Greetings from Evergreen Museum & Library’s virtual office in my basement. For those of you new to us, the museum is housed in a 162-year-old Italianate mansion in the northern-most […]
Evergreen Obscurus: The 10.5 Pound Turnip Edition
Has the Curse of the Creepy Doll Struck the #JHUMAKESTOYS Challenge?
It was bound to happen. All was going far too well with the #JHUMAKESTOYS challenge. Viking ships set sail! Zippy little race cars were created! But then the toy model […]
Let’s Make a Model Village With The #JHUMakesToys Challenge!
Time still flies, even when you are under quarantine. We are now about to embark on our 5th #JHUMakesToys Challenge! Last week, we attempted to avoid the intrusion of creepy […]
Find Out If Creepy Dolls Dream of Matchbox Sailing Ships with the #JHUMAKESTOYS Challenge!
Alas, last week’s fantasy that we could actually build a toy car and escape the tyranny of creepy dolls proved to be a dud. While our matchbox racing card is […]
Finding the Library at Your Place
It’s a most wonderful time of the year for those of us in Library World. Each year, April 19th-25th is set aside as National Library Week, a time to celebrate […]
Tips for Finding Full Text Articles
When you’re off campus there are several ways to find a full text article. Just Googling for an article will have mixed success because you need to be able to […]
HathiTrust Opens Up Access
HathiTrust, a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries, has taken an important step and opened up copyrighted material in their digital library to member institutions with copies of those […]
Cultural Life in the Time of Corona
While social distancing as a Hopkins student doesn’t result in a sudden abundance of free time, we here at the library take it upon ourselves to find the best of […]
The Library Bunch!
What do you call a librarian with no library? Well, it may sound like the lead-in to a dad joke but thanks to the closure of the Johns Hopkins libraries […]
Play, Lady, Play
So, just what are you looking for when it comes to the ideal game? Do you want it to be an “eye-opening”, “uproariously funny,” “winterful of fun”? Then look no […]