Index of Spotlight Items

Johns Hopkins Awards Student Book Collectors (Spring '08)
Six prizes have been awarded in the 2008 Betty and Edgar Sweren Student Book Collecting Contest.  Begun in 1993 by the Friends and endowed this year by long-time Friends Betty and Edgar Sweren, the contest recognizes the love of books and the delight in shaping a thoughtful and focused book collection.

Explore the Libraries' Historic Maps (Spring '08)
Guides to more than 700 maps dating from the 16th century are now available online.

Baltimore: A Cartographer's Delight (Spring '08)
An exhibit featuring Baltimore city maps from the Sheridan Libraries' extensive collection of more than 215,000 maps.  Part of the Baltimore Festival of Maps, the exhibit opens March 26 on the M-Level of Homewood's Milton S. Eisenhower Library.

Harmony to the Eyes:  Charting Palladio's Architecture from Rome to Baltimore (Spring '08)
An exhibition celebrating the birth 500 years ago of one of history's most famous architects.  Part of the Baltimore Festival of Maps, the exhibit traces Palladio's lasting legacy in building design down through the centuries.

$5,000 Faculty/Student Tech Grants (Spring '08)
Attention JHU Faculty: Could students benefit from simulations or digital resources to help assess their learning? Want to encourage more original thinking? JHU Students: Have innovative ideas that would benefit faculty members? Apply for a 2008-09 Technology Fellowship Mini-Grant (deadline 3/31/08).  Visit http://www.cer.jhu.edu today!

Download Library Toolbar for Firefox (Spring '08)
Search the library catalog, FindIt, and more with this easy download.  It also adds embedded library links to Amazon and other sites, plus a convenient right-click menu.

DPAAP Begins Digging (Spring '08)
Five student interns have begun uncovering and describing the contents of The Afro-American Newspapers archives.  The 116-year-old Baltimore-based newspaper is the longest running family-owned African-American newspaper in the nation.

Friends of the Library Recent Acquisitions (Spring '08) 
Each year the Friends of the Johns Hopkins Libraries generously designates 20% of member contributions to fund the purchase of special collections materials. This M-level display presents selected items from the twelve that were purchased this year.

2008 Student Book Collecting Contest (Fall '07)
Do you have a great book collection?  Do you need some extra $$$?  Sponsored by the Friends of the JHU Libraries, this contest recognizes the love of books and the delight in shaping a thoughtful and focused book collection. All undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in a degree program at Hopkins are eligible to enter.

Renaissance Men: Classical Form in Art and Anatomy (Fall '07)
The interpretation of sculpture in print is the focus of this Eisenhower Library exhibit, curated by JHU seniors Gillian Maguire and Whitney Shaffer. Opening on November 5, this display features lavishly illustrated 16th-and 17th-century works.

RefWorks Workshop (Fall '07)
Want quick and easy bibliographies and citations?  Come to the MSE Library for a workshop and learn how RefWorks can manage these for you! 

Magic Object Exhibition Extended Through October 25 (Fall '07)
Artifacts from the JHU Archaeological Collection are featured in this display of objects used in magical ritual in the ancient world. 

Grant Will Provide Access to Afro-American Archives (Summer '07)
A $476,000 award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will enable the Libraries and the JHU’s Center for Africana Studies to open the Afro-American Newspapers' archives for access by scholars and others.

Shakespeare Folios Displayed at Evergreen Museum (Summer '07)
A selection of folios and quartos from the John Work Garrett Library will be among the rare items featured on Thursday, July 5, at the Evergreen Museum & Library.

Eyre Apparent Exhibition Opens at George Peabody Library (Summer '07)
This exhibition celebrates the enduring popularity of Charlotte Brontë’s most famous novel, Jane Eyre. A favorite with Victorian readers  and of Queen Victoria herself), Jane Eyre became a staple of the school curriculum and remains a cornerstone of the English literary canon today.

Stephen Dixon: Endings (Summer '07)
Manuscripts, books, letters, and artifacts are among the items featured in this display celebrating the distinguished career of Writing Seminars’ professor Stephen Dixon.

JHU's "birth certificates" now reside in the Hopkins archives (Summer '07)

The Sheridan Libraries Student Book Collecting Contest (Spring '07)
The Friends of the Johns Hopkins Libraries are pleased to announce the winners of the 2007 contest. 

The Magic Object: Prosperity and Protection in Antiquity (Spring '07)
Artifacts from the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Collection are featured in an upcoming Eisenhower Library exhibition curated and installed by students in a museum studies class. Amulets, seals, and images of guardian beings are among the items showcased.

The History of African Americans at Johns Hopkins University (Spring '07)
A unique collaborative effort to document the contributions of African Americans to Hopkins engages students as researchers and oral historians

H.L. Mencken Exhibit Extended through February 11 (Spring '07)
The exhibition of “Yet Another One!  H.L. Mencken,” which opened in September at the George Peabody Library Exhibition Gallery, has been extended.  Originally scheduled to close January 7, it may now be viewed through February 11.

