Gratz College gifts Gratz-Mandell Jewish music collection to the Penn Libraries 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.
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 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. ‘The Conflict over the Conflict’ 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.nocred ‘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’ (On homepage) Students pore over items from the 1990s, including a city proclamation for Penn Women’s Center Day. nocred 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 nocred 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.” The wool was hand-dyed using natural materials, including onion skin and indigo. (Image: Brian Hogan) Art Matters 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 nocred 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 from the collection of Hermann Prinz depicting Saint Apollonia, patron saint of dentistry. (Image: Courtesy of Penn Libraries) 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. 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. Load More
An ambassador for accessibility 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.
‘The Conflict over the Conflict’ 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.nocred ‘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’ (On homepage) Students pore over items from the 1990s, including a city proclamation for Penn Women’s Center Day. nocred 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 nocred 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.” The wool was hand-dyed using natural materials, including onion skin and indigo. (Image: Brian Hogan) Art Matters 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 nocred 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 from the collection of Hermann Prinz depicting Saint Apollonia, patron saint of dentistry. (Image: Courtesy of Penn Libraries) 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.
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.