Floor Plans: Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center (2024)

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Accessible entrance

The accessible entrance to the building is located on the south side of the ground floor's east wing. A railing is on the right as you approach the entrance. A door-opening plate is mounted at the end of the railing farthest from the door.

The entrance is to the left of the railing. To reach the bookdrop, walk with the railing on your left. The bookdrop and the entrance are adjacent along the wall, but access to them is separate because of the railing.

This entrance gives access to the Goldstein Undergraduate Study Center (USC) and the Rosengarten Quiet Study Center. These areas may have extended hours and are open all night Sunday through Friday during the academically busy weeks of the year: See the hours calendar.

Elevators

Elevators are west of the 2 spaces.

Bathrooms

Bathrooms doors are on the southwest wall. Each s ingle-gender bathrooms has multiple stalls, with one wheelchair accessible stall.

Mark's Cafe

Mark's Cafe entrance through the west wall, south of the elevators.

What's in the Undergrad Study Center?

On the northwest are: Class of 1963 Group Study Suite, Rooms G101.7, G101.8, G101.9, G101.10, Assistive Technologies Room G101.11, Libraries Technology Center. On the south: Pickup lockers and Ebert Lounge.

Rosengarten Quiet Study Center

The Rosengarten Quiet Study Center is north of the USC. The 2 spaces are separated by a row of rooms and a large curved reception desk (currently unused) all extending from the west side.

What's in the Rosengarten Quiet Study Center?

On the north side: Brownlee Group Study Suite (Rooms G101.2 G101.3) Stovall Dickey Group Study Room (Room G101.1), newspapers, PennCash and copy room. On the southeast: Long Island Friends of Penn Computer Area.

Staff spaces on the ground floor

Glossberg Staff Lounge, SCETI (Schoenberg Center for Text & Image), and the LTS Conference Room in the Technology Center.

First Floor

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First floor, east wind and connector between wings:

• Moelis Family Grand Reading Room
• popular magazines
• reference stacks
• the Collaborative Classroom
• Government Documents
• Goldstein Electronic Classroom (Room 114)
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• Kamin Gallery
• Card Catalog
• PennCash center
• Class of 1964 Electronic Look-up Center
• Moelis Lounge
• Moelis Electronic Research Center
• Information Desk
• Circulation
• Current Periodicals
• Class of 1963 Microtext Center
• Daily Newspapers
• New Books
• New York Times (NYT) Best Sellers
• S. T. Lee Lounge
• Interactive Learning Porch

First floor west wing

• The David B. Weigle Information Commons - including
  • Group Study Rooms (Rooms 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129), Julia & Edward P. Mally Group Study Room, Richard R. Beeman Group Study Room, Class of 1978 Group Study Room, Class of 1983 Group Study Room; Annie, Pamela, Ian, & Jeffrey L. Seltzer Family Group Study Room; Charles Dickey Group Study Room
  • Alcoves: Lenova/Microsoft Alcove, Sandra Kerbel Memorial Alcove
  • Data diners & study booths: Class of 1967 Data Diner, Class of 1973 Study Booths, Class of 1975 Consultation Booth
  • Class of 1968 Seminar Room
  • The Teaching Research, & Learning (TRL) consultation rooms and offices.
• the Alberto Vitale Digital Media Lab
• The Center for Teaching & Learning
• The Online Learning Initiative
• The Learning Analytics offices.

Bathrooms

There are no bathrooms on the first floor of the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center. The Libraries' biggest bathrooms are located on the ground floor.

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The second floor holds the Class of 1955 Conference Room, historical children's Books display, Meyerson Conference Center, Ford Alcove, and men's and women's bathrooms. Staff spaces include the Web Unit, Business Office, Human Resources Office, Interlibrary loan (ILL) Office, Offices of Collections & Liaison Services, Office of the Vice Provost and Director of Libraries, and Advancement Offices. The Lippincott Library of the Wharton School occupies most of the west wing of the second floor. Lippincott spaces include the Class of 1971 Lounge, Snyder Computer Area, Peck Collection, Class of 1956 Computer Area, Glossberg Seminar Room, Yablon Financial Resources Lab, Lippincott Library Seminar Room (22), A. Edward Allinson Group Study Room Vitale Group Study Room, Class of 1941 Group Study Room, Class of 1953 Group Study Suite, and Class of 1955 Consultation Room, and a single, accessible, gender-neutral bathroom at the west end.

