Graduate Students: A Kindle Fire could be yours! KSL knows you're busy, but we'd like to share an hour of your time & talk about what you use in library resources, spaces, and services. Register and participate in a session, and your immediate future might include a Kindle Fire! We'll also talk about what the future@KSL might offer graduate students. We especially need Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Weatherhead graduate students to meet with library staff in informal discussions. Share your knowledge & remarks on your research activities—we look forward to hearing from you. Registration is required, lunch is provided. Participants from all groups will be entered in a drawing for a Kindle Fire, which could change your research, too! Sign Up for your school's session here: http://tinyurl.com/KSL-focus-group • Social Science & Weatherhead Graduate Students: Feb 1, Noon -1:30 pm • Arts & Humanities Graduate Students: Feb 6, Noon - 1:30 pm Sessions are in the Graduate Research Commons room, SW corner (Severance Hall side), 2nd floor.

Classes start on the 17th, but KSL's Cramelot is open now, when you need it! Come in from the cold and enjoy hot beverages, soup and sandwiches, or start the year with a new resolution for salads and fruit. Enjoy the food and the space, and also meet with colleagues, get some work done, or enjoy some quiet reading while you're at Cramelot, now open from 11 am - 4 pm, Monday through Friday. When classes start later this month, Cramelot returns to evening hours. During Interim Session, KSL is open six days a week & adjusts library hours, open until 8:30 Monday through Thursday evenings, and all day Friday and Saturday. Friday the 13th, KSL stays open until 8 pm for those who want to get items ready before the MLK Holiday Weekend. So whether you're catching up or getting a head start, now is a great quiet time...we'll see you soon!

Case and KSL celebrate the holidays this year with long weekends off, and during the week will be open with adjusted evening hours. Between semesters, KSL is closed on Sundays, but our Interim evening weekday hours make it easy for you to pick up a book, drop off some items, talk with staff or simply enjoy some quiet time before the semester begins on January 17th. • Tuesday - Thursday, Dec. 27, 28, 29: 8 am - 5:30 pm • Fri - Mon, Dec. 30, 31, Jan. 1-2: Closed for New Year Holidays • Tuesday - Thursday, Jan. 3, 4, 5: 8 am - 8:30 pm • Friday, Jan. 6: 8 am - 5:40 pm • Saturday, Jan. 7: 9 am - 5:30 pm • Sunday, Jan. 8: Closed/Interim • Mon - Thu, Jan. 9-12: 8 am - 8:30 pm • Friday, Jan. 13: 8 am - 8 pm • Saturday, Jan. 14: 9 am - 5:30 pm • Sunday, Jan. 15: Closed/Interim • Monday, Jan. 16: Closed, MLK Holiday

Now you can see and hear the colloquium if you weren't able to attend, or you can revisit some of the presenters from the November 7 & 8 Freedman Center Colloquium, Building A Culture for Digital Scholarship. Attendees heard speakers from across the country discuss new methods of collaboration and present diverse views of how research & publication are evolving. Presenters showed the strengths of new collaborative, publishing, and research efforts. The closing panel voiced the challenges of tradition, vocabulary, and disciplines as authors, teachers & researchers make their way in new landscapes. Enjoy the video capture of both days and explore the colloquium site! Schedule & speaker biographies included.

Corporations and industry have been outsourcing for years in order to reduce costs while maintaining quality core competencies and services--has this business practice now reached the legal profession? Join in this end-of-semester Friday Public Affairs Discussion Group at KSL. • Fri. Dec. 9, 12:30-1:30 pm: Outsourcing and Offshoring Legal Services Cassandra Burke Robertson, J.D., School of Law, CWRU Cassandra talks about the growing business practice in the legal business and how outsourcing might affect defendants' outcomes as well as a firm's practices. Can it be a win-win situation? Join us to hear & talk more about the risks, implications and a potential supply-demand cycle that may change the increasingly global legal profession. Sponsored by the Center for Policy Studies, this discussion is held in the 2nd floor Dampeer Room 12:30 pm - 1: 30 pm. Visitors are welcome to take advantage of beverages & food items at the main floor Cramelot cafe in the library & bring them to the discussion. The KSL location map also indicates an underground parking garage for visitors (fee), and nearby metered street parking, as available.

University Circle Update, a conversation with Steven Litt of the Plain Dealer, is this Friday's Public Affairs Discussion Group. We've read and heard his comments and vision of the arts for twenty years or more, and this week's forum brings an opportunity for comments on development and the arts in our Circle neighborhood. • Fri. Dec. 2, 12:30-1:30 pm: University Circle Update Steven Litt, Architecture Critic, Cleveland Plain Dealer Whether it's new buildings in town, or ones under construction, University Circle also has a wealth of them, including announcements about new projects throughout the University Circle environs. Steven Litt brings his analysis of art, architecture, and urban life to this week's session. He is sure to engage the audience in related issues of accessibility as well as artistic plans like the pedestrian bridge, MOCA, and the Temple complex. Join us & hear his viewpoint on what the vision may bring to our work-lives here, plus his own commentary, vision, and questions about plans for the future development of University Circle. Make your plans to attend! Sponsored by the Center for Policy Studies, this discussion is held in the 2nd floor Dampeer Room 12:30 pm - 1: 30 pm. Visitors are welcome to take advantage of beverages & food items at the main floor Cramelot cafe in the library & bring them to the discussion. The KSL location map also indicates an underground parking garage for visitors (fee), and nearby metered street parking, as available. Dec. 9: Last Discussion Group of 2011 Outsourcing and Offshoring Legal Services. Cassandra Burke Robertson, Associate Professor of Law, Frederick K. Cox International Center, CWRU.

