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Lunch with the Libraries & Museums - Reimagining Eisenhower Library

With Elisabeth Long |

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Presented by Hopkins at Home, Sheridan Libraries and Friends of the Johns Hopkins University Libraries

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.

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Elisabeth Long

Elisabeth M. Long is Sheridan Dean of University Libraries, Archives, and Museums at Johns Hopkins University. She oversees library services in the six Sheridan Libraries and coordinates library services provided by all schools of the university through the University Library Directors Council (LDC), which she chairs. She also oversees the university’s historic museums, Homewood Museum and Evergreen Museum & Library.Prior to becoming dean at Johns Hopkins, Dean Long served as associate university librarian for information technology and digital scholarship at The University of Chicago Library since 2016, where she began her career in 1998. She served as interim library director and university librarian from December 1, 2021 to April 21, 2022, and was an Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Leadership Fellow in 2018–2019. She served on several UChicago committees, including the Digital Humanities Oversight Committee and Digital Media Archive Committee, and was a board member of the university’s IT Leadership Council.Dean Long 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.

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