Dean’s Undergraduate Research Award (DURA) recipient Madeleine Schmitz translated Ma. Ein Porträt, one of the rare first editions of Lou Andreas-Salomé’s works housed by Special Collections. Schmitz created an online […]
Rex (Youjian) Xiao: Researching and Animating Midcentury Romance Comics
Dean’s Undergraduate Research Award (DURA) recipient Rex Xiao conducted research with Special Collections’ romance comic book collection, exploring midcentury American life and teenage counterculture. By examining how romance comics, rooted […]
Zhikang Xie (Leo): Narrating the Taiping Rebellion, Imperial Hero, and Masculinity in Late-Victorian Britain
Dean’s Undergraduate Research Award (DURA) recipient Zhikang Xie conducted research with materials housed at the George Peabody Library and John Work Garret Library to analyze the evolution of late Victorian […]
Places to Visit in Baltimore and Beyond
Looking to take advantage of the warming weather to see the sights and sounds of Charm City? Want to know some great places to visit during your summer break? Use […]
OSPO Explainer: What is Open-Source Software?
The Johns Hopkins University Open Source Programs Office (OSPO) is excited to announce the launch of our new Explainer series, a collection of bite-sized videos tackling a variety of open-source […]
Library Pets!
Academic pressures often contribute to heightened stress levels among students. That heightened stress can create huge obstacles to learning, studying, and succeeding in our courses. It’s a terrible cycle! Luckily […]
JHU Museums Year in Review: Homewood’s Orchard Yields Delicious Results
We’re now deep into baking season, and while 2023’s apple harvest was a mixed bag nationally, Homewood Museum’s orchard of mostly apple (and a few pear) trees over-performed. As the […]
Retellings for Your Winter Reading
Written by Sue Vazakas and Jenelle Clark, JHU’s Unofficial SF/F Librarians Many authors enjoy “retelling” a story that already exists – they may want to explore the story through characters […]
Recontextualizing Japanese Reparations Photos
By Jenelle Clark and Hanjie Guo Processing archivists spend a lot of our time crafting careful description for the collections our institutions hold. For items that our curators purchase for […]
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 […]