Today marked the 23rd anniversary of the “Tiananmen Incident,” a brutal crackdown by the Chinese government on students’ protest and demonstration on Tiananmen Square on June 4th, 1989. China has […]
Context is Key: Processing the Roland Park Company Archives
By Rob Gamble, Processing Assistant and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History Part of a monthly series of posts highlighting uncovered items of note, and the archival process brought […]
Gertrude Stein, Emperor of the Avant-Garde… and Its Aftermath
A funny thing happened on the way to the twentieth century. Literary conventions, along with the artistic conventions native to most forms, came under attack. Anti-convention campaigns across the globe […]
A History of Johns Hopkins Yearbooks
In 1889, the undergraduates of The Johns Hopkins University published their first yearbook. Entitled The Debutante, the little book with a black-and-blue cover consists of 110 pages, and only a handful […]
Lighting Out for the Territories (actually just for the BLC)
The Sheridan Libraries Special Collections main reading room and department in the Milton S. Eisenhower Library will be closed starting June 18 to allow staff to move into the Brody […]
Ouch That Hurts!
Every year the library circulates hundreds of thousands of books. In addition to circulating books, patrons use thousands of books in the library that are not checked out. Usually, the […]
FlowerMart: Where Old Books & Lemon Sticks Collide
Well, not really. You see, the lemon sticks are supposed to be consumed before you look at the rare books, silly! Anyway, are you looking for some weekend plans that […]
Maryland Film Festival 2012
I know, I know: I sound like a broken record. Every time you go to the blog, I’ve posted about another film festival. First Tournees French Films, then the JHU […]
Take a Historical Tour of Istanbul with Lady Mary Wortley Montagu!
If you’ve read any historical travel accounts, you may notice that there some similarities in terms of their observations regarding non-western countries’ governments, legal systems, cultures, religious practices and customs and traditions. Yet, […]
Take Our E-book Survey!
Do you ever read electronic books? Whether your answer is YES or whether it’s NO, if you’re a JHU affiliate, you can take our survey! Your library wants to know […]