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Events

With engaging events, compelling lectures, and skill-building workshops, the Penn Libraries is a hub for cultural and educational activity at the University of Pennsylvania. Many library events and exhibitions are open to the public.

Featured Events

Ludwig Abielle Sheet Music.

Music in the Pavilion Series

Presented by the University of Pennsylvania's Music Department, the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, and the Otto E. Albrecht Music Library.

Photograph of Frederick Douglass, Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Papers, University of Pennsylvania Archives
  • Event
  • Kislak
February 14, 2023

Douglass Day 2023

Douglass Day is a celebration of 19th-century Black achievement held annually on February 14, the day Frederick Douglass chose to celebrate his birthday. Each year communities gather at universities and colleges across the country to transcribe documents and help create new & freely available resources for learning about Black history.

  • 12:00pm - 3:00pm
  • Orrery Pavilion, Kislak Center, 6th Floor Van Pelt-Dietrich Library
Open to the Public
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Support for Publishing Workshops

Learn the ins and outs of the publishing process through a series of workshops hosted by the Penn Libraries in collaboration with the Grad Center at Penn.

Upcoming Events

Feb 08
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Zotero 101

In this virtual workshop, librarian Joanna Thompson will walk you through the basics of using Zotero to save and organize sources as well as generate citations.

  • February 8, 2023
  • 11:00am - 12:00pm
  • Online
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Feb 08
  • Event
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Research Hour

The second Wednesday of each month, come to the Annenberg library for an hour of exchange and exploration. Each month, we will focus on an aspect of research (like keeping up with new publications, collecting online sources, navigating survey data, writing) through a conversation and activity. The goal is to learn as a community of scholars and to act as a resource for each other. 

  • February 8, 2023
  • 12:00pm - 1:00pm
  • Annenberg Library
Annenberg Library Reading Room
Feb 08
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Valentine's Card Making Pop-Up

Store bought cards are expensive and impersonal.  Handmade cards are the best way to express how much you care.  Stop by this Pop-Up event and make your own cards for friends, family and signficant others.  We will have watercolor cards, card stock, envelopes, heat foil transfer, markers, stamps, along with other great ways to personalize the perfect card.

  • February 8, 2023
  • 4:00pm - 6:00pm
  • Weigle Information Commons Rooms and Booths
Feb 09
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

RPenn Group

The R Penn Group (RPG) presented by the Research Data & Digital Scholarship team at Penn Libraries is an initiative that meets to discuss, learn, and collaborate on topics and projects related to statistics, mapping, data wrangling, visualization, and analysis with R programming language through community focused problem solving.

  • February 9, 2023
  • 12:00pm - 1:00pm
  • Collaborative Classroom (Room 113), Van Pelt
Feb 09
  • Workshop
Open to the Public

RefWorks: Getting Started and Troubleshooting

RefWorks provides an easy way to organize your PDFs and save your references as you collect them.

  • February 9, 2023
  • 1:00pm - 2:00pm
  • Goldstein Electronic Classroom (Room 114), Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
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Feb 10
  • Lecture
  • Kislak
Open to the Public

Personal Names and Authority: The Achilles Heel of (Islamicate) Manuscript Description in the Context of Digital Humanities

Yasmin Faghihi, Head of the Near and Middle Eastern Department at Cambridge University Library and the editor of the online union catalog for manuscripts from the Islamicate world FIHRIST, discusses the problems and potential of name authorities in manuscript research.

  • Friday, February 10, 2023, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST
  • 12:00pm - 1:30pm
  • Virtual
A page of a manuscript copy of Durr al-buḥūr (Jewels of the Seas), composed and written by J.L. Burckhardt during his residence in Aleppo in the year 1810. As stated in the colophon this is an abridged Arabic version of The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, the novel by Daniel Defoe.
Feb 13
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students Only

Introduction to Data Visualization

Data visualizations are found everywhere!

  • February 13, 2023
  • 1:30pm - 2:30pm
  • Graduate Center at Penn
Feb 13
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Leather Wallet Workshop

This introduction to leather working is the perfect handmade gift for yourself or a loved one.  No prior exerience is needed.  This workshop will cover the basics of cutting out a leather pattern, hole punching, saddle stitching and adding snaps.

  • February 13, 2023
  • 2:00pm - 4:00pm
  • Education Commons TinkerLab
Feb 13
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Make chocolate with 3D prints

Make food safe molds using 3D prints to create fun chocolate gifts for the ones you care. In conjunction with last week's programming, we can use the 3D prints of people's heads to create molds that you can reuse to make chocolates, soaps, candles, and more. 

  • February 13, 2023
  • 2:00pm - 4:00pm
  • Education Commons Booths, Education Commons TinkerLab