To this day, the French language plays an important role in North African countries like Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia—but that role is complex and contested.
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Exploring the meanings of "home": Children’s lit recommendations from the Penn Libraries Community Engagement team
To celebrate the end of the semester, we invited the students from the Community Engagement team to tell us about children's books that feel like “home” to them.
Penn Libraries Announces Warhol@Penn Again Series
The Penn Libraries is pleased to announce Warhol@Penn Again, a series of exhibitions and programs celebrating the career of the King of Pop Art Andy Warhol during the period 1965-1968.
May Featured Books and DVDs: Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
The Penn Libraries’ recommendations for books and DVDs to celebrate AAPI heritage reflect the diversity of populations comprised in this group.
“Translating Warhol,” a Symposium
The international symposium, to be held June 23-24, is supported by a grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art.
Diversity in the Stacks: Folk and Tribal Arts in South Asia
In the last year, the Penn Libraries has purchase of several hundred volumes related to South Asian painting, textiles, music, and dance.
Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff Can Now Access Selections from the Criterion Collection through Kanopy
University of Pennsylvania students, faculty, and staff can now stream more than 500 iconic films in the Criterion Collection through the Kanopy video platform.
Penn Libraries Joins Elsevier Open Access Pilot
As part of this three-year pilot, authors who have published with many Elsevier journals and who were affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania at the time of publication will retroactively have their articles made open access.
April Featured Books and DVDs: National Poetry Month
Not sure where to begin in your exploration of poetry? Try easing in with a book of lyrics from a beloved musician, a nonfiction book about a poet, or a poetic film.
VR for social work & counseling - Mindscape Commons, plus new social work, counseling, & therapy videostreams
Mindscape Commons provides immersive, interactive, and virtual reality experiences, serious games and apps for teaching and research in counseling, social work, psychology, health sciences, and related programs. The ~300 titles in Mindscape Commons are viewable on most devices, with enhanced immersion available for Google-cardboard smartphones, Oculus headsets, and other VR devices.
...Continue readingAugust 2020
See Newly-digitized, Public Archives on Recitalist Marian Anderson’s Life and Work
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Hyperallergic
Preserving a Pioneer
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The Pennsylvania Gazette
Penn Libraries digitizes Marian Anderson collection
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The Philadelphia Tribune
Explore the Newly Digitized Diaries and Letters of Marian Anderson
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Smithsonian Magazine
August 2020
Featured Books: Arts & Culture in Philadelphia
In advent of a semester defined by social distancing and remote learning, the Stacks staff has put together a reading, watching, and listening list so that Quakers can virtually immerse in the art and cultural scenes of the City of Brotherly Love.
Investigating and Remembering Japanese-American Internment
On Wednesday, August 12, the University Task Force on Support to Asian and Asian-American Students and Scholars — in collaboration with several University partners — is screening and sponsoring a panel discussion of the documentary 9066 to 9/11: The Past, Present and Future of Anti-Asian Bias in America.
Institute of Museum and Library Services Grants Funding for Digital Scriptorium 2.0
The University of Pennsylvania Libraries’ Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS) announces the receipt of a planning grant from National Leadership Grants for Libraries, a program of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The IMLS grant has been awarded to the Penn Libraries on behalf of Digital Scriptorium
