This semester, spend some time exploring what your library has to offer beyond books.
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Penn Libraries Unveils First Read and Publish Agreement with Cambridge University Press
The Penn Libraries' first transformative agreement seeks to "expand open access publishing while centering the values of sustainability and equity in scholarly publishing.”
Featured Books and DVDs: The Victorian Era
The origins of the modern lending library can be traced back to Victorian era in the United Kingdom (~1820-~1914), during which time booksellers began offering book rentals. Soon circulating or subscription libraries began to pop up, allowing families to borrow one volume at a time for an annual fee that was less than the price of purchasing one book.
...Continue readingHow Health Sciences Librarians Are Building Global Partnerships, from Philadelphia to Gaborone
For the last 13 years, librarians at Penn and the University of Botswana have worked together to build the capacity of University of Botswana librarians to serve medical students and clinicians.
How Penn's Librarians are Using Linked Data to Make the Web Better
“Linked data is the language of the web,” says Beth Camden, Director of Information Processing. “It’s building the infrastructure that makes the web better.”
Open Access Week at the Penn Libraries
Open Access Week allows us to set aside a week to explore, consider, and critique the scholarly community’s progress in making scholarly information equitably accessible on a global scale.
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.
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.
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.
