Penn Libraries News

Elizabeth Fee, who died in 2018, is probably most known for her work documenting and analyzing the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

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.

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.

Claudy Jongstra's mural does more than evoke the natural world: it is intimately and continuously affected by it.

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.

Find popular books on the first floor of the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center.

How a group of archivists from across Penn came together to create a strategy for collecting and preserving born-digital collections.

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.

The Iran-Iraq War has had a significant presence in a broad variety of cultural works created both during and after the war.