Please join us at the Biomedical Library for a Researcher Identifier Workshop. Are you curious about tools that help you track or demonstrate your research impact and scholarly output? If yes, attend this workshop, in […]
Barbara Cavanaugh
Asst. University Librarian for Health Sciences and STEM Libraries,
University of Pennsylvania
Johnson Pavilion, 3610 Hamilton Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6060
215-898-8020 / bbc@upenn.edu
Twitter: @BarbaraCavana11
NCBI tools and databases workshop: February 5, 2019 at noon
If you are interested in learning about the types of resources which NCBI (home to Pubmed) offers in bioinformatics, then come to our introductory one-hour NCBI tools and databases workshop that is being held […]
Librarians as participants on Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)
Carlos Rodriguez, a librarian at the Biomedical Library, has served as a highly valued Penn IRB member for several years. Under FDA regulations, an IRB is an independent committee that is responsible for reviewing all human […]
Biomedical Librarians go global
Our Research & Knowledge Management Liaison Librarian, Manuel de la Cruz Gutierrez, will be traveling to Guatemala City as part of a delegation from the Guatemala-Penn Partnership (GPP). This delegation, including Perelman School […]
Visit the Biomedical Library’s Relaxation Room
The Biomedical Library has opened a Relaxation Room for the Penn community. The room is a quiet space intended for taking a break from studying or other potentially stressful daily activities. The […]
Meet Sherry: Clinical & Graduate Research Librarian

Sherry Morgan, the Biomedical Library’s Clinical and Graduate Research Librarian, exemplifies how our team of librarians are embedded within the communities they serve. For example, as a member of Penn Medicine’s Center for […]
3D print of the week: Orkan Telhan’s Microbial Design Studio
The Biomedical Library’s 3D Printing service, managed by Barbara Kountouzi, has supported numerous innovative Penn-conducted research projects that have been featured in the news, with one recent example being the work of […]
12/3: Biomed Library Relaxation Room Grand Opening! Join us and try out the VR relaxation program used by Penn Medicine Radiation Oncology!
On Monday, Dec. 3rd, between 3:30 – 5:00, please join us as at the Biomedical Library as we showcase our brand new Relaxation Room. Partnering with us for this event is the […]
Librarians’ Role in Evidence-Based Medicine for Healthcare Policymakers: View the Webinar!

Recently, invited by Elsevier, Maylene Qiu, the Biomedical Library’s Clinical Liaison Librarian and Systematic Review Coordinator, provided a webinar on the topic of “Librarians’ Role in Evidence-Based Medicine Education (EBM) for […]
3D Print of the Week: Resin Vertebra featured in Penn Today story, “Making fossils move to build better robots”

The Biomedical Library is proud to have printed the resin vertebra featured in today’s Penn Today story. Here’s an excerpt from the story: “Specimens like [Dr. Aja] Carter’s Archeria are extremely rare and not […]