Lunch with the Libraries & Museums - Adopt a Book: Highlights from the Collection

Siân Evans is the Online Programs Librarian and the liaison for The Program for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality (WGS). Prior to joining Sheridan Libraries, she was the Information Literacy and Instructional Design Librarian at Maryland Institute College of Art and the co-founder of Art+Feminism, a campaign to create meaningful changes to the body of knowledge available about feminism and the arts on Wikipedia. Her writing can be found in edited volumes from MIT Press and Litwin press, as well as publications such as Art Documentation, The Serials Librarian, and Bmore Art.

As the student engagement librarian for the Winston Tabb Special Collections Research Center, Heidi Herr creates programs and learning activities that engage Johns Hopkins students in conducting research with primary sources. She is also the librarian for English, Philosophy, and the Writing Seminars. Heidi teaches courses on a wide variety of topics, including the ephemera of the women’s suffrage movement and the development of the cookbook, and oversees the Sheridan Libraries’ Freshman Fellows program. She holds MA degrees in English and Library Science from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Donald Juedes is the academic liaison librarian for Art History, Film and Media Studies, and Near Eastern Studies at the Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries. In this capacity, he works very closely with faculty members to build meaningful library collections in all formats. He also works closely with students to support their research, instructing them on strategies and tools pertinent to their fields of study. 

Paul Espinosa holds master’s degrees in Classics and Library Science from the University of Maryland, College Park. As curator of the George Peabody Library since 2016, he helps researchers access and use the collections, conducts classes using primary sources, leads tours, and organizes special exhibitions with his library colleagues. When not at work, he enjoys reading!