http://blogs.library.jhu.edu/wordpress News, information and more from the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:30:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Technical support at RefWorks is performing maintenance on the Johns Hopkins RefWorks database.  RefWorks will be unavailable Saturday, November 21 starting at 1:30 am EST until 4:30 am.  All RefWorks account holders should be sleeping or otherwise enjoying their night without being in their RefWorks databases. http://blogs.library.jhu.edu/wordpress/?p=2193 The Betty and Edgar Sweren Student Book Collecting Contest recognizes the love of books and the delight in shaping a thoughtful and focused book collection. All undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in a degree program at Johns Hopkins are invited to enter the contest. Entries will be judged according to the ... http://blogs.library.jhu.edu/wordpress/?p=2187 If architectural beauty and historic research collections are important to you, then you should visit the George Peabody Library. The collection was started in 1860 as part of the Peabody Institute and is a Victorian research library with over 300,000 volumes. Notable collection strengths are archaeology, British art and architecture, ... http://blogs.library.jhu.edu/wordpress/?p=1943 The season of literary prizes is upon us. And that favorite end-of-the-year activity - Top 10 Book Lists. We should all have lots to be thankful for: good books to read, and great gifts to buy. The Nobel prize in literature was announced in October, and did not fail to astonish ... http://blogs.library.jhu.edu/wordpress/?p=2169 The Arthur Friedheim Library is the music library of the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins, and its primary purpose is to support the curriculum of the Peabody Conservatory. The Friedheim Library contains about 130,000 items including individually cataloged books and periodicals about music, musical scores and sound recordings, manuscripts, rare ... http://blogs.library.jhu.edu/wordpress/?p=1931 On November 10th the Alliance for Taxpayer Access released a letter from 41 Nobel laureates to the U.S. Congress. The letter was written by the scientists in support of the Federal Research Public Access Act. This act would require other Federal agencies to develop public access policies similar to the ... http://blogs.library.jhu.edu/wordpress/?p=2162 The Johns Hopkins University Press is the oldest university press in the United States, founded in 1878. Within a few years, they were publishing the American Journal of Mathematics and the American Journal of Philology. These journals are still being published today. Not content with print publicatons, the Johns Hopkins University ... http://blogs.library.jhu.edu/wordpress/?p=1785 Do you need an illustration of an artwork for a class presentation? A diagram of a chemical compound? A photograph of an historical figure? An illustration of a shark’s anatomy? More and more people across many disciplines find that they need visual information for their coursework. But, as many of ... http://blogs.library.jhu.edu/wordpress/?p=2127 While the Rare Books and Manuscripts department of MSEL has many wonderful books, there are other Hopkins libraries that also house older and rare works. The John Work Garrett Library at the Evergreen Museum and Library contains 30,000 volumes that cover a wide variety of topics. Their natural history collection includes ... http://blogs.library.jhu.edu/wordpress/?p=1935 Claude Lévi-Strauss, one of the last icons of 20th century French intellectual life, died over the weekend at the age of 100. He was considered and will be remembered as the father of modern anthropology. He was most acclaimed for his study of primitive mythology and for founding the theoretical school ... http://blogs.library.jhu.edu/wordpress/?p=2097