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About DigitalPennDigitalPenn features unique primary source materials for teaching, research, and discovery drawn from the Penn Libraries' signature collections or from our collaborations with the Penn community and with cultural heritage institutions. It provides access to important rare books, manuscripts, photographs and multimedia sources represented by images, texts, audio files, bibliographic databases, catalogs, and archival finding aids for the study of a wide array of subjects ranging from Philadelphia neighborhoods and the life of Marian Anderson to medieval manuscripts and Shakespeare's plays. In addition, this site gathers together Penn Libraries' pre-1923 materials publicly available through the Internet Archive as well as Penn-produced scholarship accessible in the ScholarlyCommons. Created over the past fifteen years with generous support from Penn benefactors, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trusts and other non-profit agencies, DigitalPenn, like its founding project the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image, continues to grow as we engage with partner institutions locally and around the world. DigitalPenn collections are sustained by curators who are responsible for the life cycle management and stewardship of the content within the framework of Penn's digital library infrastructure. |
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Blog: Unique at Penn- Mitch Fraas
Bollinger Fellow in Library Innovation Printed ticket found inside one of the manuscript volumes In mid-January, in the midst of moving 13,000 linear feet of manuscripts during the renovation of the Rare Book & Manuscripts Library at Penn, I received an e-mail from an agent at Pickering & Chatto, a London-based antiquarian bookseller. He was writing to offer me advance notice of two volumes of daily books and regulations relating to an asylum house for young girls that was set up in London in 1758. Having just taken the items on consignment, the dealer suspected that Penn might be interested, because the year before I had purchased a two-volume register that contains biographical data and physical details of over 6,000 female inmates of New Bailey Prison in Salford from 1851 to 1859. The dealer was right: I was intrigued and felt confident that others at Penn would be excited to have this research material available. Penn professors Toni Bowers and Michael Gamer responded quickly and enthusiastically to the potential acquisition, and Cheryl Nixon, who had recently published a book on orphans and the English novel, confirmed the difficulty of finding original manuscript records for this type of orphan institution. (more...) More posts...
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