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- Get full-page value-added information on a title: Path to Power, Robert Caro's first volume about LBJ, includes cover art, synopsis, & reviews of the National Book Critics Circle Award winner of 1982...
- Browse fiction, non-fiction, sci-fi, mystery and click through to the Case Catalog (and then to OhioLINK, too) to find copies.
- Browse nearly 100 subject categories like Consumer Behavior, Negotiating, Workplace Culture & find details in a category (in Travel, read about countries & continents, Cruises, Essays & Travelogues, Maps & Atlases, Parks, Restaurants & more.)

Go Back In Time—What's Your Favorite Year? (1895-2006)
Use PatronBooksInPrint database to profile a year—lists of the 10 fiction & non-fiction books, plus commentary in The Year At a Glance... where you'll find Jonathan Livingston Seagull, a new Dow Jones high, ragtime revival, and Vietnam troops coming home (1973). Try your favorite year in PatronBooksInPrint, the May KSL Research Spotlight!

Available to you through BooksInPrint, from the database list.
(VPN activation & Case ID/password authentication required.)

Ebooks linked next to Case Software Center products is a great idea sent to us by a faculty member. We liked it so much, it became a KSL/Case IT collaboration to bring the information you need to where you need it most!

Example: Click to download Adobe Indesign for Macintosh & you'll see the Safari Books Online logo and a link to go to manuals for the application—you don't even have to search for them!

You'll find an Overview, Editorial Reviews & Book Descriptions, and options to "Start Reading Online." Safari Books Online is always available from the Research Tools-->Database list from the KSL homepage. Use it to search thousands of books, with a convenient search box & Browse Category section to narrow your search. Try RSS alerts and get the newest title when it loads!

An activated VPN authentication is required for wireless or remote access. You should be able to click through to the texts, but if the page asks for a login, click the "academic license" link on the right side of the page. Then just click through to see titles that match the downloaded product from the Software Center.

Seating is limited, please RSVP to ksl-admin@case.edu or 368-2992
Thursday, April 24, Kelvin Smith Library
Lunch with RSVP, 11:15-11:45 am in Dampeer Room, 2nd floor
Workshop with RSVP, 11:45-1:15 pm, Classroom 215

PressDisplay database is an exceptionally rich resource that complements the new International News Commons on KSL's Lower Level, where you'll find SCOLA TV & several dozen daily international papers.

Find PressDisplay on the Research Database list, where it is licensed for Case individuals; an activated VPN logon is required for use.

Images are copyrighted by the MPTV, and the Film Image Collection is owned by EBSCO publishing. Images are for internal and personal use only, no publication allowed—hence, no images are embedded in this blog, but from the fabulous Salome to a 1920s Swanson signing her contract, you'll enjoy this database and its image function!

Tips: Sign in on the database to create a personal folder, and "add" items to it so you can save the ones you'd like to see later. Ignore the "find it" icon, since there is no accompanying text.

Find Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text on the Database list from the KSL homepage and/or from the Case Catalog. Use the database by logging on to your VPN to activate it, or use your Library PIN to authenticate as an OhioLINK user.

Kelvin Smith Library's Ann Vanderschrier & Brian Gray featured many products & services, showing papers from the International News Commons:

Hopeful people at the KSL booth advance to the microphones to hear about podcasting & the Freedman Center Premium Services raffle & prize:

Tom Hayes explains the Freedman Center's hallmark phrase:

about creating effective multimedia learning tools:

Pocket Virtual Worlds creator Jared Bendis demonstrating the 3-D approach to filming the dance, where the Mather Building becomes the dance:

At a library conference in California this month, George Oates from Flickr talked about the pilot project & how the Library of Congress wanted to increase access to their public collections and to provide a way for the general public to contribute to knowledge. She reminded attendees that Flickr's community actions "can gather context and bring it back to the catalog" saying that "librarians have a long history of asking patrons" and that Flickr tags can add context to the knowledge that is already present in catalogs.

Only a single "tag" (Library of Congress) was added to each photo, and Oates and LOC staff were interested in how the community would react—and contribute. She showed time-stamped screenshots:
- in the 1st hour, the primary tag display was still "Library of Congress"...
- within 24 hours, 11,000 tags had been added...
- within 48 hours, 20,000 tags had been added
"Tags & comments increase the scale of feedback a library can get," said Oates, and LOC staff increased access & service due to an early tag when LOC staffers were able to reply to a comment with "we also have a film on that." Read more about "My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven," on the Library of Congress' blog.

Oates said that Flickr's next image projects are a current one with the Powerhouse Museum in Syndey, Australia and "we're also talking with the New York Public Library, and with Brewster Kale (The Internet Archive)."

2008 Event Program & floor maps make it easy to see what's new this year—take a look at a few of last year's KSL Research ShowCASE '07 photos with reference, GIS, and Freedman Center staff:

Research ShowCASE (April 16-17) highlights creativity, collaboration, and innovation of Case Western Reserve University, and is made possible by a grant from the Ohio State Board of Regents & generous sponsors.