Student Book Collecting Contest (Fall '06)
Do you have a great book collection?  Do you need some extra $$$?  Sponsored by the Friends of the JHU Libraries, this contest recognizes the love of books and the delight in shaping a thoughtful and focused book collection. All undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in a degree program at Hopkins are eligible to enter.

Was H.L. Mencken an Anti-Semite? (Fall '06)
On Sunday, Nov. 19, at 3:30 p.m., Mencken scholar David S. Thaler will present an illustrated lecture at the George Peabody Library exploring the issues associated with the persistent assertion that Mencken was anti-Semitic. 

Award to Preserve Massive Cosmic Images Online (Fall '06)
The Sheridan Libraries have been awarded a $185,000 grant from the
Institute of Museum and Library Services to create a prototype system
that will capture and preserve the massive digital datasets generated
for the Virtual Observatory.

Johns Hopkins Libraries at the Baltimore Book Festival (Fall '06)
The George Peabody and Arthur Friedheim Libraries are featured stops in the
Libraries of Mount Vernon tour at the Baltimore Book Festival on Saturday, September 30.   

Moving to Homewood (Fall '06)
Images of the university’s original location in downtown Baltimore and early photographs of the Homewood campus are featured in this Eisenhower Library display. M-Level, through January 31, 2007.

Ask a Librarian (Fall '06)
Find out about all of the ways that students, faculty and staff at Johns Hopkins can work with subject specialist librarians.

Baltimore Celebrates H.L. Mencken (Summer '06)
Peabody Library exhibition highlights September events honoring the "Sage of Baltimore"  

Japan-U.S. Mathematics Institute
Seki-Takakazu Prize (Summer '06)
The prestigious Mathematical Society of Japan’s award to the Hopkins-based Japan-U.S. Mathematics Institute (JAMI) is on display in the Eisenhower Library Special Collections department. 

Access to the papers of Louis and Jacob Blaustein, founders
of the American Oil Company, is now available online.  (Summer '06)

JHU Alumni Online Library (Summer '06)
Hopkins KnowledgeNET  provides Johns Hopkins alumni with convenient access to thousands of full-text academic journals, professional and trade publications, and electronic books. But did you know that you can use the library's Enhanced Service to access some of your favorite magazines?   Browse Hopkins KnowledgeNET  and get a one-week free trial of the Enhanced Service.

Library Friends Award Student Book Collectors (Spring '06)

Listen to our Podcasts! (Spring '06)

$5,000 Faculty/Student Technology Grants (Spring '06)

Art and Science of Handwriting Explored in M-Level Display (Spring '06) 
Manuscripts, parchment and laid paper, pens, inkwells, and ink scrapers are among the items featured in this survey of historical writing.

Portrait of the Artist: Twentieth-Century Authors and Playwrights (Fall '05)
Photographs of five authors and playwrights who made their marks in the world of 20th-century literature are the focus of the current display in Special Collections.

Moravia Park Materials are Moving! (Fall '05)
Beginning November 15th, materials housed at Moravia Park will be moving to the JHU Libraries’ new shelving facility on the Applied Physics Laboratory campus.

Pilot Program for Electronic Theses and Dissertations Launched (Fall '05)
The Sheridan Libraries are running a pilot project  to put electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) online.

Celebrating 400 Years of Don Quixote de la Mancha (Fall '05)
The George Peabody Library’s rich collection of Don Quixote editions is showcased in Celebrating 400 Years of Don Quixote de la Mancha, now on display at the library’s exhibition gallery through January 15, 2006.

Got Papers?  RefWorks is Here! (Fall '05)
Organizing your research, building a bibliography, and including citations while you write have just been made easier.  RefWorks, a Web-based database and bibliography creator, is free to all Hopkins affiliates. 

A Cathedral of Books (Summer '05)
The George Peabody Library, widely considered one of the most beautiful libraries in North America, and home to one of the finest 19th-century collections, has been called "a cathedral of books."  See why in this award winning video...

Mastering Music (Summer '05)
On display through July 31, this exhibition at the George Peabody Library presents an overview of musical education during the Renaissance.

The Music Man of JHU (Spring '05)
Conrad “Gebby” Gebelein, the beloved late music director who directed the university’s instrumental musical programs for nearly 50 years is the subject of a three-volume scrapbook recently donated to the Sheridan Libraries.

Live from Baltimore—The Johns Hopkins Science Review (Spring '05)
Did you know that Hopkins produced four nationally-broadcast television programs targeted toward a prime-time, popular audience?  Between 1948 and 1960, the university developed weekly programs that explored topics in medicine, history, drama, politics, astronomy, literature, philosophy, biology, art, oceanography, psychology, music, education, and American life in general, through the prism of the 1950s.  These vintage programs are now available for viewing.

The McNaughton Plan (Spring '05)
Since fall 2003, the Sheridan Libraries have leased popular current fiction and nonfiction books in support of patron interest and the Writing Seminars Department.