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Stern Center Awarded NEH Grant to Create a Unique Online Database of Early Modern English Ephemera

Posted on September 5, 2025 by News Team

The Virginia Fox Stern Center for the History of the Book in the Renaissance is restoring access to a trove of documents from the early modern period thanks to a recently awarded two-year grant of $318,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities.


Approaching the Black Box: How AI Works in 5 Definitions

Posted on September 1, 2025 by lmckone
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AI, or Artificial Intelligence, is technology developed with the goal of performing tasks typically requiring human intelligence, such as recognizing patterns, making decisions, and communicating. AI can refer to a vast […]


Burning Questions: “Got Any Good Book/Record Stores?”

Posted on August 27, 2025 by Joshua Everett

We, librarians, are fortunate that we get to meet a lot of incoming Hopkins students. We often request that they give us their “burning questions” — about Baltimore, Hopkins, the […]


Collection Connections: Reflections on My Attingham Summer School Experience

Posted on August 25, 2025 by Michelle Fitzgerald

As the Curator of Collections for both of Johns Hopkins University’s historic house museums (Evergreen Museum & Library and Homewood Museum), the Attingham Summer School program gave me quite a bit to think about.


Burning Questions: Getting Out on the Town

Posted on August 15, 2025 by Joshua Everett

We, librarians, are fortunate that we get to meet a lot of incoming Hopkins students. We often request that they give us their “burning questions” — about Baltimore, Hopkins, the […]


Requesting Books From Libraries Beyond JHU Just Got Easier

Posted on August 7, 2025 by Susan Payne
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A JHU library team has simplified the process of requesting materials that Johns Hopkins doesn’t own or that are currently unavailable by creating a single request form for these items […]


Intern Spotlight: Isaac Njoroge – From Cybersecurity to Community Building 

Posted on August 5, 2025 by Claire Hughes

This summer, the Sheridan Libraries & University Museums has the pleasure of hosting Isaac Njoroge, a Johns Hopkins ORIGINS Advancement intern whose thoughtful presence, and ambitious spirit has made a […]


Creating Space: How Online Library Services Support Equity

Posted on August 1, 2025 by Joshua Everett
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Libraries have always been about community, access, and equity—and that mission doesn’t disappear with the building closed! In fact, our online services open new possibilities for reaching and uplifting students […]


Meet Our First-Year Fellows: Storrie Kulynych-Irvin on Academic Muses and Mules

Posted on July 30, 2025 by Paul Espinosa
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Enjoy this post by Storrie Kulynych-Irvin, one of our 2024-2025 First-Year Fellows. Applications are now open for the 2025-2026 cycle! In this post I will be picking up and expanding […]


Meet Our First-Year Fellows: Meenal Srivastava on Cultural Collisions on the Hippie Trail

Posted on July 25, 2025 by Heidi Herr
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Enjoy this post by Meenal Srivastava, one of our 2024-2025 First-Year Fellows. Applications are now open for the 2025-2026 cycle! Hi everyone! My name is Meenal. I’m a rising sophomore […]


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