One of the questions we’ve received from our various feedback options (Ask-a-Librarian, Twitter, Facebook, ye olde Suggestion Box on M Level) is – how do books get chosen for the […]
Against all Odds: Swedish Poet wins Nobel Prize in Literature
The odds-makers had their usual short list for the Nobel Prize; perennial favorites such as Philip Roth, Syrian poet Adonis, Dutch writer Cees Nooteboom, Korean poet Ko Un, American novelist […]
Texts Online, Part Two: Where is the free stuff?
Okay, so you can find lots of digitized texts from the libraries’ homepage, by looking under the subject lists. But we all know EVERYTHING is on the Web, so where […]
Texts Online, Part One: What does the library hold?
The proliferation of e-books, online texts, and e-readers is progressing at a dizzying speed. We here at the library have created a new online guide on e-books and e-readers to […]
Poetry: a Universal Language
April is always Poetry Month, and while most of us think of Walt Whitman or T.S. Eliot when we hear the word poetry, there are many famous and fabulous poets […]
Extra, Extra, Read All About It!
The recent announcement by the New York Times on their new digital subscription plan has changed the world of online journalism. Many other struggling newspapers are carefully watching how this […]
The New Season of Book Awards
The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) has announced its list of finalists for this year’s awards in Fiction, Poetry, Biography, Autobiography, Criticism, and Nonfiction. The awards will be given out […]
Is That All There Is?
Ever searched for books or journals in the JHU online catalog and not found what you’re looking for? Know what your next step should be? Those of you who said […]
A book is a book is a book, or is it?
We’ve known for a long time that anyone can publish anything on the Internet, but now anyone can publish anything as an actual book as well! Several “publishers” in Germany […]
Eisenhower Library and the Avant-Garde?
You may remember a blog post from last year about a French collector and former visiting Hopkins professor, Jean Goulemot. And that much of his collection, which we have purchased, […]