Those who are old enough to remember the fall of the Berlin Wall also recall it as the end of the Cold War, and the Monday reception is an opportunity to bring together people to share memories and learn more about one of the most significant events of the 20th century.
Join others on Monday, Nov. 9 from 4-6:00 p.m. in the KSL Lower Level International News Commons to recognize the 20th anniversary and to pause and remember the event, share experiences, and learn more about it through images, video, texts, and conversations. Light refreshments will be served.
KSL Hosts Author Leonora Miano for Area High School Students
Kelvin Smith Library has partnered with the Ethnic Studies program to present a special discussion & book signing event on Nov. 6 with prize-winning novelist and Franco-Cameroonian author Léonora Miano.
As part of Kelvin Smith Library's Community Outreach service, the event is planned specifically for area high school students. Leonora Mianao will discuss her book AFropean Soul at 2:45 pm in the 2nd floor O'Neill Reading Room. All the students will receive a copy of the book and Miano will sign their books following the discussion. Students also will be able to talk with her at a reception in the Mather Reading Room.
This Kelvin Smith Library event follows a free public lecture by Miano at 12:30 (Clark hall 309), co-sponsored by Ethnic Studies, French and Francophone Studies, and the French Embassy.
Leonora Miano is the author of three novels: L'intérieur de la nuit (The Dark Heart of the Night); Contours du jour qui vient; and Tels des astres éteints. She has won the Louis Guilloux Prize 2006; the Montalembert Prize 2006; the René Fallet Prize 2006; the Bernard Palissy Prize 2006; and the Prix Goncourt des lycéens 2006.
KSL also has her work Contours du jour qui vient: roman, "Contours of the Day to Come," contemporary short stories of Cameroon fiction.
Take the Challenge, Win a Kindle, Wii, iPod & More....
The 2nd annual Knovel Challenge is on, and Case needs a winner! Use the widget and answer 3 science and engineering multiple choice questions, and you could own a Kindle, Wii, iPod Nano, or free music.
Contest-within-a-contest: When 100 student entries are received, Case is guaranteed to get a prize. Last year, Case was one of 8 universities to win a guaranteed prize, so logon and put yourself (and Case) in the winners' circle again!
Use the contest widget on Knovel—sumbit your answer,and just keep going until you get 3 right! It's easier if you keep the Knovel database window open, so you can search and find the right answers...or, you can simply keep answering questions on the contest widget until you get 3 correct answers.
• **Note: Case Students only
• Contest ends November 30th. Winners announced on December 1st
• Use the link at the top of the Knovel database page,
• Or, go directly to the contest. Try it, you might win!
Knovel is a database licensed for Case individuals, with full text of books and proceedings, and analysis tools & technology for cross-disciplinary scientific research. Interactive tools and reference texts & more are available for nearly seeral dozen main areas from Adhesives to Aerospace, Biology to Earth Sciences, Chemistry to Environment to Food Science, Textiles to Metals, and more...
Looking for A Person, Product, or Organization? Use New Online Directories
KSL brings new online directories to the desktop. National Faculty Directory, Consultants and Consulting & others are off the shelf and on your computer for easy, fast use.
• National Faculty Directory
• Consultants and Consulting Organizations Directory
• National Directory of NonProfit Organizations
• Ward's Business Directory of U.S. Private & Public Companies
• Brands and Their Companies
• Market Share Reporter
Find out fast who makes Pom Wonderfull, which orange juice has 40% of the market, what web designer firms are in a city, income & assets of an NPO, where a former colleague works now, and more. Select the database(s) you need and browse or 'search within' a set result—for best results use the various precision search fields in Advanced search.
Find the Gale Directory Library on the Research Database list (authorized for Case faculty, students, & staff; remote access requires an activated VPN connection.)
KSL@UCITE--Thurs. Oct 22: Maps, Statistics & More...
