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 readingFebruary 2021
Van Pelt–Dietrich Library is Making Its Return
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34th Street Magazine
February 2021
Fair Use and Dr. Seuss
What can "Oh the Places You'll Go!" teach us about fair use?
Brazilian and Portuguese History and Culture: The Oliveira Lima Library
Brazilian and Portuguese History and Culture: The Oliveira Lima Library consists of over 5,700 items nearly evenly divided between those characterized as monographs and the rest as pamphlets (nomenclature is a question of length: monographs have more than 50 pages).
...Continue readingDiversity in the Stacks: Veterans and Ancient Greek Literature
The works of Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, continue to speak to modern audiences from a diversity of cultures and regions.
Diversity in the Stacks: Veterans and Ancient Greek Literature
The works of Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, continue to speak to modern audiences from a diversity of cultures and regions.
20th Century Ethnic Newspapers
Writing about the Black Press, Dr. Kim Gallon (GSAS, 2009 and former Africana Studies librarian at Penn Libraries) writes that it countered the mainstream press "by exposing truths that 'objective' reporting overlooked.
...Continue readingThe Ethics of Information: Meet ACS Fellow and Chemistry Librarian Judith Currano
Head of the chemistry library Judith Currano shares her thoughts on chemical information, ethics in chemistry, and teaching in the era of COVID-19.
Featured Books: Black History Month
In 1925, historian Carter G. Woodson, together with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, announced the creation of Negro History Week. First celebrated in February of 1926 to coincide with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, it was quickly endorsed by Black history clubs, teachers, and intellectuals.
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