
William H. Welch Library is located on Hopkins’ East Baltimore campus, a short ride from Homewood on the JH shuttle. ...

While it isn’t an official holiday (unless you’re a biologist), November 24th is the anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. First published in 1859, this description of natural selection is now 150 years old. Many...

The Betty and Edgar Sweren Student Book Collecting Contest recognizes the love of books and the delight in shaping a thoughtful and focused book collection...

Technical support at RefWorks is performing maintenance on the Johns Hopkins RefWorks database. RefWorks will be unavailable Saturday, November 21 starting at 1:30 am EST until 4:30 am...

If architectural beauty and historic research collections are important to you, then you should visit the George Peabody Library. The collection was started in 1860 as part of the Peabody Institute and is a Victorian research library with over 300,000 volumes...

The season of literary prizes is upon us. And that favorite end-of-the-year activity - Top 10 Book Lists. We should all have lots to be thankful for: good books to read, and great gifts to buy...

The Arthur Friedheim Library is the music library of the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins, and its primary purpose is to support the curriculum of the Peabody Conservatory...

On November 10th the Alliance for Taxpayer Access released a letter from 41 Nobel laureates to the U.S. Congress. The letter was written by the scientists in support of the Federal Research Public Access Act...

The Johns Hopkins University Press is the oldest university press in the United States, founded in 1878. Within a few years, they were publishing the American Journal of Mathematics and the American Journal of Philology. These journals are still being published today...

Do you need an illustration of an artwork for a class presentation? A diagram of a chemical compound? A photograph of an historical figure? An illustration of a shark’s anatomy? More and more people across many disciplines find that they need visual information for their coursework. ...

While the Rare Books and Manuscripts department of MSEL has many wonderful books, there are other Hopkins libraries that also house older and rare works. The John Work Garrett Library at the Evergreen Museum and Library contains 30,000 volumes that cover a wide variety of topics...

Claude Lévi-Strauss,one of the last icons of 20th century French intellectual life, died over the weekend at the age of 100. He was considered and will be remembered as the father of modern anthropology....













