Library News and Events
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PUL honors Hispanic Heritage Month
In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, the Library has curated e-resources, research guides, new items and more that speak to the contributions of Hispanic leaders and communities.
Posted on Sunday, October 15, 2023 in Anti-Racism & Social Justice, General news -
Inside the Milberg Gallery: In the Company of Good Books - Shakespeare and the First Folio
A series of inside looks at the current exhibition in Princeton University Library’s Ellen and Leonard Milberg Gallery in Firestone Library - “In the Company of Good Books: Shakespeare to Morrison.”
Posted on Tuesday, October 3, 2023 in Exhibitions, General news, Series: Inside the Milberg Gallery -
Princeton University Library acquires the papers of Soviet poet and secretary to Anna Akhmatova Anatoly Naiman (1936-2022)
Along with Dmitrii Bobyshev, Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky, and Evgenii Rein, Anatoly Naiman was a member of the “Akhmatova orphans” circle, a group of four poets whom the Silver-Age poet Anna Akhmatova called her “magic choir.” Naiman would also become Akhmatova’s secretary in her later years. In addition to drafts of his own works and his own personal and professional correspondence, Naiman’s papers include correspondence and other typescript and manuscript materials by many impactful twentieth-century Russian literary figures, among them Akhmatova herself, Brodsky, Sergei Dovlatov, Lidia Chukovskaya, Evgenii Rein, and Dmitrii Bobyshev.
Posted on Tuesday, October 3, 2023 in Anti-Racism & Social Justice, General news -
Meet Daniel Dias, Princeton University Library’s spring 2023 PACSCL Intern
Daniel Dias joined Princeton University Library (PUL) in Spring 2023 as its Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL) intern. A junior at Rutgers University - New Brunswick, Dias is a history major who also works at Woodbridge Public Library as a novice archivist and local historian.
Posted on Friday, September 29, 2023 in Featured on Social Media, General news -
Meet Reid Higgins, 2023 ASAP Library and Archives Research Assistant
This summer, Reid Higgins, a rising senior at Rowan University worked at Princeton University Library as a research assistant with Librarians Sara Howard and Valencia Johnson.
Posted on Wednesday, September 20, 2023 in Anti-Racism & Social Justice, Featured on Social Media, General news -
PUL Librarians support OCLC project to enhance Library collaborations
How do art libraries support art scholarship? In response to the challenges created by limited budgets and the COVID-19 pandemic, OCLC embarked on Operationalizing the Art Research Collective Collection (OpArt), a project to help art libraries identify opportunities for beneficial partnerships around their collections, build effective collaborative structures, and navigate the practical challenges involved in making collaborations sustainable and successful
Posted on Thursday, September 14, 2023 in General news -
SFPUL visits Antiquarian Book Fair in Spring 2023
During the Spring 2023 semester, five members of the Student Friends of Princeton University Library (SFPUL) visited the 63rd Annual ABAA New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, a four-day festival held at the New York Armory where booksellers from around the globe meet to share their wares.
Posted on Monday, September 11, 2023 in Featured on Social Media, General news -
Meet Sean Warren, PUL’s new Software Development Fellow
Princeton University Library (PUL) is excited to announce the hire of Sean Warren as the Software Development Fellow. Warren joined PuL on June 12, and works with his team to continue developing Princeton’s digital library into an inspiring and joyful experience for its patrons.
Posted on Thursday, September 7, 2023 in General news -
Meet Stephanie Martinez, 2023 ASAP Library and Archives Research Assistant
Aspiring Scholars and Professionals (ASAP) is a cohort program at Princeton’s Emma Bloomberg Center for Access & Opportunity, designed to introduce undergraduates from other New Jersey colleges and universities to higher education careers in the humanities and qualitative social sciences. This summer, Stephanie Martinez, a rising junior at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) worked at Princeton University Library as a research assistant with Librarians Sara Howard and Valencia Johnson.
Posted on Tuesday, September 5, 2023 in Anti-Racism & Social Justice, Featured on Social Media, General news -
Board games and lendable learning kits available in the Lewis Science and Engineering Library
Princeton University Library’s (PUL) Lewis Science and Engineering Library has board games available for use in the Library or to check out.
Posted on Wednesday, August 16, 2023 in Featured on Social Media, General news