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.
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
Sheridan Libraries of JHU Partner with Princeton Library and University College London on Mellon-Funded Project FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 10, 2014 MEDIA CONTACT: Brian Shields 410-516-8337/443-631-2890 bshields@jhu.edu The Johns Hopkins University’s Sheridan Libraries, in partnership with University College London’s Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (CELL), and the Princeton University Library, have been awarded a […]
July 10, 2014 Tags: Sheridan Libraries, Winston Tabb
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Giving, Homewood Campus News
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
Pieces of Johns Hopkins University’s past have a permanent and prominent place in the present, thanks to a new, expansive art installation inside the Brody Learning Commons.
October 2, 2012 Tags: Brody Learning Commons, Mark Dion, Winston Tabb, wunderkammer
| Category: Homewood Campus News
The Sheridan Libraries’ Center for Educational Resources (CER) announced today the launch of an online database (http://morgue.afro.com/AfroArchon/) describing the archival materials held by the Afro American Newspaper. The three-year project, administered jointly by CER and the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences’ Center for Africana Studies, was funded with a $476,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
February 21, 2012 Tags: Afro American Newspaper, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Center for Africana Studies, Franklin Knight, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Moira Hinderer, Sheridan Libraries, The Johns Hopkins University, Winston Tabb
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, JHU Community Connections, Social Sciences, Technology, University-Related
Leaders at Duke, Cornell, Emory, and Johns Hopkins universities jointly announced last week that they would begin making the full text of thousands of “orphan works” in their library collections digitally accessible to students, faculty, and researchers at their own institutions.
August 29, 2011 Tags: HathiTrust Digital Library, Orphan Works Project, Winston Tabb
| Category: Arts and Humanities, 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
Winston Tabb, Sheridan Dean of University Libraries and Museums at The Johns Hopkins University, has been nominated by President Barack Obama to the National Museum and Library Services Board.
January 21, 2010 Tags: libraries, National Museum and Library Services Board, Winston Tabb
| Category: University Administration, University-Related
