Elizabeth Fee, who died in 2018, is probably most known for her work documenting and analyzing the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
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Diversity in the Stacks: Old and Rare Sanskrit Series
The Penn Libraries collections include 19th and 20th century Sanskrit series that made old, rare, and foundational Sanskrit texts available to a wide-ranging audience.
Penn Libraries Opens Newly-Renovated Biotech Commons
The Penn Libraries has transformed its former Biomedical Library into a dynamic space with a new name: the Biotech Commons.
The Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image Celebrates 25 Years
Thanks to a generous gift from Lawrence J. Schoenberg, grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and private donations, SCETI has spent the past 25 years digitizing collections and making them available online.
Conserving Claudy Jongstra's "Fields of Transformation"
Claudy Jongstra's mural does more than evoke the natural world: it is intimately and continuously affected by it.
Featured Books: Hispanic Heritage Month
Put together by Penn’s Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies, this month’s Featured Books list includes a variety of nonfiction titles related to Latin American history, culture, and activism.
Penn Libraries Welcomes New Curator for Civic Engagement Samantha Hill
Hill is an award-winning trans-disciplinary artist whose practice draws upon archives and oral histories collected by individuals and communities.
The Divine Comedy’s ‘universal message’
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Find popular books on the first floor of the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center.
Celebrating New Students, New Services, and a New School Year at the Penn Libraries
This fall, the Libraries is rolling out new services and resources that will help connect library users with the materials and expertise they need.
January 2019
Hive mind: What’s in these Ed Bacon photos?
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January 2019
Penn Libraries to Commemorate the 100th Anniversary of “The Headquarters of the Avant-Garde” with Exhibition and Conference
In 2008, the University of Pennsylvania Libraries received the contents of the Gotham Book Mart, the legendary New York City bookstore founded in 1920 by Frances Steloff.
...Continue readingDr. Jennifer Garcon Appointed as the Penn Libraries’ Bollinger Fellow in Public and Community Data Curation
It is with great excitement that the Penn Libraries announces the appointment of Dr. Jennifer Garcon as its new Bollinger Fellow in Public and Community Data Curation, an important post upholding the Penn Libraries’ commitment to open access and responsible data stewardship.
...Continue readingDepartmental Library Spotlight: Education Commons
This year, the intrepid team at the Education Commons, Emerging Technologies Librarian Chava Spivak-Birndorf and Teaching & Learning Librarian Meaghan Moody, has made it their mission to foster a lively and inclusive atmosphere for innovative creation, making great strides toward their goal of everyone at Penn recognizing the name of “the library space at Franklin Field”.
...Continue readingTeaching “East Asian DH”
In Spring 2018, I taught the grad/undergrad seminar “East Asian Digital Humanities” (EALC111-511), which was also listed for the undergraduate DH minor via the Price Lab. This course focused on digital humanities (DH) research and projects in an East Asian context.
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