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Penn Libraries Dedicates Holman Biotech Commons

The naming gift from the Holman family will ensure this dynamic space continues to meet the evolving needs of scholars who rely on the Penn Libraries’ services, resources, and expertise as they work to impact and improve human life.

Two mean speak and gesture to one another over a table covered with books.

University of Pennsylvania Libraries receives archive of writer, historian, and activist James G. Spady

Two individuals walk down a paved pathway next to the Holman Biotech Commons.

Penn Libraries and Sage Publishing Reach Open Access Agreement

Books and DVDs are stacked in front of a window looking at the Penn campus. Book titles at left include Seeing Sideways, Being Seen, Confident Culture, and Marian Anderson. DVDs at right include More Than a Face in the Crowd, Not Done, Yours in Sisterhood, Pioneers, and Miss Representation. Standing behind the DVDs are more books: I Know What's Best for You, Fafafafangirls, Burning My roti, summonings, and Upon Her Shoulders.

Featured Books and DVDs: Women’s History Month

Books on a shelf. Legible titles include: The Usual Suspects, Belles, Sea Winter, Dream Country, and The Last-Last Day of Summer.

Diversity in the Stacks: Award-Winning Books in the Library Catalog

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The Provincial Freeman, Windsor, Canada West, [publisher not identified], 1854, Kislak Center for Special Collections.

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