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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.

Encountering rare texts in the Penn Libraries 
Two people looking at large COVID posters on a table in the Kislak Libary.

COVID-19 propaganda posters in Chinese; Wuhan, China; 2020

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Encountering rare texts in the Penn Libraries 

Undergraduate history of art majors organized an event at the Penn Libraries featuring 10 rare texts, out on a table and open for anyone to see, ranging from a manuscript dated to about the year 850 to COVID-19 posters from 2020.
Nine honored at Alumni Award of Merit Gala
Top row, left to right: Camilla Z. Charles, Ali Shapiro Cudby, and Judith Browne Dianis. Bottom row, left to right: Richard David Feintuch, Stanley H. Greene, and Brett Andrew Perlmutter.

Top row: Camille Z. Charles, Ali Shapiro Cudby, and Judith Browne Dianis. Middle: Richard David Feintuch, Stanley H. Greene, and Brett Andrew Perlmutter. Bottom: Ann Nolan Reese, Katherine Sachs, and Victor Anthony Scotti Jr. 

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Nine honored at Alumni Award of Merit Gala

At the 2023 Alumni Award of Merit Gala, eight distinguished alumni will receive Awards of Merit, the Creative Spirit Award, and the inaugural Penn Alumni Social Impact Award, and Camille Z. Charles will receive the Faculty Award of Merit.
An inauspicious arrival for the ambitious Benjamin Franklin
The young Ben Franklin statue on Penn’s campus.

The “Young Benjamin Franklin” statue in front of Weightman Hall on 33rd street depicts Penn’s founder as the 17-year-old who arrived in Philadelphia 300 years ago.

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An inauspicious arrival for the ambitious Benjamin Franklin

Penn’s founder arrived in Philadelphia on Oct. 6 300 years ago as a nearly penniless 17-year-old looking for a job as a printer.
Brigitte Weinsteiger appointed interim director of the Penn Libraries
Brigitte Weinsteiger

Brigitte Weinsteiger, interim director of Penn Libraries.

(Image: Courtesy of Penn Libraries)

Brigitte Weinsteiger appointed interim director of the Penn Libraries

Weinsteiger assumed the role on September 13, replacing Constantia Constantinou, who was appointed H. Carton Rogers III Vice Provost and director in 2018.

From Penn Libraries

Who, What, Why: Literacy advocate Meresa García
Meresa García.

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  • Who, What, Why

    • Who, What, Why: Literacy advocate Meresa García

    The Penn Graduate School of Education student, who earned her bachelor’s from the College of Arts and Sciences in the Spring, talks about her work with the Penn Libraries Community Engagement team and her aspirations of becoming a teacher.

    Lauren Hertzler

    University of Pennsylvania buys medieval Hebrew manuscript collection
    Cleveland Jewish News

    University of Pennsylvania buys medieval Hebrew manuscript collection

    Penn has acquired a collection including scrolls and scroll fragments, manuscript leaves and manuscript fragments, complete and partial books, birth records from a Yemenite family and tefillin.