Diversity in the Stacks aims to build library collections that represent and reflect the University’s diverse population. Language learners make up a large proportion of Penn Libraries patrons who might be interested in our foreign-language collections. However, academic monographs and document collections from the 19th century may strike many as too intimidating for reading practice. … Continue reading
by Jef Pierce, South Asian Studies Librarian Diversity in the Stacks aims to build library collections that represent and reflect the University’s diverse population. From 1838 until the end of the Indian indenture system in 1917, more than a half-million South Asians were brought to the Caribbean to labor on British, French, and Dutch sugarcane … Continue reading
Today we launch a series of blog posts to celebrate the Penn Libraries’ Diversity in the Stacks initiative. Diversity in the Stacks aims to build library collections that represent and reflect the University’s diverse population. Our inaugural post highlights holdings related to Afrofuturism. One of the most popular and actively researched sub-genres in academia today … Continue reading
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