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What’s That? The Rittenhouse Orrery
John Pollack standing in front of Rittenhouse Orrery

Penn Libraries curator John Pollack with the Rittenhouse Orrery.

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What’s That? The Rittenhouse Orrery

The Rittenhouse Orrery is a nearly intact 18th-century mechanical model of the solar system, demonstrating the motions of the planets and their satellites around the sun, built by astronomer David Rittenhouse.
Art Matters: ‘In the Garden’ by Jennifer Bartlett
Lynn Dolby points to one of Jennifer Bartlett’s “In the Garden” panels.

Lynn Smith Dolby, director of the Penn Art Collection. 

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  • Art Matters

    • 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.
    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.

    (Image: Courtesy of 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.

    From Penn Libraries

    An ambassador for accessibility
    Leslie Vallhonrat.

    Image: Courtesy of Penn Libraries

    An ambassador for accessibility

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

    From Penn Libraries

    ‘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.