Search & use the Who Speaks for the Negro? Archive by Keyword, Interviewee, or Name/Subject:
- Browse a Subject List for interviews about Freedom Rides, Fisk University, Liberalism, School Integration, Sit-ins, & more.
- Find interviews about presidents (Thomas Jefferson, LBJ, JFK, & Abraham Lincoln)
- Listen to interviews with Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Search topics like African American Leadership, education, employment—find Cleveland Ohio in 12 of the interview files.

In the site's Remembrances by Rosanna Warren (now a professor at Boston University) one reads of her family life with guests like Stokely Carmichael and Malcom X and of her father's travels, "a deep inner exploration for a white Southerner...as well as an outer exploration in which so many people struggled and still struggle to bring justice into reality."

- Andre Derain, An Outsider in French Art
- Advanced Vibration Analysis
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Inside Intuition
- Kennedy in Berlin
- Polymer Foams Handbook
- Reclaiming the Media
- Screening Modernism: European Art Cinema
- Violent Femmes: Women as Spies in Popular Culture

Of course, you can always check out books from the New Books shelves, and browsing is welcome!

If you use an RSS reader, you can get also news about recently added titles in your subject area—or get updates & news from the KSL News Blog, Reference Blog, and more. Just subscribe wherever you see the images:
or

This new database offers a rich experience of history, biographies, encyclopedia to multi-volume sets like Africana, with:
- text
- images
- maps & vital statistics
- multimedia
- charts & tables
- timelines
- primary sources, and more.

Example: Timelines has sections for Women's History, Business & Labor, Sports, Military History, Literature, General, and more—select & search by years, decades, or centuries! Features (under Learning Center) has an array of research topics from Hip Hop to Kwanzaa, or Jazz Greats to Jim Crow Justice.

The KSL Research Spotlight is always easy to find from the KSL homepage:
Use the left sidebar for Research Tools; mouseover it to find online resources like the Research Spotlight (plus the database list, ejournal list, ebooks & more.)

Research Databases require a network computer connection (on campus) or
VPN that is logged on with your Case network ID & password if you are on wireless or off-campus.

Searching EEBO just got easier—enroll in a free lunch/workshop at KSL:
April 10th, 11:15-11:45 a.m.
KSL Dampeer Room, 2nd floor
Hands-on Workshop 11:45-1:15 with database representative.

NOTE: RSVPs are essential. Case faculty, students, & staff can RSVP to KSL administration, or call 68-2992.
Print a workshop flier to remind yourself, your department, or your study group about this opportunity!

EEBO is a database licensed for Case faculty, students, and staff on campus network connections, or with a logged-on Case VPN access (wireless or remote connections.)

RefWorks Fundamentals:
A good intro or refresher—75 minutes on creating an account, importing, organizing your account, generating a bibliography.
- Tuesday, April 1, 10:00 am
- Wednesday, April 9, 1:30 pm
- Thursday, April 17, 1:00 pm
- Thursday, April 24, 10:00 am

RefWorks Advanced Features:
After you're familiar with the basics, learn how to edit multiple references, set preferences for view/print/sort, manage your list, use RefGrab-it, work offline & more. Prior RefWorks skills & experience required, to get the most out of this session.
- Wednesday, April 2, 1:00 pm
- Thursday, April 10, 10:00 am
- Tuesday, April 15, 10:00 am
- Thursday, April 24, 10:00 am

RefWorks Login & Tutorials are linked from the Case Research Database list pages. Watch the introductory online tutorial anytime for a quick, easy, and fun way to start!

Using RefWorks requires you to be logged in via an active VPN session with your Case network ID/password.

For instance, you could:
- Tag items you've had a hard time finding
- Find things easier, with a 'discovery layer' on top of the catalog structure
- See a 'cloud tag' of suggested good terms to search with, instead of trying to figure them out yourself
- Read & write reviews on catalog items, like "useful for SAGES XXXX"

KSL had LunchTalks last year & used student input for the recent KSL homepage redesign. We're using the same method to redesign your research catalog. We're ordering lunch from Quizno's, so we need your RSVP so we can order enough food!

Come for lunch, we want to hear what you'd like to see when you search a catalog. RSVP and help make a difference!


Thursday, March 27, 2008
Noon-1:15 p.m.....
KSL Dampeer Room, 2nd floor. Limited seating. RSVP Required.
RSVP to smithcontact@case.edu & tell us if you'd like a vegetarian option.

Example, cloud tag (See the 'best' search results):

Comments will be gathered from staff, faculty, and librarians in other sessions.

The new OhioLINK homepage is streamlined, and still gives you quick links to the Electronic Journal Center (EJC), databases, dissertations, ebooks, and more. In the top center of the page you can do a QuickSearch across several databases or just do a search for books or media, etc.

Use the Case eJournal Portal whenever you need an online journal article, keeping in mind that the print versions (older or very recent) might still be available in print at any of the Case Libraries. Do a Case Catalog search for your journal, to check for print copies. Online access requires authentication via VPN or Library PIN.