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Sheridan libraries

Detail of hand-illuminated drawing of nuns

Rare Books

Collection illuminates lives of early modern nuns

Published Winter 2019

The Women of the Book Collection offers a rare look into what it was like to be a woman between 1460 and 1800 / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Classics

Libraries acquire rare copy of seminal 19th-century essay

Published Dec 5, 2019

'A Problem in Greek Ethics' by poet John Addington Symonds helped set the stage for the modern gay-rights movement

Rare Books

Collection illuminates lives of early modern nuns

Published Nov 4, 2019

The Women of the Book Collection offers a rare look into what it was like to be a woman between 1460 and 1800

Ballroom performer in book costume struts on the catwalk

Arts+Culture

Ballroom glitz

Published Oct 14, 2019

Performers battled, catwalked, and vogued at the George Peabody Library, a grand venue for an event that honored the nearly century-old tradition of the ballroom community

WHO DOES THAT?

Liz Mengel makes sure you have the books you need

Published April 9, 2019

Here's how 20,000-plus books end up on the shelves of the Sheridan Libraries each year

Edible Books Festival

Behind the buttercream

Published April 3, 2019

Some of the book-loving bakers at the Sheridan Libraries' annual event tell us how they created their tasty cakes and captured fine details in frosting

Manuscripts

Erasmus unredacted

Published Winter 2018

It will take a team of conservators, data scientists, and even an astrophysicist to find out what's written on the Red Cyprian's paint-slathered pages / Johns Hopkins Magazine