Now when you find a KSL item at our nearby facility on Cedar Avenue or at Iron Mountain, you can order it directly from the Case Catalog!
Look for the new "Request This Item" icon whenever you find a KSL item from our collections at RRCC (Retrospective Research Collections Center) or from Iron Mountain. KSL Retrieval Service brings you books, journals, reports, theses, government documents, as well as known articles from journals:
• Search an item & display the item's specific catalog record
• Click on the icon "Request This Item"
• Item information auto-fills a request form
• Add in your name, etc. (and page numbers if appropriate)
• Submit the form & get an emailed copy for your records
Track book requests on your Case Library Account—when books arrive back at KSL, you'll see a status of Ready for pickup & get a courtesy email alert.
Read more details about retrieval service & policies from these collections at RRCC & Iron Mountain.
Example of the "Request" icon, plus a Google Book Preview for this title:
Take time to learn something new in a free class through CaseLearns. Take the mystery out of new tools or research topics of interest, and add to your portfolio of skills.
Browse the summer calendar to brush up on a skill or learn a new one, then continue in the fall—classes vary from an hour to several hours, as needed. Here's a few upcoming classes:
• Mon., June 29: Learn more about text encoding in the humanities, using standards-based methods to present digital texts for research & teaching...
• Wed., July 1: Find out how to set up an online meeting with an intro level class on using Adobe Connect (software available to Case individuals). Set up a meeting & use many of the features and online tools to boost your productivity & efficiency...
• Tues., July 7: Spend 1 hour & learn how to manage information with RSS feeds! Hear more about what it is, how to use it, then maximize your information, learning & your time...
Summer school can be fun, free, and productive, when it's CaseLearns—logon today to pre-register for a class!
Now you can have shorter catalog urls that will always work! If you've ever tried to copy & paste a 3-line catalog url and worried that it might fail, you'll enjoy the newest feature on both the Case Catalog & OhioLINK Central Catalog. Instead of a 3 line address, the url is likely to be 3x shorter:
- Search a catalog record you want to save, send, or reuse later.
- Click on the title & scroll down to see all details (series, subject terms, call numbers, ISBN, etc.)
- *Find the "Persistent link to this title" url: Case Catalog—on the left side under the title/publication line; OhioLINK Catalog—at the bottom-left of the record's details.
So, instead of trying to share a catalog search record like this:
http://olc1.ohiolink.edu/search~S0?/dappreciative+inquiry/dappreciative+inquiry/1%2C1%2C5%2CB/frameset&FF=dappreciative+inquiry&5%2C%2C5
...just click "Peristent link" to share with friends & students a short, always dependable url in emails, handouts, library reserves, etc: http://olc1.ohiolink.edu/record=b26138623~S0
Put a book in your pocket and listen to it! The Playaway®, the first pre-loaded, portable, digital book is now part of the CPL@Case-KSL Collection. The Cleveland Public Library popular browsing collection adds Playaways to the book, audio-book, magazine and foreign language items that CPL brings to KSL for Case faculty, students, & staff to borrow.
Smaller than a deck of cards, a Playaway only needs earphones and a battery (we'll even give you the battery.) Listen to The Da Vinci Code if you haven't read it yet, or enjoy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Hoot, or even Beowulf. Classics, science-fiction-satire, fun, history & more arrive at KSL every 2 weeks, bringing current bestsellers and popular literature to campus. Check out a Playaway, and listen to a book in a new way!
Also enjoy Playaway titles by Jack Welch, Bill O'Reilly, Al Franken, John Grisham & many more.
Find the Playaway digital books near the CPL@Case-KSL collection & CPL selfcheckout computer. Use your CPL or Greater Access card—library staff can verify your card's status and/or sign up Case faculty, staff & students for a CPL card. (Friends & family members can sign up for CPL cards at CPL branches.) More CPL details & policies for the CPL@Case-KSL collection & cards.
No earphones? Purchase a pair for $3 from the staff at the KSL Main Service Desk.
