Dear Friends, On behalf of the Sheridan Libraries & University Museums, I express our profound sadness at the passing on Sunday of Sylvia Eggleston Wehr, the trailblazing development doyenne who […]
In Memoriam: Remembering Sylvia Eggleston Wehr
Hopkins Students Participate in the Peabody Ballroom Experience
The ballroom scene is a nearly century-old performance-based culture composed primarily of queer, lesbian, trans, and gender non-conforming artists of color. Recently popularized by the television show Pose, ballroom consists […]
Service Desk Awardees: Briana Zhang and Steven Calleja
As we continue to welcome this year’s new crop of Service Desk workers, we want to recognize the achievements of our wonderful and hard working staff! Briana Zhang, Eisenhower Library […]
Brody Café Joins Hopkins Meal Plan
Sheridan Libraries and Hopkins Dining partner to bring dining dollars to the library’s coffeehouse. A new partnership between the Sheridan Libraries and Hopkins Dining allows students to use their dining […]
Reprocessing the Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve Papers, Part III: Fannie Gildersleeve Tonsler
In earlier posts, I talked about reprocessing the Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve papers and how that work led me to Fannie Manning Gildersleeve Tonsler, a Black woman from Charlottesville, Virginia, who […]
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 […]
NYT Audio Now Available to JHU Affiliates!
We are excited to share that the New York Times is now offering even more great material to Johns Hopkins students and scholars. In addition to the top-notch journalism currently […]
Legalized It: Cannabis and Hopkins
Maryland recently approved cannabis legalization for recreational use starting July 1, making it the 21st state to do so. The impact of this legalization on our neighbors and our communities […]
Reprocessing the Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve Papers, Part II: Why Gildersleeve?
In part one of this blog series, I discussed why processing archivists sometimes reprocess collections. In part two I’ll talk more specifically about reprocessing the Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve papers and […]
Reprocessing the Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve Papers, Part I: Why do Archivists Reprocess Collections?
Processing archivists arrange and describe unpublished materials so that researchers can use them effectively and efficiently within Special Collections and Archives at universities, museums, historical societies, and other institutions. Because […]