The Penn Sexuality Collection will add materials to the Penn Libraries that fall outside the usual purview of academic libraries, helping to make the Libraries a destination for sexuality researchers.
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MLA Handbook Plus now online ... just in time for your term paper!
The MLA Handbook, now in its 9th edition (2021), and available campus wide has a venerable history, going back, in various iterations, to 1951 providing guidance for students and faculty in the humanities and literary study. Though originating in the United States in the Modern Language Association, it is used worldwide. Despite its origin in the mid-twentieth century, The MLA Handbook is a very contemporary style citation manual and grammar guide.
...Continue readingDiversity in the Stacks: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
A selection of materials from the Penn Libraries about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
From Traditional to Alternative – Religious Movements Unique to America
The core of the newly purchased Religions of America database is the J. Gordon Melton collection, now housed at UCSB. Melton, a major scholar in American religious culture, collected material on religion that most libraries would usually ignore. Ephemera concerned new religious movements that were often difficult to locate with the usual channels that libraries would have access to.
...Continue readingDiversity in the (Virtual) Stacks: Sexual Minorities
If you were to go into a library fifty years ago and browse the card catalog, under the subjects “homosexuality” and “lesbianism” you would find a card that read, “see also sexual perversion.” Under “sexual perversion,” another card would suggest that you also consult “homosexuality” and “lesbianism.” It wasn’t until 1973, in fact, that the American Psychiatric Association ceased to classify homosexuality and lesbianism as pathologies.
