The Johns Hopkins Libraries will reopen some physical locations in the days ahead with reduced hours, capacity limits, de-densified study spaces, and enhanced cleaning and sanitizing procedures as the university […]
Update on Library Services for Thanksgiving Week
The Sheridan Libraries will be closed Thursday, November 26 and Friday, November 27 for Thanksgiving, a university holiday. The library services below will have modified hours during Thanksgiving week, from […]
Meet the Team Behind MSEL’s Pickup Service
In June, the Johns Hopkins Libraries launched a pickup service for faculty, staff, and students to checkout library materials. If you’ve participated at MSEL, there’s a good chance someone from […]
Wellness Games Recommendations
[Today’s post is brought to us by guest bloggers, Edwina Picon and Clare Lochary, two of the people involved in the Sheridan Libraries student wellness initiatives. To reach them, please […]
Using Ebooks This Fall
Though the Sheridan Libraries are pleased to continue to offer curbside pickup for many print books this fall (see here for details), we recognize that ebooks are often preferred by […]
Meet Our 2020-2021 Freshman Fellows!
The Special Collections Freshman Fellows program began in 2016 as an enriching and fun introduction to the challenges and joys of conducting research with primary sources. Students in the fellowship […]
Open Access and JHU: Some Numbers
With Open Access Week happening Oct. 19 – 25th, I thought I’d provide a high-level overview of the Open Access journal publishing done by Johns Hopkins authors. Just in case […]
Open Access Week Events
This year the Johns Hopkins Libraries are marking Open Access Week with a variety of events. We hope one or more appeal to you. Friday, Oct. 16 9:00 am – […]
Fall 2020 with the VRC
[This blog post was contributed by VRC Staff Alana Barry (International Studies/East Asian Studies, ’22)] As we begin the fall semester in an online-only format, the Visual Resources Collection (VRC) […]
Meet our Freshman Fellows: Natalie Thornton on Learning by Doing
Enjoy this post by Natalie Thornton, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2019-2020 academic year! For my second installment of translations of later Latin texts as part […]