We’re making a video about the library and need your help. Have a great story about MSEL that you want to share? Got a suggestion to pass along? Dying to […]
Keeping Current with Research
We recently received a question in the Suggestion Box, asking how students can receive alerts to tables of contents of favorite journals as they’re released. This is a great question, as search alerts save you […]
They’re Very Teeny – Can They Hurt Us?
Thursday is the Institute for Nanobiotechnology’s annual symposium. The meeting’s title is Environmental and Health Impacts of Engineered Nanomaterials. That basically means “nanotoxicology,” or “could nanoparticles be harmful to the […]
Women’s voices from the 18th century
Join the Friends of the Johns Hopkins University Press this Thursday, April 29, for a program featuring some of Maryland’s most celebrated women poets, as they gather to read from the Press’ […]
World Bank’s New Open Data Initiative
The World Bank has announced a new open data initiative that will bring global economic and development data to the Web for the world to use. This free site provides easy […]
Don’t Let Google Cost You Time
You have a paper due and you’re surfing Google for topic info. Hmm, there’s an article that looks good [click]. Drat, a password screen! What a PAIN – why do […]
Where does a poem come from?
Sidney Lanier was a flautist. Sidney Lanier was a Confederate soldier, captured by the Union and imprisoned at Point Lookout, Maryland, where he contracted tuberculosis. Sidney Lanier was a hotel […]
Green Initiatives in the Sheridan Libraries
Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-WI) organized the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, to bring political awareness to a grassroots environmental movement. Forty years later, climate change has become the […]
Trash Art: Eco-Sensitive Endeavors by Artists
To commemorate Earth Day, you may wish to explore ways visual artists strive to reduce or critique humankind’s carbon footprint on the planet. Our library has a number of books on […]
Who IS That Person?
I know, I know, Google has become the go-to place to look someone up, but can you really get everything you need? For background information on a person—author, politician, actor, etc.—take […]