MSEL Hours for Thanksgiving

We interrupt our 24/7 hours to celebrate Thanksgiving. Please note the following library hours over this holiday:

Wednesday, November 26, Library closes at 8 PM
Thursday, November 27, CLOSED
Friday, November 28, 8 AM to 8 PM
Saturday, November 29, 8 AM to 8 PM
Sunday, November 30, Library opens at 10 AM and 24/7 hours resume

Happy Thanksgiving!

Yes, We Do!

During a recent conversation with an engineering undergrad, I was describing the many ways to send suggestions to the library or get questions answered. He listened intently and then said “Do you really answer those?”

Yes, we do! We offer lots of ways for you to communicate with us online:

• Use this blog’s Suggestion Box
• Use one of the methods on the Ask a Librarian page
• Use your librarian’s contact info, listed on the Research Guides or on the list of librarians by subject
• Some of the Research Guides have IM
• Many librarians are on Facebook
• Write on the Eisenhower Library’s Wall

So send us suggestions and ask us questions. We always love to hear from you, and yes, we really answer!

ScienceDirect Unavailable Sat. Nov. 15

ScienceDirect is the online face of Elsevier, one of the big sci-tech-med journal publishers. All the online journals we get through ScienceDirect will be unavailable from 8 am to 5 pm EST on Saturday, November 15th. Please plan your research around this.

Exhibit: Bound to Please

Bound to Please
November 6, 2008 - February 3, 2009
The George Peabody Library Exhibition Gallery
Hours: Monday - Friday 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.;
Saturday 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.; Sunday, 12 p.m. - 5 p.m.

Bound to Please explores the art of finishing, from simple adornments on vellum bindings to exquisite gilt-tooled bindings. More than 60 beautifully bound and tooled works from the late 17th to the mid-20th century are on display, along with some of the tools and materials used by finishers to design and create these artistic forms.

The exhibition is drawn from an extraordinary collection of 200 volumes, a gift to the Sheridan Libraries in 2006 from long-time Johns Hopkins friend, Dorothy McIlvain Scott. Many of the books are decorated with charming fore-edge paintings—scenes painted on the edges of the page—which are only visible when the pages are fanned. More than 20 fore-edge paintings are displayed.

Continue reading Exhibit: Bound to Please…

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View A-Level Group Study Availability Online

We’re piloting a system to check group study room availability online in real time. This service senses if the group study rooms on A-Level of MSEL are occupied.

Check group study room availability online in real time.

What the colors mean:

• Green: the room is available
  This is shown when the lights are off in the room. (Please, turn the lights off when you’re done!)
• Purple: the room may be available
  The room’s lights are on. However, no movement has been sensed for 3 to 6 minutes.
• Red: the room is unavailable
  Movement has been detected. People are actively studying in the room.

Want more information about group study rooms in MSEL?
View a complete list of our group study rooms.

The system was designed and developed by JHU students as an ECE and CS student project.