The original idea of this post was to rank these types of food based on which ones were most integral to the Baltimore experience. When we surveyed the librarians, we […]
Charm City Treats
In Memoriam: Remembering Sylvia Eggleston Wehr
Dear Friends, On behalf of the Sheridan Libraries & University Museums, I express our profound sadness at the passing on Sunday of Sylvia Eggleston Wehr, the trailblazing development doyenne who […]
Baltimore, Spiritualism, and Houdini
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 […]
Open Access Week 2023
On October 23 – 29, 2023, Johns Hopkins Libraries will celebrate International Open Access Week with libraries and researchers across the world. This year’s theme is “Community over Commercialization,” emphasizing […]
Celebrate Spooky Season at Our Vintage Halloween Spectacular!
The friendly ghosts of the Brody Learning Commons have pleasantly haunted our dreams, demanding a Vintage Halloween Spectacular in Special Collections! Off to our 1940s Ouija Board we went, determining […]
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 […]
Hopkins Students Participate in the Peabody Ballroom Experience
The ballroom scene is a nearly century-old performance-based culture composed primarily of queer, lesbian, trans, and gender non-conforming artists of color. Recently popularized by the television show Pose, ballroom consists […]
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 […]
Burning Questions: “Is the Library Strictly Academic or Are There Recreational Books as Well?”
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: “Is There a Graphic Novel Section?
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 […]