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Library Status Updates
Alternative Service Point and Study Spaces During MSE Library Renovation
While MSE Library is closed for renovation, Hopkins students, faculty, and staff will still have access to the essential resources they need for teaching and learning.
MSE Library Annex
Located in the former Hopkins Club building behind Gilman Hall (see map below), MSE Library Annex is our interim, temporary service point on the Homewood campus for J-Card holders. Here you are able to:
- Pick up and check out books and other library items requested through Catalyst, in addition to Interlibrary Loan, BorrowDirect, and Course Reserves
- Return books and other library items
- Print and scan documents
- Read or study in a community learning environment offering both quiet and social study spaces
- Meet with your liaison librarian for research support by advance appointment
- Ask our friendly Service Desk staff general questions about the Libraries
- Visit an interfaith prayer room to pray, reflect, and meditate
Brody Learning Commons
Brody Learning Commons will be open throughout the MSE Library renovation. Here you are able to:
- Return books and other library items
- Print and scan documents
- Read or study in a community learning environment offering a large quiet reading room and reservable rooms for group study, seminars, and teaching
- Research using primary sources in the Special Collections Reading Room
- Access Bloomberg terminals for real-time news feeds, global financial data, and trading tools
- Use powerful workstations for GIS, data analysis, data visualization, machine learning, and 3D modeling in the Data Services Computer Lab
- Meet with your liaison librarian for research support by advance appointment
- Take a break, meet up with friends, and grab a coffee and something to eat at the Brody Café
Hutzler Reading Room in Gilman Hall
The Hutzler Reading Room (aka The Hut) is a 24/7 study space in Gilman Hall with library carrels, big tables, and various seating options.
- Hut South (Gilman 238) is a Near Eastern Studies, History of Art, and Classics Research Room reserved for graduate students, faculty, and staff. J-Card swipe is required.
- Hut North (Gilman 230) houses the Krieger School’s Writing Center and Learning Den.
Hodson Hall
Hodson Hall‘s open lobby areas and first-floor reading room now offer library carrels, large tables, and seating, in addition to large windows, natural light, and ample wireless coverage. Graduate student study space is available in the third-floor boardroom. J-Card swipe is required. Please check building hours here.
George Peabody Library (Peabody campus)
Located about 3 miles south of Homewood campus in Baltimore’s historic Mt. Vernon Cultural District, George Peabody Library offers quiet study seating in one of the world’s most beautiful libraries. It is served by the Hopkins Shuttle. Please check library hours here.
Homewood campus library locations