It’s baseball season in Baltimore! Huzzah! Huzzah? Yeah, the past decade or so was less than magical when it comes to the Orioles ability to, you know, win, but even […]
Where is your Fiction Section?
We hear this question a lot at the Information Desk. Ask a simple question, get a simple answer, right? Well, the simple answer to this one is basically – we […]
Chargers, Digital Pens and Laptop Locks, Oh My!
As the semester creeps ever closer, we at the Service Desk (formerly Circulation) would like to remind you that there are a multitude of things to check out other than […]
Of Marginal Interest
Have you ever been warned by a teacher or librarian not to write in books? Rather than being harmful, it turns out that marginalia can often provide rich insight into […]
Walking Back in Time
Charles Carroll, Jr. of Homewood (1775-1825), like many gentlemen of his time, was caught up in the excitement of current horticultural developments. He experimented with new varieties of plants, grafted […]
Charles Street — Baltimore’s Main Artery
As any Johns Hopkins student should know, arteries are the blood vessels that carry life-sustaining oxygenated blood from the heart to other parts of the body. Similarly, it is easy […]
Web Archiving & the Wayback Machine
Would you like to see old versions of the website for your student group to find out who ran it and what they did? Or maybe you’d like to examine the […]
New Service for Archiving Research Data
Johns Hopkins Data Management Services provides archiving services for the Johns Hopkins research community through the JHU Data Archive. These services give researchers the opportunity to share their data outside […]
Interlibrary Loan Down: Wednesday, July 2
We’re moving Illiad, the software for Interlibrary Loan, from the Welch Medical Library to our home base. So, we need to take the system off-line for one day: Wednesday, July […]
Of Moles and Dreams and Napoleon’s Sinister Hand of Fate!
Have you ever, whilst undergoing a pique of ennui, wondered what Napoleon would have to say about your fate, or, while gazing at your reflection in a mirror, crying at […]