[This blog post was contributed by VRC Staff Alana Barry (International Studies/East Asian Studies, ’22)] Though large parts of our lives have been put on hold, there are still exciting […]
Alas, last week’s fantasy that we could actually build a toy car and escape the tyranny of creepy dolls proved to be a dud. While our matchbox racing card is […]
It’s a most wonderful time of the year for those of us in Library World. Each year, April 19th-25th is set aside as National Library Week, a time to celebrate […]
Andrea Copland, Outreach & Instruction Librarian, Friedheim Library and Robin Sinn, Coordinator, Office of Scholarly Communication, coauthored this post. Google Scholar covers a large proportion of scholarly literature including: academic journals, books, institutional repositories, preprints, case law, […]
Last week, our #JHUMAKESTOYS challenge threatened to open the gates to the nearest hellmouth by potentially unleashing an army of handmade dolls ready to the haunt the homes of unsuspecting […]
When you’re off campus there are several ways to find a full text article. Just Googling for an article will have mixed success because you need to be able to […]
Last week, we launched a fun Instagram challenge called #JHUMakesToys. Our very first challenge was to make a Viking ship! Here is my interpretation. Behold the mighty and fierce Sea […]
COVID-19 has enrolled many of us in higher education in an unexpected experiment in online learning. While many classroom teachers have been practitioners of hybrid pedagogy for years—in-person meetings facilitated […]
HathiTrust, a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries, has taken an important step and opened up copyrighted material in their digital library to member institutions with copies of those […]
The Sheridan Libraries Special Collections has an amazing collection of vintage games and toys, and we absolutely love coming up with fun events featuring these amusements, like our recent Women’s […]