Overview
The Samuel B. and Marian K. Freedman Digital Library, Language Learning, and Multimedia Services Center is a partnership between the College of Arts and Sciences and the Kelvin Smith Library. For the College of Arts and Sciences, the Freedman Center is evidence of the College's committment to the evolution of education and the integration of information technologies in its curriculum. For KSL, the Freedman Center is the culmination of a ten-year vision for a center that provides faculty, students, and staff with the ability to utilize both analog and hardcopy information sources in digital works and presentations. View the Annual Report for 2006.
Mission
The Mission of the Samuel B. and Marian K. Freedman Digital Library, Language Learning and Multimedia Services Center is to bring together in one place a variety of technological resources in order that these resources support and sustain learners and create new ways of teaching and learning. The Freedman Center will be an innovative partner with faculty, students, and staff in providing full-service digital library, language learning and multimedia services so that members of the Case community can achieve their research, scholarly, and artistic goals.
Vision
The Freedman Center is at the very crossroads of physical and virtual space, where information from a multitude of disciplines across time, in a variety of languages and formats, is available to faculty, students, and staff, and can be moved seamlessly from one format to another, for purposes of teaching, research and learning.
The Freedman Center supports an innovative research library system and a dynamic Case Western Reserve University community and strives to be a cutting-edge center for the generation of new materials and methods of teaching and learning. This goal is accomplished by:
- Serving as a model information service provider committed to excellence;
- Providing collections of physical, virtual, and technological resources, and using them to maximum advantage;
- Leveraging resources to make available high quality technology services and to support the campus community in their effective use;
- Serving as a laboratory with its own research agenda;
- Developing innovative methods of creating, managing, using, sharing and preserving information in response to a changing information environment;
- Developing opportunities and forming partnerships for the purposes of exploring new ways to use technology to support teaching, research and learning;
- Educating the Case community about Copyright;
- Becoming a center and resource on campus for electronic publications.
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