Calling all summer session instructors! Summer is right around the corner. Perhaps you have readings you would like to be available electronically for your students. Do you need to put books or videos […]
Satyajit Ray (1921-1992): A Great Indian Filmmaker
Satyajit Ray, a highly acclaimed filmmaker in India, was born on May 2, 1921 in Calcutta (now known as Kolkata) in India to his parents, Sukumar and Suprabha Ray. His […]
Get the Answer, Get a T-Shirt!— Continued
Back by popular demand! Our previous T-shirt question received fast and enthusiastic responses. We would like to continue this series by inviting you to conduct a fact-finding mission on money and […]
Jump into Jazz during JAM
Hot jazz, cool jazz, Latin jazz, classic and contemporary jazz, it’s all jazz. April is Jazz Appreciation Month! DVDs and videos (~70) – Watch and listen to Billie Holliday, Miles […]
Your new favorite way to search
The Johns Hopkins University Libraries are proud to announce the arrival of Catalyst, a new interface for the JHU catalog, designed to make searching simpler and smarter. Highlights include: Simplicity: […]
Finding Foreign Films
Are you from a country outside the U.S. and feeling homesick? Are you a native English speaker studying another language? Or, are you just a polyglot who loves movies? In any […]
Catalyst has arrived!
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 […]
Get the Answer, Get a T-Shirt!
Do you know that our library subscribes to over 800 academic databases? They include databases in humanities, social sciences, sciences, engineering and medicine, all for your research needs. Make full use of […]
Fixing Holes in Literary History
We all know what happens to the losers in the canon wars: their works are relegated to the lowly position of “minor” literature. William Gilmore Simms, anyone? A nineteenth-century South Carolingian […]
And the Most Popular Database is…
It’s February. That means the Oscars are on people’s minds. While most people are wondering which of the nominees will win best picture, I’m wondering which literature database is used […]