We, librarians, are fortunate that we get to meet a lot of incoming Hopkins students. We often request that they give us their “burning questions” — about Baltimore, Hopkins, the […]
Burning Questions: Getting Out on the Town
Meet Our First-Year Fellows: Storrie Kulynych-Irvin on Academic Muses and Mules
Enjoy this post by Storrie Kulynych-Irvin, one of our 2024-2025 First-Year Fellows. Applications are now open for the 2025-2026 cycle! In this post I will be picking up and expanding […]
Meet Our First-Year Fellows: Meenal Srivastava on Cultural Collisions on the Hippie Trail
Enjoy this post by Meenal Srivastava, one of our 2024-2025 First-Year Fellows. Applications are now open for the 2025-2026 cycle! Hi everyone! My name is Meenal. I’m a rising sophomore […]
Meet Our First-Year Fellows: Romila Detering on Early Student Records
Enjoy this post by Romila Detering, one of our Special Collections First-Year Fellows for the 2024-2025 academic year. Applications for the 2025-2026 cycle are now open! I am excited to […]
Food for Thought
“Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, deerit nihil.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero This quotation is often mistranslated as “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” […]
What is a National Bibliography and Why Would I Care?
Have you ever wondered how libraries and researchers keep track of all the published materials that come from a particular country? Every year countless publications, books, journals, maps, music scores, […]
LGBTQ+ Data and Collections
In honor of Pride Month, we want to highlight LGBTQ+ data and collections at JHU and beyond. These datasets give us a lens through which we can observe and interpret […]
LGBTQ+ Resources On and Off Campus
This June, we at the libraries encourage you to celebrate your identity, your community, and your people! In honor of Pride Month, here is a list of projects, resources, materials […]
Yizkor Books: Traveling Homelands and Portable Memorials
Please enjoy this blog post by Sophia Shoulson, PhD candidate in Jewish Languages and Literatures in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, who spent the 2024-2025 year in Technical […]
Riders Up! A History of Steeplechase Racing in America
Did you know that according to the Maryland Horse Council and the American Horse Council, there are more horses per square mile (7.5) in Maryland than in any other state […]