THE iSCHOOL AT DREXEL UNIVERSITY is the nickname of Drexel's highly regarded College of Information Science and Technology. It offers undergraduate degrees in information systems, information technology and software engineering and graduate degrees in library and information science, online or on campus, information systems, online or on campus, and software engineering. Faculty research is ongoing on artificial intelligence, database management, software engineering and other issues.
RUTGERS-CAMDEN AND DREXEL UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOLS have faculty who specialize in the topic. A Drexel professor says his professional interests include information policy including copyright, the use of information technology in libraries in developing countries, and the changing patterns of research and scholarly communication caused by developments in information technology. He has consulted at law libraries in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Uganda on the use of information technology for library collection development and research support. Rutgers-Camden has a professor who had a private pracxtice in information-technology law and now its ramifications for telecommunications and intellectual property.
THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743, is the oldest learned society in the United States. Its library holds nearly 200,000 volumes and six million manuscripts which are open to serious investigators.
THE FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA includes the Central Library, three regional libraries, and 49 branch libraries. The Central Library houses a six million piece collection in the diverse fields of art, business, science, industry, automobile reference, education, philosophy, religion, literature, theater, print and picture collections, social science, history, music a rare book room, films and newspapers.
THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA is an independent research library with collections documenting every aspect of the history and background of American culture from the colonial period to the Civil War. The Library contains a rare book collection of national importance, holding number 450,000 books, 50,000 graphics, and 160,000 manuscripts.
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES, MID-ATLANTIC OFFICE, maintains a body of permanently valuable records of the three branches of federal government, plus micro-film pertaining to census schedules. This data is available to both, public and private interests.
PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL HISTORIC LIBRARY, founded in 1762, was the first medical library in the original colonies. It contains 13,163 volumes, with particular strengths in early American medicine and natural history. Its archives contain an unbroken line of records from 1751 to the present, including minutes of the Board of Managers, stewards' and matrons' records, and patient records for the Department of the Sick and Injured and the Psychiatric Department.
THE ROSENBACH MUSEUM AND LIBRARY houses the 19th-century repository of two brothers, a rare book dealer and a noted art dealer. Their world-class collections are now used by scholars from around the world, and are open to the public through a program of tours and changing exhibitions.
