This fall, "fall" in love with the Penn Libraries! Our semester-long passport program will give you a chance to go beyond the most popular study spots and find your own favorite nooks and niches.
This year students who complete 8 stops and attend our finale event will be entered in a drawing for a chance to win your own personal study room in Van Pelt Library for the spring semester!
STEP 1: Starting August 22, pick up a passport at Van Pelt, Fine Arts, Biotech Commons, or Math Physics and Astronomy Library.
STEP 2: Explore the libraries while collecting stamps and selfies. At each stamp stop, a member of our staff will be on hand to stamp your passport. For the selfie stops, you submit your pictures at the form here.
STEP 3: Get limited edition merch if you complete at least 8 stops by Our October 30th event. We'll distribute prizes during our finale event. Drawing contestants will be announced October 31st.
STEP 4: Attend the finale event October 30 3:30 - 5:30 pm in Van Pelt Library's Weigle Information Commons. RSVP here.
Have questions along your passport journey? Contact Alexandrea Glenn.
Join us Thursday night to explore the libraries! You can dance at a Silent Disco, win at Quizzo (Philly’s trivia night), print and send a postcard, and visit the Revolution at Penn? Exhibit.
Library Location: Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
Discover “How to Library” with Library 101! We will cover finding, checking out and renewing books at the Penn Libraries, how you can get PDF scans of articles, and the best way to quickly get books from other libraries.
Register here: https://libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/15118517
Library Location: Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
After entering the Penn Museum for free with your PennCard, go on your own Indiana Jones-que adventure - minus the snake pits! - to find the Penn Museum Library. Clue: the recessed door is sandwiched between the Upper Egypt Gallery & the Anthropology department and right above the museum café, where you can buy an actual sandwich! Upon entering the Museum Library, seek out the friendly staff at the circulation desk for your stamp, then explore this unique and quiet library spot.
Library Location: Museum Library
Stop by the EC reception desk for your stamp. While visiting, try out the toy vending machine for a Penn-themed prize!
Library Location: Education Commons
The Materials Library is located on the ground floor of the Fisher Fine Arts Library near the restrooms and Common Press, accessible from the main stairwell in the stacks. Find the VantaBlack sample on our color wall, visible when entering the Materials Library, and notify a staff member to learn more about the material to receive your stamp.
Library Location: Materials Library (within the Fisher Fine Arts Library)
To get your passport stamped at the Holman Biotech Commons stop, scan the QR code on the "Anatomy of a Franklin Record Tutorial" poster near the front desk, or click here to take the short tutorial about reading a Franklin record. Show the completion certificate or email to staff at the desk to receive your stamp. This stop will be active throughout the Fall in Love with the Libraries event.
Library Location: Holman Biotech Commons
Take a selfie in front of the Schattner Building, which serves as the main entrance to School of Dental Medicine (SDM). The SDM houses the Levy Dental Library and is open only to Penn Dental students, staff, faculty, clinicians, and patients.
Library Location: Dental Library
Visit the MPA Library on the 3rd floor of David Rittenhouse Laboratory to stamp your passport and grab some free MPA merch from our freebie table! Students can build creations at a Lego table and enter a Fall raffle for a chance to win a portable Jupiter Bluetooth speaker.
Library Location: Math/Physics/Astronomy Library
Check out what is being printed in this unique typographic makerspace! Stamp your passport by the entrance. The Common Press is located on the ground floor of the Fisher Fine Arts Library, near the Materials Library
Library Location: Common Press (within the Fisher Fine Arts Library)
Stop by the Vitale II Book + Digital Lab room 623 to look at a medieval manuscript and get a blue beet stamp in the passport.
Library Location: Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center (Sixth Floor)
Visit the Ormandy Music and Media Center and view the illuminated manuscript of Henry VIII's love songs, Folio ML96.4.B75 M87 2009. The facsimile will be on a stand right beside the Music Library circulation desk.
Library Location: Eugene Ormandy Music and Media Center (within Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center)
Explore the Lippincott Library of the Wharton School! Show us that you have signed up for a Bloomberg.com account through the Penn Libraries' subscription and we'll stamp your passport at our Information Desk (2nd floor, west side of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center). The Information Desk is where you'll find our print textbook collection, available for use by students taking Wharton courses, as well as keys for our reservable seminar space and conference rooms.
Library Location: Lippincott Library (within the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center)
Come take a selfie with the Global Comics Collection! This circulating collection of comics and graphic novels in languages from around the world is housed in Van Pelt Library: in the Global Comics Collection section of the fifth floor, right across from Van Pelt 525. The collection is intended for language learners and international students alike to enjoy, and it encompasses comics and graphic novels in Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, English, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and many more languages.
Library Location: Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
Stop by the Ground Floor of Fisher Fine Arts Library to have your face 3D scanned. Available: Monday 9/15 1 -3 pm, Tuesday 10/7 10 - 12 pm, and Thursday 10/23 3 - 5 pm. If you are unable to attend at these times, please email kreuter@upenn.edu to schedule an appointment.
Library Location: Fisher Fine Arts Library
Interact with the zine rack in RDDSX by the books and white board. Pick up and read zine, take a picture with it, suggest a zine, etc
Library Location: 1st floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
The writing is on the wall! Visit a library devoted to a scientific discipline whose researchers search the literature using drawn images. Use one of the library's dry erase markers to draw an emoji or leave an encouraging message on a wall or table that doubles as a whiteboard. (Please check with staff before writing on any surface!)
Library Location: Chemistry Library
