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  • Featured Books and DVDs: Black History Month

    From the first three young Black men who enrolled at Penn in 1879, to Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander’s historic achievement in becoming one of the first three African American women to earn a Ph.D. in the United States in 1921, to each year’s winners of the Makuu senior awards, Black excellence holds a strong legacy at Penn that continues today. In honor of Black History Month, this month’s display of featured books and DVDs offers options to explore stories from Black writers.

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  • Diversity in the Stacks: Kurdish Collections

    The Penn Libraries’ Kurdish collecting efforts build upon previous work from Middle East bibliographers as the Libraries seeks to ensure greater representation for the peoples and languages of Kurdistan.

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  • Penn Libraries unveils first read and publish agreement with Cambridge University Press

    As of January 1, Penn students, faculty, and staff whose research articles are accepted for publication in academic journals published by Cambridge University Press have the option to make their article open access at no additional cost to them. 

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  • Sydney Freeman, Jr., visiting scholar for spring 2022

    Sydney Freeman Jr. is a Full Professor in the College of Education, Health & Human Sciences at the University of Idaho. He is an international authority on such topics as higher education leadership, higher education programs and leadership/administration, and graduate education. As a visiting scholar, Freeman will assist with an assessment of racial diversity initiatives for Penn faculty that are currently supported by Penn’s Provost’s Office.

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  • Featured Books: Native American Heritage Month

    The Penn Libraries’ Featured Books display in the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center offers novels, memoirs, histories, and poetry collections from a number of the 574 federally recognized Native American tribes.

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  • Perry World House receives $500,000 grant to connect academic and policy communities

    The grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York will support Perry World House’s efforts to connect Penn’s research and expertise with the global policy community as the world recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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  • Diversity in the Stacks: Old and rare Sanskrit series

    The Penn Libraries has acquired a sizable number of Sanskrit series over the years, and one of its vendors was able to locate and purchase more than 150 old and rare Sanskrit volumes that were missing from the series holdings. 

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  • Perry World House announces visitors for the 2021-22 academic year

    Perry World House’s Distinguished Global Leaders-in-Residence Program invites internationally-recognized dignitaries to Penn, including current or former heads of state, cabinet officials, and Nobel Prize winners. 

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  • Featured Books: Discovering Philadelphia

    To help get in the back-to-school spirit, this month’s Featured Books are all about Philadelphia.

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  • Diversity in the Stacks: Literary reflections on the Iran-Iraq War

    Arts and cultural institutions in both countries were deployed to support wartime efforts between 1980 to 1988, often evoking religious imagery and symbols to glorify the war and martyrdom. In contrast to such glorifications of war, a number of works have honed in on the grimmer realities of war that contest these state narratives. It is important to look beyond the two states of Iran and Iraq and consider how marginalized groups experienced the war, particularly the Kurds.

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