If a picture-map is worth a thousand words, data can add thousands more to it! Combine data, statistics, & a map and your project shows relationships spatially so you can better see and analyze the topic. Come to UCITE at Noon this Thursday and learn more about how you can add these layers to your research.
• See what GIS (geographic information systems) technology can bring to your classroom or project in capturing, managing, displaying information relevant to your project map or model so it is described geographically; from KSL's Center for Statistics and Geospatial Data Center.
• Learn how to datamine in ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research)from Thematic Collections (criminal justice, aging, demographics, education, race, terrorism, etc.)or other datasets, peforming online data analysis.
Ann Holstein & Brian Gray will show these services, plus KSL's new Research Guides, the online guides or tutorials for specific subjects, classes, or assignments to help students narrow their resource options to relevant, specific content that is licensed for them by the Case libraries.
Thursday, October 22, Noon-1 pm
Herrick Room (main floor), Allen Memorial Library at Euclid & Adelbert
RSVP for pizza and beverages to ucite at case dot edu
KSL Scholarly Communication Lecture Series Begins Nov. 6
Dr. Tara McPherson (University of Southern California) presents Expanding the Scholarly Imagination: Experiments in the Digital Humanities, in the first event of the KSL Scholarly Communication Lecture Series 2009-10.
The founding editor of Vectors (Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular), Prof. McPherson will discuss the journal's concept, mandates, and innovative design process. She will also discuss a new project funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation and the future growth of digital humanities and academic experiences, learning, and partnerships in such new models of scholarly communication.
Join us at the Kelvin Smith Library 2nd floor O'Neill Reading Room
Friday, November 6, 2009, 12:30-2:00 p.m.
The event is open to all with academic interests.
Take a break from your studies and come to the KSL lobby on Tuesday & Wednesday nights this week, for a USG Mid-Term Study Break! Get a snack, a juicebox, or some treats to keep you going! Chat for a few minutes with your friends and USG representatives.
USG Study Break Table @KSL:
Tuesday, Oct. 13th & Wednesday, Oct. 14th
Main Floor Lobby
9:00 p.m. - Midnight (or until the treats are gone for the night)
Good luck on your exams!
USG Mid-Term Study Break is a pre-approved event in KSL
National Parks, America's Best Idea--Research Spotlight October 2009
Keep America's Best Idea alive, by learning more about our national park system. KSL's Research Spotlight continues the exploration from Ken Burns' latest PBS series.
Replay segments, explore new ones. Meet the people from the series & the park system's history. Use the map in View the Parks and learn how many national parks & national historic sites are in Ohio—including which site is situated on the longest undefended border in the world.
Watch it all again, or view episode clips & features, plus deleted scenes and untold stories about the National Park System, in the October 2009 KSL Research Spotlight!
Enjoy Encyclopedia Britannica online with great new features: Merriam-Webster's collegiate dictionary (tenth edition), Britannica Year in Review from 1993 forward, and a greatly enhanced Encyclopaedia that includes the latest articles not yet in the print Britannica version.
Interactive and graphical, this noted authoritative encyclopedia now adds:
Britannica Daily—Biography of the Day, This Day in History, Britannica Blog
Featured Spotlight—in-depth presentations, plus Spotlight Archive
News—New York Times on the Web, BBCNews
Workspace—create a customized search or project space for articles, images, links, and more
Research Tools are especially enriched: • Video Collection: short & full length videos on many disciplines, people, & events Ex: search Louis Armstrong or Normandy Invasion and select media to hear him play & to see soldiers advancing on France. • Interactive Timelines: 14 topic areas (from the first tools to the modern unmanned spy plane in Technology) • World Data Analyst: current, past, & ranked statistics (top countries on health services expenditures as % of GDP) • Country Comparisons: quick facts & articles about country demographics, culture, history, government & more
Search and Browse by term, the index, by subject and more, and enjoy the newest version of a favorite resource!
Electrical and server maintenance will require downtime for OhioLINK services (book ordering, etc.) & content this Saturday. Work is scheduled from 4 am - 8 pm. in Columbus and electrical work will be dependent on good weather, or else another scheduled maintenance day will occur.
