Reading period access: From April 30-May 12, access to the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center and the Fisher Fine Arts Library will be limited to PennCard holders and other Penn affiliates. See our Service Alerts for more information.

Books on the move: Materials on the fifth floor of the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center are being temporarily moved to our off-site storage facility. For your safety, please avoid browsing the fifth-floor stacks. See our Service Alerts for information about requesting books during the transition. 

The sixth floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center is where you can find the reading room for the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts and the Henry Charles Lea Library. It is also home to the Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion event space, the Goldstein Family Gallery exhibit space, and numerous classroom and open study spaces.

In the Furness Shakespeare Library, you can find current scholarship from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library. These books are non-circulating.

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