Unicorns, Mermaids and Minotaurs

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Unicorns, Mermaids and Minotaurs

• Finding and Using Rare and Unique Material in
  Your Classes
• Presented by Margaret Burri, Curator of
  Manuscripts, and Danielle Culpepper, Ph.D., CLIR
  Fellow

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Where Unicorns, Mermaids and Minotaurs LIVE

• Special Collections Archives, MSE Library
• George Peabody Library
• John Work Garrett Library at Evergreen Museum

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Special Collections MSE Library

• Main Reading Room
• 50,000 Rare Books
• 10,000 linear feet of JHU archives and personal
  papers
• Teaching space for up to 20 students

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George Peabody Library

• 300,000 volumes from the 15th to 20th centuries
• Served as the research library for JHU in the
  universitys early days
• Seminar space

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John Work garrett library

• 30,000 volumes
• Natural history
• Architectural history
• Travel literature
• Seminar space

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Finding Mythical Creatures

• Various guides available from the Special
  Collections Web Site
• On-line catalog searches the importance of
  limiting
• Most important source are the curators

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Finding a Unicorn at MSEL
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Finding a Minotaur at Peabody
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Finding a Mermaid at Garrett
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Why use them?

• New perspectives for students
• Enriching experience
• Theyre cool

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Sheet music
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Lester S. Levy collection of Sheet music

• Over 30,000 pieces
• Available on-line http//levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.
  edu
• 19th century American popular culture

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History of the Lab

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Baltimores Built environment
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The Dreyfus Affair
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Early Modern Women
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Crisis and Catastrophe
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History of the Book
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Architecture and the Printed Page