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Mandi Goodsett was awarded the Jay Ladd Distinguished Service Award during the Academic Library Association of Ohio (ALAO) Annual Conference in October 2024. The award recognizes individuals who have promoted academic libraries and librarianship not only on his or her own campus, but also within the state. It also recognizes someone who has provided leadership in ALAO and in the librarian profession.
Mandi is the Library’s Performing Arts and Humanities Librarian/OER & Copyright Advisor and an instructor in the Open Education Network – Open Educational Resource Certification Program, emphasizing the tailored support librarians can provide.
She was quoted in a recent OhioLINK article saying “Becoming OER certified allows us to understand faculty’s unique challenges and help them navigate the vast array of available resources.”
Since 2017, Mandi has served as an OhioLINK Affordable Learning Ambassador for the state of Ohio. In addition, she chairs CSU’s OER Committee and co-chairs the annual OpenCon Ohio conference, an event that celebrates open education efforts across Ohio. She coordinates the University’s Textbook Affordability Grant to help CSU faculty learn about teaching with OER and reducing textbook costs for students.
Congratulations Mandi!
More about the Jay Ladd Distinguished Service Awards: https://www.alaoweb.org/aboutalao/jay-ladd-award.php
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Farewell to Library Colleagues | (l-r) Anna Budziak, Jeanie Radtkin, Terri Greer, and Yuezeng Shen | |
In December 2024, the library bid farewell to four of our friends and colleagues. Anna Budziak, Reference Computer Technician, began working for CSU 42 years ago! She first worked in Circulation, migrated to Reference, and eventually migrated to systems work. Yuezeng Shen, Librarian and Head of Cataloging in the Collections & Resource Management Department, dedicated her entire career to library cataloging, especially after receiving the Ford Foundation award, which transformed her knowledge and experiences from China to the USA. Terri Greer, Acquisitions & Cataloging Specialist, began her fulltime career at the Library in 2005 and her work made the library a better place for everyone. Jeanie Radtkin, Cataloging & E-resource Specialist, began her career at the library in 2007 and has always gone the extra mile to ensure the Library’s Technical Services projects are properly developed and completed.
Anna, Yuezeng, Terri, and Jeanie now have their names inscribed on the library's new perpetual plaque (shown below), which was unveiled at their farewell party. It says
The Michael Schwartz Library recognizes employees who departed with 15 or more years of dedicated service to the campus community. Their contributions have enhanced the learning experience of students, faculty, and staff leaving a lasting legacy of excellence and commitment.
Ann Marie Smeraldi, former Library Director, is included on the plaque in honor of her memory. Last year, she was reached her 15-year milestone before her untimely passing in September.
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Students Film a Romcom at the Library
A cast and crew of 20 CSU students from the Film and Media Arts School are spending some time in the Library filming a 90s inspired romcom titled “What’s My Sign Again?” for their FMA 456 Theseis II course. Grace, the student producer, said of her experience, "Filming at the Michael Schwartz Library was an excellent experience. As CSU Film students, being able to utilize a space at the school for free and with such ease was a lifesaver. Marsha (Miles) and Joellen (Corrigan) were ready and able to help us with coordinating the shoot and graciously accommodated our large crew. As a producer, the features I look for in a location are spaciousness and the ability to have freedom within the space, and we were able to have total creative freedom whilst not disturbing other students on the collaborative floor. I hope that CSU film students will opt for the use of this space in future shoots."
Are you a student who is a potential filmmaker and needs a place to film? The Library is here for you! Fill out the Student Film Shoot Facilities: Request Application along with a production schedule at least 10 days before your intended filming date.
Student Film Shoot Facilities: Request form
https://library.csuohio.edu/forms/film-shoot-request-form.pdf
The Library also offers A Research Guide to Film & Media Arts by Ben Richards, Business and Communication Librarian: https://researchguides.csuohio.edu/fma
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Academic Writing Club for CSU Graduate Students & Faculty
by Mandi Goodsett, Performing Arts & Humanities Librarian, OER and Copyright Advisor
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Is one of your New Year’s resolutions to get more writing done? Could you use some structured time to write without interruption? Do you have some academic writing that needs polishing to become publishable? If so, this writing club is for you!
