Down here in Government Publications, Maps and Law (GPML) we get a lot of who, what, when and where statistics questions. Some examples include “how many women-owned businesses are there in […]
A Day at Librarian Bootcamp
Actually it was a day-long Medical Library Association continuing education course called e-Science Bootcamp. The course was developed by the librarians at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of […]
Columbia Gazetteer of the World is Now Online
Place-name searching just got easier with the Columbia Gazetteer of the World; now available online to the Johns Hopkins Institutions. Considered the definitive English-language gazetteer (geographical index or dictionary), the Columbia […]
Top Hopkins Picks in 2010
Between those giant textbooks and dense journals, you’d think Hopkins students and profs wouldn’t have time for pleasure reading. Not so! Our McNaughton Collection of popular fiction and nonfiction is […]
And the Winners Are…
The results are in! Thanks to all of you who completed the recent LibQual survey. And congratulations to those of you who won either a Barnes and Noble gift card or a […]
Getting Acquainted With ArcGIS 10
The Government Publications, Maps and Law Department (GPML for short) is offering a new Thursday workshop series on using ArcGIS 10. The workshops will run every Thursday starting this Thursday (Jan. […]
Numbers, Numbers, Who’s Got the Numbers?
We do! We count the number of people using the library, consulting our databases, and taking our classes; we also count how many books we own, and the number of […]
Come one, come all to the Fair!
The ICPSR Social Sciences Data Fair, that is. Sponsored by the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), this Virtual Data Fair is free and open to all members […]
Want to know what people REALLY think?
Short of mind-reading, there are ways to get an idea of what people think and feel about current events in America and around the world. How, you say? Well through […]
Open Access by the Numbers
If you’re wondering how many Open Access journals are available, the Directory of Open Access Journals has an answer. On October 11th, there were 5,509 Open Access journals available. According […]