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Work at the Libraries

  • Put your interests and skills to work with a job at the Penn Libraries! Check out books or find jobs in other areas of access services, special collections, cataloging, and technology support. Search for "library" in Workday to see current jobs available.

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Borrow Books and More

  • Log in to your account to reserve materials or get them delivered, access interlibrary loan, and view the status of anything you’ve checked out.
  • Search the catalog for books, journal articles, databases, CDs and DVDs, and anything else in the Penn Libraries collections.
  • Get off-campus access to subscription materials like journals, databases, and e-books only available to Libraries users.
  • Not finding what you need? Request a purchase for our collections.
  • Find out how you can pick up books at a library location using our contactless lockers.
  • Get books delivered to your home address.
  • Request scans of articles or book chapters for quick delivery directly to your inbox.
  • Conduct research with our unique and notable collections items, which include annotated musical scores, television scripts, medieval manuscripts, LGBTQ comic books, and lots more.

Library Spaces

Library Spaces

  • Find a collaborative or quiet study space in one of our fourteen individual libraries.
  • Already know what space you’d like to book? Go ahead and reserve a room.
  • Explore all of our library locations across Penn’s campus and beyond.
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