Congratulations to the winners of this year’s Betty and Edgar Sweren Student Book Collecting Contest. The annual competition, endowed in 2007 by longtime Friends of the Libraries Dr. Edgar and Betty Sweren, […]
The 100 Best Business Books of All Time
People sure like to rank things: best rock guitarists, greatest moments in sports, best restaurants in Baltimore. The world of business books has its lists too, and many of the […]
Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904
Are you taking the Science on Display or Exhibiting the Global class this semester? If yes, please check out the World’s Fair collection in our Special Collections. We have been actively building this […]
Spring is in the air, and so is Poetry
April is National Poetry Month, and we love to feature poetry in all its forms during this celebratory period. How many forms can poetry take, you ask? Well, there’s the […]
Quartos Explained
In our recent Incredibly Helpful Hints post, we noted that “we like to keep you on your toes” with quartos. But what makes a “quarto” or a “folio” different from a regular book? […]
Hopkins’ Very Own Film Festival: April 6-8
Join the Johns Hopkins Film Society for their 2012 Film Festival this Friday through Sunday (April 6-8) at Shriver Hall on the Homewood Campus. As you film aficionados know, there is […]
Who’s In Brody? Special Collections!
The Brody Learning Commons will be student-focused space, full of natural light, group study space and a bigger cafe (no more waiting for tables, we hope!). We have, though, carved out some […]
Adrienne Rich: a poet lost, and found
The world of American poetry, and the world of letters at large, lost a strong and unique voice on Tuesday. Adrienne Rich, a poet of enormous talent and renown, died […]
The Divine Comedy: 800 Years Young
Canon wars aside, on anyone’s list of the most important works of all times you will surely find Dante’s Divine Comedy. Written 800 years ago, this poem in 3 parts […]
The (Early) Modern Woman
During the month of March we often look at library resources that feature women, since March is Women’s History Month (the actual legislation leading to this designation was co-sponsored by […]