Kelvin Smith Library

At CWRU, students get paired with a personal librarian who connects them with academic resources across campus and guides them through library services. Your librarian will keep you informed about resources and programs, answer questions about library policies and procedures, provide research assistance, help you develop search strategies and more.
Meet our Personal Librarians.

CWRU is committed to the evolution of education and the integration of information technologies in its curriculum and research practices. Through the Freedman Center, students can harness the power of modern technology and combine it with the driver of academic creativity, through digital library services, multimedia services and research technology and special programming.

Learn more about the Freedman Center

The library is home to the Trailblazer Project, a portraiture initiative aimed at showcasing the contributions of Case Western Reserve University alumni of color and women and diversifying the images that appear in campus common areas.

The initiative is an ongoing project. Portraits commissioned for the project will include, but not be limited to, African Americans, Asian Americans, Latino Americans and American Indians.

Nominations for the Trailblazer Project are solicited each year from the CWRU community. Nominees must be alumni or faculty of CWRU and must have made significant contributions to the university, city, state and/or nation.

Meet our Trailblazers.