• 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!

The Cleveland Public Library card gives you privileges to this CPL collection (KSL can issue the card to current faculty, students, & staff) and provides a wide variety of authors and topics like:

...John Grisham, or Jimmmy Carter reading his A Remarkable Mother. Try Daniel Coleman's Social Intelligence or popular novelists such as Danielle Steele or Maeve Binchy. Listen to Nancy Pelosi read Know Your Power. Try a few new recipes, exercises, meal plans and more with Randy Jackson's Body and Soul.

More details about privileges and the CPL@Case-KSL service, and the special site for sesarching the collection online.

Find the CPL@Case-KSL collection on the main floor of the Kelvin Smith Library, nearest Thwing Center. Look for the banners—and while you're there, browse the fiction books, too, for fun, self-help, fiction and more. From Novels to Newt (Gingrinch, in the CPL@Case-KSL collection!

Enrolled or employed at Case & have a network ID/password? Use it on the left side of the logon screen. You can login only on one side—if you're an affiliate or a guest, continue to use your Case Account Number & Library PIN, on the right side.

PINs Are Still Valuable!
PINs remain in your library account if you entered one. If you're traveling & need remote access to OhioLINK-only content, PIN gives you 2 hours of software-free, easy electronic access to the OhioLINK journals & databases. (Start from the OhioLINK page and follow the prompts to identify yourself.) Use PIN authentication from anywhere you have an internet connection!

Tip: Get 100% of the content that Case & OhioLINK purchase for you by using VPN. (PIN only authenticates OhioLINK content.)

Whenever you're asked for your Case Account Number, you'll see a url to look it up with your network ID. Call KSL's Main Service Desk 368-3506 if you've forgotten your library PIN—staff will delete it for you so you can login & create one today.

• ELectronic Theses & Dissertations
• List of OhioLINK Databases
• EJournal Finder
• MyEJC
• Member library contact information
• OLinks, OhioLINK's linking service from other sites & products to a source
• EZProxy, for remote access to content not hosted at OhioLINK. Ex: OhioLINK hosts the EJC so you will be able to access it, but EBSCO databases will not be available through remote EXProxy.

All services and content will be operational again after this brief maintenance.

Reading just these titles would take you to poet laureates, mass media culture, journalistic history, historical and mystery fiction, diaries of a comedy troupe, and Amazon River travel. More awaits you in KSL's collections—try a new subject today!

Also remember to browse through CPL@Case-KSL, the Cleveland Public Library collection of audio books, Playaways, CD books, novels, magazines, and foreign language magazines at Kelvin Smith Library. Browse the titles on the special web catalog created for this KSL-only collection.

Read more details on borrowing privileges & library cards for CPL@Case-KSL materials.

Summer Reading...millions of things await you, at KSL!

• Find any day's hours: See the icon for "Today's Desk Hours" on the KSL homepage,(upper right corner)
• Entire summer's hours: Click on the icon for "Today's Desk Hours"
• See convenient phone numbers for many library services, important information about evening access, exceptions to regular hours, & more when you click on "Today's Desk Hours"

KSL keeps the summer hours throughout the month of August although the last summer session ends on Thursday, July 31. Summer hours are in effect until fall semester begins on Monday, August 24th. We'll see you soon!

The interruptions will be brief—both services are expected to be back online for you by 1:00 a.m. May 29.

Kelvin Smith Library is pleased to be a stop on the Hunt, and is ready for several dozen of the newest engineering & management masters students as they complete their Scavenger Hunt. They'll notice that KSL has great spaces, services, and staff to help them find research clues in the quest for academic success, too!

MEM is a program in the Institute for Management and Engineering (TiME), a joint effort of the Case School of Engineering and the Weatherhead School of Management.

Just look for the small icon on the top right of the page when you display a book's record. If you see the small open book & "Google Preview" you'll find the full Google Preview Reader at the bottom of the record.

Development of Emotions and Emotion Regulation:an internalization model, Kluwer International Series in Outreach Scholarship (2006) now looks like this, with the small book icon on the upper right:

Save time—read more!

Always get a quick look at "Today's Desk Hours" with the icon on our homepage in the upper right corner. It indicates when you can get assistance from library staff, take care of business transactions, and more:

Full semester hours & often-used library services phone numbers are also included on the Hours page—just click on the "Today's Desk Hours" icon, to see more hours and information!

• 10 years of service for (left to right) Ella Shurr Library Assistant/Acquisitions; Janet Klein, Main Service Desk Supervisor; and Dr. Joanne Eustis, University Librarian.

• 25 years of service for Sharlane Gubkin, Head of Preservation Librarian; Gina Midlik, Project Manager; Helen Conger, Archivist, and Earnestine Adeyemon, Electronic Services Librarian. (not pictured)

• New graduates were also recognized: Shu Guo (MLIS), Science Librarian; Jin Zhang (MBA), Analyst Programmer; and Cheryl Seme (MLIS) Library Assistant in Public Services.

In celebrating these long-term and newest graduates in the information industry, Kelvin Smith Library is appreciative of their dedication to learning, customer services, technology initiatives & licensing, preservation of current & historical collections, new projects and directions, growth of the research collections, research expertise, leadership & innovation, and much more!

KSL thanks all these individuals for their dedication and inspiration!

•Find out how long they've been around & how they've gained respect and popularity.
•Read more about the artists & authors, find a list of graphic novels to explore.
•Use Case databases to learn more about graphic novels.

More than an art form, more than a novel, they comprise a genre that has grown out of the comics culture of the 60s, and include the popular Japanese manga. Try out several,in the May 2009 KSL Research Spotlight.

The race began as the team walked the KSL Banner around the track for the first 3 laps, on Friday night April 17th:

Long into the night, team members, family, and friends walked. Two team members ran in the early morning hours, & one team member ran almost 18 miles!

They all participated in a collaborative effort to raise awareness and funds for cancer research, and team members are listed on the Team KSL page. See them in action in this movie, a quick video of day/night team & event photos created by team captain Brian Gray.

Thanks to all who walked, ran, cheered, and supported Team KSL and friends in the race against cancer.

Sampling of lecturers & their research in the digital landscape:
• searching, manipulating, sharing digital research in the humanities
• preserving, defining digital collections (hypertext, digital edition, online project, etc.)
• projects like Zotero, Whitman Archives, Mutable Cloud, Virtual Vaudeville, & more
• intellectual property & copyright of digital projects, new forms of collaboration in scholarly communication

High Quality Video Presentations
The Digital Library Lecture Series Online 2006-09 lectures are taped, and all lectures include program information & biographies. Enjoy them for the first time or study them again, and watch for the fall announcement of the 2009-2010 Kelvin Smith Library Digital Library Lecture Series!

The KSL Digital Library Lecture series is free of charge to the Case Western Reserve University community and to the Ohio academic and library communities, and is generously funded by the Mario M. Morino Fund for the Innovation and Application of Advanced Information Technologies and the David R. Bender Endowment Fund for Library Staff Development. The 2008-09 series was co-sponsored by the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities.

• In the EPA Timeline, you can see events like the 1972 US/Canadian agreement to clean up the Great Lakes (with 95% of America's fresh water supply for 25 million people) or how EnergyStar helped Americans save $16 billion on their energy bills in 2007.

• Watch videos, see photos, listen to podcasts from the Research Spotlight sites gathered for you, and plan now for the 40th anniversary of Earth Day in 2010.

• Then discover more about the green economy and our sustainable future by doing research on the environment databases listed in the April 2009 KSL Research Spotlight!

Access to the Case databases requires a Case network ID logon or (remote access) an activated VPN connection.