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The Penn Libraries is providing a broad array of resources to help support teaching, learning, and research across all the disciplines of climate change.

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The University of Pennsylvania community is invited to share input to improve the Franklin catalog.

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How technology changes the way we create, consume, share, and interact with copyrighted works.

Still from the tv show The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, showing character Carlton Banks doing the dance "The Carlton."

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.

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The platform features films that are representative of the range of diverse cultures of Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula, with selections in Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, and Indigenous languages.

Grid of title cards for 15 different films offered by Pragda Stream, including: After Spring, Alba, Albertina, Album for the Youth, Alice Junior, and Amerikanuak.

Get to know a few of the Penn Libraries' student workers.

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The Penn Libraries now provides online access to two of the most comprehensive databases for human rights research.

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For this month’s selections, the Penn Libraries partnered with Penn Native Community Council (PNCC).

A multicolored stack of books sits next to a stack of DVDs on a rock surrounded by fallen leaves. A few of the titles include books American Indian Stories, Warrior Poet, and Sound Relations; and DVDs Smoke Signals, Rabbit-Proof Fence, and Skins.

Copyright Advisor Stephen Wolfson talks about the public domain in horror and fantasy, from Night of the Living Dead to Fables.

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