The gift to the Penn Libraries complements holdings across the University, making Penn a major center for research and work on Curtis, one of the most prolific American photographers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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The Penn Libraries Acquires the Personal Papers of Historian and Activist Elizabeth Fee
Elizabeth Fee, who died in 2018, is probably most known for her work documenting and analyzing the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
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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Penn Today
Get the latest bestsellers from the Penn Libraries
Find popular books on the first floor of the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center.
August 2021
Textual Treasures
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The Pennsylvania Gazette
Two centuries old, a handwritten record of medical education
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Penn Today
August 2021
Meet Five Leaders of Digital Infrastructure and Initiatives at the Penn Libraries
As we begin a new school year, we talked with a few of the many people leading the charge to transform digital services at the Penn Libraries.
Featured Books: Discovering Philadelphia
Whether you are a new student, new to Philadelphia, or are just looking for something new to read, we hope these recommendations from Penn Libraries’ staff will help you feel more at home.
Mapping South Africa's population with GIS data
The Penn Libraries have acquired the South Africa 2011 Census Data Collection. This GIS data product offers detailed aggregate tables on South Africa's population from its 2011 Census with geographic querying and visualization capabilities.
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Diversity in the Stacks: Literary Reflections on the Iran-Iraq War
The Iran-Iraq War has had a significant presence in a broad variety of cultural works created both during and after the war.
Diversity in the Stacks: Literary Reflections on the Iran-Iraq War
The Iran-Iraq War has had a significant presence in a broad variety of cultural works created both during and after the war.
Diversity in the Stacks: Literary Reflections on the Iran-Iraq War
The Iran-Iraq War has had a significant presence in a broad variety of cultural works created both during and after the war.
Diversity in the Stacks: Literary Reflections on the Iran-Iraq War
The Iran-Iraq War has had a significant presence in a broad variety of cultural works created both during and after the war.
"A Compass for the Libraries": How the Penn Libraries is Building Assessment into its Mission
What does it mean to be a successful academic library in 2021?
Mass Observation Project – British social history for the 1980s and 1990s
The Mass Observation Project continues to compile the "Anthropology of Us" for Great Britain, starting in 1981 and building upon the original Mass Observation program that ran from 1937 to 1967.
...Continue readingMass Observation Project – British social history for the 1980s and 1990s
The Mass Observation Project continues to compile the "Anthropology of Us" for Great Britain, starting in 1981 and building upon the original Mass Observation program that ran from 1937 to 1967.
...Continue readingFrom Psycholinguists to Patient Advocates: A Look at Open Access Journals Today
A look at the challenges and opportunities presented by Open Access journals today.
