Category: Stories

Her book No New Things is available from the Penn Libraries—along with many other resources that support research and education in sustainability, climate change, and environmental science.

This year, the Penn Libraries is taking time to consider the many different financial, human, and environmental costs associated with creating and sharing knowledge.

The Libraries' vice provost and director talks about modern research libraries, third places, and the new Don't Study Alone campaign.

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.