Penn Libraries News

As part of a class this spring on food in the Islamic Middle East, Library Assistant Rachael Schechter learned to cook jawādhib al-khashkhāsh, or bread pudding with poppy seeds, using one of the many cookbooks in the Penn Libraries collections.

As part of America 250, the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing has been convening a series of programs exploring the role that nurses played in revolutionary America.

The Penn Libraries exhibit "The Time to Right All Wrongs" and related events, including a recent performance by the Lisette Project, trace how upheavals in France and Haiti transformed 1790s Philadelphia.

The Penn Libraries is pleased to announce two new open access agreements with the publishers Wolters Kluwer Health and Nature, effective July 1.

With the help of Penn Libraries' resources, we can seek out the objects, documents, and scholarly research that tell us what people were thinking and feeling at the advent of the American Revolution.

A number of periodicals cropped up in 1920s Cairo that offered artistic critique, gossip, and cultural commentary.

Born 557 years ago, Niccolò Machiavelli continues to influence Western political thought. You can find many works by him and about him in the Penn Libraries collections.

Staff and fellows are using the platform eScriptorium to build machine-learning models that can transcribe handwritten manuscripts from across the world.

A guide for students seeking a library job at Penn.