This week saw a number of fun and fascinating events celebrating the spooky season at Hopkins. On October 25th Special Collections opened their doors for the Vintage Halloween Spectacular while […]
Baltimore, Spiritualism, and Houdini
This is Halloween!
With Samhain season soon upon us, specters, spirits, spooks galore! Conjure forth your syllabus to get the help you’re searching for.We call upon thee, spectral scholars, those who haunt the […]
Burning Questions: “What’s the Best Way to Approach a Research Paper When You Don’t Know Where to Start?”
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 […]
Remembering the Victims of 9/11
Each generation has a pivotal moment that transcends individual experience, becoming part of the collective memory. For some, that moment may have been the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the assassination […]
Burning Questions: Getting Out on the Town
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 […]
Summer Reading Recs From Your Librarians! (Part 2)
Welcome to the second installment of our librarians’ summer reading recommendations! Let’s jump straight in! Fiction: We started with Fiction picks last week, so let’s switch it up. Our first […]
Summer Reading Recs From Your Librarians! (Part 1)
All work and no play makes Johns Hopkins a dull boy! And as much as we love diving deep into our academic research, you may not be surprised that our […]
Semester Ends: Don’t Forget to Return Your Library Books
The last day of classes is fast approaching. As the semester ends, you may have some library books to return. Before you leave campus, be sure to return your books, […]
Wishing You Happy Holidays!
This year, three of the world’s most prominent religions welcome Spring by celebrating their faiths. While Passover and Easter are always celebrated in Springtime, the alignment of these holidays with […]
Meet Our Freshman Fellows: Arusa Malik on Pop Culture & Feminism
Enjoy this post by Arusa Malik, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2022-2023 academic year! Bam! Pow! Crash! Thump! When I think of these classic onomatopoeias, I […]