Irma “Immie” Feldman, a former librarian at the Lippincott Library of the Wharton School, died on December 11, 2024, She was 97.

Born in 1927 in South Philadelphia to the Ciancaglini family, Ms. Feldman graduated from the South Philadelphia High School for Girls in 1945. She joined the staff of Penn’s Lippincott Library in 1950 as a clerk, then rose through the ranks for the next four decades. She eventually became the head series librarian in 1978, overseeing the Wharton School’s expansive international periodical collections.

Ms. Feldman helped bring the Lippincott Library into the digital era, spearheading the early use of CD-ROMs to store digital files. She retired from Penn in 1991.

After retiring from Penn, Ms. Feldman worked with Sylvia Glickman at Hildegard Publishing and later co-founded 1521 Cafe Gallery in Center City Philadelphia, an Italian café/art gallery that later evolved into a full-service restaurant. Later still, she volunteered as a librarian at her grandchildren’s elementary school. Ms. Feldman was a devout advocate for progressive causes for her entire life, attending the 1963 March on Washington and protesting the Vietnam War.

Ms. Feldman is survived by her son, Vincent David; her daughter-in-law, Kaori Ikeuchi; her stepdaughter, Dorothy Miller; and her grandchildren, Kai Vincent Feldman, Yuma Nicole Feldman, Ethan Hart Feldman-Anmuth, and Noah Miller.