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.

Melanie is the Coordinating Bibliographer for the Health Science Libraries. She is also the liaison and collection development librarian for the Biology and the Earth & Environmental Science departments. She has been at Penn since 1988, working first as a cytogenetic technologist in the Prenatal Diagnosis lab at HUP. Before that, she worked for a large animal veterinary practice, specializing in embryo transfer. Melanie holds a BS in Animal Husbandry from Delaware Valley College of Science & Agriculture, a Post Baccalaureate in Cytogenetics from Thomas Jefferson University, and an MS in Library and Information Science from Drexel University.

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Department
Professional Affiliation
  • Medical Library Association
Areas of Expertise
  • Earth & environmental science
  • General science
  • Biology
  • Biomedical research
  • Medicine