Enjoy this post by Virankha Peter, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2023-2024 academic year. Interested in applying? Find out about the 2024-2025 program here. My year […]
This blog post was contributed by VRC Staff Kali Gilbreath (School of Education) Welcome back Blue Jays! As we begin the Fall 2024 semester, the Visual Resources Collection is up […]
Dean’s Undergraduate Research Award (DURA) recipient Madeleine Schmitz translated Ma. Ein Porträt, one of the rare first editions of Lou Andreas-Salomé’s works housed by Special Collections. Schmitz created an online […]
Preserved in Print, the current exhibition at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library, examines eminent figures of African descent–political leaders, journalists, poets, actors, scientists, and thinkers–as they were represented through printed […]
The VRC welcomes you to the Spring semester with a few updates about Artstor’s final transition to JSTOR. The Artstor website will be retired on August 1, 2024. You are […]
As 2023 draws to a close, Lori Beth Finkelstein, Director of the JHU Museums, took a moment to reflect on all the activities and accomplishments at Evergreen and Homewood over the past year.
We’re now deep into baking season, and while 2023’s apple harvest was a mixed bag nationally, Homewood Museum’s orchard of mostly apple (and a few pear) trees over-performed. As the […]
It is often said that the Johns Hopkins University Museums are laboratories of learning. Homewood Museum and Evergreen Museum & Library certainly lived up to that reputation in 2023, hosting […]
Sometimes, when we talk about Open Access (OA), it can feel like we focus way too much on STEM fields. However, humanities and social sciences want to publish OA too! […]
Please enjoy this blog post written by Emily McGinn. Open Access is at the heart of the Digital Humanities (DH). Freely available and unfettered data is key to being able […]