Take advantage of a slower summer schedule, with a free CaseLearns class! Learn a new skill or continue to build your skills with with basic, intermediate, and advanced classes. Browse or search the summer schedule, or print your own PDF copy—and look for the new classes, too!
CaseLearns tempts you with a variety of classes, so you can:
- find out how to get the most out of scholarly databases & journals
- learn how to set up RSS feeds for information alerts
- explore all the Microsoft Office applications
- create web pages with Dreamweaver, or learn HTML code
- search patents on a new field
- try out Adobe Connect, new conferencing software, plus other new classes
Try some popular magazines, books, and audio books from the Cleveland Public Library browsing collection—right here in KSL! CPL partners with KSL to bring a convenient site collection of popular reading materials to everyone who enrolled at Case.
With spring semester over, there's more time for biographies of Jimmy Stewart, Condoleeza Rice, Peter Jennings, Ingrid Bergman, or the new autobiography by Eric Clapton.
Try some fiction with Alan Alda's Things I learned While Talking to Myself, or walk in a Renoir-like world with Vreeland's Luncheon of the Boating Party. Try current affairs or politics with Bill Bradley's The New American Story, or Ung's The Fall of the House of Bush.
From heart healthy books to exercise, from Alan Greenspan to Suze Orman, check out these books, audio books & more at KSL!
Use your Greater Access or CPL card to borrow these books at the CPL self-checkout machine (around the corner from the CPL@Case-KSL collection) on the main floor. Or, if you are enrolled or employed at Case, KSL staff can enter you in CPL's system and issue you a CPL card to use. KSL staff can also logon to the CPL system and check out materials to you.
Now you can catch up on the news from your home country, read timely coverage of world events—or brush up on your language skills, with the new International News Commons (INC) resources at KSL!
Stop in KSL's Lower Level if you love international news, and visit the INC. You'll find:
- 30 international newspapers printed in KSL on the publication date (no waiting for delivery via courier service!)
- 9 other international titles from traditional subscriptions
- SCOLA TV showing 24x7 international news on a large plasma screen
- SCOLA schedules (posted by the plasma screen & on the KSL International News Commons webpage)
- comfortable, varied lounge furniture—booths & tables, tall cafe tables & chairs, movable seats with arm-rest-tables
The Kelvin Smith Library Lower Level also has vending machines so you can get a cup of coffee, tea, or cocoa to go along with your paper. Vending machines also offer bottled beverages & snacks.
Whether you enjoy seeing or reading the news, or would like to share language interests with others (perhaps at the same time also polishing your verbal skills in other languages), make the KSL Lower Level International News Commons your next destination!
Sign up for a new KSL CaseLearns class and learn how to find measures & assessment tools for your research.
These instruments are often difficult to identify and locate— this class will help you learn:
- how to find published & unpublished measures
- which database is best for searching for them
- how to use other library resources to identify & find the instruments.
Sign up online at CaseLearns, where you can browse the schedule by the online calendar and
- Take free classes in a variety of topics, including the Sunday series & Saturday classes (check out the one on 3/22/08 to get the most out of the electronic resources at Case!
- Check the Attendance Policy for important details on attendance & cancellation
- Print your copy of the spring schedule (pdf.)
Upcoming classes for each week are featured on right side of the Kelvin Smith Library homepage—helpful when you have some last-minute free time!
Ohio Tax forms (plus the EZ1040) for 2007 fillings are now available right inside the Kelvin Smith Library lobby. Find them on top of the display bins that have official campus & UCI publications.
Paper tax forms are on the decline, so KSL's Government Documents Department provides links to convenient online tax forms:
- federal
- municipal (local and throughout Ohio)
- international
- local public organizations that still receive the paper forms.
While you're printing your online tax form, take a look at other interesting links on the Government Documents page like Tax Stats (data, tables, articles, information about the U.S. tax system), and helpful 1-800 phone numbers for all your questions!
