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George Peabody Library: Past and Present
Johns Hopkins News-Letter

‘An inflection point rather than a crisis’: ChatGPT’s implications for higher ed
Recorded panel discussion featuring Pete Lawson, data and visualization librarian

The Dish: Resurrecting Black history, one cookbook at a time
The Baltimore Banner

Joseph Plaster, Tabb Center, wins public history award for the Peabody Ballroom Experience
National Council on Public History

The “Hard History” of Biography: Daniel Coit Gilman’s Missed Opportunities
Hard Histories at Hopkins blog

Johns Hopkins symposium, exhibit explore Black foodways
JHU Hub

Data Democratizer
JHU Engineering

Lunch with the Libraries: Conserving the Legacy of Abby Fisher
Virtual talk by book conservators Lena Warren and Jennifer Jarvis, and librarian Heidi Herr

A forgotten era of filmmaking finds a home at Johns Hopkins
JHU Hub

Daniel Coit Gilman in Full
JHU Hub

Book recommendations from Johns Hopkins scholars and experts
JHU Hub

Tabb Center hosts speakers on intricacies of transgender oral history
Johns Hopkins News-Letter

Gift of vintage films brings new worlds into focus
Video

A new collection from the Academic Film Archive of North American puts Baltimore on the map for film researchers
News

Lunch with the Libraries: Curator’s tour of “Women of the Book” exhibition
Virtual talk by Stern Center postdoc curatorial fellow Kelsey Champagne, A&S ’15

The Peabody Ballroom Experience: Helping Us To Recall the Past and Build a Future
Hard Histories at Hopkins blog

Lunch with the Libraries: Building Library Collections in the 21st Century
Virtual talk by collections strategies manager Laurel Crawford

Winston Tabb Special Collections Research Center appoints inaugural Public Humanities Fellows
Nicoletta Daríta de la Brown and Hoesy Corona

Students unite to study Baltimore’s civil rights history
JHU Hub

Elisabeth Long selected to lead Sheridan Libraries & University Museums at Johns Hopkins
JHU Hub

Fast Fashion: Harry Gordon Paper Dress
Johns Hopkins Magazine

‘Women of the Book’ exhibit reveals lives of women from 1450-1800
JHU Hub

Sheridan Libraries holds largest collection of early modern women materials
News

“Women of the Book” exhibit reveals the lives of women from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
Video

Holding on to Hopkins’ history
JHU Hub

Johns Hopkins archivists share some of their favorite items
Instagram reel

Unlocking Words with the American Prison Writing Archive
Arts & Sciences Magazine, Fall 2022

Sheridan Libraries Special Collections amasses a trove of rare vintage teen comic books
Johns Hopkins Magazine, Fall 2022

2,500 items from four signature collections now available on Internet Archive
News

Sheridan Libraries African American Real Photo Postcard Collection featured in Library Journal article
Library Journal

JH Libraries announce first TOME monograph subvention grant recipents
News

‘Rumors of War’ finds new home in Mudd Hall
JHU Hub

BorrowDirect gets an upgrade with new open-source software
Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation (IPLC)

American Prison Writing Archive moving ‘striking stories of human resilience’ to Hopkins
Maryland The Daily Record

From Baltimore to Buenos Aires: New Directions in Jewish Studies Collections at JHU
2022 Paula U. Hamburger Endowed Lecture by Dr. Mack Zalin and Dr. Sam Spinner

American Prison Writing Archive moves to Johns Hopkins
JHU Hub

Society of Fellows in the Humanities names first cohort
JHU Hub

Lunch with the Libraries: Conserving the Women of the Book Collection
Video talk by Kress Conservation Fellow Laura McNulty

Retelling Baltimore history through community narratives
JH Hub

Black Beyond Data taps into the power of datasets to uncover new truths about Black history
Arts & Sciences Magazine, Spring 2022

Elijah Cummins portrait by Christopher Batten unveiled in MSE Library
JHU Hub

A Horseman of a different era
JHU Hub

Levy Family Curator explores sheet music as cultural history
Video

Center for Educational Resources gets new name, expanded future
JHU Hub

New exhibition spans 200 years of American sheet music
News

Peabody Library opens Grace Notes in American History exhibition featuring rare sheet music
Baltimore Fishbowl

Newly Acquired John and Linda Greene Map Collection expands the boundaries of research at Johns Hopkins
News

Johns Hopkins curators examine musical mystery linked to Edgar Allan Poe
Washington Post

Sheet music signed “E.A. Poe” could change what we know about the famous poet
JHU Hub

Lunch with the Libraries: Romance Comic Books
Video talk by Special Collections librarian Heidi Herr

