Penn Libraries News

This year, the Penn Libraries is taking time to consider the many different financial, human, and environmental costs associated with creating and sharing knowledge.

In partnership with Penn’s Office of the Vice Provost for Research (OVPR) and the Perelman School of Medicine (PSOM), the Penn Libraries has licensed institution-wide access to Dimensions and Altmetric Explorer for Institutions.

At the Penn Libraries, you can work side by side with fellow students, meet up with your group, or just find a place where other people are getting things done.

A $4 million estate gift from Adele Santos and Michael Meister will endow a specialist librarian and provide permanent support for the Penn Libraries’ South Asian collections.

The Black Hero’s Journey, on view from October 15 to May 13, is free and open to the public.

Our ever-growing repository can be used by students, scholars, artists, teachers, designers, and curious individuals regardless of their institutional affiliation.

The Libraries' vice provost and director talks about modern research libraries, third places, and the new Don't Study Alone campaign.

Our new agreement greatly expands the availability of HathiTrust's public domain and Creative Commons licensed text data for Penn researchers interested in computational analysis.

Have you ever walked by an object in a museum and wanted to know more about it? Not sure how to get started when a professor assigns you to write an object biography? Read these tips from the head of the Penn Museum Library, Deb Stewart.