Many of these are now on the web which makes this exclusion less problematic than in the past. Cooperative Arrangements and Related Collections. For example, the Music Seminar Room is in fact the music reference collection and the Music Librarian provides reference service. East Asia, Middle East and South Asia seminars also hold most reference sources for those areas and all reference titles in non-Roman alphabets. Some interdisciplinary subjects are covered by both Van Pelt and a departmental reference collection.
Deliberate duplications are rare.
We rely on other area libraries, especially Drexel University and the Free Library of Philadelphia, for reference resources in areas that are peripheral to Penn's collections including child care, auto repair, gardening, and for material types, such as sheet maps, pictures and prints, and videos. We direct members of the Penn community to the appropriate local public or alternate academic library. Subscriptions to electronic union catalogs and direct links, when possible, simplify such referrals and are increasingly common. All Rights Reserved.