Reading period access: From April 30 to May 14, access to the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center and the Fisher Fine Arts Library will be limited to PennCard holders and other Penn affiliates. Find more information.

The Friends of the Library Endowment Fund was founded in 1990 with a gift from Edwin Wolf II, former president of the Friends of the University of Pennsylvania Library and librarian of the Library Company of Philadelphia from 1955 to 1984.

The Friends of the Library Endowment Fund provides funding for acquisitions for the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts.