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Penn brings Philadelphia’s rare manuscripts to the world
BiblioPhilly manuscript

Penn brings Philadelphia’s rare manuscripts to the world

Leveraging the University’s expertise with technology and rare centuries-old manuscripts, Penn Libraries is digitizing and cataloging medieval and early modern texts from 15 Philadelphia-area institutions. The three-year project is known as BiblioPhilly.
Stains Alive
Penn Libraries Fellow Erin Connelly is part of the Stains Alive research project.

Penn Libraries fellow Erin Connelly (left) and colleague Alberto Campagnolo, of the Library of Congress, prepare a medieval manuscript for multispectral imaging at Penn as part of a national research project to analyze stains. (Photo by Eric Sucar)

 

Stains Alive

For Libraries fellow Erin Connelly, stains are some of the most exciting discoveries in her study of medieval manuscripts. She is part of a national team analyzing stains in medieval texts using modern multispectral imaging. An exhibition at Van Pelt-Dietrich Library displays the researchers’ discoveries.
Public libraries can influence public health
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Public libraries can influence public health

The Healthy Library Initiative, a partnership between Penn and the Free Library of Philadelphia, works to expand the role of public librarian to serve the public health needs of patrons and the community.

Penn Today Staff

Reclaiming a fragmented history
Cairo Geniza

Reclaiming a fragmented history

Digital humanities scholars are orchestrating an epic crowdsourcing effort to sort and transcribe handwriting on thousands of documents discarded hundreds of years ago, known as the Cairo Geniza.
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

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

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.