The staff of the Sheridan Libraries* are pleased to welcome all new and returning students and faculty to campus for a new academic year. We extend a warm invitation for […]
Tweet your librarian
Since @mselibrary has been on Twitter, we’ve noticed an uptick in reference questions tweeted to us. Our mission is to communicate with our students, faculty, and staff in whatever means they […]
Scopus and ScienceDirect downtime August 29th
Due to scheduled maintenance Scopus and ScienceDirect will be unavailable from 2:30 pm – 10:00 pm on Saturday August 29th. ScienceDirect provides our online access to Elsevier journals. Scopus is […]
H. L. Mencken and American Magazines
Henry Louis Mencken, often called the “Sage of Baltimore,” had a long and distinguished career as a journalist with the Sunpapers. But throughout his lifetime in the newspaper industry, he […]
Preparing for Classes
Classes are starting! Graduate students are arriving. Undergraduate students will soon follow. (Faculty and staff have been here most of the summer!) Here are some pointers to library information you […]
Mr. Eisenhower: Tear down this wall!
OK, perhaps we’re being a bit dramatic. On August 20, beginning at approximately 5:30 am, contractors will be doing some demolition work on the southeast side of M-level. The walls […]
And We Have 100! (Articles in PLoS)
Less than two weeks ago I pointed out that JHU authors had published 99 articles in PLoS journals. Thanks to the eagle eye of librarian and Baltimore Sun reader Ellen […]
Portrait of a Collector
Jean Goulemot was a visiting professor in the (then) Romance Languages department when I made his acquaintance, and discovered a mutual passion for collecting. Jean, pictured here, haunts the flea […]
Brief Air Conditioning Outage Scheduled for Thursday Afternoon
The Homewood Office of Facilities Management will shut down air conditioning in the Milton S. Eisenhower Library for one hour on Thursday, August 13, as part of a university-wide energy […]
99 and Counting!
Thanks to an inquiry by Welch Medical Librarian Susan Fowler and the response from the kind folks at PLoS, we now know that Hopkins authors have published 99 articles in […]