There will be a BorrowDirect full system outage tomorrow starting at 7am lasting for approximately 30 minutes. Please consider this outage as you plan your April 1 work. For those unfamiliar […]
Women at Hopkins: Trailblazers since the 1870s
By Rachel Shavel, A&S ’18, Hopkins Retrospective Student Assistant As we celebrate Women’s History Month, Hopkins Retrospective would like to recognize the many women who have made Hopkins great. From […]
BorrowDirect now in Catalyst and WorldCat
To get you the materials you need faster, last fall we debuted a service called BorrowDirect. This 11-school consortium offers direct access to the more than 50 million volumes from […]
Can’t Find It? There’s a Guide for That.
If you ask a JHU student why they are in the library, they might tell you that they are there to study, to do homework, work on a group project, […]
Image Is Everything: ARTstor Can Help Illustrate Your Point!
Need a specific image for your term paper? Want to explore a topic in a visual way? Try ARTstor, a research database containing over one million images of art and cultural […]
Aphorisms Add Spice
So much writing advice focuses on negative rules — “never brashly split infinitives,” “idiomatic expressions won’t hammer home your point,” “avoid cliché […]
Women Make Movies!
To commemorate Women’s History Month, we thought we’d share some of the fantastic contributions women make to the art of filmmaking! Let’s start with the title of this blog post […]
Are You Ready to Read It and Eat It?
The Sheridan Libraries are hosting Read It and Eat It, our second annual Edible Book Festival, and we would like to invite all of our Hopkins friends to submit your […]
And the Winner is…
The Grammys and Oscars have me thinking about awards (and stunning evening wear). It’s been a few years since we looked at the most downloaded online journals, so let’s take […]
Composting on the go!
Last year Homewood Recycling distributed a survey about composting and recycling needs on campus. From the 400 responses, they determined that additional composting bins were desired and that the library was […]