This anonymous gift combines with the Libraries’ holdings to form the largest collection of Tress photographic prints in the United States.
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Featured Books: National Poetry Month
Want to discover a new poet for National Poetry Month? Our librarians have put together a list of recommendations that are sure to help.
Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels
Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels grants Penn students, staff, and faculty access to over 100,000 pages of important, rare, and hard-to-find comics and primary source materials about comics.
"Just Make the Data Available": Exploring Manuscripts with OPenn
Launched in 2015, OPenn holds over 10,000 digitized manuscripts from over fifty institutions, all freely available to download, use, and share.
Demography journal now open access - with Penn Libraries support
The Penn Libraries support open access publishing through funding for the ejournal Demography.
The Population Association of America has moved its journal Demography to platinum open access. The journal's changeover coincides with its shift to Duke University Press from Springer Publishing.
...Continue readingMaking Lemonade out of Mrs. Lemmon: An Interview with Caroline Schimmel
Penn alum Caroline Schimmel was one of the the first rare book collectors to recognize the importance of collecting books by women talking about women.
Mega Fans and Mega Brands: Tracking Teams, Sponsorships, and Audiences with Sports Atlas
Sports Atlas is a new database that collects information about professional sports leagues, their member teams, venues, and sponsorships.
Diversity in the Stacks: Bollywood and Hindi-language Cinema
Learn about some of the films and popular Hindi film directors that you will find in the Penn Libraries collection.
An Interview with Liza Vick, President of the Music Library Association
Starting this month, Penn music library head Liza Vick takes the reins as president of the Music Library Association.
Just Launched: Global Social Responses to COVID-19 Web Archive
The Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation is pleased to announce the launch of the Global Social Responses to COVID-19 Web Archive.
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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