Search for books, articles, and more
Catalyst
News
In this section
April 21, 2023
The Library is Open: Baltimore Ballroom at Peabody
BmoreArt
April 18, 2023
Bearing witness to incarceration
On the Record with Sheilah Kast, WYPR 88.1 FM
April 17, 2023
Senator Mikulski discusses women’s healthcare advocacy following film screening
Johns Hopkins News-Letter
April 17, 2023
The best outdoor study spots on and around campus
Johns Hopkins News-Letter
April 17, 2023
For the American Prison Writing Archive, a ‘Shadow Canon’ Sheds Light
The New York Times
April 15, 2023
The Culture Report: Billie Holiday at the BMA
The Baltimore Banner
April 14, 2023
Posing at the library: Baltimore’s ballroom scene werks The Peabody again
The Baltimore Banner
April 11, 2023
Baltimore historians uncover collection of Billie Holiday history
WBAL-TV 11
April 11, 2023
New Billie Holiday collection reveals details of her life in Baltimore
JHU Hub
April 5, 2023
Students discover stories of girls who lived at former Hopkins orphanage
JHU Hub
April 4, 2023
Read It and Eat It: The Sheridan Libraries Edible Book Festival
Video
April 4, 2023
Sweet time had as Edible Book Festival returns to Homewood
JHU Hub
March 30, 2023
Students trace overlooked history in sacred places
JHU Hub
March 15, 2023
JHU’s Special Collection acquires first-edition copy of ‘What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking’
Johns Hopkins Magazine, Spring 2023
March 14, 2023
Original 1966 recording of Derrida reading his seminal essay ‘Structure, sign, and play’ now available
From the Blog
March 10, 2023
Johns Hopkins COVID-19 data hub ends after three years
JHU Hub
March 9, 2023
Gilman Hall: Past and present
Johns Hopkins News-Letter
March 7, 2023
Harnessing the powers of human thought and computation
JHU Hub
March 3, 2023
Sheridan Libraries join peer institutions to support updated OSTP public access guidance
Letter from IPLC Library Directors to the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP)
February 23, 2023
George Peabody Library: Past and Present
Johns Hopkins News-Letter
February 20, 2023
‘An inflection point rather than a crisis’: ChatGPT’s implications for higher ed
Recorded panel discussion featuring Pete Lawson, data and visualization librarian
February 15, 2023
The Dish: Resurrecting Black history, one cookbook at a time
The Baltimore Banner
February 15, 2023
Joseph Plaster, Tabb Center, wins public history award for the Peabody Ballroom Experience
National Council on Public History
February 10, 2023
Johns Hopkins winds down pioneering pandemic data tracking
JHU Hub
February 8, 2023
The “Hard History” of Biography: Daniel Coit Gilman’s Missed Opportunities
Hard Histories at Hopkins blog
February 7, 2023
Johns Hopkins symposium, exhibit explore Black foodways
JHU Hub
January 30, 2023
Data Democratizer
JHU Engineering
January 27, 2023
Lunch with the Libraries: Conserving the Legacy of Abby Fisher
Virtual talk by book conservators Lena Warren and Jennifer Jarvis, and librarian Heidi Herr
January 3, 2023
A forgotten era of filmmaking finds a home at Johns Hopkins
JHU Hub
December 21, 2022
Daniel Coit Gilman in Full
JHU Hub
December 15, 2022
Book recommendations from Johns Hopkins scholars and experts
JHU Hub
December 10, 2022
Tabb Center hosts speakers on intricacies of transgender oral history
Johns Hopkins News-Letter
December 8, 2022
Gift of vintage films brings new worlds into focus
Video
December 6, 2022
A new collection from the Academic Film Archive of North American puts Baltimore on the map for film researchers
News
December 5, 2022
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
November 23, 2022
The Peabody Ballroom Experience: Helping Us To Recall the Past and Build a Future
Hard Histories at Hopkins blog
November 18, 2022
Lunch with the Libraries: Building Library Collections in the 21st Century
Virtual talk by collections strategies manager Laurel Crawford
November 17, 2022
Winston Tabb Special Collections Research Center appoints inaugural Public Humanities Fellows
Nicoletta Daríta de la Brown and Hoesy Corona
November 7, 2022
Students unite to study Baltimore’s civil rights history
JHU Hub
November 2, 2022
Elisabeth Long selected to lead Sheridan Libraries & University Museums at Johns Hopkins
JHU Hub
November 1, 2022
Fast Fashion: Harry Gordon Paper Dress
Johns Hopkins Magazine
October 18, 2022
‘Women of the Book’ exhibit reveals lives of women from 1450-1800
JHU Hub
October 12, 2022
Sheridan Libraries holds largest collection of early modern women materials
News
October 12, 2022
“Women of the Book” exhibit reveals the lives of women from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
Video
October 5, 2022
Holding on to Hopkins’ history
JHU Hub
October 4, 2022
Johns Hopkins archivists share some of their favorite items
Instagram reel
October 1, 2022
Unlocking Words with the American Prison Writing Archive
Arts & Sciences Magazine, Fall 2022
October 1, 2022
Sheridan Libraries Special Collections amasses a trove of rare vintage teen comic books
Johns Hopkins Magazine, Fall 2022
September 9, 2022
2,500 items from four signature collections now available on Internet Archive
News
September 8, 2022