KSL Co-Sponsors Alice Randall for High School Students on Feb. 7
KSL Community Outreach Services invites 60+ high school students to meet Alice Randall for a discussion, book signing & photographs, as part of the February Case Ethnic Studies Program.
KSL will provide copies of The Wind Done Gone, a parody of Gone with the Wind. The program moderator will be Dr. Gilbert Doho, Director of the Ethnic Studies Program. KSL welcomes these high school students on Thursday, February 7, at 3:00-3:45 p.m. in the library's Dampeer Room.
Case welcomes the community to other public Ethnic Studies Events during the week, including a joint presentation between Alice Randall and Preston King later in the afternoon on February 7th, 4:30 p.m. in the Thwing Center Ballroom, 11111 Euclid Avenue.
Research Survival: Navigating Electronic Information Resources Class
Plan ahead/get ahead on your research—take the 2/6 class & learn how to effectively get and use the information you need!
Mark your calendar and sign up online for the CaseLearns class on Wednesday, February 6, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. Learn how to find the format you need and the strategy to get you there. Whether it's finding a newspaper, current trade literature, or a scholarly journal, this class will give you the academic edge!
Sign up on the CaseLearns website on the KSL homepage, and read the details on class attendance.
The current Special Exhibit is a photo-biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. with treasures like "Letter from Birmingham Jail," text of his Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, from December 1964, and much more!
Letter from Birmingham Jail is one of only 600 copies, and is the *only copy in an Ohio library. Stop by the 3 exhibit cases on the main floor as you enter the Kelvin Smith Library, and see what else awaits you. Enjoy the exhibit through January & February. While KSL's copies are on exhibit & temporarily unavailable for borrowing, you can request other copies from the OhioLINK Central Catalog.
Search the Case Catalog [Author / King Martin Luther Jr] to find audio, video, books, plus digital audio & video files of his works. Browse results from a Subject search for topics like Assassination, Monuments, Philosophy, Quotations, and more.
*Letter from Birmingham Jail, OCLC Accession # 16780034 [WorldCat database]
Take A Free CaseLearns' Class from Spring Schedule!
CaseLearns Spring Classes are here: Learn to search smarter, or about RSS. Improve your digital photo techniques, or discover the world of patent searching...you can do all of that and more, in free CaseLearns classes.
What interests you? CaseLearns has a variety of learning opportunities & times to get you started. Classes are:
- 1 hour or several hours short
- offered throughout the weekday, with some late afternoon classes
- also on Saturday morning & Sunday afternoon
- also in the Freedman Center Sunday Series: digital images & video, PowerPoint, Pachyderm
CaseLearns: Read the attendance policies & class details and sign up online! Boost your work performance with Microsoft Office applications. Enhance your research skills with RefWorks, Copyright, or Medline, and more!
New Feature: The right-side column on the new KSL homepage always displays the next 4 classes, right on the homepage!
Spring Semester is back and KSL begins 7-day-a-week hours again on Monday 14th. The library opens early at 8 and has Regular Business Hours with library staff until midnight, 5 days a week.
See More with a New Feature, on the New KSL homepage:
Check out the Clock in the upper right corner of the page.
- It says "Today's Desk Hours" and lists the current day's hours...
- Click image block and you can see the entire semester's hours!
24x7 service begins after one more long weekend—the University & Library are closed on Martin Luther King (MLK) Holiday, 1/21.
- As Regular Business Hours end Tues. night Jan. 22, 24x7 resumes at 12:01 a.m.
- Click on the Clock (see above) to see more details about KSL Hours, including 24x7 & evening access.
The Freedman Center will be closed on Wednesday January 9th for system upgrades and file maintenance.
There is still time to work on your projects during Interim Hours and before the Spring Semester begins again! KSL and the Freedman Center are open Mon.-Thurs. 9-8:30 p.m. and Fri.-Sat. 9-5:30 pm (closed Sundays during Interim). Hours are always conveniently available from the KSL homepage.
