Press Releases

• Penn Libraries Appoint Bob Krall Director for Departmental Libraries, Resource Sharing & Delivery Services
• Penn Libraries Announce Recipients of the 2008 Seltzer Family Innovation Awards
• Mellon Funds The Cataloging of the Charles Henry Lea Library

Position Papers

• NIH Public Access Policy and Scholarly Communication
• Penn Libraries' Perspective on the Harvard University Mandate

Ivy Leaves

• Ivy Leaves Fall 07
• Ivy Leaves Spring 07
• Ivy Leaves Winter 06

Penn A - Z Guide 2007-2008

An outline of the print and digital resources of the Penn Libraries, as well as their services, professional staff and facilities. Arranged in A to Z format, the Guide is a means of quick orientation to the Libraries with many points of access to more detailed information and help.

Penn Library Facts 2005-2006

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

The Digital Book Project

of the Oxford University and Cambridge University Presses and the University of Pennsylvania Library: Final Report

In the interest of learning how researchers at a major university would incorporate full-length electronic texts into teaching and learning, the University of Pennsylvania Library and the Oxford University Press sought the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create a collection of digital books and study its use by academics in the humanities. The Penn/Oxford collaboration was joined by the Cambridge University Press and the affiliates of several Philadelphia area colleges. Over 5 years, the partners built a corpus of 772 digital books in history and allied disciplines. The books where cataloged and made searchable, as a collection and as individual units, on the World Wide Web. The collection attained sufficient mass to attract a following after some eighteen to twenty-four months. This allowed Penn a three-year time-frame to analyze and compare data on the use of digital and hardcopy, and interview readers in order to learn how academics interact with long texts in an online setting and integrate them into their work.

ScholarlyCommons@Penn

A digital repository of research and scholarship produced by Penn faculty and students. Readers on campus and around the globe can browse, search and download full-text from the repository web site at http://repository.upenn.edu.

The 1,341-acre White Clay Creek Preserve is in southern Chester County, three miles north of Newark, Delaware. The White Clay Creek Valley, which forms the core of the Preserve, varies from steep to gradually falling terrain with some flat bottomlands. White Clay Creek Preserve shares boundary with White Clay Creek State Park of Delaware.

Because White Clay Creek posses outstanding scenic, wildlife, recreational and cultural value, it has been designated by Congress as a National Wild and Scenic River, and shall be preserved in free-flowing condition for the benefit and enjoyment of present and future generations.

editing this space

this blog posting "Philadelphia Bicycle News: Schuylkill River Trail Map"

has a link to a good detailed google map of the trail, side trails, train stations etc

This place is an amazing place to hike.

Founded in 1970, the Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust is a nonprofit land trust headquartered in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania. The Trust is staffed by professionals and volunteers dedicated to the stewardship of the lands that are protected by the Trust in its Pennypack Preserve natural area. The Trust offers a variety of programs and services including, but not limited to:

• Trails in the Preserve open free to the public to explore
  and enjoy the natural world all year long
• Professionally managed natural area restoration
• Urban deer herd management
• Volunteer training
• Meeting facilities for community organizations
• Professional education and internships

Albert Music Hall. Traditional musical gatherings of the NJ Pinelands. An evening of live country, bluegrass, and pinelands music each Saturday night at 7:30 PM. Year round

Atlantic Journal of Communication is full of communication information and journal ness. We link to boingboing

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