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Librarian and Poet Sharon Black Looks Back on her Career at Penn
We recently spoke with Black about librarianship, poetic practice, her career at Penn, and her plans for retirement.
Celebrate Public Domain Day with the Penn Libraries
On January 1, The Great Gatsby became one of the thousands of works published in 1925 to enter the public domain. Starting this year, anyone is free to acquire, share, adapt, remix, and otherwise consume these creative works.
Diversity in the Stacks: Cookbooks from the Middle East and Beyond
Sample the cookbooks featuring food of the Middle East that you can find at the Penn Libraries.
On the Eve of His Retirement, Librarian Richard Griscom Reflects on His Career at Penn
Richard Griscom says the most rewarding thing about working at Penn Libraries has remained the same, regardless of his role: “It’s the imaginative, creative people who work well together and support each other who kept me at Penn for sixteen years.”
Consumer Pyramids dx - microdata from India's largest household survey
Consumer Pyramids Household Survey, produced by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), is the world's largest household panel survey, a continuous survey of more than 174,000 households in India. CPHS revisits its entire sample in three four-month waves each year, permitting longitudinal analysis starting in January 2014.
...Continue readingDiversity in the Stacks: Indigenous Languages, Indigenous Voices
A selection of materials in Indigenous languages from the Penn Libraries, produced from the 17th to the 21st centuries.
Everyday Life in Victorian England
Three databases recently purchased by the Libraries provide access to scans of rare material that throw light on everyday life in Victorian England.
Just Launched: South Asian Gender and Sexuality Web Archive
Amplifying the voices of those fighting against long histories of patriarchal dominance, the South Asian Gender and Sexuality Web Archive documents and preserves the work of activists, grassroots organizations, and social justice movements committed to promoting the visibility and experiences of LGBTQAI+ people and women in South Asia and its diasporas.
American Prison Newspapers, 1800-2020 : Voices From The Inside
Presenting newspapers written and published by incarcerated people from within federal and state prisons nationwide, American Prison Newspapers, 1800-2020 : Voices From The Inside aims to offer a quarter-million page-images with searchable fulltext from more than 300 prison newspaper titles when completed. The first installment of six prison newspapers is now available for reading by Penn students, faculty, and staff on the JSTOR platform.
...Continue readingSeptember 2019
Penn Libraries enter a ‘new era of innovation’
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Penn Today
September 2019
Criminal Justice Abstracts upgrades with fulltext
Criminal Justice Abstracts is the leading database for finding journal articles in criminology and related fields. The Penn Libraries have upgraded our subscription to include full text for several hundred academic journals, trade publications, magazines, and conference papers and proceedings.
...Continue readingFERN's Ag Insider : food policy news service
FERN's Ag Insider news service provides daily reporting and analysis on US federal and state food and agriculture policy.
Diversity in the Stacks: Afrofuturism
Today we launch a series of blog posts to celebrate the Penn Libraries’ Diversity in the Stacks initiative. Diversity in the Stacks aims to build library collections that represent and reflect the University’s diverse population. Our inaugural post highlights holdings related to Afrofuturism.
...Continue readingKicking Off the Year of Data at New Student Orientation
The Class of 2023 filled the rows of Irvine Auditorium. Onstage, the projector screen displayed a wispy black halo encircling a core of brilliant lilac light. It was the iconic photo of Messier 104 — better known as the Sombrero Galaxy — taken by the Hubble Telescope. And, as the Libraries’ Will Noel explained, the photo was essentially fake.
...Continue readingArchives Direct: Sources from The National Archives, UK
Archives Direct is a suite of collections sourced from The National Archives, Kew, the official archive of the United Kingdom.
...Continue readingMusical Instruments on Loan
Penn’s Albrecht Music Library houses a growing collection of loanable electronic musical instruments. The holdings include high-end synthesizers (a Novation Circuit), mixers (an Allen & Heath Zedi10FX), and a laptop preloaded with recording software — though the most mesmerizing apparatus currently on offer is arguably the Moog Etherwave Plus theremin.
Featured Books Display: Philadelphia
The latest Featured Books Display in the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center spotlights the City of Brotherly Love. “We have new students who’ve never been to Philadelphia and returning students who haven’t ventured off campus,” explains Eileen Kelly, Head of Collection Management. “The holdings we’ve selected are meant to encourage exploration and appreciation.”
...Continue readingColonial America: Growth, Trade and Development
Colonial America consists of all 1,450 volumes of the CO 5 series of Colonial Office files held at The National Archives in London, plus all extracted documents associated with them. This unique collection of largely manuscript material from the archives of the British government is an invaluable one for students and researchers of all aspects of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century American history and the early-modern Atlantic world.
...Continue readingResearch Tea: Manuel S. González Canché
For the Libraries’ next Research Tea, Manuel S. González Canché will speak about his recent work on geographical bias in standardized testing. An associate professor in the Higher Education division of Penn’s Graduate School of Education (GSE), González Canché’s scholarship focuses on the interplay between environmental circumstances and educational/occupational outcomes.
Just Launched: Geologic Field Trip Guidebooks Web Archive
The Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation is pleased to announce the launch of the Geologic Field Trip Guidebooks Web Archive. The Geologic Field Trip Guidebooks Web Archive aims to preserve web-based geoscience field trip guidebooks, which document local geologic information and are often ephemeral.
17th and 18th Century Manuscript Verse
The Brotherton Collection of 17th and 18th century English literature includes over 180 manuscripts that contain nearly 7000 poems and verses. These manuscripts were gathered together to form a discrete collection of verse.
...Continue readingResearch Tea: Konrad Kording
Dr. Konrad Kording – a dually-appointed PIK professor of neuroscience and bioengineering – will be the first speaker in the Penn Libraries’ Fall 2019 Research Tea series. Dr. Kording will consider various problems in science research, including image fraud, epistemological failures, tools failures, and replicability.
400 years of democracy and slavery in Virginia: Virginia Company Archives
The year 2019 marks the 400th anniversary of the first representative legislative assembly in the British Colonies. The “General Assembly,” composed of men from each of Virginia’s eleven major settlements, met for the first time at Jamestown from July 30-August 4, 1619. 1619 was also the year in which the first enslaved Africans arrived at Virginia. The beginnings of democracy and slavery in the British Colonies as well as can be studied through the Ferrar and related papers of the Virginia Company Ar
...Continue readingTravel Writing, Spectacle and World History, narratives from the Schlesinger Library
This resource brings together hundreds of accounts by women of their travels across the globe from the early 19th century to the late 20th century. Students and researchers will find sources covering a variety of topics including; architecture; art; the British Empire; climate; customs; exploration; family life; housing; industry; language; monuments; mountains; natural history; politics and diplomacy; race; religion; science; shopping; war.
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