Access to the College Green area of campus will be restricted until further notice. Current students, faculty and staff with a valid Penn card may enter and exit Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center through the Rosengarten Undergraduate Study Center on the ground floor, and may enter and exit the Fisher Fine Arts Library through the 34th Street entrance to Meyerson Hall. 

During reading period, April 30 to May 14: Access to both Van Pelt and Fisher Fine Arts Library is limited. Find more information.

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John Penman Wood Library Fund

Ida Wood established this fund with a gift annuity in 1940 in memory of her brother Brigadier General John Penman Wood for the purchase of books on national defense.

Ida Wood, Professional Certification 1884, was elected the first Secretary of the Graduate Department for Women ("but without salary") in November of 1891. Upon being inducted into the women's Class of 1929 Hall of Fame, she remarked:

"The University has done its part, it has given disciplined minds, trained judgment, keen perception. . . Out of the abounding counsel that age has always been ready to bestow on the younger generation, I select three admonitions: Do not scrap the old ethical standards in any specious belief that they hamper a free expression of one's individuality;. . . Take with you into life a fine sporting sense of the rights of the other fellow; respect your own rights but respect equally his rights. . . . Do not be too good natured;. . . Do not supinely accept that which may be improved because it seems ungracious to protest or too much trouble to endeavour to amend."

Not only did she bestow advice, she left a permanent legacy to the Penn Library. Her fund has grown almost sixteen-fold since its inception and provides a continuing resource to the Penn community.