Elizabeth Fee, who died in 2018, is probably most known for her work documenting and analyzing the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
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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.
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.
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: Literature from Soviet Russia's Borders

What influence has Russian literature had on the countries and cultures on its periphery?
The Penn Libraries Acquires 15th Century Printing of the Sūtra of Perfection of Wisdom

One of the newest additions to our collections also happens to be the oldest printed book in the Penn Libraries.
Diversity in the Stacks: Immigrant Experiences in Children’s Literature

The Penn Libraries is expanding its collection of children’s and young adult literature with the goal of privileging underrepresented voices, cultures, and perspectives.
Sarah Thomas Appointed Senior Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Sarah Thomas, most recently University Librarian at Harvard University, has been named a Senior Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries.
University of Pennsylvania Libraries Receives Major Gift of Works by Renowned Photographer Arthur Tress

This anonymous gift combines with the Libraries’ holdings to form the largest collection of Tress photographic prints in the United States.
Diversity in the Stacks: Bollywood and Hindi-language Cinema

Learn about some of the films and popular Hindi film directors that you will find in the Penn Libraries collection.