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Van Pelt Library houses strong Area Studies collections in African, Japanese, Latin American, Chinese, Middle East, South Asia, and Judaica and Ancient Near East Studies. The Henry Charles Lea Library is located on the 6th floor of Van Pelt Library. [1] The library holds the Weigle Information Commons, located on the west side of the 1st floor.
The library system today includes 15 libraries with 6.19 million book and serial volumes, 4.23 million microform items, 1.11 million ebooks, and 68,000 print serials and electronic journals. The Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center (commonly referred to as Van Pelt) is the main library in the Penn Libraries system. It is the primary library for ...
The University of Pennsylvania (Penn [note 3] or UPenn [note 4]) is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.It is one of nine colonial colleges and was chartered prior to the U.S. Declaration of Independence when Benjamin Franklin, the university's founder and first president, advocated for an educational institution that trained leaders in ...
The plaza, which contains seating areas and a small amphitheater, was known as Wynn Commons from its renovation in 2001 until February 2018, when the University removed Steve Wynn's name amid multiple allegations of sexual misconduct. [2] Houston Hall (1895) is Penn's student union building, and by some definitions the first in the United States.
Penn CAS is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-oldest chartered college in the United States. Penn is distinctive for its comprehensive "One University Policy," which allows students to enroll in classes in any of Penn's twelve schools, including the law school and the Wharton School. [3]
The term login comes from the verb (to) log in and by analogy with the verb to clock in. Computer systems keep a log of users' access to the system. The term "log" comes from the chip log which was historically used to record distance traveled at sea and was recorded in a ship's log or logbook.
The Penn Libraries possesses an important collection of manuscripts and documents relating to the British East India Company and governance in South Asia, most notably the Macartney Papers, comprising letters and documents that belonged to Lord George Macartney during his time as the Governor of Madras (1780-1786). [10]