We’re moving Illiad, the software for Interlibrary Loan, from the Welch Medical Library to our home base. So, we need to take the system off-line for one day: Wednesday, July […]
E-books: Can I Download? Can I Print?
Amazing fact: your JHU libraries have about 1 million e-books. They’re easy to find, because they’re all in the library catalog just like everything else we have. You do your […]
Printers are Important!
We’ve been talking with students lately about the different services MSEL and Brody offer. The printers are the most heavily used service we offer (we’re talkin’ OVER A MILLION prints/scans/copies […]
ArcGIS Workshops Resume!
The Sheridan Libraries GIS and Data Services Department is resuming its popular series of workshops, “Getting Acquainted With ArcGIS.” We welcome all to attend: the curious, the besieged, the beset, frequent […]
Follow Your Music
Music makes the world go ‘round. We all carry our music with us – on our devices or in our hearts, or both. But you can do more than that. […]
Downtime in the New Year
In order to perform some necessary maintenance and upgrade work, some library systems will be operating with limited functionality starting the evening of January 2. Everything is expected to be […]
Electronic Reserves Down Part of Friday Nov. 15
Our Electronic Reserves system is undergoing maintenance tomorrow, Friday Nov. 15th. The system is scheduled to be offline from 10am to 1pm. For more information during the outage, please contact […]
Digital Forensics in the Archives
Digital forensics is a specialized field that focuses on recovering and analyzing information from media and devices such as computer hard drives, floppy disks, flash drives, cell phones and so […]
No Desktops in the Library?
I just read an interesting blog post about the future of desktop computers in libraries. Will mobile computing devices and improvements in collaboration tools (think TeamSpot) decrease the need for […]
Languages; We Have Lots of Languages
Guess how many languages the library has books written in. Just guess. Three-hundred and forty-six (346)!! Here is the list of all of them — it’s fascinating! Here are the 25 […]