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General Library Publications

The Penn Library 2002: A Report to the University

The Penn Library and Oxford University Press Announce Digital Books Project
Press Release

Library Receives NEH Grant to Catalog Stokowski Collection
Press Release

Penn Library Begins Visiting Fellows Program with Estonia
Press Release

Library Opens High Density Storage Facility
This issue of the Penn Library News examines Penn's use of high density storage to manage, preserve and ensure access to print collections well into the next century. Located a few blocks from its West Philadelphia campus, Penn's recently opened High Density Storage Facility has capacity for more than 2 million volumes. This article looks at options and costs that shaped Penn's storage plans, and the physical and operational features of the new Facility.

Penn Celebrates the Renovation of its Main Library
The 1998/99 academic year began with the "re-opening" of the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, Penn's main humanities and social sciences library. This issue of the Penn Library News is devoted to the renovation project. It discusses the design strategies and architectural idioms used to transform a "Brutalist" building of the 1960s into a library fit for the information and study needs of the next century.

Penn Library Resource Guide,2001-2002
An informative, outline of the print and digital resources of the Library, as well as its services, professional staff and facilities. Arranged in A to Z format, the Guide is a means of quick orientation to the Library with many points of access to more detailed information and help. In this online version, you'll find hotlinks to Library Web resources, staff e-mail, and cross references between related subjects. Don't miss this interactive and fast-paced way of learning about information resources at Penn.

Penn Library Facts 1999-2000
A pamphlet containing statistics and other quantitative information describing the use and provision of Penn Library resources, services and programs.

The Library's Five-Year Plan, 1996-2000

Accomplishments Made To Date Against the Five-Year Plan, 1996-2000

The State of the Library (Accomplishments of the 1993-1997 Five-Year Plan) (HTML version)
A report to the President and Provost on the Completion of the University Library's 1993-1997 Five-Year Plan, two years ahead of schedule. The report outlines in detail the major goals and achievements of the Penn Library system during this period. The complete text of the Five-Year Plan is included, as well as annual statistics for Fiscal Years 1992-1996. Comments?.

Penn Library News: What's Playing on the Celestial Jukebox? : A Symposium on Life on the Internet and (HTML version)
The Spring 1997 Special Issue ofPenn Library News, featuring excerpts from a symposium on the Internet held at the University of Pennsylvania on November 1, 1996. Terry Gross, host of National Public Radio's Fresh Air, moderated the discussion, whose participants included Paul Peter Evans, former executive director of the Coalition for Networked Information; Paul Ginsparg, a physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratories and creator of the e-print physics archive; James Gleick, a New York Times reporter and editor who writes the monthly column, "Fast Forward" ; and Sherry Turkle, professor of sociology at MIT and author of several books on the sociology of computers.

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