Category: Diversity in the stacks

The Libraries’ collection from Hakim's provides insight into decades of readership in Black West Philadelphia and serves a unique research purpose.

Many library patrons know that they can explore new and different places through books, but the Penn Libraries can also transports you through music.

A new collection focuses on the Turkish-speaking and Muslim communities in interwar and Pacific War-era Japan.

Learn how stabilizing and repairing a Persian manuscript to facilitate access relates to the larger goal of performing culturally sensitive conservation work.

The Penn Libraries holds essential collections in all the fields of importance to this vital community.

Writers who engage in defensive esotericism find ways to communicate with two audiences to avoid persecution: they write an accessible, publicly-oriented exoteric text, and a concealed esoteric text to their circle of receptive readers.

The Penn Libraries and Khajistan have collaborated to bring several groupings of ephemera, popular magazines, pulp fiction, and rare books to campus, and we’re currently working to make these available to researchers from around the world.

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.

To more accurately reflect the diversity of literature in China, the Penn Libraries has made a special effort to add recent internet novels that have been published in print form to our collection.