The Friends of the Johns Hopkins University Libraries

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Wednesday, Feb. 29
A Reading by Jean Baker
Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion
6:00 pm reception and book signing
6:30 pm reading
Mason Hall Auditorium, JHU Homewood Campus
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Margaret Sanger became one of the most vocal advocates for birth control at a time when the mere mention of such things was not only a taboo but a felony. She opened the first family-planning clinic-the forerunner to Planned Parenthood - and became a lightning rod for the cause. In this lively new biography, historian Jean H. Baker argues that Sanger deserves the vaunted place in feminist history she once held.

Jean H. Baker is the author of several books, including Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography; James Buchanan; and Sisters: The American Suffragists. She is the Bennett-Harwood Professor of History at Goucher College.

For information about Friends of the Libararies' events, or to RSVP please call 410-516-7943 or email libraryfriends@jhu.edu.  

Previous Events

Wednesday, Sep 28
River of Smoke
Reading and Book Signing byAmitav Ghosh

Wednesday, Apr 6
Outdoor Sculpture in Baltimore: A Historical Guide to Public Art in the Monumental City
By Cindy Kelly
With photographs by Edwin Harlan Remsberg

Thursday, Mar. 24
U Street: A Reading by Blair A. Ruble

Wednesday, Feb. 23
Short : A reading by Cort McMeel

Friday, Feb. 4
George Peabody Library Open House

Wed. Nov. 3, 2010
Sam Kean
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
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Wed. Oct. 20, 2010
A Suitcase Full of Pop-Up Books

Wed. Sep. 22, 2010
Ocean State: A Reading by Jean McGarry

Region Alumni Chapter Event
Baltimore’s Great Architecture
Tuesday, Apr. 13th

The Importance of Being Virtual,
a panel discussion on social media
Mar. 25, 2010

Jonathan Pevsner, Ph.D. - "Polymath: Leonardo da Vinci's Life and Legacy"

The Development- A Reading by John Barth
April 28, 2009
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View Streaming Video

National Advisory Council in New York City
March 20th-22nd
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Exhibit Opening at The George Peabody Library,
Nov. 9
"Bound To Please"
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Farewell to Jay Brooks, President, Friends of the Libraries Advisory Council
May 7, 2008
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Legacy Circle and Library Endowers Luncheon
June 11, 2008
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The Betty and Edgar Student Book Collecting Contest
Winners

Exhibit Opening at The George Peabody Library, Mar. 26, 2008
"Harmony to the Eyes: Charting Palladio's Architecture from Rome to Baltimore"
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Exhibiton Details

National Advisory Council Members
Board Meeting at the Library of Congress, March 8, 2008
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Dr. William Noel, Nov. 28, 2007
Lecture and Booksigning
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View Streaming Video of Archimedes Codex?Illustrated?Lecture

Patricia Schultz, Oct. 1, 2007
Lecture and Booksigning
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Mason Hall Dedication, Oct. 27, 2007
Many library Friends attended the
opening reception for the newly
constructed Mason Hall Visitor Center.
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Champ Sheridan Honorary Degree Celebrarion, June 2, 2007
Host, Jeanne Baetjer, National Advisory Council Member
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The Sheridan Libraries 2007 Student Book Collecting Contest Winners

Alice McDermott, May 9, 2007
Lecture and Booksigning
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View Streaming Video of "After This"

A Toast to H.L. Mencken, October 27, 2006
Grand Celebration and Auction
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Marion Rodgers, Septembr 10, 2006
Lecture and Booksigning
View Streaming Video of "A Light Side of H. L. Mencken: The Man Behind the Mask"

Peter Agre's April 7, 2005
Lecture and Booksigning
View Streaming Video of "From Lake Wobegon to Stockholm: Personal Reflections"

Daniel Weiss's November 18, 2004
Lecture and Booksigning
View Streaming Video of "France and the Holy Land: Cultural Exchange in the Age of the Crusades"

Watch Paul Johnson pull a library's worth of pop-up books - many his own, others made by British schoolchildren  - from a single suitcase! He'll talk about the endless power of the book as an aesthetic, architectural form and its special fascination for children of all ages.

England- based Paul Johnson is internationally recognized for his pioneering work in developing literacy through the book arts and as a book artist. He is the author of over fifteen titles including A Book of One's Own, Literacy Through the Book Arts and Pictures and Words Together, all published by Heinemann, USA. He is represented in most of the major collections in the USA including the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York and the Library of Congress, Washington DC. In 2008 he was awarded the Colophon Award from the Canadian Bookbinders and Book Art Guild for his work selected for their travelling exhibition –‘The Art of the Book, 2008.’

*A leaf of the Gutenberg Bible, the first book produced through the technology of printing by moveable type

*A unique second edition of Copernicus’ path-breaking treatise on the heliocentric theory completely unbound, unsewn, and uncut as issued by the printer in 1566

*A first edition of Galileo’s stunningly illustrated treatise on the discovery of sunspots (1613)

*The inaugural 1667 illustrated publication by the first formal scientific society, the Academia del Cimento, formed largely by students of Galileo, including the first modern scientific experiments in meteorology by Evangelista Torricelli

*A first edition of Sir Isaac Newton’s monumental treatise on gravitation, the Principia (1687)

*A spectacular hand-colored edition of Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr’s Atlas Coelestis (1742), a massive plate-book representing the planetary systems of Copernicus and Brahe, the elliptical theories of Kepler and Boulliau, and the lunar theories of Newton and Halley (each of whom are also represented elsewhere in the Hinkes collection in their own original editions)

* Sir William Herschel’s first printed description of Uranus (1781), the first planet to be discovered since classical antiquity, expanding the known boundaries of the solar system

*The first appearance in print of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, in a rare paper printed by the Linnean Society in 1858

*A first edition, first issue offprint of Rontgen’s 1895 essay on the discovery of x-rays

*27 rare offprints and first editions of the works of Albert Einstein, including the first printed formulation of E=MC²

*Original copies of the three 1953 articles by Watson and Crick first outlining the structure of DNA