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!
Fall 2023 Visual Resources Updates
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 […]
Homewood Museum’s Historic Privy: Renovation and Reconsideration
Throughout the summer and fall of 2022, carpenters, masons, and painters worked to restore the interior of Homewood Museum’s historic privy. Built between 1801 and 1804, when construction on the […]
Juneteenth
To all of our students, staff, faculty, family, and friends, we wish you a happy Juneteenth! For anyone unfamiliar with the celebration, June 19th, or Juneteenth, is a significant holiday […]
Visit Johns Hopkins Digital Collections in JSTOR
The Visual Resources Collection (VRC) and Sheridan Libraries Special Collections are pleased to announce the addition of several new collections to our Johns Hopkins Digital Collections in JSTOR. For example, […]
JHU Museums Year in Review: Meet the New Staffers
The past year was one of great activity and change at the Johns Hopkins University Museums. Much of that energy was derived from new staff members and new positions for […]
Shop the Gift Shops at Evergreen and Homewood This Holiday Season
The gift shops at Homewood Museum and Evergreen Museum & Library are great destinations for holiday shopping! And this weekend, during the museums’ respective open houses, JHU faculty, staff, and […]
Introducing MLA Handbook Plus
The American Psychological Association (APA) style guide (as part of Academic Writer) and the Chicago Manual of Style have long been available online. It is only recently, however, that the […]