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Gratz College gifts Gratz-Mandell Jewish music collection to the Penn Libraries
Old sheet music from the Gatz collection.

Loose music papers of liturgical music, the top composition is a Keddusha by Cantor Moses Zivy from Müllheim, Germany.

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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.

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A collector donated 75,000 comic books to Penn Libraries, valued at more than $500,000
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.

An ambassador for accessibility
Leslie Vallhonrat.

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An ambassador for accessibility

How Leslie Vallhonrat is helping to make the Penn Libraries web presence more useable for everyone.

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‘The Conflict over the Conflict’
Kenneth S. Stern gives a talk.

Kenneth S. Stern, author of “The Conflict Over the Conflict: The Israel/Palestine Campus Debate,” gave a talk at Penn about freedom of expression and addressing campus divides.

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‘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’
Three students looking at gender, sexuality, and women’s studies archival material.

(On homepage) Students pore over items from the 1990s, including a city proclamation for Penn Women’s Center Day.

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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.

Kristina García

Civil Rights photography at the Penn Libraries
Time of Change Civil Rights Photography of Bruce Davidson with two photos

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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
A close-up of fields of transformation, showing wool in grey, cream, indigo, and gold

A close-up of “Fields of Transformation.” The wool was hand-dyed using natural materials, including onion skin and indigo.

(Image: Brian Hogan)

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.

Kristina García

A ‘celebrity translator’ takes center stage
emily wilson sitting in the penn museum auditorium

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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 bookplate depicting Saint Apollonia, patron saint of dentistry.

A bookplate from the collection of Hermann Prinz depicting Saint Apollonia, patron saint of dentistry.

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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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Preparing the archives: Sun Ra comes to Kislak Center
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.