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Library services: What's new for spring 2021?
Check out new library services for Spring 2021!
Posted on Sunday, February 28, 2021 in -
Join us for Acrobatics: Moving Through the Trans Archives
Acrobatics: Moving Through the Trans Archives on February 26, 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. will feature a dialogue highlighting transgender studies, past and present, with RL Goldberg (they/them), English Department and Associate Director, Behrman Undergraduate Society of Fellows, Gerard Koskovich (he/him), queer book dealer, collector, and historian, Sara Howard (she/her), Librarian for Gender and Sexuality Studies and Student Engagement, Julie Mellby (she/her), Graphic Arts Curator.
Posted on Thursday, February 25, 2021 in -
Raina Lampkins-Fielder on Souls Grown Deep and African American artists of the South
Join us on Friday, March 5, 2021, for the fourth annual Gillet G. Griffin Memorial lecture with Raina Lampkins-Fielder, curator of The Souls Grown Deep Foundation
Posted on Monday, February 1, 2021 in -
PUL honors Black History Month
In celebration of Black History Month, Princeton University Library highlights the following e-resources and research guides that speak to the contributions of Black leaders and communities.
Posted on Friday, January 29, 2021 in -
Alexei Navalny and the 2013 Moscow Mayoral Election
Princeton University Library has added a collection of print ephemera from the 2013 Moscow mayoral election to the Slavic Collections in the Digital Princeton University Library.
Posted on Wednesday, January 27, 2021 in -
Call for entries: the 2021 Adler Book Collecting Prize! Deadline: March 16, 2021
Are you a collector? Submit your essay for a chance to win the 2021 Elmer Adler Undergraduate Book Collecting Prize
Posted on Wednesday, January 27, 2021 in -
Fictioning archives and the future of archival silences, March 2
For the third and final event of the year, the Archival Silences working group invites three award-winning novelists to discuss the techniques and practices that fiction writers use to address untold histories of unrecognized experiences. The panel discussion, which is open to the public, will take place virtually on Tuesday, March 2 at 4:30 p.m.
Posted on Wednesday, January 27, 2021 in Anti-Racism & Social Justice -
Make! Create! Innovate! PUL opens makerspace
PUL open first Library Makerspace on Feb. 1, 2021.
Posted on Tuesday, January 26, 2021 in General news -
A rare glimpse into the mind of James Baldwin: The unpublished Playboy Interview
Between 1967 and 1968, American novelist James Baldwin sat down with writer Alex Haley and editor James A. Goode for an interview for Playboy Magazine. Though the piece was never published, Princeton University Library (PUL) houses the sound recordings, a transcription, and editorial notes from the conversation as part of its Special Collections.
Posted on Tuesday, January 26, 2021 in General news -
Teaching with collections: 'Reading Toni Morrison' in a virtual world
In fall 2020, students in the course, “Topics in African American Literature: Reading Toni Morrison,” taught by Autumn Womack, received unprecedented digitized access to Princeton University Library's copyrighted Toni Morrison Papers, which document the Nobel laureate’s creative practice, as well as first-hand insights from Morrison’s long-time assistant, Rene Boatman, who now serves as a consultant to the collection.
Posted on Tuesday, January 26, 2021 in Series: Teaching with Collections
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