Month: January 2013
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For the Love of Reading: Reading on a Windowseat with a Dog Nearby
Bookplate of Edith Barbara Tranter. Edith Barbara Tranter was secretary to W. T. H. Howe (1874-1939), president of the American Book Company in Cincinnati, and subsequently administrator of his estate. She appears herself to have collected books and manuscripts; her library was sold at auction by Parke-Bernet on March 18, 1952. Penn Libraries call number:…
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Andy Warhol’s Great Escape
Penn Libraries host a number of blogs including that of the fantastic Weigle Information Commons. Yesterday, Heather Glaser, Assistant Fine Arts Librarian, posted a fascinating piece about Andy Warhol’s 1965 visit to his exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art at Penn, then located in the Fisher fine arts library. Mobbed by students and other…
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For the Love of Reading: Reading by Candlelight
Bookplate of R.J.A. Boreman (birth and death dates unknown) Motto: Invia virtuti via nulla (No way difficult for the virtuous) Call Number: AC8 G2877 833n
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Diagnosing a Volume from the Pennsylvania Hospital Library
[Ed. Note: Happy New Year! Our first post of 2013 is from Dianne Mitchell, a Ph.D. student in the English Department at Penn] Today, we’re going on a field trip. It’s a trip that will take us beyond the hallowed walls of Van Pelt Library and into the nation’s first hospital: the Pennsylvania Hospital, founded…
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My Rare Book Cataloging Adventure So Far – A Student Worker’s Perspective
Written by Kevin Lee I don’t imagine that “Rare Book Cataloger” is a job most school-age children even know about, much less dream of becoming one day. When I was in the 5th grade I certainly didn’t. I was too busy dreaming about becoming an astronaut. I would never have expected that, 12 years later,…