Date/Time
Date(s) - 2 Feb 2016
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location
Martin and Margy Meyerson Conference Room, 2nd floor Van Pelt Library
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Tuesday, February 2 from 4-5pm is the first of the Penn Libraries’ Research Teas, an opportunity to share and learn about ongoing research at Penn: the what, the why and the how. Relax, listen, and ask questions, share your own ideas–all while enjoying a cup of tea.
All events in this series will take place on Tuesdays from 4:00-5:00pm in the Meyerson Conference Room of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center.
Our spring inaugural tea, Tuesday, February 2, features rare books, provenance, and digital humanities with Kislak CLIR Fellow Laura Aydelotte:
Special Collections Materials In Hand and Online
If you are interested in Special Collections books and how they are being used by scholars, teachers and librarians in digital humanities work join us for tea with Postdoctoral Fellow, Laura Aydelotte as she discusses the Provenance Online Project she directs at Penn Libraries, a digital humanities project that crowdsources photographs of and information about ownership marks—bookplates, inscriptions, stamps, and more—details of a book that tell us whose hands they have passed through over the centuries. She will talk about the way this project and other special collections and digital humanities related work can be used for research and teaching.
There will also be an opportunity to get to see some of the fascinating rare books from the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts.