Category: Stories

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.

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.

Staff and fellows are using the platform eScriptorium to build machine-learning models that can transcribe handwritten manuscripts from across the world.

A guide for students seeking a library job at Penn.

The latest exhibit at the Penn Museum Library asks Penn students, faculty, and staff to think about archeological artifacts and rare books in an entirely new way.

Students, staff, and partners gathered at Furness High School in November to celebrate the official reopening of the school's library for the first time in decades.

Over the course of Kyle Ferguson's thesis work, the Bollinger Lab has printed dozens of iterations of his designs, all at no cost.