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Johns Hopkins University oral history collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0404

Scope and Contents

This is an artificially assembled collection of oral histories recorded with administration, faculty, staff, alumni, students, and other Johns Hopkins University affiliates, 1999-2004 and 2014-present. The early oral history interviews were faciliated by Mame Warren starting 1999, and as of 2014 by Hopkins Retrospective.

Dates

  • Creation: 1999 - 2023

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is housed off-site and requires 48-hours' notice for retrieval. Contact Special Collections for more information.

The restricted files are not available for researchers to access. Information on restricted interviews can be found in a "Conditions Governing Access" note at the beginning of the list of folders associated with the interviewee.

Conditions Governing Use

Single copies may be made for research purposes. Researchers are responsible for determining any copyright questions. It is not necessary to seek our permission as the owner of the physical work to publish or otherwise use public domain materials that we have made available for use, unless Johns Hopkins University holds the copyright. Additional restrictions on use are noted at the interview level.

Extent

11.87 Cubic Feet (9 record center boxes, 1 letter size box, 1 half legal size box)

24.9 Gigabytes

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

This is an artificially assembled collection of oral histories recorded with administration, faculty, staff, alumni, students, and other Johns Hopkins University affiliates, 1999-2004 and 2014-present. The early oral history interviews were faciliated by Mame Warren starting 1999, and as of 2014 by Hopkins Retrospective.

Arrangement

Files have been organized in alphabetical order within each series.

Custodial History

In 1999, Mame Warren was commissioned to write a history commemorating The Johns Hopkins University’s 125th anniversary. The basis for the book, Johns Hopkins: Knowledge for the World: 1876-2001, was a series of oral history interviews with Hopkins faculty, administrators and alumni. She transferred the tapes, transcripts, and research notes to Special Collections in 2001. Interviews conducted by Warren after 2001 were done under the auspices of Hopkins History Enterprises, an oral history and editorial service provided by the Sheridan Libraries for the Johns Hopkins community and beyond, and as part of a project called Hopkins History On-Line. Since 2014, the University Archives have conducted interviews under the auspices of the program Hopkins Retrospective.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The first accrual was transferred to Special Collections by Mame Warren in 2001, and several subsequent accruals were transferred between 2001 to 2007. The interviews conducted by Hopkins Retrospective and the Ferdinand Hamburger University Archives were transferred to the University Archives starting in 2015 to the present, and transferred annually.

Appraisal

Oral history with James Hopkins was deaccessioned from the Mame Warren oral histories series in 2018 because it was determined that this oral history fulfilled its original purpose as research support for Warren's book and had no ongoing utility.

Accruals

Accession: 2000-01.MS.030, 2002-03.MS.025, 2003-04.MS.001, 2006.UA.021, 2011-12.MS.022, 2011-12-UA.007, 9999-99.MS.030, 2015-16.UA.031, 9999-99.MS.030, 2018-19.UA.010, 2018-19.UA.015

Bibliography

Warren, Mame, ed. Johns Hopkins Knowledge for the World. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

Processing Information

Finding aid prepared by Margaret Burri and Kelly Spring in May 2008. Additional reprocessing by Annie Tang in 2016 and Kristen Diehl in 2018.

Subject

  • James Hopkins oral history
Title
Guide to the Johns Hopkins University oral history collection
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
English

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections Repository

Contact:
The Sheridan Libraries
Special Collections
3400 N Charles St
Baltimore MD 21218 USA