Rare Books

Johns Hopkins Awards Student Book Collectors

Six prizes have been awarded in the 2008 Betty and Edgar Sweren Student Book Collecting Contest. Begun in 1993 by the Friends and endowed this year by long-time Friends Betty and Edgar Sweren, the contest recognizes the love of books and the delight in shaping a thoughtful and focused book collection. More…

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Rare Book Collection

Amy Kimball
Acting Curator of Rare Books

The Sheridan Libraries rare book collection is an amalgamation of three separate libraries:


The rare book collection of the Milton S. Eisenhower Library	The John Work Garrett Library	The George Peabody Library

For details on the subject strengths see the Collections and Holdings page. Exhibitions of Sheridan Libraries Special Collections are displayed in the Peabody Library exhibit hall and the Eisenhower Library.

George Peabody Library Exhibition Gallery