-In-One Search
• Case Catalog
• OhioLINK Central Catalog
• KSL ILLiad
• Research Guides (best resources to get started with, by subject)
• Research Database list (may be offline intermittently)
• EJournal Portal (may be offline intermittently)
For 24/7 assistance with any technology product or service, visit help.case.edu for helpful information and Live Chat, or contact the ITS Service Desk at help@case.edu or 216.368.HELP (4357).
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