If you missed the workshop or want to learn more about what was highlighted at it, look through the classes and one-to-one sessions offered for graduate students through CaseLearns Spring 2010. Classes are offered either in KSL or HCL, & several can be brought to your department or group. Highlighted at the graduate workshop and also in the CaseLearns brochure:

• Copyright Demystified: basic rights of authors, what can be used in your work, permissions guidelines
• Author's Rights: new models to negotiate rights or choose journals; facilitate journal + dissertation publishing at the same time
• Advanced content & search: techniques in many disciplines, science, patents, Medline, humanities & more
• Tools: organize & manage your work with classes for SPSS to Refworks, Reference Manager, Zotero and others
• Multimedia: enhance your dissertation & the user experience when it is published with digital audio & video recording/editing
• MS Word for Submitting your Thesis/Dissertation: features to help you us styles to easily format, create automatic table of contents, & more. 3 hour class.
• Dissertation Appointments: 30-60' individual sessions for Q&A related to formatting your document, whether you have just begun or are nearing completion

Plan ahead and get ahead, with a CaseLearns class that helps you throughout the research and publication process!

January '10 Is There A Ph.D. In Your Future? Workshop & gift certificate winners

Each month, Kelvin Smith Library creates a research theme and gathers collections & resources to highlight events, people, or outstanding resources offered by the Case libraries. Research Spotlights bring you things not on your class schedule, and can add value to your research or lifelong learning. Spotlight collections are carefully chosen for their authority, depth of coverage, uniqueness, and items of interest in today's world.

If you missed them in 2009, you missed spotlights on National Parks (Oct.), Honey Bee Mystery (July), Graphic Novels (May), and free access (through March 2010) to Biography Reference Center database (December).

Watch for KSL Research Spotlights—highlight some new learning with one, each month!

Find the monthly KSL Research Spotlights:
- in KSL NewsBlog (bottom center of the KSL homepage)
- in the Research Tools folder (upper left of the homepage)

Prester and Gloria Lee Pickett have performed in the U.S. & Europe, and they bring history to life with their performances as Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahalia Jackson. Pickett-Line Productions is a Cleveland company specializing in "edutainment" to advance cultural and institutional goals.

A light lunch is provided—questions or rsvp are welcome: Susie Hanson (368-0189) or Earnestine Adeyemon (368-4248).

Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Noon-1:30 p.m.
Dampeer Room, 2nd floor, Kelvin Smith Library

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Visitor information and directions to KSL.

— Biographies
— Primary resources from institutes & research centers
— Selected journal articles
— Selected books, ebooks, DVDs, online film (Films for the Humanities & Sciences*)

These book and journal selections offer a wide array of topics to expand your knowledge. You'll see subject terms for African-Americans & mass media, civil rights (history and movements), U.S. race relations, African-American men in art, U.S. ethnic relations, and more, for continued research results.

Visit the Special Collections Department on the 2nd floor in the Kelvin Smith Library to see King's Letter from Birmingham Jail, one of only 600 copies and the only one in OhioLINK.

*Films for the Humanities & Sciences: in OhioLINK Digital Media Center, (Educational Films & Documentaries section)

Science Librarian Shu Guo leads one of the four sessions on finding specialized library content & services.

Gift certificate winners were Imre Treufeld (Chemistry), Kadhir Sanmuganathan (Engineering), Bibi Potts (WSOM) and Paul Bakaki (Epidemiology & Biostatistics).

From copyright Q&A to dissertation process expectations to what's expected of postdocs during the subsequent 10 years and beyond, the presenters offered valuable and practical insights on the experience, career potential, research ethics, and personal reflections.

As students concluded with "thank you, I did not know these things," and "I'm going to right back and try these dissertation searches," "I've been using the same 2 databases for years, thanks for showing me more!" to arranging for department seminars with librarians, it was a highly productive day. Sign up for a free CaseLearns class on many of the library research & publication topics, and watch for the workshop to repeat next year...

January Interim 1/4-1/10:
• Sunday: closed
• Monday-Thursday: 9 am -8:30 pm
• Friday: 9 am - 8 pm
• Saturday: 9 am - 5:30 pm

Regular Semester Hours will be back on Monday, January 11, when KSL opens at 8 am and has Regular Business Hours until Midnight (M-Thu).

NOTE: 24x7 will resume after the MLK Holiday on the 18th. At the close of Regular Business Hours on Tuesday night 19th at midnight, 24x7 will be back for your convenience!

December, Holiday, Winter Break Hours:
• Kelvin Smith Library
• Kulas Music Library
• Health Center Library & Allen Library
• Judge Ben C. Green Law Library
• Harris MSASS Library
• Cleveland Institute of Art Gund Library
• Cleveland Institute of Music Robinson Library
• Siegal College of Judaic Studies call 216-464-4050

Check KSL Hours through early January—click the icon for "Today's Desk Hours" on the homepage:

When KSL is open, staff will answer general Comments & Questions from the Contact Us links, and take reference questions through the AsKSL icon on the homepage:

Select the "About the Libraries" icon on the lower left of the Case Catalog for direct links to quick phone numbers & hours for Case and Affiliate Libraries.

