What do we know about Johannes Gutenberg, the 15th century man and developer of Europe’s first typographic printing technique? Scheide Librarian Eric White argues not enough, and hopes to dispel some of the timeworn speculation about Gutenberg’s life in his new book, “Johannes Gutenberg: A Biography in Books.”

A series of inside looks at the current exhibition in Princeton University Library’s Ellen and Leonard Milberg Gallery in Firestone Library: “The Most Formidable Weapon Against Errors: The Sid Lapidus ’59 Collection & the Age of Reason.”

Princeton University’s Princeton Research Data Service (PRDS) launched a new website this spring geared toward introducing the campus community to its data management services, training programs, and research data infrastructure for Princeton researchers. 

Anna Meerson, Thomas Keenan, and Serguei Oushakine had their work recognized by The Art Libraries Society of America’s “Library Exhibitions Review,” a publication that recognizes exemplary displays of library exhibitions and best practices. 

Members of the Princeton University Library (PUL) community join readers around the world in mourning the loss of novelist and essayist Mario Vargas Llosa on Monday, April 14, 2025. The 2010 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Vargas Llosa was also a member of the Princeton community as a Distinguished Visitor in the Program in Latin American Studies.  

What happens when Princeton University Library (PUL) staff find a book with a torn page? Or discover potential pests in the collection? Usually, the first course of action is notifying the staff in the Preservation and Conservation (P&C) Department, who specialize in repairs, mends, and conservation of any and all of the materials in Library collections. 

Elissa Sperling joined Princeton University Library (PUL) from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, where she worked as a Metadata Librarian. Prior to NASA, she worked in various libraries, archives, and museums in the United States and abroad. Elissa holds a Master of Information Studies from McGill University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Astronomy, Physics & Russian and Eastern European Studies from Wesleyan University.

A series of inside looks at the current exhibition in Princeton University Library’s Ellen and Leonard Milberg Gallery in Firestone Library: “The Most Formidable Weapon Against Errors: The Sid Lapidus ’59 Collection & the Age of Reason.”

A series of inside looks at the current exhibition in Princeton University Library’s Ellen and Leonard Milberg Gallery in Firestone Library: “The Most Formidable Weapon Against Errors: The Sid Lapidus ’59 Collection & the Age of Reason.”

A member of the Class of 2025, Lemai-Nguyen has been a familiar face at PUL, from co-leading the Library’s student Friends to working in Special Collections

The photographs of New Jersey native and photographer Elizabeth Menzies came alive earlier this semester during the fifth-annual Princeton University Wintersession. 

Princeton University Library (PUL) has published a new digital archive that documents the ground-breaking atrocity trials that occurred in Guatemala’s domestic courts after that country’s 36-year armed conflict (1960-1996).

A series of inside looks at the current exhibition in Princeton University Library’s Ellen and Leonard Milberg Gallery in Firestone Library: “The Most Formidable Weapon Against Errors: The Sid Lapidus ’59 Collection & the Age of Reason.”

Visitors to Princeton University Library (PUL), Princeton Public Library, and the Stoutsburg Sourlands African American Museum (SSAAM) celebrated the life and legacy of abolitionist Frederick Douglass on February 14 by participating in the Library of Congress’ Douglass Day Transcribe-a-thon. 

The African American (AAS) Reading room sits between the stacks on the B-Floor of Princeton University Library’s (PUL) Firestone branch. Though obviously named for the academic department on campus—which began as the African American Studies Program in 1969 and became a department in 2015—the history of the African American Studies Reading Room dates back to the Civil Rights Movement. 

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the publication of “The Great Gatsby” this April, Princeton University Library is planning a suite of on- and off-campus programming inspired by the library's significant Fitzgerald and “The Great Gatsby” related holdings. 

A new workshop series kicking off on Friday, February 14, combines data literacy with crochet. The Fiber + Data series is an opportunity for anyone who is looking to level up their data skills with some hands-on crafting. 

Princeton University Library's (PUL) Department of Special Collections is excited to offer two Special Collections Summer Fellowships. The John Foster and Janet Avery Dulles Archival Fellow is hosted at Special Collections in Mudd Library, with the other hosted at Special Collections in Firestone Library.

What happened at Princeton University Library (PUL) in 2024? From students reimagining pre-film devices in Special Collections to launching an exhibit featuring Princeton’s first female associate professor, here are PUL’s top 10 stories of 2024.

Beginning Monday, January 27, all of Lewis Library’s circulation services will only be available through the STEM Circulation Services desk, located in the Engineering Library on the A-floor of Fine Hall. 

Lisa Read joined in July 2024 as the Music Librarian at Mendel Music Library. She is the subject specialist and library liaison for music, dance, theater, and musical theater.

PUL takes part in International Love Data Week 2025 with a series of workshops.

Dennis Schäfer, co-winner of Princeton University Library’s 2024 Elmer Adler Book Collecting Prize, received the second prize in the National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest for his collection of illustrated editions of works by E.T.A. Hoffman. 

Princeton University Library staff are offering the following courses during Wintersession 2025. Registration for all undergraduate students, graduate students, staff, and faculty began Tuesday, December 10. For a full list of offerings, visit the Wintersession website. 

