Summer Featured Books and DVDs: For the love of food
This month’s featured materials show some of the many ideas and values food can represent in cultural analysis and storytelling.
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Diversity in the Stacks: Highlights from the Penn Sexuality Collection
This year, the Penn Libraries launched the Penn Sexuality Collection, a new effort that builds upon our already existing collections in more traditional aspects of sexuality studies. The Penn Libraries is already home to the Banned Books Collections, which is made up of pulp fiction of a sexual nature that was popular for about 40 years after World War II.
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Kathleen Shields Anderson: Vice president of Public Safety
Shields Anderson joined Penn in 2012 as executive director of operations and chief of staff, and has been appointed vice president of Public Safety effective June 1.
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June Featured Books and DVDs: Pride Month
In addition to Penn’s LGBT Center Pride activities throughout the month, the LGBT Center staff has provided the Penn Libraries with the recommendations, including picks on history, social movements, and dramas.
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Diversity in the Stacks: North African books in French
The Libraries has acquired French language novels, and works on politics, Islam, art, and culture. Their publication in French reflects transnational networks of scholarly communication. A full picture of North African history and culture must take into account its multilingual reality. Collecting to support teaching and research can present a challenge, as materials in French and in Arabic are often artificially separated.
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Exploring the meanings of ‘home’: Children’s lit recommendations from the Penn Libraries Community Engagement team
To celebrate the end of the semester, the Penn Libraries Community Engagement team invited Penn students from the Community Engagement team to tell us about books that feel like “home” to them. Some choices are from the Mirrors Collection, some are books students cherished in childhood, and all embody a careful and nuanced understanding of home for each student.
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Penn announces construction start on Central PA solar facilities
The Power Purchase Agreement calls for construction in central Pennsylvania of two new solar energy facilities with combined capacity of 220 megawatts, moving the University closer to meeting its commitment of a 100% carbon neutral campus by 2042, as outlined in Penn’s Climate and Sustainability Action Plan.
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May Featured Books and DVDs: Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
The AAPI (Asian American and Pacific Islander) umbrella term encompasses cultures from all of Asia, as well as the Pacific Islands of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. The Penn Libraries’ recommendations for books and DVDs to celebrate AAPI heritage reflect the diversity of populations comprised in this group.
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2022 graduate leadership awards
Each year, the University honors student leaders who are graduating with two awards: President & Provost’s Honor for Developing New Initiatives in Graduate & Professional Student Life and the Dr. Andy Binns Award for Outstanding Service to Graduate and Professional Student Life.
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Diversity in the Stacks: Folk and tribal arts in South Asia
Penn Libraries have aimed to acquire more materials related to South Asian folk and tribal traditions, with particular interest in arts and performance. Additional funding last year allowed for a directed purchase of several hundred volumes related to South Asian painting, textiles, music, and dance.
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