Offered by the Writing Center and the Michael Schwartz Library, this writing club is meant to help students and faculty improve their academic writing productivity. Each week we will send a short video and provide resources and advice related to an academic writing topic, and we'll have a synchronous Zoom meeting to review the topic. About 45 minutes of the meeting time will be set aside for quiet writing to keep you on track! This semester the weekly 5-minute videos will concern content from Writing Your Journal Article in 12 Weeks by Wendy Laura Belcher. You don’t need to read the book to participate.
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Meetings will occur in Zoom from 12 - 1pm on Mondays
beginning January 13th and ending May 5th 2025
Filling out the sign-up form does not obligate you to participate or attend every meeting; it merely puts you on our reminder email list and provides access to the Zoom link each week
URL: https://forms.office.com/r/sRRaZ33EBs
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Digital CSU Student Showcase
by Ben Richards, Business & Communication Librarian
Digital CSU is happy to announce the Spring 2025 Digital CSU Student Showcase, in partnership with the Michael Schwartz Library, and invites students to submit digital and multimedia projects. The Showcase will take place on Thursday, April 29, 2025 in the
Student Center Atrium from 12:30 am - 2:30 pm.
Click Image at right to access the flyer
Encourage students to participate alongside their peers! The showcase is an opportunity for students to present finished or in-progress digital research projects created for their courses to their faculty, staff, and their peers, in a poster session-style event. Digital or multimodal research projects can take many forms, but they include: websites, videos, presentations, ebooks, infographics or other data visualization projects, lesson plans, maps, timelines, podcasts, multimodal research articles, or other digital compositions and multimedia work.
HOW DO STUDENTS REGISTER
Register to participate in the event at https://forms.office.com/r/6mGNDsbtJu or by scanning the QR code on the flier.
Be prepared to share your projects at the event digitally: each participant must bring the necessary equipment (e.g. laptop, power cords, headphones, speakers, etc.). We encourage you to provide supplemental materials such as handouts about their design process, research methods, or other relevant documents; however, this is not required.
Faculty are invited to please share the invitation with their students.
| Questions about the showcase, or digital or multimodal projects? Please contact Ben Richards at b.c.richards@csuohio.edu. | |
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Special Collections Partnerships
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The Michael Schwartz Library Special Collections has partnered with printmaking studio and art gallery Zygote Press on an exhibit focusing on d.a. levy’s printmaking work. levy was a Cleveland poet and printer and, while there has been considerable scholarship on his work, there has been less focus on his artistic process. The artwork on display includes one of his oil paintings, photo collages, “Cleveland Print” folios, letterpress works, and materials produced via ditto machine and mimeograph.
The exhibit, "d.a. levy: Subversive Printmaking in 1960s Cleveland," is on view at Zygote's Gallery from now until March 1st.
More information can be found at https://zygotepress.org/
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Special Collections has also been in collaboration with the CSU History Department on an initiative to give their graduate students with a focus on museum studies some hands-on archival experience. We currently have four grad students working on digitizing local newspapers, inventorying unprocessed collections to create finding aids, and digitizing and cataloging photograph collections. They have been a great help and it has given them a lot of experience that will prepare them well for the field.
For more information, read the post "Preserving History, Shaping the Future," by Dr. José O. Solá—Director of Graduate Program in History, at
https://csuhistory.org/blog/engage/preserving-history-shaping-the-future/
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Important Update: Temporary Suspension of Library Orders
We would like to inform you that the library will halt all ordering for collections after the end of the day on Friday, February 28th. If you need any materials before the start of the Fall 2025 semester on August 23rd, please ensure your requests are submitted by the end of the day on February 28th.
