🎉 Happy Anniversary to our Friends of the Libraries! 🎉
Today marks 95 years since the Friends of the Johns Hopkins University Libraries were founded, a group created to rally support for the university’s growing library system. 📚 Learn more & join: library.jhu.edu/giving/friends-of-the-libraries
MARCH 12 AT 12 PM: Curious about the renovation of the Eisenhower Library? 🤔
Join us for our upcoming Lunch With the Libraries, where Dean Elisabeth Long of Sheridan Libraries & University Museums will lead a virtual tour paired with a Q&A session. ✨️🏛️✨️
Registration is required: bit.ly/4bjpseI
Nandini Rastogi, A&S '29, explains how a disastrous fire created new opportunities for JHU's early libraries in her blog post "The fire that transformed Johns Hopkins’ libraries, part one". @jhulibraries.bsky.social
www.library.jhu.edu/news/2026/02...
The countdown is on! March 12 is #ONEHopkins- your gift TODAY brings us closer to our goal of 8,000 donors!
Support the Sheridan Libraries as we celebrate Johns Hopkins’ 150th anniversary. Make a gift of $35 or more and you’ll get a limited-edition Hopkins backpack. 🐦️🎒✨️
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Learn statistics & quantitative methods this summer with in person or online training! 📊
Over $400k in scholarships are available for the ICPSR Summer Program.
Applications due March 1, 2026.
Learn more and apply now at myumi.ch/ICPSRscholarships
From national security to new resources, the unmapped oceans of the Earth hold unanswered questions with global consequences. But how can we explore these undiscovered realms? 🔎🌎
Enter autonomous marine robots, the answer to revealing what is out of reach! 🌊🤖
Register now at bit.ly/jhumarinefuture
A promotional poster for Commemoration Days 2026, taking place from February 12-27. It invites people to celebrate the anniversary of Johns Hopkins University's inauguration and its 150-year history. The poster features the university's logo and reads "JH 150 Years" against a blue background with academic-themed illustrations.
A blue background with various graphics and text that has a schedule of events poster titled "Commemoration Days 2026." A note at the bottom states "*Registration required."
A blue background with various graphics and text that has a schedule of events poster titled "Commemoration Days 2026." A note at the bottom states "*Registration required."
Johns Hopkins Commemoration Days are here! The tradition honors our 1876 inauguration, when Daniel Coit Gilman delivered his inaugural remarks. From Feb. 12–27, 2026 we celebrate 150 years with events and programs that reflect on our shared history and look toward the future. https://bit.ly/4cAvEjv.
Happy Birthday, Hopkins!
150 years ago today, Johns Hopkins opened with a bold vision for learning and discovery. Come along as we look back at moments that shaped that legacy and continue to carry it forward.
Explore more from 150 years of Johns Hopkins: 150.jhu.edu
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Two students wearing winter jackets holding plates with cupcakes, a warm drink, and smiling and standing near large windows.
Schedule of events listing lectures, celebrations, and activities at Hopkins from Feb 18 to Feb 24, 2026. Some events require registration.
Schedule of events listing lectures, workshops, trivia, and exhibitions from Feb 25-27 for Commemoration Days 2026 at Johns Hopkins Homewood campus venues. Some events require registration.
It’s that time of year again! 🧁
Hopkins Retrospective and Johns Hopkins University Libraries celebrates Commemoration Day every year to mark the inauguration of our first university president on February 22, 1876. For the 150th anniversary, it’s all hands on deck to reflect on Hopkins history.
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Pick up some sweet sesquicentennial swag TODAY to add style to your wardrobe, laptop, water bottle, and any other surface you want to show blue jay pride with!
@hopkinsretro.bsky.social Commemoration Day celebration
3-6 PM at the Bloomberg Student Center
TOMORROW AT 12 PM: Join us for a discussion on implementing historical models for diachronic change discovery as part of our Digital Humanities Workshops, led by Elisabeth Fittschen, grad student in the Center for Digital Humanities at KSAS.
Registration is required: jhu.libcal.com/event/15169626
Happy Lunar New Year! 🔥🐎🔥
We're leaping into the Year of the Fire Horse, harnessing the vigor, swiftness, and dynamism it represents to follow our mission in supporting our students, faculty, staff and patrons.
Cheers to a year brimming with excitement, opportunity, and achievement!
Join us for our 3 part event series Global Ballroom: Baltimore Meets Brazil!
