Recent news from The Johns Hopkins University
This section contains regularly updated highlights of the news from around The Johns Hopkins
University. Links to the complete news reports from the nine schools,
the Applied Physics Laboratory and other centers and institutes are to
the left, as are links to help news media contact the Johns Hopkins
communications offices.
This is the first major exhibition to showcase some of the rarest and most spectacular treasures of the George Peabody Library, which was founded in 1857 by Baltimore tycoon George Peabody. Many of the extraordinary exhibit items will be on display to the public for the first time.
September 20, 2017 Tags: Bibliomania, Earle Havens, george Peabody Library, Johns Hopkins University, rare books, Sheridan Libraries
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Libraries, Peabody
The Enigmatic Edgar A. Poe in Baltimore & Beyond features highlights from the Susan Jaffe Tane Collection of Edgar Allan Poe, one of the finest private collections of Poe materials in the world.
October 3, 2016 Tags: Baltimore, Edgar Allan Poe, george Peabody Library, Susan Jaffe Tane Collection
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Events Open to the Public, Libraries, University-Related
Reporters are invited to cover Friday’s annual cleaning of the George Peabody Library, Baltimore’s “Cathedral of Books,” by a crew of library staff and volunteers.
January 13, 2016 Tags: george Peabody Library, Sheridan Libraries
| Category: Libraries, University-Related
The Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries’ new exhibition on John Barth offers visitors a kind of funhouse experience devoted to exploring the author’s life and legacy.
October 16, 2015 Tags: george Peabody Library, John Barth, Johns Hopkins University, The Sheridan Libraries at The Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News
The 70 items on display at the George Peabody Library explore the phenomenon of forgery as a creative, as well as destructive literary form, and illustrate the tricks of the forger’s trade—and some of its most disastrous consequences—through materials that range from biblical and Greco-Roman antiquity up to the early decades of the 20th century.
October 2, 2014 Tags: Bibliotheca Fictiva, george Peabody Library, Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, Winston Tabb
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Events Open to the Public, Peabody, University-Related
The exhibition contains highlights from the world’s foremost private collection of Renaissance books, charting the prehistory of what we now call neurosurgery, and was guest curated by the collector Dr. Eugene S. Flamm.
October 17, 2013 Tags: george Peabody Library, Sheridan Libraries, Winston Tabb
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Uncategorized
The Sheridan Libraries at The Johns Hopkins University announce the opening of Eureka!: Rare Books in the History of Scientific Discovery at the George Peabody Library in Baltimore. Spanning more than 2,500 years of scientific breakthroughs and including books that date from the late 15th century to the mid 20th century, Eureka! contains highlights from the Dr. Elliott and Eileen Hinkes Collection of Rare Books in the History of Science.
October 20, 2011 Tags: Eileen Hinkes, Elliott Hinkes, george Peabody Library, The Sheridan Libraries at The Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Events Open to the Public
The Sheridan Libraries have been awarded a $1.054 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to renew the Heritage Science for Conservation (HSC) Project. The project, which serves as a bridge between the art and science of conservation, is based in the Libraries’ Department of Conservation and Preservation and is run in close collaboration with the Whiting School of Engineering.
July 21, 2011 Tags: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Canadian Conservation Institute, george Peabody Library, Heritage Science Conservation Project, Johns Hopkins Museums, Johns Hopkins University, Sheridan Libraries, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Institutional News
The United States Senate this week confirmed the appointment of Winston Tabb, Sheridan Dean of University Libraries and Museums at Johns Hopkins, to the National Museum and Library Services Board.
June 25, 2010 Tags: Applied Physics Lab, Eisenhower Library, Evergreen Museum & Library, Friedheim Library at the Peabody Institute, george Peabody Library, Gilman Hall, Homewood Museum and Evergreen Museum & Library, Hutzler Reading Room, IMLS, Institute of Museum and Liibrary Services, John Work Garrett Library, Johns Hopkins University, Marsha L. Semmel, Mason Library at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Milton S, National Museum and Library Services Board, Sheridan Dean of University Libraries and Museums at Johns Hopkins, University Libraries Council, Welch Medical Library, Winston Tabb
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Arts and Humanities, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Student-Related News, University Administration, University-Related
