Library News

PUL now provides unlimited Zotero storage to faculty, staff, students
PUL recently purchased an institutional licence for unlimited storage for Zotero, which means that Princeton users will no longer need to pay for additional storage or rely on the very limited free storage offered by Zotero.
Posted on Friday, April 9, 2021 in Featured E-Resource
Join us! T.S. Eliot & Emily Hale Letters: Re-examined, April 18
Join us to hear a panel of scholars and experts discuss what has been revealed from one of the best-known sealed literary archives in the world.
Posted on Wednesday, April 7, 2021 in Events & Workshops
Chinese oracle bones now available for innovative view
After some long processing work, Princeton University Library became only the second library to put its Chinese oracle bone collection online in a cutting-edge project.
Posted on Thursday, April 1, 2021 in
PUL honors Women's History Month
In celebration of Women’s History Month, Princeton University Library (PUL) highlights a selection of collection items that speak to the efforts of female writers, suffragettes, and others who directly support issues related to women’s rights.
Posted on Monday, March 22, 2021 in Anti-Racism & Social Justice, General news
Yours, mine, and hers: Her Book project identifies missing female book ownership in PUL collections
Her Book creates an inventory of women’s ownership markings found within Special Collections material in an effort to promote the study of gendered patterns of book ownership at Princeton and afar.
Posted on Tuesday, March 16, 2021 in
A 'Wonder Theatre of Nature' in Marquand Library
Scholars and wealthy amateurs acquired examples of both natural phenomena and the material evidence of earlier civilizations for their private “cabinets of curiosities.” Guests were invited to visit these “Wunderkammern,” the precursors of today’s public museums.
Posted on Tuesday, March 16, 2021 in Recent Acquisitions
PUL acquires collections documenting women's experiences in early America
Until recently, Princeton University Library’s Special Collections contained a number of family papers and collections documenting the American Revolution, early national period, and the abolitionist movement, yet lacked documentation of women’s experience during this era. Over the past year, PUL acquired several collections that fill this gap and detail a range of women’s issues, from abortion trials to land inheritance.
Posted on Tuesday, March 16, 2021 in Anti-Racism & Social Justice, Collections, Special Collections, Acquisition Highlights
Join us for Mithila Art in 2020: Life, Labor, and COVID-19 in South Asia, March 26
Join us for Mithila Art in 2020: Life, Labor, and COVID-19 in South Asia with panelists Julie Melby, Graphic Arts Curator, Ellen Ambrosone, South Asian Studies Librarian, Amanda Lanzillo, Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows, Lina Vincent, art historian and curator based in Goa, India, Peter Zirnis, curator and collector of Mithila art
Posted on Monday, March 15, 2021 in
In case you missed the Gillett G. Griffin Memorial Lecture: Promoting African American artists from the South
On March 5, 2021, Raina Lampkins-Fielder, curator for the Foundation and program officer for the Community Partnership, spoke as part of the Princeton University Library (PUL)’s Gillett G. Griffin Memorial Lecture Series.
Posted on Sunday, March 14, 2021 in Talks
Join us for Why Black Bibliography matters, March 23
Join us to learn about the Yale-Rutgers Black Bibliography Project that uses linked open data technologies to encode the intersection of African American studies, descriptive bibliography, rare book cataloging, and emerging standards for modeling bibliographic metadata.
Posted on Sunday, March 14, 2021 in Anti-Racism & Social Justice