It’s the most wonderful time of the year – Shark Week! This week we celebrate all things shark where you’ll discover the beauty and mystery of these majestic sea beasts. […]
Celebrate! It’s Shark Week!
There’s More to the Story: Celebrate #NationalLibraryWeek, April 23-29
It’s National Library Week (April 23-29), an annual celebration of the contributions of our nation’s libraries and librarians. This year’s theme, There’s More to the Story, has us asking: What […]
Shop the Gift Shops at Evergreen and Homewood This Holiday Season
The gift shops at Homewood Museum and Evergreen Museum & Library are great destinations for holiday shopping! And this weekend, during the museums’ respective open houses, JHU faculty, staff, and […]
World Cup Time!
TRIVIA TIME! (answers below this post) Where was the term “soccer” created? How many teams have won the world cup? What is the U.S’ highest ever finish? 2022 sees the […]
Connect With Your Library
National Library Week is April 3-9, and this year’s theme is “Connect With Your Library.” It’s a great theme as we’ve found over the last two years that there are […]
Celebrating Public Domain Day 2022
On January 1, 2022, books, poems, music, and films published in 1926 in the US entered the Public Domain. Why does that matter to you or anyone else? For one thing, it […]
Sheet Music Deep Dive: Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving was made an official holiday by decree of Abraham Lincoln in 1863. While there don’t seem to be as many melodies composed for the holiday as there are for […]
Sheet Music Deep Dive: Veterans Day
The Lester Levy Sheet Music Collection contains hundreds of songs honoring our veterans, ranging from the American Revolutionary War to World War II. More broadly, music has always played a […]
Sheet Music Deep Dive: Halloween
Halloween is here! As spooky season draws to a close, here are a few of the spookiest, creepiest, and midnight-iest songs in the Levy Sheet Music Collection. ‘Twas in the […]
Spooky Season at JHU Museums
It’s the time of year when the weather cools, the leaves change, and people gather round to hear their favorite scary or odd stories. This year, the staff at JHU […]