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Alumni Weekend 2008 at the Penn Libraries  (Posted on: 11-MAY-08)
The Penn Libraries will be open on Friday, May 16 and Saturday, May 17, 2008 for a number of public events, including exhibition and collection tours, a concert of early music, and a food and drink tasting from the collection of Chef Fritz Blank.
Mellon Foundation Grant Increases Access to Penn Libraries' Hidden Treasures  (Posted on: 05-MAY-08)
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a grant of $450,000 to the Penn Libraries to open the treasures of the Henry Charles Lea Library collection to a wider world.
Seltzer Family Innovation Awards  (Posted on: 05-MAY-08)
Jeff and Annie Seltzer's generosity facilitates the work of six undergraduates who will be incorporating technological innovations into their research projects.
Weigle Info Commons Director Receives Honors  (Posted on: 01-MAY-08)
The Libraries' Director of the Weigle Information Commons, Anu Vedantham, got a pleasant surprise when the Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change caught up with her at Penn. Anu has been recognized with a Nobel Prize Certificate
LehmanLive at Lippincott Library  (Posted on: 29-APR-08)
Lehman Brothers provides resources for equity and fixed income research at Lippincott Library
Applied Science & Business Periodicals Retrospective (1913-1983)  (Posted on: 28-APR-08)
Combined access to Business Periodicals Index Retrospective and Applied Science & Technology Index Retrospective. Cover-to-cover indexing for more than 2,000 periodicals including the complete file of Industrial Arts Index, 1913-1957.
DSM-IV-TR and Psychiatry e-journal backfiles  (Posted on: 28-APR-08)
PsychiatryOnline brings desktop access to the DSM-IV-TR, and other American Psychiatric Publishing Inc. textbooks and journals.
Education Index Retrospective (1929-1983)  (Posted on: 28-APR-08)
International coverage of over 500 English-language periodicals in education and education-related fields from 1929-1983.
Cell Stem Cell Now Available  (Posted on: 25-APR-08)
Cell Stem Cell Now Available
Mashup Awards 2008 - Congrats to our student filmmakers  (Posted on: 23-APR-08)
We congratulate Emilie Froh, Vince Levy and Andy Cao for winning entries to Mashup Contest 2008.
Philosopher's Index with New Vendor and Improved Search Interface  (Posted on: 23-APR-08)
Philosopher's Index in moving this summer from the WebSPIRS platform to the CSA Illumina interface.
Center for Research Libraries Membership Perks  (Posted on: 16-APR-08)
CRL membership puts more resources within reach of Penn scholars. Fiscal year 2008 sees the addition of over $44,000-worth of materials, opening new avenues of research from Sacramento to Ceylon and beyond.
Jane's Defense Magazine Library  (Posted on: 03-APR-08)
Jane's Defence Weekly, the Islamic Affairs Analyst, Terrorism & Security Monitor and other military and intelligence news magazines.
Digital National Security Archive  (Posted on: 01-APR-08)
The important declassified documents collection for critical U.S. foreign and military policy decisions since 1945.
Latinobarometro data files  (Posted on: 01-APR-08)
Microdata for Latin American annual public opinion surveys, 1995-2006.
NIH Public Access Policy  (Posted on: 26-MAR-08)
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has released its new Public Access Policy which becomes effective April 7, 2008.
Public tours of Textual Spaces: An Architecture of Reading  (Posted on: 26-MAR-08)
The Rare Book and Manuscript Library will offer public tours of its new exhibit on Saturday, April 5 and Saturday, May 17 (Alumni weekend) at 3:00PM.
RefWorks adds attachment feature  (Posted on: 26-MAR-08)
RefWorks, the Penn Libraries' web-based bibliography and database manager, now has the capability to store digital attachments to the references in user's personal RefWorks accounts.
BEPress e-journals expand to Research Now collection  (Posted on: 25-MAR-08)
20 new Berkeley Electronic Press e-journals, including Basic Income Studies, Asian Journal of Comparative Law, and International Journal of Biostatistics.
Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences now online!  (Posted on: 20-MAR-08)
The mammoth reference work on mathematical statistics offers in-depth coverage with ongoing updates.
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