With the help of a community of educators, librarians, authors, and illustrators, Penn students select picture books for the Mirrors Collection that reflect themes like social justice, health literacy, and emotional literacy.
Opportunities for Penn Students
Students who work across our teams have opportunities to learn directly from the Philadelphia community by engaging with learners of all ages, working on behind-the-scenes cataloging, developing classroom and community literacy resources, and more.
Some examples of past student work include:
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Working with young readers to promote a love of literacy and libraries by creating read aloud resources that center lived experiences, helping find books that excite and energize, and acting as literacy role models.
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Develop library skills such as circulation and cataloging in school libraries through utilizing a digital library management system while also gaining a broader understanding of what it takes to keep a library going.
Work with us!
There are no student positions currently available. Check back in late summer for information about student hiring for the 2026-27 academic year.
"Seeing kids go up and down the aisles at their school library and looking at books, just reading books [has] always been something that delights me because everyone should have access to books. Everyone should be able to just pick a book off a shelf and read."
- Meresa Garcia (Penn 23', GSE 24') in Penn Today's "Who What Why"
Hear from Student Workers
Find out more about student work and read about the picture books that have inspired them.
To celebrate the end of the semester, we invited the wonderful University of Pennsylvania students from the Community Engagement team to tell us about books that feel like “home” to them.
