Catering to the way students communicate, more and more university libraries are providing instant live chat services to users who need help while accessing the library over the Internet. For example, ...

More than 1,000 boxes containing the complete 175-year archive of the Orchestra and the Academy of Music have moved across town to Penn Library. Items from the archives of the Philadelphia Orchestra ...

Designed by the prominent Philadelphia architect Frank Furness, the University of Pennsylvania's library—today called the Anne and Jerome Fisher Fine Arts Library—is considered one of the great ...

UNIVERSITY CITY (WPVI) -- A man with a machete was arrested inside a library at the University of Pennsylvania. Police say 39-year-old Michael West was taken into custody with a two foot machete, a ...

Seven decades after he became addicted to Superman, Gary Prebula’s collection of graphic novels and comics has a permanent home at the University of Pennsylvania library. It took a team effort. Gary ...

A library without books? Not quite, but as students abandon the stacks in favor of online reference material, university libraries are unloading millions of unread volumes in a nationwide purge that ...

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Men using urinals at a University of Pennsylvania library are startled to see silver plaques above each unit, thanking a donor for funding the urinals. "The relief you ...

The cornerstones of two great American libraries were laid just a month apart in the fall of 1888, one in Philadelphia and one in Boston. The buildings could not be more dissimilar. The Boston Public ...