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Additional Libraries at Johns Hopkins


Library resource centers offer a variety of resources and services to faculty and students working in the Baltimore/Washington Metropolitan area.

Arthur Friedheim Library
Peabody Institute

The Friedheim Library collection includes chamber music, vocal music, collected editions, composer biographies and music history. Sharing the same facility, the Peabody Institute Archives houses the institutional records of the Peabody Institute from 1857 to the present, the records of Baltimore area musical organizations including the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the personal papers of numerous composers and performers associated with the Peabody Institute.
 
Johns Hopkins University Library Resource Centers 

The libraries at each of the five university centers offer a variety of resources and services.

Columbia Center
 
Downtown Center
 
Montgomery Library Resource Center

The Montgomery Library Resource Center provides a wide range of services to students and faculty working on the Montgomery County Campus.  Library staff are available to provide reference assistance and instructional sessions and to facilitate interlibrary loan, reserves and other library services.

The onsite collection offers program-specific reference materials, books, and videos. The Montgomery Library Resource Center has 7 workstations connecting to the Hopkins online catalog and a vast array of electronic databases, journals, and periodicals licensed specifically for JHU researchers.  Additionally, researchers may access electronic resources from non-Hopkins computers. For instructions see http://www.library.jhu.edu/services/computing/remoteaccess.html
 
The Montgomery Library Resource Center is open Monday-Thursday noon- 9 p.m., Friday noon. - 6 p.m., and Saturday 10 a.m.- 4 p.m.  Holiday Hours.  Phone:  301.294.7030

Washington Library Resource Center
1717 Massachusetts Avenue

Students and faculty in Washington are welcome to do research in the Washington Library Resource Center at 1717 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.  Library staff are available to provide reference assistance and instructional sessions and to facilitate interlibrary loan, reserves and other library services.

The onsite collection offers program-specific reference materials, books, and videos. The Washington Library Resource Center has 10 workstations connecting to the Hopkins online catalog and a vast array of electronic databases, journals, and periodicals licensed specifically for JHU researchers.  Additionally, researchers may access electronic resources from non-Hopkins computers. For instructions see http://www.library.jhu.edu/services/computing/remoteaccess.html
 
The Washington Library Resource Center is open Monday-Thursday noon- 8:00 p.m., Friday noon. - 5:00 p.m., and Saturday 9:30 a.m.- 1:30 p.m.  Holiday Hours.  Phone:  202.452.0714

R. E. Gibson Library
Applied Physics Laboratory
 
The R. E. Gibson Library and Information Center is the Laboratory's central information resource. The Gibson Library conducts information research and manages special collections that support Laboratory staff in their work with the Department of Defense, NASA and other Government agencies.
 
Sydney R. and Elsa W. Mason Library
Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)

The Mason Library collections cover international economics, international politics, international law and organization and most geographical areas of the world. The library features access to over 80 indexes, abstracts, statistical and full-text databases, and a growing number of electronic journals and newspapers.
 
The School of Advanced International Studies also has libraries at its two international centers, located in Bologna, Italy and Nanjing, China.

Bologna Center Library
Bologna, Italy
Nitze School of Advanced International Studies

The Bologna Center's library collection specializes in the areas of international affairs, international economics, European history and politics, and international law. There are strong holdings on the foreign relations of the United States, the Atlantic Alliance and European integration, and extensive English-language materials on Italian government and politics.

Hopkins Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies Library
Nanjing, China

The Nanjing Center's library is the only open-stacks library in China. The collection, which is half in English and half in Chinese, focuses on subjects related to the curriculum such as U.S. and Chinese history, foreign relations, economic development and society.

William H. Welch Medical Library
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
East Baltimore Campus

The Welch collection is distributed across six locations including the Lilienfeld Library at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. The collection includes 3,500 online journals and 40% of the print journal collection is available online.





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