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Access to the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center is limited to PennCard holders, Penn affiliates, and certain visitors. See our Service Alerts for details.
10am - 6pm | Library Hours
Van-Pelt Dietrich Library Center
3420 Walnut Street, 5th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206
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The Center for Global Collections is an intellectual hub for engagement with the world. Students and scholars can explore the diversity of cultures and societies around the world — their histories, languages, perspectives, narratives, and cultural contributions — through the Center’s vast information resources, the expertise of a dedicated team of librarians, and dynamic programming.
The $15M renovation project will transform the fifth floor of the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center.
Kenneth and Joyce Robbins designated the Penn Libraries as the recipient of the Kenneth and Joyce Robbins Collection of South Asia History in their estate planning.
A new collection focuses on the Turkish-speaking and Muslim communities in interwar and Pacific War-era Japan.
The Penn Libraries and Khajistan have collaborated to bring several groupings of ephemera, popular magazines, pulp fiction, and rare books to campus, and we're currently working to make these available to researchers from around the world.
The Penn Libraries has recently acquired several issues of the women's journal Nova khata (New Home), which offer a unique window into Ukrainian culture as it existed a century ago.
To more accurately reflect the diversity of literature in China, the Penn Libraries has made a special effort to add recent internet novels that have been published in print form to our collection.
Collecting materials related to the history of Taiwan's indigenous people presents unique challenges and exciting opportunities.
We invite you to enhance global studies at Penn with a gift to name a space in the new Center for Global Collections
The accessible entrance of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center opens into the Goldstein Undergraduate Study Center. This entrance is on the ground floor of the building facing Blanche P. Levy Park and College Hall. A wheelchair accessible doorbell is located on the railing leading toward the door.