Catalogs

Penn Libraries Catalogs

Franklin: Main catalog of library holdings (excludes Law)

E-Resources: Web interface for locating e-journals, databases, and more

VCat: Video collection (extracted from Franklin)

LOLA: Biddle Law Library holdings (not included in Franklin)

NewBooks+: Recent acquisitions (extracted from Franklin)

Archival Finding Aids: Manuscripts and other primary resources not in Franklin

Getting Books from Interlibrary Loan/Union Catalogs

BorrowDirect/E-ZBorrow: Multi-institutional catalogs useful for borrowing from Penn partner institutions

WorldCat: Catalog of international library holdings from OCLC

Center for Research Libraries (CRL): Special Collections with borrowing services for Penn faculty, students, and staff. See CRL overview

Digital Image and Text Collections

Fisher Fine Arts Library Image Collection: Fine arts images with bibliographic data

Furness Theatrical Image Collection: Over 2,000 theatrical images of Shakespearean & other productions, plays, & performers

Mary Binney Wheeler Image Collection: Photographs and lectures from Wheeler's travels to India between 1978 and 1982

Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts: 800 European manuscripts, owned by the Penn Libraries, dating prior to 1601-an ongoing digitization project

Penn holdings in the Internet Archive: A growing full-text collection to reach 3,200 volumes by 2012

Penn/Kirtas Collection: Penn books, published before 1923, available for digitization and purchase on demand

Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image: Digital library of primary sources owned and digitized by Penn

University Archives: The history of Penn in photos

Selected E-Book Collections

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