… students studying, printers printing, and MUSIC (via headphones so you don’t disturb fellow researchers)! But seriously folks, there are a number of music resources available to you for your […]
Fall into More Library Workshops
Last Friday was the start of fall. That means cooler weather is coming. It also means you need to start working on those long-term papers, projects, and presentations. This week […]
New ProQuest Databases
ProQuest is one of the leading vendors of online databases. If you are a regular user of JHU’s online information resources, then you’ve probably already mined information from a ProQuest product: […]
Group Study Reservation Service
For the first time ever, you can guarantee yourself a spot in one of the coveted group study rooms throughout the library. Our new, online service allows anyone with a […]
Additional Bloomberg Terminals!
Created by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (a JHU alumnus), and now a service of Bloomberg L.P., the Bloomberg Financial Service offers real-time and selected historical economic, financial, and industrial […]
Make ‘Em Laugh!
Did you hear the one about two German teenagers who opened a publishing house in Baltimore? Nope, this is not the set up to some real bad joke involving lederhosen […]
Western Depictions of Crime and Punishment in Late Imperial China
Recently, we have digitized a collection of 51 images on crime and punishment in late Imperial China, gleaned from the 19th century Westerners’ China travelogues housed at the Department of […]
New RefWorks Platform
JHU has moved to the new RefWorks platform, RefWorks 2.0. The old version is now referred to as “RefWorks Classic.” RefWorks 2.0 looks very different, but the functionality hasn’t changed […]
Bharatanatyam and Mohiniyattam – Classical Dances of South India
The Sangeet Natak Akademi, the National Academy for Music, Dance and Drama of India, confers classical status on eight dance forms of India — Bharatanatyam, Odissi, Kuchipudi, Manipuri, Mohiniyattam, Sattriya, […]
On Escapology, Contortionism, Pantomime and Magic Lanterns: Victorian Popular Culture
“I was born—that fact is undisputed and undisputable. I make no apology for that! but I apologise for appearing before you in the character of an autobiographist. I never wrote a […]