The Johns Hopkins University Libraries are proud to announce the arrival of Catalyst, a new interface for the JHU catalog, designed to make searching simpler and smarter. Highlights include: Simplicity: […]
Hopkins Hoops and History
From guest blogger Ross Jones, Vice President and Secretary Emeritus, Johns Hopkins University. It’s that time of year again, when the nation’s eyes turn to college basketball and the “big […]
Catalyst has arrived!
The Johns Hopkins University Libraries are proud to announce Catalyst, a new search interface for the JHU collections. Catalyst is an open source project and was developed at Johns Hopkins by programmers […]
Johns Hopkins University Libraries Join HathiTrust
The Johns Hopkins University Libraries have become the newest member of HathiTrust, a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating in an extraordinary digital library initiative to preserve and […]
Happy 80th Birthday to the Friends of the Libraries
On March 5, 1931, in Gilman Hall, the Friends of the Johns Hopkins University Libraries was established. This group, founded at the request of President Joseph Ames and following the […]
Short: A Reading by Cortright McMeel
Wednesday, February 23 6:00 pm Mason Hall, Homewood Campus The Friends of the Libraries invite you to hear alumnus Cortright McMeel read from his newly published novel, Short. McMeel is a […]
Calling all Bibliophiles!
The Betty and Edgar Sweren Student Book Collecting Contest is here! This annual competition, endowed by longtime Friends of the Libraries Betty and Edgar Sweren, recognizes the love of books […]
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
Perhaps not what Hemingway had in mind, but behold the new quiet reading space on M-level! As part of the ongoing remodeling efforts in the Milton S. Eisenhower Library, the space […]
Pull up a chair
Construction on the Brody Learning Commons is well underway. And while the crews are hard at work outside, we’re asking for your help inside. Chairs have been placed throughout M-Level, […]
The Disappearing Spoon: A Reading with Sam Kean
Wednesday, November 3 5:30 pm Mason Hall, Homewood campus The Friends of the Libraries invite you to an evening of weird science with New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean, who […]