Ordering will resume no later than August 1st, 2025, to prepare for the fall semester.
This temporary suspension is necessary as we migrate to a new library systems platform. Due to technical limitations and the need to allocate staff time effectively, we will be unable to maintain our usual acquisitions process during this period.
We appreciate your patience and cooperation as we work to improve our services. Thank you for your understanding. For more information contact your subject librarian at https://library.csuohio.edu/services/librarians.html.
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One Service Desk for Everything
by Ben Richards, Business & Communication Librarian
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In order to offer the best student experience and make the most efficient use of our staff and space, we have consolidated the service point for Digital Design Services with the first floor Library Research & Help Desk. You may now make room reservations, use software, and borrow room keys and equipment right inside the front doors of the library.
All services and resources previously accessed from the 3rd floor Digital Design Studio -- including student rooms & spaces and digital production equipment -- are now available from the 1st floor Library Help desk. Check out the list of things you can borrow at https://library.csuohio.edu/services/more-than-books.html.
Multimedia production computers, including Adobe Creative Cloud software, are now available in the 1st floor Learning Commons Computer Lab.
To reserve a room or to borrow keys or equipment, visit the 1st floor Research & Help Desk, or call (216) 687-2479.
For questions about library support for multimedia and digital projects, contact Ben Richards at b.c.richards@csuohio.edu.
For more information and links, please visit https://researchguides.csuohio.edu/blogs/MSL-buzz/spring-2025-changes
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MSL Librarian Insights Substack
Your librarians have added new videos, blog posts, and more on the MSL Librarian Insights Substack. Watch videos such as "Using Free ChatGPT for Research" and listen to or read about other research insights.
Faculty and students can subscribe to MSL Librarian Insights at : https://librarianinsightsmsl.substack.com/ to receive emails about Generative AI, Information Literacy, Open Education, and other related topics.
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Affordable Learning at CSU
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Faculty Awarded Textbook Affordability Grants
The Michael Schwartz Library, in conjunction with various partners, including CSU Online (Center for eLearning), offered Textbook Affordability Grants to CSU Faculty during the fall 2024 semester. The goal of the grant is to encourage and support the creation or compilation of low-cost or no-cost course materials in order to save students money and encourage student-centered pedagogy.
Congratulations to faculty who were awarded Textbook Affordability Grants in fall 2024:
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Kathy Curnow, Professor, Africana Studies/Art and Design; Thomas Bynum, Chair & Associate Professor, Africana Studies; and Adrienne Gosselin, Associate Professor, Africana Studies for AST200: Introduction to Africana Studies Course.
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Vania De Paoli, Senior College Lecturer, Chemistry Department, for her CHM 336: Organic Chemistry I Course.
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Tatiana Gracyk, Assistant College Lecturer, Philosophy, for her PHL 240: Healthcare Ethics Course.
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Patti Napolitano, PT ST Instructor, Health Sciences Department, School of Social Work, for her SWK 626 Advanced Generalist Social Work Practice with Communities Course.
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Mike Okrent, Part-time Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Operations and Supply Chain Management, for his OSM 417/517 Course.
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New Affordable Resource for Students | |
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Cleveland State University's MSL Academic Endeavors, publishing imprint of the Michael Schwartz Library, is pleased to announce the publication of the 2nd edition of Dr. Abdullah Oguz’s Project Management open textbook.
The first edition of this OER (Open Educational Resource) book was made available in October 2022 through EngagedScholarship@CSU. Since its release, significant advancements have occurred, including the rise of AI tools like ChatGPT and other Large Language Models (LLMs), which have influenced the education sphere. However, the revisions in this edition were not solely driven by AI developments.
The 2nd edition includes a new chapter on Generative AI, and a new section on Scrum, the most common agile framework. New exercises were included in all chapters, with answers provided only for instructors. Updated PowerPoint presentations and Blackboard question pools are also available for instructors.
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We’re so excited to celebrate #OEWeek this March 3-7, 2025!
