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.
Service Change: Case Libraries' System Upgrade Jan. 9
The Case Libraries' system & Catalog will be offline for system upgrades on Wednesday January 9.
Services NOT available, approximately 9 am - 5 pm:
- OhioLINK requesting
- Case Catalog (includes renewals, booking, checkin, your library account)
- KSL SelfCheckout
Find Case item call numbers on the OhioLINK Central Catalog by searching the item, author, subject, etc., you need:
- Search the term
- After the results display, choose the "Limit/Sort" button
- Choose "Where the item is located" & then select Case Western Reserve University
- View the display to find the Case call number & owning library
- Go to the Case library that has the item and retrieve it by number.
Circulation will be slightly modified during the upgrade, and KSL will check out items to a local file and upload the data when the system is online again. As always, your Case ID card is required for circulation transactions at all times.
Renewals can be accomplished online later in the day via "View your library account" on the Case Catalog. Returns & Checkins (items returned during the day) will be done appropriately after the upgrade is completed.
Kelvin Smith Library hours change for the holidays, beginning on the last day of finals. Always "open" online, KSL offers you access to over 300 databases and 35,000 journals, 20,000 e-books, and more, all easily accessible through an active VPN connection!
December-early January Hours take a short break (24x7 takes a break, too), & KSL opens one hour later, at 9:00 a.m. weekdays. The university & the library are closed for the Christmas and New Year's Day holiday weekends:
- Wed., Dec. 19: close 5:30 p.m.
- Thurs. & Fri., Dec. 20, 21: open 9:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
- Sat., Sun, Mon., Tues., Dec. 22,23,24,25: Closed
- Wed.-Fri., Dec. 26-28: 9:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
- Sat., Sun., Mon., Tues., Dec. 29,30, 31, Jan.1: Closed
Interim Hours with evening access are in effect from Wednesday, January 2 until the semester begins on Monday, January 14th. 24x7 will return after the MLK holiday, which this year occurs one week after the semester begins. More details on hours are always available from the via a QuickLink from the KSL homepage, or on the Hours Hotline at 216-368-6500.
Your Case ID Works for You When You Travel Across the State
Your Case ID card is your library card at home, and away. You can use it on campus at any of the Case Libraries, but did you know you can use it in Dayton, or Toledo, or at 87 institutions from Antioch to Zane State College?
When you travel around Ohio, you can go in and browse other OhioLINK member libraries and check out materials if you have 1) your Case ID and 2) a Case library account in good standing. Simply present your ID card to library staff at the other library to borrow materials onsite, without having to wait for delivery to campus. Or, if you're at Case and find an item at an OhioLINK library within driving distance and you can't wait the 3-4 days for it to be delivered from an online request, drive to the library and check it out during their regular business hours.
Find NE Ohio libraries (or any other region that you may be near) by clicking on the section of the Ohio map image that is on the list of members page. (The OhioLINK members list is found from a link on the OhioLINK homepage, and will have a link for the local library catalog and library—good for checking their hours!) NE Ohio has 38 other schools where your Case ID will work for you. With over 140 individual libraries in OhioLINK from which to checkout materials, the riches of Ohio are always at your fingertips!
Details about your library account are not visible to other libraries, so check your account before you visit another OhioLINK library—if you have billed items or fines @$15, your account is blocked (for Case, OhioLINK, and ILLiad privileges) and the other library staff will be unable to help you checkout materials. Find your account on the Case Catalog, under "View Your Library Record." Create your own PIN to manage your library account and renewals so you always know the status of your account!
As mid-term exams conclude today and everyone takes a break, KSL modifies its hours slightly & 24x7 takes a Fall Break, too!
We're still open 7 days a week, just slightly shorter hours, beginning when classes end on Friday 19th:
- Weekend: KSL closes earlier on Friday & Saturday; Regular Business Hours on Sunday
- Monday & Tuesday: KSL opens an hour later at 9 a.m., and stays open until 8:30 p.m.
- Wednesday: Regular Business Hours resume until Midnight; then 24x7 returns (and remains in effect until the Thanksgiving holiday break)
For all details about hours, evening access, 24x7, and exceptions for holidays & breaks, check the convenient mainpage link on the KSL homepage for "Today's KSL Hours." Also, other KSL site pages always have a top-left-of-the-page link for "Today's KSL Desk Hours" so you know when you can talk with library staff members.
