Wikipedia:Visiting Scholars/Participating institutions/Johns Hopkins University

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About Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, the university was named after its first benefactor, the American entrepreneur, abolitionist, and philanthropist Johns Hopkins. It is considered the first research university in the United States and is ranked by US News and World Reports as one of the top 10 universities in the country.

About the Sheridan Libraries

The Sheridan Libraries constitute the largest segment of the JHU library system. Its mission is to advance research and teaching at The Johns Hopkins University by providing information resources, instruction, and services. The Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, the Whiting School of Engineering, the Carey Business School, and the School of Education comprise the library's primary constituency. The libraries also serve as a university-wide resource supplementing the collections of the independently-administered libraries serving the University's other schools.

• The Sheridan Libraries website

About the Sheridan Libraries Special Collections Research Center

The Winston Tabb Special Collections Research Center makes engagements with special collections materials visible and public--ground-breaking scholarship, impassioned teaching, artistic and musical inspiration, first-time student encounters, curatorial decision-making. Each semester, we produce a series of events aimed at a variety of audiences: lectures, readings, panel discussions, exhibition talks, and hands-on explorations of our materials.

• Special Collections Research Center

Overview of library resources

The Visiting Scholar will have access to the library's databases, nearly 1 million ebooks, more than 100,000 journals, and digitized special collections. A few of the collections of possible interest are the World's Fair collection and 20th Century American Literature and Theater collections.

• databases Database listing
• Department of Special Collections
• History of Medicine library subject guide
• History of Science and Technology library subject guide
• Medicine, Science, and the Humanities library subject guides

Position announcements

Johns Hopkins University is not currently accepting applications. Please see Wikipedia:Visiting Scholars/Apply for other options.

Johns Hopkins University would like to work with an experienced Wikipedian to improve articles in one or more of the following topic areas:

• the history of medicine, with a possible emphasis on the history of medicine in the United States
• the history of the World's Fair, with a possible emphasis on the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893
• 20th century writers, such as John Barth, Stephen Dixon, Thomas Berger, Rockwell Kent, Jean McGarry, H. L. Mencken, Joyce MacIver, Gertrude Stein, John Updike, Edward Lucas White, Louis Zukofsky, and/or John Dos Passos

Interest in adding media to Wikimedia Commons is a plus, but not required.

The contacts for this position are Margaret Burri and Jenny Kinniff.