While social distancing as a Hopkins student doesn’t result in a sudden abundance of free time, we here at the library take it upon ourselves to find the best of […]
Cultural Life in the Time of Corona
“All I Know is What I Read in The Papers”: Discovering PressReader
Having studied Spanish since I was seven, I know how important the newspaper El País is to Hispanists-in-training all over the world. I still remember how my middle school Spanish […]
Ebooks in the time of COVID-19
With libraries being shuttered indefinitely around the world to help stop the spread of COVID-19, a number of publishers have opted to make their electronic resources available more broadly, including […]
Video Streaming for Academic Use
The library just expanded its offerings of streaming video for you to use for research and teaching! We just subscribed to Academic Video Online (AVON) to give you more options. […]
Update on Open Science and COVID-19
While many of us are following good social distancing practices by staying home, medical researchers and practitioners continue their work out in the world. Back in January I described how […]
You Read a Lot of Open Books!
I’ve written here a lot about Open Access, primarily to journal articles. In fact, Hopkins has an Open Access Policy which asks our faculty to make their peer-reviewed journal articles […]
Love Notes from the Levy Sheet Music Collection
The Lester Levy Sheet Music Collection comprises over 30,000 pieces of sheet music published between 1780 and 1980. Donated to the University by Lester Levy, the collection is renowned for […]
Jan 1: Public Domain Day 2020
Last December we celebrated the first Public Domain Day in 20 years. Now they’re an annual event, like a birthday. On 1/1/2020, books, poems, music, and films published in 1924 […]
The First-Generation College Student Oral History Project
What does it feel like to be a first-generation college student at Johns Hopkins University? What does your journey look like? Where can you go for support? What are the […]
New JHU Public Collection in Artstor: Chinese Public Health Campaign Slides 1950s-1970s
Physically housed in the Sheridan Libraries’ Special Collections, the Johns Hopkins University: Chinese Public Health Campaign Slides 1950s-1970s collection is newly available digitally via Artstor. JHU faculty, students, and staff […]