A Library the Internet Can’t Get Enough Of
New York Times

Winston Tabb, longtime Sheridan Libraries dean at Johns Hopkins, announces plans to retire
JHU Hub

Lunch with the Libraries: A Virtual Tour of Tin Pan Alley
Virtual talk by Sam Bessen, Eleanor and Lester Levy Family Curator of Sheet Music and Popular Culture

Lunch with the Libraries: Spanish Sueltas and the History of Publishing in Spain
Virtual talk by academic liaison librarian Dr. Mack Zalin

Portrait of LGBTQ rights trailblazer Edith Windsor unveiled in the Brody Learning Commons
JH Hub

Lunch with the Libraries: Behind the Scenes at Evergreen Museum & Library
Virtual talk by Lori Finkelstein, Philip Franklin Wagley Director and Curator of Evergreen Museum & Library

New open access publishing opportunities for Hopkins authors: PLOS Biology, PLOS Medicine, and TOME
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Johns Hopkins Libraries: What’s new for spring 2021?
News

Mellon Foundation awards $4 million grant to Inheritance Baltimore project
JHU Hub

Libraries & Museums curators Dean and Plaster on team that wins $4.4 million Mellon grant
News

Sweets and Treats: Holiday Baking with the Suffragettes
Hopkins at Home talk and cooking demo by Special Collections librarian Heidi Herr and Christin Le (A&S ’23)

How one very old Census record spurred a reckoning at Johns Hopkins University
The Washington Post

For 50 years, a Baltimore photographer trained his lens on the city. Now he’s in the spotlight
The Baltimore Sun

Year in review: 2020
JHU Hub

Emerging Technologies: Creating virtual library spaces
Ithaka S+R

Lunch with the Libraries: Preservation and Access
Video talk by digitization specialist Cameron Hanley

Contrary to century-old family lore Johns Hopkins was an enslaver
Johns Hopkins News-Letter

Records prove Johns Hopkins University founder owned slaves, shattering belief he was a staunch abolitionist
The Baltimore Sun

Johns Hopkins reveals that its founder owned slaves
The New York Times

Newly discovered documents prompt reexamination of the history of university’s founder, Johns Hopkins
JHU Hub

Lunch with the Libraries: The Ephemeral Renaissance
Video talk by rare books curator Earle Havens

Hopkins OSPO featured on ‘Impactful Open Source’ podcast
News

Students get hands-on research experience with a 17th-century “paper supercomputer”
Johns Hopkins Magazine

Lunch with the Libraries: Tour of the George Peabody Library
Video talk by Peabody Library curator Paul Espinosa

Update on library services for Thanksgiving Week
News

Lunch with the Libraries: Cooks and their Books
Video talk by Special Collections librarian Heidi Herr

DSAGA explores Baltimore’s queer history through media archives
Johns Hopkins News-Letter

Lunch with the Libraries: Archival Justice
Video talk by rare books curator Gabrielle Dean

Meet our 2020-2021 Freshman Fellows
From the blog

Lunch with the Libraries: Conservation of Library Materials
Video talk by paper conservator Jennifer Jarvis

Let’s Talk Open Source with Sarah Novotny
Video talk with Microsoft’s “open source wonk”

The unsung mapmakers
JHU Hub

Johns Hopkins libraries resume Borrow Direct
JHU Hub

The changing cover art of Zitkála-Šá’s American Indian stories
From the blog

JHU Data Services: Helping You Navigate Data
Video

A History of “Fake News” from the Flood to the Apocalypse
Hopkins at Home mini course

Project lets viewers experience the Women’s Suffrage Movement through virtual reality
JHU Hub

Johns Hopkins’ libraries document the coronavirus era for future generations
JHU Hub

Resuming library research at JHU
News

Johns Hopkins libraries resume select services June 29
JHU Hub

Seeing Red: the story of the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 dashboard
Johns Hopkins Magazine

Mike Reese of CER honored for commitment to community-based learning
JHU Hub at Work

Vintage Toymaking with Special Collections: Matchbox Ship
Video demo by Special Collections librarian Heidi Herr

Aaron Birkland hunkers down in his Shenandoah Valley basement
JHU Hub at Home

Library staff digitizes content to help with remote instruction
JHU Hub

MSE Library will provide art and tech-based mental health services
Johns Hopkins News-Letter

Vintage game night
Johns Hopkins Magazine

‘See Also’ ties together the past and the present
No Proscenium

Discover Baltimore: In the Stacks
CharmTV

Peabody exhibit honors Baltimore neighborhoods
Johns Hopkins News-Letter