Penn Libraries News

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. 

To this day, the French language plays an important role in North African countries like Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia—but that role is complex and contested.

In the last year, the Penn Libraries has purchase of several hundred volumes related to South Asian painting, textiles, music, and dance.

The Penn Libraries’ Latin American studies materials cover topics like ethnohistory, folklore, migration, and public health, and include both books and music sound recordings.

Learn about the books covering Kurdish history, culture, and literature that have recently been acquired by the Penn Libraries. 

The Penn Libraries collections include 19th and 20th century Sanskrit series that made old, rare, and foundational Sanskrit texts available to a wide-ranging audience.

The Iran-Iraq War has had a significant presence in a broad variety of cultural works created both during and after the war.

A selection of materials from the Penn Libraries about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

What influence has Russian literature had on the countries and cultures on its periphery?

The Penn Libraries is expanding its collection of children’s and young adult literature with the goal of privileging underrepresented voices, cultures, and perspectives.