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Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
3420 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206
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The Kislak Center is the principal site for rare books, manuscripts, and archives at the University of Pennsylvania and a hub for events, exhibits, and research. The Kislak Center is open to all. We invite you to visit us on the sixth floor of Van-Pelt Library and explore our collections.
Our Mission and History
Access Kislak Center Collections On-Site and Remotely
Search by Subject, Period, Language, and More
Fellowships and Support for Researchers, Students, and Faculty
How to Find Us
Teaching and Resources for Instructors
Bringing manuscript culture, modern technology, and people together.
Celebrate the semiquincentennial of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia
Partnerships celebrating the history, culture, and people of Philadelphia.
Creative research and development in Jewish studies, informed by digital humanities, Jewish studies, and public scholarship.
A hands-on graduate-level internship course co-taught by Zita Nunes, Associate Professor of English, and Holly Mengel, Head of Archives and Manuscripts Processing at Penn Libraries, reveals the complex world of academic archiving.
Penn Libraries curator and conservator team up to research a pair of gloves rumored to have been Shakespeare’s to see if the gloves could be from the 1600s.
For Shakespeare Quarterly, Professor Zachary Lesser and Professor Whitney Trettien discuss the work of archivists, librarians, and scholarly discovery through the life, destruction, and afterlife of a Shakespeare Folio in the H. H. Furness Memorial Library.
The accessible entrance of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center opens into the Goldstein Undergraduate Study Center. This entrance is on the ground floor of the building facing Blanche P. Levy Park and College Hall. A wheelchair accessible doorbell is located on the railing leading toward the door.