Notable Collections

The East Asia Comics Collection embodies the Libraries’ strategic priorities to collect and preserve global voices, and to make accessible materials related to borders and belonging. 

The Zagadinow Collection embodies the Libraries’ strategic priorities to collect and preserve global voices, and to make accessible materials related to Philadelphia’s culture and community and to transnational communities and identities.

Penn Libraries’ collection of Indigenous children’s literature from Latin America is modest but notable.

The Soviet Russian Children’s Picture Book Collection at Penn Libraries contains almost 300 works from the 1920s-1930s, which represent the Golden Age of Soviet avant-garde book design.

The Khajistan collection showcases Pakistani cultural heritage through ephemera, popular magazines, pulp fiction, rare books, and more.