Prepare yourself, for the third wave of your librarians’ book recommendations is upon you! If you missed our previous editions, make sure to check them out here and here. Let’s […]
Summer Reading Recs From Your Librarians! (Part 3)
Reprocessing the Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve Papers, Part III: Fannie Gildersleeve Tonsler
In earlier posts, I talked about reprocessing the Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve papers and how that work led me to Fannie Manning Gildersleeve Tonsler, a Black woman from Charlottesville, Virginia, who […]
Entrepreneurial Engineers: Recap of the 2023 ASEE Conference
I recently attended the American Society of Engineering Education conference, held right here in Baltimore. It’s a great opportunity to network and learn, especially with division groups for every type […]
Barbenheimer
If you exist in the online world at all, you have probably taken note of the Barbenheimer phenomenon. Barbenheimer is a portmanteau of the titles of the two blockbuster films, […]
Celebrate! It’s Shark Week!
It’s the most wonderful time of the year – Shark Week! This week we celebrate all things shark where you’ll discover the beauty and mystery of these majestic sea beasts. […]
Meet Our Freshman Fellows: Victoria Popoola on Translating an Untranslated Renaissance Latin Map
Enjoy this post by Victoria Popoola, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2022-2023 academic year. Latin is widely considered to be a niche language. Although many of […]
Meet Our Freshman Fellows: Arusa Malik on Illustrating Women’s Lib
Enjoy this post by Arusa Malik, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2022-2023 academic year. When I began as a Freshman Fellow, I was drawn to the […]
Meet Our Freshman Fellows: Vanessa Han on Middle East-Inspired Sheet Music
Enjoy this post by Vanessa Han, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2022-2023 academic year. Hello and welcome! My name is Vanessa and I had the awesome […]
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 […]
Homewood Museum’s Historic Privy: Renovation and Reconsideration
Throughout the summer and fall of 2022, carpenters, masons, and painters worked to restore the interior of Homewood Museum’s historic privy. Built between 1801 and 1804, when construction on the […]