Special Announcement
"Libraries are not just about books or buildings; they are also about people,” said Brigitte Weinsteiger, the new H. Carton Rogers III Vice Provost and director of the Penn Libraries.
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The Penn Libraries' global collections encompass hundreds of languages and scripts across a broad range of subject areas, preserving the rich cultural and scholarly record from Africa, East Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and South Asia. Read about some of our unique recent acquisitions.
The Penn Libraries is collaborating with preservation organization Khajistan to acquire ephemera, magazines, pulp fiction, and rare books that document the cultural history of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran.
The Penn Libraries has recently acquired several issues of the women’s journal Nova khata (New Home), which offer a unique window into Ukrainian culture as it existed a century ago in Galicia.
To more accurately reflect the diversity of literature in China, the Penn Libraries has made a special effort to add recent internet novels that have been published in print form to our collection.
On June 27, Curator Dot Porter will bring out LJS 46, a 16th century Italian illustrated herbal, with a group of texts in English, Latin, and Spanish about Morocco added less than a century later.
Learn the fundamentals of setting type and letterpress printing on our Vandercook cylinder presses. We will also discuss alternatives to setting type for printing on the press (photopolymer plates, linoleum, pressure printing). Required as a prerequisite for printing on the Vandercook on independent projects.
Learn the fundamentals of setting type and letterpress printing on our Vandercook cylinder presses. We will also discuss alternatives to setting type for printing on the press (photopolymer plates, linoleum, pressure printing). Required as a prerequisite for printing on the Vandercook on independent projects.