Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

Kislak Center

Kislak Center

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

General information

Kislak Center 
Reading Room 
Goldstein Gallery 
Research account
Reader services
Reprographics
Room reservation
Subject specialists

Exhibits

Recent: Thomas Evans 16th Century Bible Collection
Recent: Thomas Evans 16th Century Bible Collection
Recent: Wise Men Fished Here - A Centennial Exhibition in Honor of the Gotham Book Mart, 1920-2020
Recent: Wise Men Fished Here - A Centennial Exhibition in Honor of the Gotham Book Mart, 1920-2020
On exhibit: Audubon's Birds of America
On exhibit: Audubon's Birds of America
On exhibit: Marian Anderson on the World Stage
On exhibit: Marian Anderson on the World Stage
On exhibit: Whitman Vignettes: Camden and Philadelphia
On exhibit: Whitman Vignettes: Camden and Philadelphia
On exhibit: Musical Fund Society at 200
On exhibit: Musical Fund Society at 200: Diffusion of Taste in Philadelphia, 1820-2020
On exhibit: Early Medical and Dental Books from the Thomas Wiltberger Evans Collection
On exhibit: Early Medical and Dental Books from the Thomas Wiltberger Evans Collection
Upcoming: The Bibliophile as Bookbinder: The Angling Binding of S.A. Neff, Jr
Upcoming: The Bibliophile as Bookbinder: The Angling Binding of S.A. Neff, Jr
Upcoming: Manuscriptistan: Photographs by Anthony M Cerulli
Upcoming: Manuscriptistan: Photographs by Anthony M Cerulli

Events

Publications

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News

Archivists for a Day
English Graduate Student Become Archivists for a Day
Major Collection Focusing on African American Women, Cookery, and Children’s Literature Comes to Penn Libraries
Major Collection Focusing on African American Women, Cookery, and Children’s Literature Comes to Penn Libraries
From our blog: “Heavenly Monsters”: Horace Howard Furness, William Shak(e)spe(a)re, and the Furness Libraries
From our blog: “Heavenly Monsters”: Horace Howard Furness, William Shak(e)spe(a)re, and the Furness Libraries
In the “Sacred Texts: Codices Far, Far Away” video series, Penn curator Dot Porter compares manuscripts like this treatise on the fundamentals of arithmetic (left) and cosmogony (right) to Star Wars films in order to increase interest in medievalism.
“Sacred Texts: Codices Far, Far Away”-Penn video series compares medieval manuscripts to Star Wars
From our blog: The Many Battles of Little Sparta
From our blog: The Many Battles of Little Sparta
‘Lost world, lost lives, and the displacement of a culture’
‘Lost world, lost lives, and the displacement of a culture’ Hundreds of books looted by the Nazis during World War II sit on the shelves of the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, a window into a different time in history
Manuscript Monday: LJS 236 – Thesaurus pauperum…
Manuscript Monday: LJS 236 – Thesaurus pauperum…

Staff

John Pollack
Andrea Gottschalk
Mitch Fraas
Eri Mizukane
Barbara Kitamura
David McKnight
Lynn Ransom
Gerald Leska
Kelly Tuttle
Amey Hutchins
Dan Traister
Tess Gadomski
April James
Lauren Rile
Valeria Kremser
Jackie Parascandola
Abigail Lang
Dennis Mullen
Dot Porter
Sibylla Benatova
Lynne Farrington
Sarah Reidell
Nicholas Herman
Emma Cawlfield
Liz Broadwell
Donna Brandolisio
William Noel
Jessica Dummer
Betsy Bates
Holly Mengel
Shelby Wolfe
Regan Kladstrup
Elizabeth McDermott