Get ready to watch one of the largest displays of meteor showers of the year. Between December 7th and 15th, the Geminid meteor shower will be in full view. The […]
2018 Geminid Meteor Shower
Sheridan Libraries launch the Peabody Ballroom Experience
The Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries are pleased to announce the Peabody Ballroom Experience, a new collaboration with Baltimore’s ballroom community, a performance-based art culture comprising gay, lesbian, trans, and […]
Preparing the Library for War in 1941: Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
On this 77th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941), we glimpse back in time to the challenges facing librarians and university staff in preparation for war […]
Finding Open Access Articles
Here at JHU, Open Access Week 2018 supported the new Johns Hopkins Open Access Policy and the Public Access Submission System. The policy and tool help faculty make their research […]
Panel Discussion and Film Screening of the Documentary “Kiki”
Friday, November 30, 2018 6:30 – 9:00pm Location: George Peabody Library Exhibit Gallery Doors open at 5:30. No advanced tickets required. Please arrive early, as seats are limited. This documentary […]
Notorious R.B.G. – Part 2
Are you a fan of the inimitable Ruth Bader Ginsburg? Or, perhaps you have some other supreme crush. Regardless, you now have new ways to see the important work of […]
Hopkins partners with Harvard and MIT to launch Public Access Submission System (PASS) and support open access
Johns Hopkins University’s Sheridan Libraries, in collaboration with the Harvard University Office for Scholarly Communication, the MIT Libraries, and with inspiration from Jeff Spies, formerly of the Center for Open […]
A Century of Poppies
Sunday was Veterans Day, which is observed on November 11 because it was on November 11, 1918, at 11 am, that the World War I armistice between Germany and the […]
2019 Sweren Student Book Collecting Contest
The Sweren Student Book Collecting Contest at the Sheridan Libraries recognizes the love of books and the delight in shaping a thoughtful and focused book collection. Established by longtime Friends […]
To Borrowers: Baltimore Libraries Large and Small
We take for granted that library books should not be written in, altered, and tracked with barcodes (if we let them out of the library at all). But before […]