Frederick Douglass was born into slavery on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland, around 1818; the exact date of his birth was unknown to him, but he chose to celebrate […]
Happy Birthday Frederick Douglass
Library Love Notes
On Valentine’s Day, Wednesday, February 14th, visit our librarians on Q-Level in the Milton S. Eisenhower Library from 11:00am to 2:00pm for Library Love Notes. There will be chocolate and other […]
Digitizing Memories of the Kennedy Space Center: Sharing Images with Artstor
JHU faculty, students, and staff have access to Artstor and its more than 2 million images, including almost 77,000 images within open-access public collections, plus the 160,000 local images in […]
Grab Those Smelling Salts! It’s Time for Dirty Books and Longing Looks!
“Wait. What? Dirty books? Didn’t you guys just clean the George Peabody Library recently?” No, not those kinds of dirty books, silly! We’re talking books that could make you blush, […]
Freedom Papers: Black Assertions from the Archives
What does it mean to be free? In its final weeks, be certain to drop by M-Level to view Freedom Papers: Black Assertions from the Archives. Telling five compelling stories, […]
Learn Cool Things and Save Time with Library Workshops
A very wise man, S. R. Ranganathan, created 5 Laws of Library Science. My personal favorite is #4: Save the time of the reader (or researcher). We’re here to help […]
The Selfie Strikes Back
February 6, American Selfie exhibit opens February 7, Deborah Willis, “Locating the Self-Portrait in Postcard and Photobooth Imagery,” Mason Hall Auditorium, 5:30 pm Most of us take selfies for a […]
Alexander Hamilton Exhibition Open at Homewood Museum
Alexander Hamilton has been dead for more than 200 years, but more people than ever know his name thanks to his near omnipresence in popular culture over the last decade. […]
Reflections On Pine: The Movement Continues
2017 marked the 50th anniversary of civil unrest in Cambridge, Maryland and the Pine Street Rebellion, following decades of economic and educational segregation in the small Eastern Shore town. In […]
How to Avoid Predatory Journals
If you’ve heard horror stories about predatory journals or conferences and want to avoid them, we have a couple ways to help you out. A page about predatory journals, with […]