Library News

PUL honors Hispanic Heritage Month

PUL helps uncover international mystery of a 15th century Spanish-Latin dictionary

Mysteries sit among the shelves that weave through Princeton University Library (PUL). Library staff regularly seek answers to questions about collection ownership or the age and rarity of materials. Sometimes those puzzles have straightforward solutions – a cover inscription or some notches on the binding. Other times, they are tucked between pages that appear to have nothing to do with the item in question.  

Meet Ethan Glattfelder ‘21, a former staff member at East Asian Library pursuing a master of library and information science

This is an interview with Ethan Glattfelder, a Class of 2021 graduate and former staff member at East Asian Library, whose Library experience influenced his decision to pursue a master’s degree in library information science.

ReCAP adds millions of volumes from Harvard to shared collection

Over three and a half million volumes held by Harvard University have been added into the Discovery to Delivery Program of the Research Collections and Preservation Consortium (ReCAP), a partnership between Columbia University Library, The New York Public Library (NYPL), Princeton University Library (PUL), and Harvard Library. Users of all four libraries will be able to access the shared collection, now numbering nearly 17 million volumes, as though those items were in their own library.   

Mudd Manuscript Library reopened August 30!

After more than three years of planning, pandemic setbacks, and moving collections out and back, Princeton University Library’s (PUL) Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library is reopening its doors to the University community.

“They had a really interesting Library.” - Yü Ying-shih

Yü Ying-shih (余英時), Emeritus Professor of East Asian Studies and History, Princeton University, passed away on August 1st, 2021 at the age of 91. 

Library services: What's new for fall 2021?

Find out what's new for fall 2021 at PUL!

Gabriella Karl-Johnson’s research published as book foreword

Architecture Librarian Gabriella Karl-Johnson’s research on Baroque dance notation has recently been published as the foreword to a republication of Kellom Tomlinson’s classic work of dance instruction, “The Art of Dancing Explained by Reading and Figures,” originally published in London in 1735.

Over 400 years of coins digitized and visualized in Princeton University’s FLAME database

In July 2021, the Framing the Late Antique and Early Medieval Economy (FLAME) project passed the major milestone of digitizing, storing, and visualizing the production and movement of more than 700,000 coins across Western Afro-Eurasia.  

Sign up for the PRDS Data Stewardship Program by Aug. 27!

Registration is open through Aug. 27 to sign up for the Princeton Research Data Service Data Stewardship Program! Eight units beginning the week of September 1. Talks, discussion groups, hands-on activities.