Across four class periods during the Fall 2024 semester, participants in Princeton University Library’s (PUL) inaugural Digital Scholarship Foundations (DSF) Program learned how to build a web-based digital exhibition from scratch.

Twentieth-century visual satire offers many examples of human-insect hybrids to represent a repulsive parasitism and insidiousness, casting particular human actors as invasive species that infest otherwise healthy and beneficent societies.

Princeton University Library (PUL) patrons who are looking for materials on Lenape people have a new curated collection to browse at Firestone Library. Located on the first floor in the Discovery Hub, the Lenape Collection replaced the previous Indigenous Studies Collection.

A skirt made of mirrors, an animated strip of Super Mario, and a digital representation of the Fibonacci sequence were among the ways students in Professor of Visual Arts Joe Scanlan’s Haptic Lab reimagined 19th century visual media devices in 2024.

Twentieth-century visual satire offers many examples of human-insect hybrids to represent a repulsive parasitism and insidiousness, casting particular human actors as invasive species that infest otherwise healthy and beneficent societies.

In celebration of Ask a Conservator Day, Princeton University Library (PUL) Book Conservator Maren Rozumalski answered questions about her background and responsibilities at the Library, and gave advice for those looking to pursue a similar career path.

In July 2024, Mary Carter joined Princeton University Library (PUL) as its Finance and Operations Research Librarian. Carter is the primary liaison and provides research assistance and instruction to the Bendheim Center for Finance, Operations Research and Financial Engineering, and the Finance certificate program.

Human figures of gigantic scale are deployed often in 20th century visual satire to represent self-aggrandizing hubris and overreach – an immoral, perverse transgression of the proper limits of an individual human being.

A new University support “ORCID@Princeton” is now available to help Princeton researchers connect their ORCID iD to their Princeton NetID, which has various benefits. The site will also help researchers establish an ORCID iD or reconcile multiple records.

After hosting a workshop led by Dave Hansen, Authors Alliance Executive Director, in the spring of 2024, Princeton University Library (PUL) joined the Authors Alliance Partner Program the fall of 2024. 

Applications for the research grants, which promote scholarly use of PUL's unique and rare collections, will be accepted through noon eastern time on January 15, 2025.

In June 2024, Matthew Kopel joined Princeton University Library (PUL) as its Open Access and Intellectual Property Librarian. Kopel is part of the Research Data and Open Scholarship office and his work is focused on broadening our support of Open Access and copyright as it pertains to all forms of scholarship

Human figures of gigantic scale are deployed often in 20th century visual satire to represent self-aggrandizing hubris and overreach – an immoral, perverse transgression of the proper limits of an individual human being.

“Grabbing Tea,” a two-volume book set edited by Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz and Sara Howard, Princeton University Library’s Librarian for Gender and Sexuality Studies and Student Engagement, is now available from Litwin Books & Library Juice Press. 

An illustration from an edition of Dante’s “Divine Comedy” published 170 years after the author’s death (1491) provides context for 20th-century specimens of the bestiary genre. 

“The House of Condulmer,” a new book by Princeton University Library’s Curator of Numismatics Alan Stahl, was published in July 2024 in the Medieval Studies series of the University of Pennsylvania Press. 

For Charmaine Branch, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Art & Archaeology pursuing a graduate certificate in African American Studies, her work is committed to social equity and community care, both of which she believes can be supported by libraries. 

Multiple Princeton University institutions contributed funds for cataloging

In the fall semester of 2023, Princeton University Library (PUL) Special Collections debuted a new initiative: stickers.

When a patron requested access to “Vale’s improved globe and celestial sphere,” members of PUL’s Preservation and Conservation lab knew that the box it was being housed in wasn’t the right fit. 

PUL's Digital Scholarship Services invites applications to attend our inaugural "Digital Scholarship Foundations" training program, which consists of a series of workshops on methods that will benefit digital scholarship practitioners.

Princeton University Library  (PUL) co-sponsored the fourth installment of the Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies Colloquium (GSISC) in June 2024, which featured talks and workshops from a variety of librarians, archivists, researchers, and educators from around North America.

Students visited Princeton University Library (PUL) Special Collections as part of the Research, Equity, Archives, Curation and History (REACH) Program, a week-long, hands-on look into the work of librarians and archivists at both PUL’s Firestone and Mudd Library branches. 

Princeton University Library (PUL), in collaboration with the Office of the Dean for Research, and the Office of Information Technology, launched its own open data repository, Princeton Data Commons (PDC) on April 30, 2024. A multidisciplinary digital repository, PDC is designed to archive and publicly disseminate data and code that result from research by members of the Princeton University community.

Princeton University Library (PUL) is delighted to announce the appointment of Denzil Phillips, as Library IT Operations Early-Career Fellow. A member of the Library IT Operations Team. Phillips is originally from the vibrant city of Cape Town, South Africa. He relocated to Elizabeth City, North Carolina, before settling in the bustling community of Durham, North Carolina. Phillips recently graduated from North Carolina Central University, earning a Masters in Information Science.

Princeton University Library (PUL) is delighted to announce the appointment of Brionna Johnson, Cataloging and Metadata Services Fellow. Johnson joined the Serials and E-Resources (SeERs) Team on June 3, 2024. She will work collaboratively with colleagues on the SeERs Team and the Electronic Resources Management Group to learn how to manage and catalog e-resources.