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Sheridan libraries
'Cathedral' cleaning
Dusting, by the book
Published Jan 15, 2016 Video Photos
George Peabody Library's centuries-old volumes get annual cleaning
Earle Havens
Giving
By the book
Published Winter 2015
The Sheridan Libraries' Earle Haven is named to a new curator position / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Corrected manuscript titled page for John Barth's novel 'LETTERS,' published in 1979
Funhouse experience
LETTERS, etc.
Published Oct 16, 2015 Video
Exhibition at George Peabody Library celebrates distinguished career of author John Barth
Romance language
Books of love, both rare and risqué
Published Feb 13, 2015 Photos
Special exhibit gives students a glimpse of romantic texts through the ages
Dusty job
Cleaning, by the book
Published Jan 13, 2015 Photos
George Peabody Library, home to more than 300,000 volumes, gets annual deep cleaning
More is more
Published Sept 3, 2014
JHU has joined the Ivies Plus consortium BorrowDirect for access to more than 50 million volumes
Forging ahead
Fake texts go on display
Published Sept-Oct 2014
'Fakes, Lies, and Forgeries' open Oct. 5 at George Peabody Library / Gazette
Take note
'Ambitious' annotation project
Published July 15, 2014
JHU is leading an exploration of historical reading practices through notes preserved in early printed books / New York Times
Book reports
Mining the margin notes
Published July 11, 2014
Digital humanities research project will explore annotations in early modern books
Favorite things
Curse tablets and other 'priceless' treasures
Published Summer 2014 Photos
A joke book. A Roman curse tablet. A clump of a cow's hair. Call them collectors' picks. / Johns Hopkins Magazine