In Brief
Friends of Libraries celebrates new digital manuscripts
library
The Friends of the Johns Hopkins Libraries will
present a talk by faculty and curators who
created the new Rose digital library from 6 to 8 p.m. on
Wednesday, Jan. 28, at the Walters Art
Museum.
Le Roman de la Rose, a medieval poem on the art
of love, was one of the most popular and
influential literary texts in its day. More than 300
manuscript copies of the 13th-century poem
written in Old French survive today, and a collaborative
project among Johns Hopkins, the Walters
Art Museum, the Bibliotheque nationale de France and many
others is making them available in a virtual
library.
Program speakers include Rose project co-directors
Stephen Nichols, the James M. Beall
Professor of French and Humanities at Johns Hopkins; Sayeed
Choudhury, associate dean and Hodson
Director of the Sheridan Libraries Digital Research and
Curation Center at Johns Hopkins; Timothy L.
Stinson, assistant professor, Department of English at
North Carolina State University; and William
Noel, curator of manuscripts and rare books at the Walters
Art Museum.
The Friends program is presented in conjunction with
Romance of the Rose: Visions of Love in
Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts, an exhibit in the Walters
Manuscripts Gallery that runs through
April 19. Nine beautifully illuminated manuscripts from
American libraries, museums and private
collections — and interactive kiosks that provide
access to the Rose Digital Library — are included in
this
joint exhibition of the Sheridan Libraries and the Walters
Art Museum.
To attend the reception and program, contact Stacie
Spence at
sspence@jhu.edu or 410-516-7943.
New exhibit at MSE Library captures birth of the Blue
Jay
Grauer's Blue Jay: A Hopkins Tradition, an
exhibit of Blue Jay memorabilia from journalist,
author and editorial cartoonist Neil A. Grauer, opens at
the MSE Library
on Wednesday, Jan. 28, and
runs through May 25.
Since the 1920s, the mascot of The Johns Hopkins
University has been the feisty Blue Jay —
sporting black-and-blue plumage to match the school's
athletic colors.
For more than 40 years, the most popular portrayal of
that mascot has been the cartoon Blue
Jay created in 1966 by Grauer during his student years as a
cartoonist for the university's student
newspaper, The Johns Hopkins News-Letter.
The exhibit is drawn from the Grauer Blue Jay
Collection, a 1996 gift from Grauer to the
Sheridan Libraries of more than 50 items. On display are
his original sketch of the Blue Jay, drawn on
the back of a 3x5 index card; numerous other original
drawings; and lacrosse caps, T-shirts, posters,
cups, an umbrella and a travel bag, all printed with the
Blue Jay logo.
Several items from Grauer's personal collection are
also exhibited, including a pair of Nike
limited edition sneakers created for members of the 2007
NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse
championship team.
Grauer has drawn the Blue Jay for numerous JHU
athletic teams, the Alumni Association and
the Pep Band, and still draws the Blue Jay on request. A
1969 graduate of the School of Arts and
Sciences, he is now a senior writer in the Editorial
Services Division of the Johns Hopkins Medicine
Office of Marketing and Communications.
The exhibit is located on M-Level of the Eisenhower
Library and may be viewed whenever the
library is open.
Md. Viral Hepatitis Task Force holds education day in
capital
The Maryland Viral Hepatitis Task Force, a group
including community-based advocates for
people with viral hepatitis, will host a hepatitis C
educational event for legislators, health care
providers and community members from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on
Wednesday, Jan. 28, in Room 170 of the
House of Delegates Office Building in Annapolis. Speakers
will include David Thomas, professor in the
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and chief of
Infectious
Diseases at The Johns Hopkins Hospital,
and Del. Shirley Nathan-Pulliam.
The task force will be offering hepatitis A, B and C
testing in a mobile van provided by Sisters
Together and Reaching in the immediate vicinity of the
House of Delegates Office Building, and
hepatitis A and B vaccinations administered by the Anne
Arundel County Health Department will be
available.
According to the Maryland Department of Health and
Mental Hygiene, an estimated 100,000
Marylanders are infected with HCV. The majority of these
people are asymptomatic and unaware that
they are infected.
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