Curious about what’s happening inside the Milton S. Eisenhower Library construction site? Join Sheridan Libraries & University Museums Dean Elisabeth Long for a virtual tour and Q&A that takes you behind the walls of Eisenhower Library’s complete interior transformation. Through video footage, photographs, and architectural renderings, you’ll see the work underway to modernize the 60-year old building and get a preview of the new and revitalized spaces that will welcome the Hopkins community when it reopens for the Spring 2027 semester. Long will share key design highlights and offer insight into how the reimagined library will better support research, teaching, and campus life.
Elisabeth M. Long is dean of the Sheridan Libraries and University Museums. In this role, she provides strategic leadership for library services across the six Sheridan Libraries and chairs the University Library Directors Council (LDC), fostering collaboration and alignment of library operations across all Johns Hopkins schools. She also oversees the university’s two historic museums, Homewood Museum and Evergreen Museum & Library. Long maintains an active national leadership portfolio, serving on the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) Board of Directors, the HELIOS Open Advisory Council, and the APTrust Governing Board, and she contributed to the ARL/CNI AI Scenario Planning Task Force.
Before joining Johns Hopkins, Long spent more than two decades at the University of Chicago Library. She served as associate university librarian for information technology and digital scholarship, and from December 2021 to April 2022 was interim library director and university librarian. She began her career at Chicago in 1993 and was named an Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Leadership Fellow in 2018–19. She holds a BA from St. John’s College, an MLIS from the University of Maryland, and an MFA in book and paper arts from Columbia College Chicago.
Event DateThursday, March 12, 2026Start Time: 12:00pm EDTEnd Time: 1:00pm EDT
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ContactOffice of Alumni RelationsJoe LetourneauLifelong Learning(800) JHU-JHU1hopkinsathome@jhu.edu
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