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Here at Penn, if you would like to watch in tribute, we have streaming access to The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) with Maggie Smith: find.library.upenn.edu/catal…
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I was honored this year to serve as a juror for the inaugural @Penn @upennlib Book Prize in Sustainability.
I wholeheartedly recommend all four titles on our shortlist, but I especially urge everyone to read our winner, THE DARKNESS MANIFESTO, by Johan Eklöf, a rare jewel.🌑🦇💚
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Everyone's heading back to school and that can only mean one thing... it's time to design your LibGuides for new students! We love this New Student Orientation LibGuide created by @upennlib.
guides.library.upenn.edu/nso
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A huge congratulations to Johan Eklöf on becoming the winner of the inaugural Penn Libraries Book Prize for Sustainability with his book:
THE DARKNESS MANIFESTO: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life.
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Delighted and honoured that Carbon Colonialism has been shortlisted for the inaugural Penn Libraries Book Prize in Sustainability
Incredible to be a part of this list alongside these brilliant authors
Thank you @upennlib!
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Avid collectors Gary and Dawn Prebula, W’72, have donated more than 75,000 comics to @upennlib. The collection, housed in the Kislak Center, contains many mass-produced books as well as a first issue of X-Men valued at $22,572.
Read: bit.ly/4ddxGUz
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@MichaelEMann is a juror for the new Penn Libraries Book Prize in Sustainability - learn more from the link below!
The new Penn Libraries Book Prize in Sustainability acknowledges outstanding contributions to the global discourse on environmental sustainability, with a specific focus on books that have an impact on the public's understanding of these crucial issues. library.upenn.edu/news/susta…
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Librarians are often first to experience a collection, including difficult-to-capture details like touch & smell. In a post on @UPennlib’s new colonial Korea collection acquisitions, Japan Studies Librarian Rebecca Mendelson details fascinating new items: library.upenn.edu/news/diver…
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How cool is this? Congratulations @upennlib! And, thank you @GAppleComics, my old L.A. haunt!
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We walk at Noon today!
Come along for a walk to @woodlandsphila. 1.6 miles/ 40 min. Meet in front of Leidy Labs.
Nature + exercise + daylight = happiness boost
@upennlib @PennBiology @PennNGG @PennNursing @pennvet
Spring Break Daily Walk to Woodlands
Mon 3/4 thru Fri 3/8 at Noon
Stuck @Penn during spring break?
Join us for a daily walk with @woodlandsphila prez Heather Calvert every weekday for some sun, exercise, nature, & connection.
Depart from Leidy main door at 12:10, rain/shine.
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My latest with @SmithsonianMag offers new insights about Robert Smalls through the lens of his teacher, Harriet M. Buss. Her letters (held at @upennlib) were published by @uvapress in 2021. Check it out!
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Undergraduate history of art majors organized an event at @upennlib 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.
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Shakespeare scholar and Penn lecturer Horace Howard Furness selected aphorisms for windows in the Fisher Fine Arts Library, a building his brother designed. @upennlib
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It's #OpenAccessWeek! I'll give a 5-min primer on #OA at a @PennPress and @upennlib panel this afternoon--Community Over Commercialization: Why Choose to Publish Open Access library.upenn.edu/events/com…
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Thank you @UpennLib for hosting Lauder students' visit to the Kislak Center’s rare book collection. As part of @SudevSheth's Global Analysis class, students examined books & manuscripts hundreds of years old related to the evolution of corporations in early modern Europe.
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Experts @upennlib are here to introduce you to two of the commonly used citation managers you have access to as a Penn graduate or professional student. Join us to learn how Endnote and Zotero can help you organize your sources! Learn more and register at gsc.upenn.edu/events
ALT Introduction to Endnote Tuesday, October 10, 12-1pm Zotero 101 Tuesday, October 24, 12-1pm
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You're doing amazing work here at Penn, now learn how to tell everyone about it! The Grad Center, Communication Within the Curriculum & @upennlib are holding our Research Communication Series during the month of October!
See dates, topics, & register at gsc.upenn.edu/events!
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Meresa García is a @PennGSE student who earned her bachelor’s from @PennSAS in the spring. She chats about her work with @upennlib Community Engagement team and her aspirations of becoming a teacher.
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One of our patrons left an anonymous letter of praise to the entire staff for all of our hard work during the start of the Fall semester- they addressed it "Dear Guardians of the Library"
I have never felt more epic!
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Congratulations to MBE alum @bioethistorian on her appointment as Curator of the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing. This inaugural role was created through a partnership between the Penn Libraries @upennlib and #PennNursing
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