THE most frequent question we librarians get is – where can I get my article online? The answer can be quite complicated, but in a nutshell, here is how you […]
Portrait of a Collector
Jean Goulemot was a visiting professor in the (then) Romance Languages department when I made his acquaintance, and discovered a mutual passion for collecting. Jean, pictured here, haunts the flea […]
Look no further – Hopkins has writers
Need something to read? (I’m always asking this question!) Look no further than your own back yard. Johns Hopkins is home to one of the premier writing programs in the […]
Summer Reading, or, How will you spend your summer “vacation”?
Endless stretches of time before us, lazy hazy days and long hours of sunlight. And yet, the perennial question: what should we read this summer? We all have lists of […]
Quoth the Raven : “Evermore!”
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe, a writer forever associated with Baltimore and not only because he happened to die here. His final […]
World Digital Library Launches Today
The World Digital Library is a partnership between the Library of Congress and UNESCO, with a little help from Google. This new project aims to “promote international and inter-cultural understanding […]
Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Microfilm?
Does the word “microfilm” make you run, screaming, away from the library? Do you have fear and loathing of celluloid? Well, you’re not alone. Perhaps nothing instills such fear in […]
Professor Emeritus Allen Grossman wins Bollingen Prize in Poetry
Allen Grossman, the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities in the English Department, has won the prestigious Bollingen Prize in American Poetry, awarded biennially by Yale University. The prize […]
And the Winner is…..
The 2007 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature was announced this morning in Oslo. And the winner once confounded all pundits who try each year to guess the winner. […]
Watch this space!
The beginning of October marks the start of “Nobel season“. The first prize awarded is in medicine (October 8 this year). Other prizes are also scheduled to be announced on […]