The campus holiday hours this week for Thanksgiving also affect hours at Kelvin Smith Library. While we're always online, our building hours and 24x7 services adjust slightly: • Early close on Wed. Nov. 23, at 5:30 pm (no 24x7) • Closed Thurs. Nov. 24, Thanksgiving Day (no 24x7) • Holiday Hours Fri. Nov. 25, 9 am-5:30 pm (no 24x7) • Regular hours resume Sat. Nov. 26 9 am-5:30 pm & 24x7 resumes Research content never takes a break—enjoy the Case online databases, electronic journals, KSL Research Guides, and OhioLINK content during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. KSL staff members are also here during our open hours to help you get started or finish up that research project!

On National Philanthropy Day, the Kelvin Smith Library celebrates its philanthropic partners. KSL recognizes and is grateful for the generosity that's so important for our research environment. From enhanced collections to digital learning, a fellows program for faculty, or professional growth opportunities for library staff, our philanthropic partners make it possible for faculty, students, and staff to develop new interests and skills that will take them to tomorrow. Read more about making a gift to the library, and then browse a sampling of Gift & Endowments projects. We hope you'll enjoy the breadth of disciplines that are affected by gifts, as well as its span from our preservation services to the research environment of the future.

It's ubiquitous but is Wikipedia acceptable as a reference resource for scholarly work at the university? Join us this week as the Public Affairs Discussion Group talks about using the free, open access encyclopedia instead of traditional reference tools. • Fri. Nov. 18: Wikipedia in the University. Peter Shulman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History, CWRU. Technology meets communication in new ways for Peter Shulman as his students cite Wikipedia in their research assignments. Join in a lively discussion with Peter as he shares how he's encouraging his students to develop their critical thinking skills about basic sources...including Wikipedia. Sponsored by the Center for Policy Studies, this week's venue is changed to the Guilford House 1st Floor Lounge 12:30 pm - 1: 30 pm. Stop in the Cramelot cafe in the library & pick up beverages and lunch items for the short walk to Guilford and this week's discussion.

Each fall, Knovel® issues an University Challenge to the universities that subscribe to their electronic content. Any Case student can use the Knovel widget to correctly answer 3 questions, and can win great prizes. Challenge yourself—you might win $500 cash, an iPad2™ cash awards, or bags of Cool Stuff, and more! • It's Easy: enter the Challenge & use the Knovel database to correctly answer 3 questions. The contest continues through Dec. 1st. • Contest-within-A-Contest Guarantee: when Case reaches 100 correct entries, we're guaranteed to win an iPodNano, and Case has won before! • Start now & you can win. Work in a group and you can all complete 3 questions and be entered. Knovel has full text of over 2,000 leading reference handbooks, conference proceedings, databases and statistical data for researchers in the applied sciences. Analysis tools and other features & 40 international publishers and professional societies give you cross disciplinary research results from a single page. Enjoy added features like webinars (Engineers' Use of Social Networks), cases, news, tools, MyKnovel for saved searches, and more. The Knovel database is licensed for Case researchers; off campus or wireless access requires an activated VPN session. Find Knovel on the Research Database list.

KSL hosts the weekly discussions on Fridays, where guest speakers, the university community, and the public engage in topic presented by the Public Affairs Discussion Group. Join in this week's discussion about leadership qualities in both academe and corporations that might be more similar (and beneficial) than at first glance. Fri. Nov. 11: How Are Successful Companies and Successful Universities Alike? Richard E. Boyatzis, Ph.D. Distinguished University Professor, H.R. Horvitz Chair of Family Business, Departments of Organizational Behavior, Psychology, Cognitive Science, CWRU. Hear more about hallmarks of effectiveness that translate across organizational types. Keys to understanding how to remain successful as change occurs in the organization, country, and world will stimulate your thoughts as Richard Boyatzis talks about his Intentional Change Theory (ICT) and shares his latest research in further exploring resonant leadership and performance. Sponsored by the Center for Policy Studies, this discussion is held in the 2nd floor Dampeer Room 12:30 pm - 1: 30 pm. Visitors are welcome to take advantage of beverages & food items at the main floor Cramelot cafe in the library & bring them to the discussion. The KSL location map also indicates an underground parking garage for visitors (fee), and nearby metered street parking, as available. November 18: Wikipedia in the University. Peter Shulman, Assistant Professor of History, CWRU. Special location: The Guilford Lounge, first floor Guilford House.