Third Floor

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The third floor holds Library Technology Services, Faculty Studies, Lippincott Library Stacks, stacks: A, NX, P, Q-V, Z; PennCash Center, Photocopy Office, Class of 1952 Lounge, Class of 1944 Carrel Center, Carrels, Class of 1974 Classics Resource Room, Class of 1954 Teaching Seminar Room, Class of 1964 Group Study Suite, Class of 1979 Africana Resource Room, Class of 1985 Study Lounge & mobis, gender-neutral, accessible bathrooms. Staff areas include Library Technology Services & LTS Conference Room.

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First floor, east wind and connector between wings:

• Moelis Family Grand Reading Room
• popular magazines
• reference stacks
• the Collaborative Classroom
• Government Documents
• Goldstein Electronic Classroom (Room 114)
• ,
• Kamin Gallery
• Card Catalog
• PennCash center
• Class of 1964 Electronic Look-up Center
• Moelis Lounge
• Moelis Electronic Research Center
• Information Desk
• Circulation
• Current Periodicals
• Class of 1963 Microtext Center
• Daily Newspapers
• New Books
• New York Times (NYT) Best Sellers
• S. T. Lee Lounge
• Interactive Learning Porch

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The fourth floor holds the Otto Albrecht Music Library, stacks: B, H, J-L, M, Dewey 900s, and Folios; Freedman Jewish Sound Archive, Marian Anderson Music Study Center, Bodek Conference Room, Folio Room 452, Faculty Studies, Film Viewing Rooms, Film Studies Classroom Room (425), Glossberg Recording Suite, Class of 1958 Audio Lab, Eugene Ormandy Media Center (Room 424), Yarnall Collection, PennCash Center, Class of 2003 Parents Study Lounge, Class of 2003 Parents Group Study Room, Class of 1928 Lounge, Class of 1973 Group Study Room, David B. Weigle Judaica/Ancient Near East Seminar Room (JANES, Room 401), Weigle Teaching Room 402, Weigle Group Suite (Rooms 403 and 404), Weigle Medieval Studies Room (405), men's and women's bathrooms; gender-neutral, accessible bathrooms

Fifth Floor

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The fifth floor, at the far east end are Special Collections climate controlled secure stacks and the Kislak Center Hallway (quiet study). Staff areas include Exhibits Office, Steven Miller Conservation Laboratory, Special Collections Processing. On the west end along north and south walls are the Area Studies offices and rooms: East Asia Collecion, South Asia Seminar Room, Derk Bodde East Asian Studies Seminar Room (526), Middle East Seminar Room, American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) Photo Archive. Also on this floor are Faculty Studies, Stacks: C-G, the Class of 1937 Memorial Reading Room, carrels, men's and women's bathrooms; a gender-neutral, accessible bathroom, and a nursing room.

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The sixth floor houses the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts; the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS), the Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, the Benjamin Rittenhouse Orrery, the Lea Library, the Goldstein Family Gallery, the Vitale II Digital Media Lab, the Furness Shakespeare Library, the Moelis Reading Terrace, The Bennett/Gershwind Terrace, Snyder Grenader Alcove, Hoesley Book Holding Room, Hikawa/Windreich Family Reception/Consultation Room, Goldman Study Room, 2010 Parents Study Room, Polan Family Study Room, Class of 1967 Franklin Corner, Adler/Lachs Family Seminar Room, Cusack Family Seminar Room, men's and women's bathrooms. Staff spaces include the Glossberg Director's Office, Class of 1978 Curator's Office, Class of 1982 Curator's Office.

Center for Global Collections Books

Located on Floor 5

Lippincott Library Books

Van Pelt Library Books

• Library of Congress Call Numbers
• Special Locations in Van Pelt
• Seminar Rooms in Van Pelt

Library of Congress Call Numbers in Van Pelt

Special Locations in Van Pelt

If a book’s call number contains one of the prefixes listed below, then that book is in a Special Location.

Seminar Rooms in Van Pelt

(Books do not circulate.)

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