Open Education Week connects open educators around the world.
We believe in Open Education for All.
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OhioLINK Spring 2025 OER Course Redesign Grant Program
Faculty are invited to apply for OhioLINK's OER Course Redesign Grant program. From May 19th, 2025 to June 13th, 2025, participants will engage in an asynchronous introduction to Open Educational Resources Course online. Participants will explore the basics of open education, review an open access or low-cost resource, learn how to align course content with learning outcomes, and reflect on advocating for affordable or open access course materials in the future. A small stipend is offered to participants.
Deadline to Apply April 18, 2025.
Details can be found on OhioLINK's Course Redesign Grant Page at https://www.ohiolink.edu/content/affordablelearning/course_redesign_grants
CSU faculty who participated in a previous OER Course Redesign Grant program include Michael Baumgartner, Professor, School of Music; Mike Okrent, Part-time Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Operations and Supply Chain Management; and Sathish Kumar, Associate Professor, Computer Science. There were 29 faculty from other institutions who also participated.
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General Library Information | |
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Library Spring Semester Hours
Through May 10, 2025
After 5:00 p.m. and on Saturdays, a swipe of
your current Viking Card is required to enter the Library.
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Library Building Hours
Monday-Thursday 8:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Friday 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Sunday Closed
Closed on University Holidays
Saturday, March 15th (Spring Recess)
Saturday, May 10th (Commencement)
Spring Recess Hours
Monday, March 10 – Friday, March 14, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
Saturday, March 15 – Closed
Chat, text, and phone assistance will be unavailable during the University Holidays
Chat, Phone, and Text Hours
Ask a Librarian: use the chat box, call us at 216-687-5300, or text us at 216-820-9691
Monday-Thursday 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Friday 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
The Library and Research Help Desk
The Desk is open whenever the Library is open.
For more information, visit Library Hours at https://library.csuohio.edu/information/hours.html
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Special Collections and Archives are Closed
The Special Collections and Archives units are currently closed. Limited services will still be provided and researchers can fill out this form to request assistance.
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Digital Production Unit Services
The Digital Production Unit (DPU) located on the 8th floor of the Library is closed but services remain available. For more information, contact Beth Piwkowski at 216-687-2449 or e.piwkowski@csuohio.edu.
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Activate your Access to the New York Times
Faculty, Staff, and Students of Cleveland State enjoy access to the New York Times courtesy of the Library. Discover original, quality journalism that helps you understand the world—and make the most of every part of life. Activate your access at AccessNYT.com.
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Friends of the Michael Schwartz Library | |
The Friends of the Michael Schwartz Library at Cleveland State University is closely associated with the Michael Schwartz Library but is an independent organization whose purpose is to support the library in a number of different ways. By sponsoring programs of interest to faculty, staff, students and the general public we hope to attract favorable attention for the library and interest in its activities. We hope to see you at one our upcoming events, including the Connect with CSU Faculty event during National Library week | |
Connect with CSU Faculty, A Friends of the Library Series
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
11:30 am – 12:30 p.m.
Featuring Jeremy Genovese, PhD
Emeritus Associate Professor of Human Development and Educational Psychology
Presenting ESPERANTO: The Rise and Fall and Rise of the International Language
Location: Michael Schwartz Library Connection Lounge ((1st floor, near front desk)
The constructed language Esperanto was invented in 1887 to facilitate international communication and understanding. Esperanto was designed to be easy to learn with phonetic pronunciation and a simple, consistent grammar. The Esperanto movement grew rapidly but suffered a severe setback in the run up to the Second World War. The language was specifically condemned by Hitler. Stalin labeled it “the language of > spies.” In recent decades, Esperanto has regained ground with the rise of the internet. Today the Esperanto movement is a growing transnational community of speakers who regularly communicate either virtually or in person.
This is a free event open to the campus community and the Friends of the Library.
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Cleveland, Ohio 44115-2214
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