Penn Libraries News

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.

Ashlee Piper will discuss her work on October 7 during Climate Week at Penn

The Penn Libraries now provides access to Inside Higher Ed, a leading news source for and about the higher education community.

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.