Special Collections & Archives  

Want to do some research relating to Hopkins history?  Interested in using old books and manuscripts for your research paper?  Then you've come to the right place! You don't even have to be a fancy pants scholar to use our stuff.

Please use this research guide as a discovery portal to the wonderful world of Special Collections at JHU!  Have questions?  Staff are delighted to help you out!

Special Collections is composed of materials housed at 3 different locations.

• Brody Learning Commons Monday-Friday, 10am-6pm, Tuesdays until 8pm
• George Peabody Library  Monday - Thursday, 9-5 & Friday, 9-3
• John Work Garrett Library Open by appointment only

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The Department of Special Collections is open during the following hours during the regular academic semester:

Monday, Wednesday - Friday: 10am-6pm

Tuesday: 10am-8pm

Summer Hours (Monday, May 20 - Friday, August 30)

Monday, Wednesday-Friday: 10am-5pm

Tuesday: 10am-8pm

Closed the following dates:

Monday, May 20 (can be open from 3-5 by appointment only)

Tuesday, May 21: Reading Room only open until 5

Thursday, May 23

Monday, May 27

Thursday, July 4

Monday, September 2

The Department of Special Collections and Archives is located in the Winston Tabb Center for Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Archives Research, M-Level of the Brody Learning Commons!

Use this box to search all the archival and manuscripts collections at JHU. To browse a list of manuscript collections, click here.