📽️ 🎞️ This is Ballroom (2024): 2/26 at 5:30-8 PM
🎥 🎮 Peabody Ballroom Micro-Festival: 2/27 at 5:30-7 PM
💃🕺 Vogue Workshop: Baltimore Meets Brazil: 2/27 at 7-9 PM
Learn more & register: krieger.jhu.edu/cams/2026/01...
Ever wonder what our First Year Fellows research? 🤔 📚️
Read about Clare Lorenz, double major in international studies & economics, translating Paolo della Pergola's 'Compendium logicae' at bit.ly/4tQCjMX!
Want to see more news about our research & teaching? Visit bit.ly/jhuresearchandteaching
Love birds? 🐦️
Love art? 🖼️
Evergreen Museum & Library has the exhibit for you!
Rare Air: Engangered Birds, Bats, Butterflies, & Bees displays art of illustrator Sarah Kaizar. Her art & objects from Evergreen's collections highlight the beauty & importance of our winged friends.
More: bit.ly/4rEY8gc
Learn how the libraries are helping the Antioch Recovery Project reunite Roman mosaics scattered across the globe. 🌍 Their map uses data, metadata, & more to link treasures back to their origins & each other, preserving cultural heritage for future generations. 🗺️
Learn more at bit.ly/4qbxZER
Johns Hopkins U. /Sheridan #Libraries: Open Source Programs Office Receives Grant to Establish Research #Software Support Network hub.jhu.edu/2026/01/06/o... #libraries @jhulibraries.bsky.social
For 150 years, Johns Hopkins University has redefined what is possible through research, education, and discovery. As we enter our Sesquicentennial year, it's time to celebrate the relentless pursuit of knowledge and the people behind it. 150.jhu.edu
Attention Blue Jays- don't forget that the MSE Library Annex, Brody Learning Commons, Hutzler Reading Room, Hodson Hall, and George Peabody Library will have adjusted hours for winter break! We hope you have a restful and rejuvenating holiday season! ❄️
Looking for a study space during Reading and Exam Days? We've got you covered! Visit the Sheridan Libraries' website at library.jhu.edu/study-spaces for a directory of expanded study spaces on the Homewood campus, which will be updated as locations, hours, and other details become available.
TOMORROW: The Sheridan Library's Adopt a Book program allows you to adopt selected items by underwriting their costs. Join us for a virtual presentation from our talented curators as they share about special pieces from our collections.
Register now at events.jhu.edu/form/lwtlm-adoptabook2025
Starting this Friday, the MSE Library Annex and Brody Learning Commons have adjusted hours for the Thanksgiving holiday!
From 11/21 - 11/29: 7:30 AM to 6:00 PM Monday - Saturday, 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM Sunday.
Both spaces will be CLOSED 11/27 and 11/28.
Have a restful and rejuvenating break! 🦃
TODAY AT 2 PM: Join us in celebrating GIS Day with the Hopkins GIS community! This year’s hybrid event features several exciting presentations and a Lightning Talk Session where students, faculty, and staff can showcase their GIS-related work.
Event registration & more details: bit.ly/jhugis2025
Attention library patrons- requesting books from libraries beyond JHU got easier this summer! 🌟 This July JH Libraries launched improvements to BorrowDirect so that if items are unavailable through BorrowDirect, the request is automatically forwarded to other libraries.
Learn more at bit.ly/45HasEU
Attention JHU Class of 2029!
Want to research with our Special Collections department? You get to handle rare objects, books, maps, and ephemera while being mentored by one of our fabulous archivists and librarians!
Attend the HOP 101 session on 8/21 to learn more! bit.ly/jhufirstyearfellows
Attention incoming Blue Jays! Want to tour the library spaces on campus? Join us August 22nd at the BLC Patio at 2:00, 2:45. and 4:14 PM to get a personalized tour of our fantastic study spaces with Librarian for English, Philosophy, and Special Collections Student Engagement Heidi Herr.
The Sheridan Libraries are delighted to announce the launch of Curating and Archiving Black Baltimore (CABB), a one-year project funded by a Johns Hopkins Discovery Award, which recognizes cross-divisional teams engaged in new research and creation.
Learn more at bit.ly/46VKazt!
Discover how #gardens nourish our bodies, minds and communities by exploring the delicious intersection of books and bites on our blog at bit.ly/3IXEBqe!