You'll find links there for the various reference and circulation emails, phone numbers, or homepage links where you can ask a question.

Panels, programs, and speakers from across campus provide valuable insight into how your dissertation can help launch your career, ethical practices in research, how to incorporate multi-media tools, dissertation requirements, and copyright information.

KSL provides breakout sessions for discipline-specific resources that are expected in dissertation research. Learn about respected resources and powerful tools like citation searching, and more.

Plan for your future & plan to be at this new workshop
• Thursday, January 7, 2010
• NORD Hall, Room 400
• 8:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
• REQUIRED: RSVP by Jan. 4th, 2010

Download the flyer for Is There a Ph.D. in Your Future? with program, lunch, and presenter information. Plan for Success!

After nearly 20 years of award-winning vision and services, OhioLINK 2.0 is the initiative with targeted strategies that aim to give all OhioLINK researchers a new catalog interface for improved discovery, craft new organizational alliances to strengthen Ohio higher educational efforts, maximize & retool the state repository system collections and services, and generally reinvent the consortium.

The newsletter provides an easy to read overview of the goals and projects in place, as OhioLINK moves to a new frontier of access and services. Case Libraries have copies at their public service desks, or you can download the .PDF copy.

Checkout the December KSL Research Spotlight—search Fred Austerlitz (Omaha) to find out how he became one of the world's most enduring entertainment stars.

Wireless and remote access require an activated VPN connection and your Case network credentials.

Hillel knows that hot coffee & doughnuts can help you get through the week, and also that it's interesting to celebrate cultures and holiday traditions together. Stop by the International News Commons area in the Kelvin Smith Library Lower Level for an opportunity to enjoy the spirit of community & learn something about the upcoming Chanukah holidays.

Hillel has sponsored this treat for Case students since 2006, responding to students' comments that "KSL is the go-to place on campus." Stop by Wednesday night to visit and take a quick break—approximately 8:30 p.m.-10 p.m., or until the coffee pot is empty...

While you're here, talk to Hillel about Chanuka traditions and the symbolic reasons for bringing doughnuts to share. KSL is pleased to have Cleveland Hillel Foundation as one of our traditions, as well.

KSL's 24x7 ends on Wednesday 16th, and adjusted hours go into effect:
• KSL remains open Wed. 17 & Thurs.18th until 8:30 pm and until 8 pm on Friday for last minute returns, OhioLINK pickups & borrowing, before the long holiday weekends.
• Christmas holidays: Case & KSL are closed Thurs 24-Sun. 27
• New Year's holidays: Case & KSL are closed Thurs. 31-Sun. 3.
• Read More hours details for December & early January—or click the "Today's Desk Hours" icon on the KSL homepage.

Case Libraries and Affiliate libraries' hours vary...the Case Catalog has an information icon for all the libraries with quick links to their key service point phone numbers & hours.

Case is one of the 6 founders of OhioLINK, and Tom has been Executive Director of OhioLINK since July 1992. Now at 89 member institutions with a statewide system catalog that features unmediated, patron-initiated borrowing, OhioLINK also has added electronic content over the years. Today OhioLINK features over 100 reference & research databases, cooperative statewide electronic centers for theses and dissertations, journals, books, and digital media for research.

Join us for news, trends, and issues that affect academic libraries and consortia today, and ultimately, the campuses of Ohio. We look forward to your attendance, discussion, and questions and answers.

In FY 2008-09, Case researchers supplemented local collections and enjoyed 27,469 items borrowed from OhioLINK member libraries, and the Case libraries delivered 12,458 items to OhioLINK faculty, students and staff.

Tom Sanville is the 2007 recipient of the Professional Achievement Award for the Association for Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies, a division of the 64,000 member American Library Association. The award is presented for professional achievement within the areas of networking and statewide service and programs. He is active in the development of the International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC), Libraries Connect Ohio, and other library organizations.

Ensemble Lautenkonzert was formed in 1995 to explore late 17th and early 18th century chamber music, and features Kulas Music librarian Stephen Toombs (baroque lute, theorbo), director of the ensemble. The chamber music concert is open to the public and takes place at 2 p.m.

More information is available:
Ensemble Lautenkonzert, Music at Main Concert

3rd floor lobby of Cleveland Public Library, Main
325 Superior Avenue, Cleveland OH 44114
2 pm Saturday December 5th, 2009

Kelvin Smith Library borrowing privileges for CPL@Case-KSL extend reading materials into new types of materials for Case students, faculty, and staff. Read more about the CPL@Case-KSL collection.

Bring your lunch and learn more about one of Cleveland's Top Agencies in the Area!