Enjoy this post by Yuqi Zhang, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2019-2020 academic year! Hi, I am Yuqi Zhang (Claudia). About me: I am one of […]
Meet Our Freshman Fellows: Yuqi Zhang on Taking Wing in Special Collections
Meet Our Freshman Fellows: Lubna Azmi on Researching Black Activism at Hopkins
Enjoy this post by Lubna Azmi, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2019-2020 academic year! Trying to develop what I was going to research for the Freshmen […]
Meet Our Freshman Fellows: Ivy Xun on the American Women’s Suffrage Movement
Enjoy this post by Ivy Xun, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2019-2020 academic year! Hello, and welcome to my first blog post! My name is Ivy […]
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 […]
Recent Discoveries in Special Collections
To support its mission of preserving the past for future use, Sheridan Libraries Special Collections acquires rare and unique materials in lots of shapes and sizes. Many of our very […]
City People: Black Baltimore in the Photographs of John Clark Mayden
It began with a visit, on a calm December day, to a spacious, sunlit farmhouse on the edge of Leakin Park. There I encountered for the first time John Clark […]
Friends of the Libraries visit Library of Congress Suffrage Exhibit
Earlier this fall, the Friends of the Johns Hopkins University Libraries took a bus trip to Washington, D.C. to visit the exhibition Shall Not Be Denied: Women Fight for the […]
Reflecting on the Twitter Preservation Conference
Hi, I’m Elizabeth England, the Digital Archivist for Special Collections here in the Sheridan Libraries, where my job includes activities such as web archiving, transferring digital content off of media […]
Ada Lovelace Day
In honor of Ada Lovelace Day, an “international day of blogging to celebrate the achievements of women in technology and science,” I’d like to offer a tribute to Rachel Carson, […]