If you use data from the U.S. Census Bureau, you have probably already noticed the radical change to the American Fact Finder tool. If you are frustrated by these changes, know […]
Last Chance: Höfer’s BMA Exhibit Closing this Week!
Don’t miss seeing the remarkable photographs by Candida Höfer on exhibit at the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA)! The show closes on February 26 and features fantastic photographs of our very […]
Early Photography
It might be impossible for us to imagine a world without photography. We take pictures instead of notes, and place more faith in them than we do our own memories. Photographs have […]
From the Internship Files: The Louisa Cullen Scrapbook
The Department of Special Collections and Archives has oodles of really cool materials available for everyone to use, including Hopkins students looking for fun and fabulous ways to gain experience with […]
Margaret Sanger: A Reading by Jean Baker
The Friends of the Libraries invite you to a reading by historian and JHU alumna Jean Baker, who will read from her recently published biography “Margaret Sanger: A Life of […]
Spring Library Workshops
Not the kind of ‘spring’ you were thinking of? Well, our spring library workshops probably aren’t what you’d expect, either. This semester we focus on Google searches, RefWorks, other organizing […]
Dirty Books and Longing Looks!
Bring on the fainting couches, ladies and gents, because it’s time once more for a Special Collections Valentine’s library treat — Dirty Books and Longing Looks! Remember all the fun […]
Expanded Recycling Program
Thanks to the Johns Hopkins Office of Sustainability, we’re now offering a new pen recycling program in the M-level copy room. Bring any unwanted pens, pencils (wood or mechanical), highlighters, […]
What’s new in Museum Studies? For one thing: the Research Guide!
There are so many people at Hopkins interested in Museum Studies that we are constantly thinking of new ways to meet research needs for Hopkins’ museums staff and faculty and […]
New Mapping Tools
Do you need a map to illustrate an area’s changing demographics? Or you want to map how many pizza parlors are in your neighborhood? The library now subscribes to two new databases […]