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Digital humanities ‘summer camp’ comes to Penn
The University of Pennsylvania hosted the 2018 Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching conference.

As part of a session led by Dot Porter, curator of digital research services (not pictured), conference participants visited the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image, a digitization lab located in Van Pelt-Dietrich Library. Digital imaging specialist Chris Lippa (left) explained the process of digitizing materials like the book in his hand.

Digital humanities ‘summer camp’ comes to Penn

The Price Lab for Digital Humanities and the Penn Libraries hosted HILT, an annual national training institute that brings together professionals from a number of disciplines.

Michele W. Berger

In Philadelphia and Around the Country, Overdoses at Public Libraries are a Daunting Reality
Philadelphia Inquirer

In Philadelphia and Around the Country, Overdoses at Public Libraries are a Daunting Reality

Carolyn Cannuscio of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Center for Public Health Initiatives (CPHI), Roxanne Dupuis of CPHI, and Eliza Whiteman of Penn’s Healthy Library Initiative co-authored a call for more support and resources from public health, social service, and health care institutions in tackling overdoses at public libraries.

Constantia Constantinou appointed vice provost and director of Penn Libraries
Vice Provost and Director of Penn Libraries Constantia Constantinou

Constantia Constantinou 

Constantia Constantinou appointed vice provost and director of Penn Libraries

Penn Provost Wendell Pritchett today announced the appointment of Constantia Constantinou as the H. Carton Rogers III Vice Provost and Director of the Penn Libraries, effective August 1. 

Penn Today Staff

Scans Reveal Secrets of Medieval ‘Harry Potter’ Book and Medical Texts at Penn
Philadelphia Inquirer

Scans Reveal Secrets of Medieval ‘Harry Potter’ Book and Medical Texts at Penn

Erin Connelly of the Libraries is working with other experts to identify old stains in a centuries-old medical text using multi-spectral imaging. The results of their studies suggest that the tomes were actively used in medicine and alchemy, a predecessor to chemistry.

A life of books
Penn English Professor Peter Stallybrass 2018

English Professor Peter Stallybrass has retired after 30 years of teaching at Penn. He is known for his History of the Material Texts workshops.

A life of books

Books define the life of Peter Stallybrass, an English professor who has retired after 30 years at Penn, known for his History of Material Texts workshop. He explains the five seminal books of his storied academic career.
Astronomical find
Penn Libraries curator Nicholas Herman with medieval manuscript.

A medieval manuscript recently acquired by the Penn Libraries contains six working volvelles, discs of parchment and paper that demonstrate the science of astronomy.

Astronomical find

Penn Libraries has acquired a rare astronomical treatise dated 1481, with unique diagrams in the margins, and original discs of parchment that turn to demonstrate the movement of the sun, moon, and planets.
A Tempo: Expanding Access to Marian Anderson's Legacy
WWFM: The Classical Network

A Tempo: Expanding Access to Marian Anderson's Legacy

The Penn Libraries’ Kislak Center houses ephemera from the life of Marian Anderson, the first African-American woman to sing a lead role in The Metropolitan Opera. The Center’s David McKnight spoke with WWFM about a new grant funding the digitization of the Anderson collection. (Audio)

A medieval confluence
Penn Professors Sarah Guérin, Mary Caldwell, Ada Maria Kuskowski

Three new assistant professors at Penn—Music’s Mary Channen Caldwell, History of Art’s Sarah Guérin, and History’s Ada Maria Kuskowski—all focus on medieval studies, specifically the 13th-century in France. Photo by Eric Sucar.

A medieval confluence

Three newly-hired Penn assistant professors, all transplants to Philadelphia, found each other soon after they arrived and discovered that, although they were in different areas of study, they all focused on the Middle Ages, specifically 13th-century France. 
Crowd-sourced map showcases campus accessibility in real time
Mark Bookman and Alice McGrath are the co-leads on a new map accessibility project.

Mark Bookman and Alice McGrath are spearheading the new accessibility mapping of the Penn campus.

Crowd-sourced map showcases campus accessibility in real time

Mark Bookman and Alice McGrath are on a quest to map physical and social barriers across campus. The goal is a crowd-sourced platform that automatically updates to present a real-time user accessibility resource.

Michele W. Berger

Shakespeare and his co-authors, as told by Penn engineers
Shakespeare and His Co-Authors, as Told by Penn Engineers

Shakespeare and his co-authors, as told by Penn engineers

Four hundred years after the death of dramatist William Shakespeare, enduring questions remain about whether the Bard of Avon had an uncredited co-writer on some of his world-famous plays. A team of Penn researchers has found an answer—in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, of all places.