Category: Collections

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.

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.

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.

Born 557 years ago, Niccolò Machiavelli continues to influence Western political thought. You can find many works by him and about him in the Penn Libraries collections.

Whether you’re a seasoned troubadour or a newbie, you can now borrow the guitar beloved by Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, and the Beatles, from the Albrecht Music Library.

The agreement allows Penn-affiliated authors to publish open access in both OUP’s hybrid and gold journals.

We recently spoke with Phillips to learn more about Elizabeth A. R. Brown, her peers, and how Phillips imagines scholars of the future using the materials in the Medieval Historians Archive.