Do you have an idea you wish you could make, if only you had the tools? Lucky for you, Johns Hopkins University has a Makerspace for just that purpose. Located […]
Bring Your Ideas To Life at the Makerspace
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 […]
Unearthing Ephemera in the Levy Collection
The Lester Levy Sheet Music Collection, a collection of over 30,000 digitized songs, is one of Special Collections’ most frequently consulted resources. While the collection has been the subject of […]
Where Are the Comics?!
Until fairly recently, the presence of comic books and graphic novels in the world of academia would be debated. However, the place of comic books and graphic novels in academia […]
Reprocessing the Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve Papers, Part I: Why do Archivists Reprocess Collections?
Processing archivists arrange and describe unpublished materials so that researchers can use them effectively and efficiently within Special Collections and Archives at universities, museums, historical societies, and other institutions. Because […]
Read It & Eat It Is Awaiting Your Edible Book Entry!
Have you ever read Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera and upon coming to the passage in which Erik declares to “have tasted all the happiness the world can […]
Ramadan Mubarak! !رمضان مبارك
To all of our Muslim friends, family, students, colleagues, faculty, and staff, Ramadan Mubarak! We, at the library, want to extend our warmest wishes for a blessed Ramadan. We recognize […]
Recordings and Transcriptions of the “The Languages of Criticism and the Sciences of Man.”
For four days in October of 1966, the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at Johns Hopkins University played host to a symposium entitled “The Languages of Criticism and the Sciences of […]
Business Location Databases
When we think about places in our local community what often comes to mind are those anchoring businesses where we shop and connect with our neighbors. Places like our favorite […]
Visit Johns Hopkins Digital Collections in JSTOR
The Visual Resources Collection (VRC) and Sheridan Libraries Special Collections are pleased to announce the addition of several new collections to our Johns Hopkins Digital Collections in JSTOR. For example, […]