Scholarship at Penn Libraries

The papers here have been written by staff in the University of Pennsylvania Libraries.

Papers from 2009

Architectural Mismatch: Why Reuse is Still So Hard, David Garlan, Robert Allen, and John Mark Ockerbloom

Papers from 2008

MLA-L at Twenty, Richard Griscom

High Quality Discovery in a Web 2.0 World: Architectures for Next Generation Catalogs, John Mark Ockerbloom

Mapping the library future: Subject navigation for today's and tomorrow's library catalogs, John Mark Ockerbloom

Papers from 2007

Publishing Undergraduate Research Electronically, Dennis DeTurck and Richard Griscom

Copyright and Provenance: Some Practical Problems, John Mark Ockerbloom

Digital Scholarship and Cyberinfrastructure in the Humanities: Lessons from the Text Creation Partnership, Shawn Martin

EEBO, Microfilm, and Umberto Eco: Historical Lessons and Future Directions for Building Electronic Collections, Shawn Martin

Review of Stephen Parks, ed., The Beinecke Library of Yale University, Daniel H. Traister

Approaching pre-modern China through the computer: the benefits and risks of using electronic resources in sinological research, Jidong Yang

Papers from 2006

Contexts and Contributions: Building the Distributed Library, Martha L. Brogan

Digital Audio in the Library, Richard Griscom

Content Recruitment and Development: A Proactive Approach to Building an Institutional Repository, Richard Griscom, Marjorie Hassen, Mary D. Steiner, and Sandra Kerbel

The Penn/Cambridge Genizah Fragment Project: Issues in Description, Access, and Reunification, Heidi G. Lerner and Seth Jerchower

New Maps of the Library: Building Better Subject Discovery Tools Using Library of Congress Subject Headings, John Mark Ockerbloom

The Next Mother Lode for Large-scale Digitization? Historic Serials, Copyrights, and Shared Knowledge, John Mark Ockerbloom

Collaboration in Electronic Scholarly Communication: New Possibilities for Old Books, Shawn Martin

A Peculiarly English "Middle Road", Daniel H. Traister

Papers from 2005

Family Values: Lessons in Material Culture, Martha L. Brogan

A Kaleidoscope of Digital American Literature, Martha L. Brogan and Daphnée Rentfrow

Reaching Out: What do Scholars Want from Electronic Resources?, Shawn Martin

Papers from 2004

Austen in Her Time and Ours, Daniel H. Traister

Papers from 2003

A Survey of Digital Library Aggregation Services, Martha L. Brogan

Distant Music: Delivering Audio over the Internet, Richard Griscom

Public Services and Outreach in Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Libraries, Daniel H. Traister

Review of The Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Daniel H. Traister

Papers from 2002

Review of Illuminating Letters, Daniel H. Traister

Papers from 2001

Archiving and Preserving PDF Files, John Mark Ockerbloom

Use of Full-Text Electronic Resources by Philosophy Students at UNC-Chapel Hill: A Citation Analysis, Nicholas E. Okrent

Papers from 2000

Alchemy, Metallurgy, and Pharmacy: Edgar Fahs Smith and the History of Chemistry, Lynne Farrington

Philadelphia's Musical Legacy, Marjorie Hassen

The Present: A Postscript, Dennis Hyde

Architecture Books in the Service of Learning: Persuasion and Argument in the Perkins Library, William B. Keller

The Professionalization of Wisdom: The Legacy of Dropsie College and Its Library, Arthur Kiron

The Penniman-Gribbel Collection of Sanskrit Manuscripts, David N. Nelson

A Note on Leibniz's Supposed Flirtation with Occasionalism in the 1669 Letter to Thomasius, Nicholas E. Okrent

Leibniz on Substance and God in "That a Most Perfect Being is Possible", Nicholas E. Okrent

The Identity of Indiscernibles and Spinoza's Argument for Substance Monism, Nicholas E. Okrent

Henry Charles Lea and the Libraries within a Library, Edward M. Peters

A Library in Retrospect, Michael T. Ryan

The Case for American Literary Manuscripts, Nancy M. Shawcross

Is There a Future for Special Collections? And Should There Be? A Polemical Essay, Daniel H. Traister

The Furness Memorial Library, Daniel H. Traister

The Daniel Garrison Brinton Collection, John M. Weeks

Papers from 1999

Aircraft Emissions: Current Inventories and Future Scenarios, S. L. Baughcum, J. J. Begin, F. Franco, D. L. Greene, D. S. Lee, M.-L. McLaren, A. K. Mortlock, P. J. Newton, A. Schmitt, D. J. Sutkus, Anu Vedantham, and D. J. Wuebbles

Review of The Future of the Book, Daniel H. Traister

A Special Report of Working Groups I and III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Anu Vedantham

Aviation and the Global Atmosphere: A Special Report of IPCC Working Groups I and III, Anu Vedantham

Papers from 1998

Spinoza on the Essence, Mutability and Power of God, Nicholas E. Okrent

Long-term scenarios for aviation: Demand and emissions of CO2 and NOx, Anu Vedantham and Michael Oppenheimer

Papers from 1997

The United Nations Scholars' Workstation at Yale University, Martha L. Brogan

Descartes' Two Accounts of Mind Body Union, Nicholas E. Okrent

Papers from 1996

Review of Philip G. Altbach and Edith S. Hoshino, International Book Publishing: An Encyclopedia, Martha L. Brogan

Papers from 1995

Inner City Networking: Models and Opportunities, Judith Sparrow and Anu Vedantham

Networking for K-12 Education: The Federal Perspective, Anu Vedantham and Laura Breeden

Papers from 1994

Aircraft Emissions and the Global Atmosphere, Anu Vedantham and Michael Oppenheimer

Papers from 1993

Review of Joan E. Seiber, ed., Sharing Social Science Data: Advantages and Challenges, Martha L. Brogan

Papers from 1992

Review of Irving Louis Horowitz, Communicating Ideas: The Politics of Scholarly Publishing, Martha L. Brogan

Review of Robert B. Reich, The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st Century Capitalism, Martha L. Brogan

Papers from 1991

Research Guide to Libraries and Archives in the Low Countries, Martha L. Brogan

Review of Lingua Franca: The Review of Academic Life, Martha L. Brogan

Papers from 1990

Mapping Library Resources in Dutch Studies Through the Conspectus, Martha L. Brogan

Trends in International Education: New Imperatives in Academic Librarianship, Martha L. Brogan

Telecommunications in Zimbabwe, Anu Vedantham

Papers from 1988

A Customized Database on Scandinavian Government, Martha L. Brogan and Robert B. Kvavik

Papers from 1984

Afterword: Organizing for Western European Studies: The Pioneering Stage, Martha L. Brogan

Papers from 1983

Periodical Use in a University Music Library: A Citation Study of Theses and Dissertations Submitted to the Indiana University School of Music from 1975-1980, Richard Griscom

Papers from 1982

Sidney's Purposeful Humor: Astrophil and Stella 59 and 83, Daniel H. Traister