Penn has fifteen libraries, located throughout the campus, housing a collection of over 4.5 million volumes. The newly renovated Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center holds the main social sciences and humanities collections, the Lippincott Library of the Wharton School, Penn's rare books and manuscript collections, two computer labs, and the Goldstein Undergraduate Center in the Rosengarten Reserve Room, which is open for study all night during the fall and spring semesters. There are lounges, study carrels, group study and seminar rooms, and over 150 public computers for student use in the Center.

Penn's original library, from the Victorian house of Charles Henry Lea, is installed on the sixth floor, where an adjacent exhibition gallery is lined with woodwork from a 15th-century house in Chester, England.

University of Pennsylvania Library

Named for Charles Patterson Van Pelt, a descendant of Joseph Turner, who was a Trustee of the University from 1749-1779.