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Louisa Shepard
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Libraries
Art Matters: ‘In the Garden’ by Jennifer Bartlett
Art Matters: ‘In the Garden’ by Jennifer Bartlett
During these hot days of summer, the cool of a garden water feature depicted in “In the Garden” by artist Jennifer Bartlett could provide some respite. Made of 270 one-foot-square steel plates painted with enamel, sections of the mural are installed in five locations in Van Pelt Library.
Brigitte Weinsteiger named director of the Penn Libraries
Brigitte Weinsteiger named director of the Penn Libraries
Weinsteiger has been at Penn Libraries since 2008. She assumed the new role on June 1.
Gratz College gifts Gratz-Mandell Jewish music collection to the Penn Libraries
Gratz College gifts Gratz-Mandell Jewish music collection to the Penn Libraries
The collaboration to catalog and digitize materials will ensure lasting access to the collection of Jewish Music History.
An ambassador for accessibility
How Leslie Vallhonrat is helping to make the Penn Libraries web presence more useable for everyone.
‘The Conflict over the Conflict’
‘The Conflict over the Conflict’
Kenneth S. Stern, director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate, spoke at Penn about addressing campus divides over the Israel/Palestine conflict.
Archiving materials that reflect a ‘shared history’
Archiving materials that reflect a ‘shared history’
How 50 years of material from the Program in Gender Studies and Women’s Studies and the Penn Women’s Center becomes more accessible for students, faculty, and researchers.
Civil Rights photography at the Penn Libraries
Civil Rights photography at the Penn Libraries
A new collaboration between the Penn Art Collection and the Penn Libraries has mounted its first exhibition on the fifth floor of the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center. “Time of Change: Civil Rights Photography of Bruce Davidson” is on view through May 20.
Art Matters: ‘Fields of Transformation’ by Claudy Jongstra
Art Matters: ‘Fields of Transformation’ by Claudy Jongstra
“Fields of Transformation,” a monumental textile mural in the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, symbolizes knowledge evolving into wisdom.
A ‘celebrity translator’ takes center stage
A ‘celebrity translator’ takes center stage
Emily Wilson, professor of classical studies, is renowned for her English translations of Homer’s ancient Greek epic poems, first “The Odyssey” and now the “The Iliad.”
A Penn Libraries and Penn Dental Medicine collaboration
A Penn Libraries and Penn Dental Medicine collaboration
A look back at the history of the Dental Library sheds light on the formation of the new Center for Integrated Global Oral Health.
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Forbes
How to give away a $500,000 comic book collection
Alumnus Gary Prebula and his wife, Dawn, have donated a $500,000 comic book collection to Penn Libraries.
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Forbes
How to donate 80,000 comic books—and get a marvelous tax break
Alumnus Gary Prebula and his wife, Dawn, have donated a $500,000 collection of more than 75,000 comic books and graphic novels to Penn Libraries, featuring remarks from Sean Quimby of the Kislak Center.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
A collector donated 75,000 comic books to Penn Libraries, valued at more than $500,000
Alumnus Gary Prebula and his wife, Dawn, have donated a $500,000 collection of more than 75,000 comic books and graphic novels to Penn Libraries, featuring remarks from Sean Quimly of the Kislak Center and Jean-Christophe Cloutier of the School of Arts & Sciences.
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Philadelphia Tribune
Preparing the archives: Sun Ra comes to Kislak Center
Samantha Hill of Penn Libraries discusses the recent acquisition of two collections of archival materials by Sun Ra, a prolific jazz musician and forefather to the Afrofuturist movement.
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Cleveland Jewish News
University of Pennsylvania buys medieval Hebrew manuscript collection
Penn has acquired a collection including scrolls and scroll fragments, manuscript leaves and manuscript fragments, complete and partial books, birth records from a Yemenite family and tefillin.
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Pennsylvania Capital Star
Universities, nonprofits step up to aid depleted Philadelphia public school libraries
Gina Pambianchi discusses the Penn Libraries’ efforts to support Philadelphia public school libraries.
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