In 1993, the library won the Louis I. Kahn[5][6] Award for best-designed academic building from American School and University, a national publication for educational institutions.

Paul J. Gutman died on September 25, 1990, in an airplane accident while on a business trip for Pressman-Gutman, the Bala-Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, textile converting company founded by his great-grandfather, Harry J.

[11] Karen Albert is currently director of the Paul J. Gutman Library at Thomas Jefferson University.

Through its website, the library delivers a wide range of information resources to members of the University community on and off campus.

The availability of electronic resources, including 42,000 online journals, supplements a book collection of more than 150,000 volumes, with special emphasis in the areas of art and architecture, design, textiles, sciences, and business.