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Press Releases

• Delmas Foundation Funds Two Spring Conferences at Penn (January 26, 2012)
• Penn Libraries Receive the Archive of Famed Songwriter Ray Evans (August 2, 2011)
• Seltzer Family Digital Media Award Winners 2011 (May 13, 2011)
• NEH Supports Digitization of 17th- and 18th-century Manuscripts (May 10, 2011)
• Bollinger Fellowship to Shape Research Services for Future Scholars (May 9, 2011)
• Penn Libraries to Launch Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies with $20 Million Manuscript Collection Gift (April 14, 2011)
• Penn Libraries Receive Mellon Grant for Cataloging Hidden Special Collections (January 18, 2011)
• Penn Libraries Receive $26K from Elsevier Foundation for Health Information Delivery in Rural Guatemala (January 3, 2011)
• University of Pennsylvania Libraries Join HathiTrust (November 9, 2010)
• Penn-MERLOT ELIXR Project Showcases Student Video Projects in Teaching and Learning (October 13, 2010)
• Penn Libraries Receive $200K IMLS Grant for Decision Support System (October 1, 2010)
• Penn Libraries Announce $1Million Gift for Special Collections Center (June 16, 2010)
• Penn Libraries Announce Winners of 2010 Seltzer Family Digital Media Awards (May 3, 2010)
• Libraries Receive $4.25 Million Gift for Special Collections Center (February 19, 2010)
• First Eugene Garfield Resident in Science Librarianship Appointed (February 12, 2010)
• 2009 Sparky Awards at Penn Celebrate Information Sharing (January 27, 2010)
• Penn Libraries Receive the Chaim Potok Papers (January 13, 2010)
• Laurie Landeau Foundation Sponsors Digitization of Historic Equine Book Collection (January 13, 2010)
• The Penn Libraries Receive Archive of the Running Press Book Publishing Company (January 11, 2010)
• Penn Libraries Partner with Kuali OLE to Develop 21st-Century Library Management Software (January 11, 2010)

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Position Papers

• NIH Public Access Policy and Scholarly Communication
• Penn Libraries' Perspective on the Harvard University Mandate

The Library as Learning Matrix: The Art of the Box Lunch

A volume of essays – one by a professor and several by his students – that forms a kind of literary soufflé, folding together ideas about food and society, culture and collecting, libraries and learning. The learning described and evident in these pages is learning in the most authentic sense: the process that informs and re-forms an individual's identity and relationship with the surrounding world.

Ivy Leaves

• Ivy Leaves Spring '11: Research Libraries and the New Stacks Equation
• Ivy Leaves Fall '10: Change & Opportunity: The Libraries' Strategic Plan
• Ivy Leaves Spring '10: Technology, Teaching, Learning, and the Libraries
• Ivy Leaves Fall '09 Special Issue: Scholarly Communication
• Ivy Leaves Fall '09: The Lenkin Family Collection of Photography
• Ivy Leaves Fall '08: SCETI, Humanities, and the Digital Word
• Ivy Leaves Fall '07: The Global Library
• Ivy Leaves Spring '07: Library and Information Services in Veterinary Medicine at Penn
• Ivy Leaves Winter '06: Transforming the Library

Penn A - Z Guide 2008-2009

An outline of the print and digital resources of the Penn Libraries, as well as their services, professional staff and facilities. Arranged in A to Z format, the Guide is a means of quick orientation to the Libraries with many points of access to more detailed information and help.

Penn Library Facts 2009-2010

A pamphlet containing statistics and other quantitative information describing the use and provision of Penn Library resources, services and programs.

The Digital Book Project

of the Oxford University and Cambridge University Presses and the University of Pennsylvania Library: Final Report

In the interest of learning how researchers at a major university would incorporate full-length electronic texts into teaching and learning, the University of Pennsylvania Library and the Oxford University Press sought the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create a collection of digital books and study its use by academics in the humanities. The Penn/Oxford collaboration was joined by the Cambridge University Press and the affiliates of several Philadelphia area colleges. Over 5 years, the partners built a corpus of 772 digital books in history and allied disciplines. The books where cataloged and made searchable, as a collection and as individual units, on the World Wide Web. The collection attained sufficient mass to attract a following after some eighteen to twenty-four months. This allowed Penn a three-year time-frame to analyze and compare data on the use of digital and hardcopy, and interview readers in order to learn how academics interact with long texts in an online setting and integrate them into their work.

ScholarlyCommons: Repository

A digital repository of research and scholarship produced by Penn faculty and students. Readers on campus and around the globe can browse, search and download full-text from the repository web site at http://repository.upenn.edu.