This blog post was contributed by VRC Staff Yvette Shu (Political Science and International Studies, ’27)
Welcome back to campus, Blue Jays! As we return from spring break, don’t forget about the Visual Resources Collection (VRC). We’re here to help support your visual resources needs!
As someone working behind the scenes at the VRC, my main role is to ensure that all our images are high-quality, relevant, and available for use by all Hopkins affiliates. I also greatly enjoy adding to our collection: recently, I was able to shoot and edit photos of various pieces of art around campus and at the Baltimore Museum of Art, which can be found in our digital collections. On that note, please check out the Johns Hopkins Digital Collections (over 285,000 images).
User feedback is super valuable, and one of my favorite tasks at the VRC is to fulfill special orders by professors or students, whether that be compiling a rare set of images, lending out audio or digital equipment, or even reusing decommissioned slides for an art project. Contact us if you have any ideas or requests for new collections!
Here are some highlights of our work:
- Classics Research Lab: Antioch Recovery Project: This ongoing project, led by Prof. Jennifer Stager, studies mosaics from the city of Antioch-on-the-Orontes and its surroundings.
- Chinese Public Health Campaign Slides 1950s-70s: These slides include several public health topics, such as tuberculosis and malaria, as part of a larger educational campaign during the 1950’s, 60s, and 70s in China.
- May 1968 in France; Rare and Archival Materials of Protest, Occupation, and Resistance: The JHU Sheridan Libraries, Special Collections houses a noteworthy collection of periodicals, leaflets, pamphlets, photographs, posters, and other ephemera from the historic “May 1968” riots in France protesting the De Gaulle regime.
Need help with finding images in JSTOR? Check out this page of the VRC research guide. Have any questions? Please reach out to Curator Lael Ensor-Bennett at vrc@jhu.edu, use the new VRC contact form, or come visit Gilman 181.