Upcoming Events

Nov 24

• Workshop

Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Studio Use Training: Letterpress Printing

Learn and practice the basics of letterpress printing and typesetting. This orientation is required as a prerequisite for working on independent projects at Common Press and can be taken multiple times.

• November 24, 2025
• 10:00am - 12:00pm
• Common Press Space

Dec 01

• Workshop

Open to Penn Dental Students, Faculty, and Staff

Sewing 101 & Textile Mending

Join the Leon Levy Dental Library Medicine Library for a screen-free crafternoon with Mia D'Avanza, the Director of Fisher Fine Arts Library. Mia will teach the simple life skills of sewing and mending. All skill levels are welcome.

• December 1, 2025
• 11:30am - 1:30pm
• Room LL02A: Electronic Classroom, Leon Levy Dental Medicine Library

Dec 02

• Lecture

Open to the Public

A Book That Got Around: The Many Contexts of "Aristotle’s Masterpiece"

In this talk, guest speaker Mary Fissell will use the inscriptions in the Penn copy of the 1684 edition of Aristotle’s Masterpiece to explore the material contexts of the book’s uses.

• December 2, 2025
• 5:30pm - 7:00pm
• Hybrid: Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, sixth floor; and on Zoom

Dec 03

• Lecture

Open to the Public

Penn Libraries Presents: Valeria Kremser - Uninvited Guests: Common Library Pests and Other Happenstance Visitors

In this crash course on Integrated pest management (IPM) led by Senior Conservation Technician Valeria Kremser, we will go over the usual suspects, the sidekicks that help keep their populations down, and some critters that may bumble their way into the library.

• December 3, 2025
• 12:00pm - 1:00pm
• Class of '55 Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center

Dec 03

• Workshop

Open to the Public

Manuscript Studies Interest Group: Manuscripts as Data

On December 3, we'll look outside of the box and talk about manuscripts as data, including digitization and using digitized manuscripts as text and as images.

• December 3, 2025
• 2:00pm - 3:00pm
• Kislak Center Vitale II, Rm 623, 6th Floor

Dec 03

Open to the Public

Open Studio Session: Lighting in the Revolutionary Era

Join us for a drop-in Open Studio at Common Press to print a broadside about artificial lighting in American history!

• December 3, 2025
• 2:00pm - 4:00pm
• Common Press Space

Dec 03

• Workshop

Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Bloomberg 101

This class covers basic database structure and practical and useful commands in Bloomberg, a definitive source of information for security pricing, indicative and fundamental data, customized analytics and business news.

• December 3, 2025
• 3:30pm - 4:30pm
• Yablon Financial Resources Lab, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, Room 244

Dec 03

• Workshop

Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Research Poster Design

Learn how to effectively condense your work, communicate findings in a visually appealing way, save and size files correctly for printing in Microsoft PowerPoint, and more.

• December 3, 2025
• 4:45pm - 5:45pm
• Online

Dec 04

• Workshop

Open to the Public

Coffee with a Codex: Illustrated Manuscript in Sanskrit

For Coffee With A Codex on December 4, South Asian Studies Librarian Jef Pierce will bring out Ms. Coll. 390 Item 3020, a manuscript that contains the legend of Kālaka, important to the Śvetāmbara Jains and read during the first night of the Paryuṣaṇā.

• December 4, 2025
• 12:00pm - 12:30pm
• Online