Conversations in medicine happen billions of times each day. Everyone within the medical community, including the patients, talks and talks and tries to reach mutual understanding. As studies show, we’re […]
Constantino Brumidi: A Capitol Fellow!
“I have no longer any desire for fame or fortune. My one ambition and my daily prayer is that I may live long enough to make beau tiful the Capitol […]
On-Site Borrowing: One More Reason to Love BorrowDirect
The Collections of the Ivies+ Now at Your Fingertips
Where is your Fiction Section?
We hear this question a lot at the Information Desk. Ask a simple question, get a simple answer, right? Well, the simple answer to this one is basically – we […]
E-books: Can I Download? Can I Print?
Amazing fact: your JHU libraries have about 1 million e-books. They’re easy to find, because they’re all in the library catalog just like everything else we have. You do your […]
Sci Fi, Fantasy, Anime, Games!
JohnCon 2014 is almost here! This 48-hour extravaganza will begin on Friday, April 4, at 5pm, and will not stop until Sunday, April 6, at 5pm. The admission fee is […]
Korean Movies!
If you’ve ever left a movie theater disappointed, convinced you were born in the wrong time, cheer up: a golden age in film is happening right now. It’s not happening […]
Happy Birthday, Arthur Schopenhauer!

The great German philosopher, Arthur Schopenhauer, was born this day in 1788 in Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland), the son of a wealthy merchant, Heinrich Floris Schopenhauer. Young Arthur was unhappily […]
The History and Future of Libraries: “The wisdom of our ancestors”
What is a library? Is it a collection of books, a suite of digital resources, a space for studying? Where do our current ideas about libraries come from, and where […]