Sheridan Libraries African American Real Photo Postcard Collection featured in Library Journal article
Library Journal
August 3, 2022
JH Libraries announce first TOME monograph subvention grant recipents
News
July 7, 2022
‘Rumors of War’ finds new home in Mudd Hall
JHU Hub
July 6, 2022
BorrowDirect gets an upgrade with new open-source software
Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation (IPLC)
June 21, 2022
American Prison Writing Archive moving ‘striking stories of human resilience’ to Hopkins
Maryland The Daily Record
June 21, 2022
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
June 15, 2022
American Prison Writing Archive moves to Johns Hopkins
JHU Hub
May 19, 2022
Society of Fellows in the Humanities names first cohort
JHU Hub
May 13, 2022
Lunch with the Libraries: Conserving the Women of the Book Collection
Video talk by Kress Conservation Fellow Laura McNulty
May 6, 2022
Retelling Baltimore history through community narratives
JH Hub
May 1, 2022
Black Beyond Data taps into the power of datasets to uncover new truths about Black history
Arts & Sciences Magazine, Spring 2022
April 28, 2022
Elijah Cummins portrait by Christopher Batten unveiled in MSE Library
JHU Hub
April 20, 2022
A Horseman of a different era
JHU Hub
April 8, 2022
Levy Family Curator explores sheet music as cultural history
Video
April 4, 2022
Center for Educational Resources gets new name, expanded future
JHU Hub
March 22, 2022
New exhibition spans 200 years of American sheet music
News
March 16, 2022
Peabody Library opens Grace Notes in American History exhibition featuring rare sheet music
Baltimore Fishbowl
March 1, 2022
Newly Acquired John and Linda Greene Map Collection expands the boundaries of research at Johns Hopkins
News
February 22, 2022
Johns Hopkins curators examine musical mystery linked to Edgar Allan Poe
Washington Post
February 16, 2022
Sheet music signed “E.A. Poe” could change what we know about the famous poet
JHU Hub
February 14, 2022
Lunch with the Libraries: Romance Comic Books
Video talk by Special Collections librarian Heidi Herr
January 15, 2022
A Library the Internet Can’t Get Enough Of
New York Times
December 22, 2021
Winston Tabb, longtime Sheridan Libraries dean at Johns Hopkins, announces plans to retire
JHU Hub
December 10, 2021
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
November 19, 2021
Lunch with the Libraries: Spanish Sueltas and the History of Publishing in Spain
Virtual talk by academic liaison librarian Dr. Mack Zalin
October 12, 2021
Portrait of LGBTQ rights trailblazer Edith Windsor unveiled in the Brody Learning Commons
JH Hub
October 1, 2021
SGA meets to discuss MSE renovations
The Johns-Hopkins Newsletter
September 27, 2021
Town halls discuss concerns regarding MSE library renovations
The Johns Hopkins News-Letter
September 24, 2021
Students return to study spaces on campus amid plans for library redesign
The Johns Hopkins News-Letter
March 12, 2021
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
February 10, 2021
New open access publishing opportunities for Hopkins authors: PLOS Biology, PLOS Medicine, and TOME
News
January 22, 2021
Johns Hopkins Libraries: What’s new for spring 2021?
News
January 15, 2021
Mellon Foundation awards $4 million grant to Inheritance Baltimore project
JHU Hub
January 13, 2021
Libraries & Museums curators Dean and Plaster on team that wins $4.4 million Mellon grant
News
December 29, 2020
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)
December 25, 2020
How one very old Census record spurred a reckoning at Johns Hopkins University
The Washington Post
December 24, 2020
For 50 years, a Baltimore photographer trained his lens on the city. Now he’s in the spotlight
The Baltimore Sun
December 21, 2020
Year in review: 2020
JHU Hub
December 16, 2020
Emerging Technologies: Creating virtual library spaces
Ithaka S+R
December 11, 2020
Lunch with the Libraries: Preservation and Access
Video talk by digitization specialist Cameron Hanley
December 10, 2020
Contrary to century-old family lore Johns Hopkins was an enslaver
Johns Hopkins News-Letter
December 9, 2020
Records prove Johns Hopkins University founder owned slaves, shattering belief he was a staunch abolitionist
The Baltimore Sun
December 9, 2020
Johns Hopkins reveals that its founder owned slaves
The New York Times
December 9, 2020
Newly discovered documents prompt reexamination of the history of university’s founder, Johns Hopkins
JHU Hub
December 4, 2020
Lunch with the Libraries: The Ephemeral Renaissance
Video talk by rare books curator Earle Havens
November 14, 2020
Hopkins OSPO featured on ‘Impactful Open Source’ podcast
News
December 2, 2020
Students get hands-on research experience with a 17th-century “paper supercomputer”
Johns Hopkins Magazine
November 20, 2020
Lunch with the Libraries: Tour of the George Peabody Library
Video talk by Peabody Library curator Paul Espinosa
November 20, 2020
Update on library services for Thanksgiving Week
News
November 13, 2020
Lunch with the Libraries: Cooks and their Books
Video talk by Special Collections librarian Heidi Herr
October 30, 2020
DSAGA explores Baltimore’s queer history through media archives
Johns Hopkins News-Letter