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.
A Year of Growth at the JHU Museums
JHU Museums Year in Review: Homewood’s Orchard Yields Delicious Results
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 […]
JHU Museums Year in Review: Interns
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 […]
OA Week: JH Libraries Supports Book Authors Too!
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! […]
OA Week: Digital Humanities’ Ethos of Sharing
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 […]
Open Access Week 2023
On October 23 – 29, 2023, Johns Hopkins Libraries will celebrate International Open Access Week with libraries and researchers across the world. This year’s theme is “Community over Commercialization,” emphasizing […]
Fall 2023 Visual Resources Updates
Welcome back to campus! Just a few updates from the Visual Resources Collection (VRC): Please email vrc@jhu.edu for any image or visual resources questions!
Burning Questions: Writers’ Associations
We, librarians, are fortunate that we get to meet a lot of incoming Hopkins students. We often request that they give us their “burning questions” — about Baltimore, Hopkins, the […]
Apply to Be a First-Year Fellow!
Special Collections is accepting applications for First-Year Fellows, a one-year fellowship exclusively available to our fabulous First-Year undergraduates! The program is designed to introduce students to the joys, challenges, and […]
Meet Our Freshman Fellows: Vanessa Han on Middle East-Inspired Sheet Music
Enjoy this post by Vanessa Han, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2022-2023 academic year. Hello and welcome! My name is Vanessa and I had the awesome […]