Teaching & learning

Teaching & Learning

Penn Libraries offers a variety of services for faculty and students. We provide instruction to classes, on-demand workshops, instructional design support, and a variety of spaces and technologies to help students as they become researchers, knowledge producers, and information literate citizens.

Map room project:. Student marking a wall map

Digital Scholarship

Map Rooms are one example of using GIS technology to transform learning. Our Digital Scholarship group provides a range of services that expand the capacity of researchers at Penn to create and share new kinds of scholarship.

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Teaching & learning services

Library Lounge prepares students to excel as researchers. From custom tutorials to instructional design, we offer a range of services to help faculty teach and students learn.                                                                                      

Students and staff working in the Tinkerlab

Access to technology

Tinkerlab is a space for makers to teach, learn, and create. Across the libraries, we lend a range of equipment, from microphones to robotics kits, and provide access to hardware and software, from GIS software to 3D-printers to a green-screen-equipped studio.

Puerto Rico Disaster Relief Mapathon at the Education Commons

Spaces for teaching & learning

Each of our libraries offers unique spaces for teaching and learning, from active-learning spaces like the Collaborative Classroom to quiet study spaces in the Penn Museum Library.