Johns Hopkins University is a private research university in Baltimore,Maryland,United States. Founded in 1876,Johns Hopkins was the first U.S. university based on the European research institution model.
Daniel Coit Gilman was an American educator and academic. Gilman was instrumental in founding the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale College,and subsequently served as the second president of the University of California,Berkeley,as the first president of Johns Hopkins University,and as founding president of the Carnegie Institution. Eponymous halls at both Berkeley and Hopkins pay tribute to his service. He was also co-founder of the Russell Trust Association,which administers the business affairs of Yale's Skull and Bones society. Gilman served for twenty five years as president of Johns Hopkins;his inauguration in 1876 has been said to mark "the starting point of postgraduate education in the U.S."
Belle da Costa Greene was an American librarian who managed and developed the personal library of J. P. Morgan. After Morgan's death in 1913,Greene continued as librarian for his son,Jack Morgan,and in 1924 was named the first director of the Pierpont Morgan Library. Despite being born to Black parents,Greene spent her professional career passing for white.
The Coretta Scott King Award is an annual award presented by the Ethnic &Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table,part of the American Library Association (ALA). Named for Coretta Scott King,wife of Martin Luther King Jr.,this award recognizes outstanding books for young adults and children by African Americans that reflect the African American experience. Awards are given both to authors and to illustrators.
Winston Tabb was the Sheridan Dean of University Libraries and Museums at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore,Maryland from September 2002 to December 2022.
Peggy Sullivan was an American librarian and educator. She was elected president of the American Library Association and was a scholar of the history of librarianship.
York University Libraries (YUL) is the library system of York University in Toronto,Ontario. The four main libraries and one archives contain more than 2,500,000 volumes.
Eliza Atkins Gleason was the first African American to receive a doctorate in Library Science. In 1941,she established and became the first Dean of the School of Library Service at Atlanta University and created a library education program that trained 90 percent of all African-American librarians by 1986.
Carla Diane Hayden is an American librarian and the 14th Librarian of Congress. Since the creation of the office of the Librarian of Congress in 1802,Hayden is both the first African American and the first woman to hold this post. Appointed in 2016,she is the first professional librarian to hold the post since 1974.
The Homewood Campus is the main academic and administrative center of the Johns Hopkins University. It is located at 3400 North Charles Street in Baltimore,Maryland. It houses the two major undergraduate schools:the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and the Whiting School of Engineering.
Bernard Christian Steiner was a United States educator,librarian and jurist.
The Jean and Alexander Heard Library system is made up of several campus libraries at Vanderbilt University. These include Eskind Biomedical Library,Central Library,Divinity Library,Alyne Queener Massey Law Library,Walker Management Library,Anne Potter Wilson Music Library,Peabody Library,Sarah Shannon Stevenson Science &Engineering Library,Special Collections and University Archives,and the Television News Archive. It also houses the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news from 1968 to the present day.
Emily Drabinski is an academic librarian,author,and teacher,serving as president of the American Library Association since 2023.
Siân Evans is an American librarian,activist,and Wikimedian. She is co-founder of the Art+Feminism,a global edit-a-thon to challenge gender bias on Wikipedia. Evans is a librarian at Johns Hopkins University.
Paula Gately Tillman is a photographer from Baltimore,Maryland. Best known for her 1980s and 1990s work documenting underground scenes and fringe personalities in New York and Atlanta.
Melina Elisabeth Haleis an American neuroscientist and biomechanist. She is the dean of the of the College and the William Rainey Harper Professor in the Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy,at the University of Chicago.
Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty is an American librarian and administrator. An archives and special collections expert,Evangelestia-Dougherty was the executive director of the Chicago-based Black Metropolis Research Consortium from 2011 to 2013 and the director of collections and services at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture from 2013 to 2015. She became the first director of the combined Smithsonian Libraries and Archives,the world's largest museum library system,December 6,2021.
Michael Amiridis is a higher education Administrator and professor who serves as the 30th president of the University of South Carolina. Prior to this position,he served as chancellor of the University of Illinois Chicago from 2015 to 2022.
Helen Shenton is Librarian and College Archivist at Trinity College Dublin. She has held that role at the Library of Trinity College Dublin since June 2014,the first woman to do so since the University was founded in 1592. Prior to this she was Executive Director of Harvard Library,a role that saw the amalgamation of services across 73 libraries. Previously,she had 25 years’experience in the care of renowned collections through positions at the British Library and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Amy Lynne Shelton is a U.S. cognitive psychology professor and academic administrator serving as the director of the Center for Talented Youth since 2022. She is a professor and associate dean for research at the Johns Hopkins School of Education.
