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January 18, 2019
Local author, attorney and historian James Robenalt will discuss the roots of the violent uprisings in Cleveland in the late 1960s, including the Hough Riot (1966) and Glenville Shootout (1968), and their political aftermath.
His talk, titled “Ballots and Bullets: Black Power Politics and Urban Gue...
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January 17, 2019
OpenAthens soon will replace VPN for all off-campus access to ӰƵ’s library databases and resources.
OpenAthens, the library’s new authentication system, will not require users take any action other than signing in with their network ID and password when prompted.
For m...
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January 16, 2019
Students, faculty and staff can better search Kelvin Smith Library’s collections for their next project. At the top-right corner of the library’s main page, there is a stronger, more robust search engine that will search across CWRU libraries for books, journals, newspapers and other holdings.
Use ...
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January 15, 2019
The Social Justice Institute and the Kelvin Smith Library invite the ӰƵ community to the opening of a new exhibit, Thirty: Exploring Artistically the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The opening will be held Thursday, Jan. 24, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in the Kelvin Smi...
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December 12, 2018
Do you collect books or manuscripts? How did you get started, and why do you collect what you have chosen to collect? If you have a collection of 10 or more books or materials that share a unifying theme, consider entering the Kelvin Smith Library Student Book Collecting Contest for a chance to win ...
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December 05, 2018
The last Kelvin Smith Library Game Night of the semester will be held Thursday, Dec. 6, at 7 p.m. in Room 215 of the library.
The event, titled Trivia Night at the Library, will feature a game of trivia, with each member of the winning team receiving a $10 Amazon gift card.
Teams can have up to si...
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December 03, 2018
After careful consideration, Kelvin Smith Library has decided to discontinue the campuswide institutional subscription to the RefWorks citation management tool.
RefWorks user account activity has declined steadily in the past several years, with a 50 percent drop in active users in the past two yea...
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November 15, 2018
The University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE) will host a session on how the Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship can assist faculty in making a more robust learning environment for students.
The UCITE seminar will feature a discussion about how to incorporate digital to...
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November 13, 2018
The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA) has gifted 40 years of archives to ӰƵ's Kelvin Smith Library. Thousands of items are included in the collection that will be made public for research and historical documentation of MOCA’s leadership in the arts and the ins...
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November 01, 2018
What would you change about the first floor of Kelvin Smith Library? The library's staff invites students, faculty and staff to draw out their ideal rearrangement of resources in the library and discuss with others. The design charrette will take place today (Nov. 1) from 4 to 6 p.m. in Kelvin Smith...