South Asia Collection at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries

South Asia Collection at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Established	1750
Location	Philadelphia
Key people	Constantia Constantinou, H. Carton Rogers III Vice Provost and Director of the Penn Libraries Brigitte Weinsteiger, Associate Vice Provost for Collections and Scholarly Communication Jef Pierce, South Asian Studies Librarian
Parent organization	University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries have one of the most important and largest collections of research material pertaining to the study of South Asia in the United States of America. Starting with the nineteenth century, when Sanskrit was first taught at the University of Pennsylvania, the Libraries have collected material for the study of South Asia.