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.
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The Divine Comedy’s ‘universal message’
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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.
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.
Get the latest bestsellers from the Penn Libraries
Find popular books on the first floor of the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center.
Celebrating New Students, New Services, and a New School Year at the Penn Libraries
This fall, the Libraries is rolling out new services and resources that will help connect library users with the materials and expertise they need.
Digital Natives: How the University of Pennsylvania is Preserving its Born-Digital Collections
How a group of archivists from across Penn came together to create a strategy for collecting and preserving born-digital collections.
Digital Natives: How the University of Pennsylvania is Preserving its Born-Digital Collections
How a group of archivists from across Penn came together to create a strategy for collecting and preserving born-digital collections.
