The Johns Hopkins University Libraries are proud to announce Catalyst, a new search interface for the JHU collections. Catalyst is an open source project and was developed at Johns Hopkins by programmers […]
Johns Hopkins University Libraries Join HathiTrust
The Johns Hopkins University Libraries have become the newest member of HathiTrust, a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating in an extraordinary digital library initiative to preserve and […]
Happy 80th Birthday to the Friends of the Libraries
On March 5, 1931, in Gilman Hall, the Friends of the Johns Hopkins University Libraries was established. This group, founded at the request of President Joseph Ames and following the […]
Short: A Reading by Cortright McMeel
Wednesday, February 23 6:00 pm Mason Hall, Homewood Campus The Friends of the Libraries invite you to hear alumnus Cortright McMeel read from his newly published novel, Short. McMeel is a […]
A Newbie Librarian Learns the Ropes at JHU
For those of you that may not know me, my name is Rob Sippel and I’m the “newbie librarian” of the title. I’m currently pursuing a Master of Library and Information […]
Reading the Peabody: Student Discoveries in Baltimore’s First Public Library
You may have noticed that the exhibit cases on M-level are filled with a new set of books. They come from the George Peabody Library in Mount Vernon, one of […]
Last Chance: Library Survey Extended Through Sunday
The response to our survey has been great! We want to give those of you who haven’t shared your opinions with us yet another chance to tell us what you really […]
Tell Us More: Library Survey Extended Until November 7
The response to our survey has been great! We want to give those of you who haven’t shared your opinions with us yet another chance to tell us what you really […]
Film Fridays: Hopkins goes Hollywood
With the recent release of the critically-acclaimed movie “The Social Network”, Hopkins has officially gone Hollywood. But masquerading as Harvard isn’t our only claim to fame. Hopkins has starred […]
Nobel Prize Winner in Literature: 2 Degrees of Separation
Mario Vargas Llosa, the 2010 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, is no stranger to Johns Hopkins. Our own Professor Sara Castro-Klarén (German & Romance Languages and Literature) has […]