Service to some online content may be possible depending on the server that hosts it—as work progresses you will see content being restored. OhioLINK recogonizes the inconvenience, and every effort will be made to complete the work in one day.
Alexander Street press offers these collections through October 15 via username and password to celebrate the September anniversaries of independence for Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, Chile, and Belize. Explore & enjoy poetry, short stories, memoirs,non-fiction, plays, folk tales, novels, and more:
Latino Literature, extensive collection that includes hundreds of previously unpublished works (English & Spanish) including audio files of poems and plays
Caribbean Literature,
19 & 20th century rare and hard to find works (French, Spanish, Dutch, Creole languages), maps of origin, classic and contemporary works.
Latin American Women Writers, essays & literature from Latin American feminists and revolutionaries, offering a unique glimpse into culture via plays and prose.
Special Trial: GREENR, Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources
Updated throughout the day, GREENR offers energy, environment, resource management & more in a special limited trial for the Case community.
During September Case has a special trial for GREENR, a database of current information that brings together academic journals, statistics, news, magazines, primary resources, reference, maps, case studies, featured video, and more.
• Keep Up with News: browse through ten different Issues and Topic areas such as energy, air & water quality, energy, sustainable environmental issues, science & technology, social factors and others.
• Get Specific: each Topic area has sub-topics for more detailed news & research, bringing together in one site a unique framework of the issues along with business, economic, law, science, and human factors.
• Use Advanced Search: limit your search to a dozen content types, including audio, blog, image, monograph, newsletter, video, and more, plus options for publication type and format.
From Health to Technology to Environment to Energy, GREENR's constantly updated content brings an exciting and different approach to learning. KSL has a short window of opportunity to explore this database, and needs your interest in order to evaluate use and to consider purchase options.
KSL NEEDS YOUR INPUT:
Try GREENR today & share it with your colleagues and students—then send your comments and feedback to Brian C. Gray, bcg8@case.edu, before September 25th!
Real Data in A Virtual World: ICPSR Conference Registration Opens
Real Data in a Virtual World, ICPSR's Biennial Meeting is open to all Case faculty, students, researchers as a virtual online event. Free registration and information recognizes time, travel & budget constraints in 2009, with presentations via live webinars for the October 5-9 conference.
The meeting brings together people from around the world who are interested in the use of social sciences data from ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research). A brief sample of program presentations includes:
• Tools that support data analysis
• American national election studies
• Longitudinal study of adolescent health
• Using data in teaching
• Web 2.0 tools (ZeeMap,Swivel) for data visualization & mapping
Registration is free—for more details, visit the meeting site. For more information on what ICPSR data can bring to your research, contact Case's ICPSR Official Representative, KSL's Ann Holstein.
From your library card to your journal or book, or finding out how a few keystrokes can bring you a book from another library in about 3 days, we can help you with some of the getting-started answers.
Each month KSL has a page for a Research Spotlight—this month we welcome you to Case (or back to campus) with the best tips to get you started at KSL! Enjoy the KSL September Research Spotlight, and watch for a new one each month.
News from 1,000 places, online in one database the minute the newspapers go to press around the world. When world events happen, you can see how the world reports them...or not.
Use PressDisplay to read from 39 languages or study the news from over 80 countries. A dynamic opening page displays a crawling header of the newspapers...click on any of them to read, or use the "Select" icon at the top to choose a title by name, country, or language.
Choose a paper and when it opens to a full-page view, chose the "View all thumbnails" to scan the entire paper for items/images of interest. Or, just click the corners & turn the pages so you can read the news or do the crossword puzzles.
Miss one day of a U.S. or international newspaper? Catch up on what you missed—search by day, 3 days, or a month or two. Planning a trip? Read the local paper for a week or so before you go.
Catch up on news, practice a language, see the world in pictures, with PressDisplay!
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