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With engaging events, compelling lectures, and skill-building workshops, the Penn Libraries is a hub for cultural and educational activity at the University of Pennsylvania. Many library events and exhibitions are open to the public.

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Event Series

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Penn Walks 2 Wellness

Penn Walks 2 Wellness are led by staff, faculty, and students across campus, who will start each walk by briefly talking about a topic of their choice.

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Support for Publishing Workshops

Learn the ins and outs of the publishing process through a series of workshops hosted by the Penn Libraries in collaboration with the Grad Center at Penn.

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From the Kislak Stacks

Join us for these monthly lunchtime presentations (noon – 1 pm) by Kislak curators, faculty, and students focusing on specific works or small archives/collections found among the holdings of the Kislak Center.

Upcoming Events

Oct 01 - 31
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

#citeNLM #HealthLiteracyMonth Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

In observation of Health Literacy Month, Penn Libraries is participating in the Network of the National Library of Medicine's (NNLM) #citeNLM Wikipedia Edit-a-thon initiative to edit health-related pages on Wikipedia.

  • October 1 - 31, 2023
  • Online
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Oct 04
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Bloomberg 101

Bloomberg is a definitive source of information for security pricing, indicative and fundamental data, customized analytics and business news. This class covers basic database structure and commands with a focus on practical and useful examples.

  • October 4, 2023
  • 3:30pm - 4:30pm
  • Yablon Financial Resources Lab, Room 244, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
Oct 05
  • Event
  • Kislak
Open to the Public

Coffee with a Codex: Scientific miscellany

An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of one of our curators. Everyone is welcome to attend.

  • October 5, 2023
  • 12:00pm - 12:30pm
  • Zoom
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Oct 05
  • Workshop

PUG@Penn (Python Users Group)

PUG@Penn (Python Users Group) brings together members of the Penn community interested in or already working with the popular open-source programming language Python. This drop-in, informal, collaboratively-oriented group meets once per month to experiment and explore the many uses for Python across academic disciplines and industries.

  • October 5, 2023
  • 12:00pm - 1:00pm
  • Research Data and Digital Scholarship Exchange
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Oct 06
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Digital Publishing at Penn

This presentation will introduce the landscape of digital and multimodal scholarly publishing, including the digital publishing services and platforms available at Penn. Come find out more about the digital turn in scholarly publishing, including integrating video, audio, and media files, technology learning curves, and other considerations for creating, evaluating, publishing, and discovering digital and multimodal scholarship.

  • October 6, 2023
  • 12:00pm - 1:00pm
  • Graduate Student Center, 3615 Locust Walk, Third Floor, Room 304
Oct 06
  • Event
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Getting Started with Archival Research

The session will begin at the Museum Library with Deb Stewart and end with a tour of the fascinating Penn Museum Archives with archivist Alex Pezzati. Participants will learn about tools to discover unique collections and about best practices for researchers who use archives.

  • October 6, 2023
  • 1:30pm - 2:30pm
  • Museum Library level 1
Oct 09
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Introduction to Data Visualization

Learn how to create and use data visualizations in your research.

  • October 9, 2023
  • 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  • Gershwin & Bennett Family Collaborative Classroom, Holman Biotech Commons
Oct 10
  • Symposium
Open to the Public

Symposium: Laurence Salzmann, A Life With Others

Scholars and artists explore the major themes of Laurence Salzmann’s remarkable and ongoing fifty-year career in tandem with the exhibition Laurence Salzmann: A Life with Others, on display in the Goldstein Gallery in the Kislak Center from August 28 to December 4, 2023.

  • October 10, 2023
  • 10:00am - 7:00pm
  • Kislak Center Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, 6th Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
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