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Notable works on LGBTQIA+ topics
In recognition of Pride Month, Princeton University Library shares media recommendations by students, staff, and faculty who visited Princeton University’s Pride Fair in April 2022.
Posted on Thursday, 30 June 2022 - 10:38am in Anti-Racism & Social Justice, General news -
Meet Aubrey Roberts, PUL's spring 2022 PACSCL DEI Intern
Aubrey Roberts joined Princeton University Library (PUL) during the spring 2022 term as its inaugural Special Collections intern through the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL)-sponsored program. A first-year student, Roberts reflected on her time at PUL, which included learning about the archives and the preservation of LGBTQIA stories.
Posted on Monday, 13 June 2022 - 10:06am in Anti-Racism & Social Justice, Featured on Social Media, General news, Special Collections -
PUL honors Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
In celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, Princeton University Library (PUL) highlights a selection of collection items and resources that illustrate the history, culture, and political and social efforts of AAPI communities.
Posted on Wednesday, 25 May 2022 - 8:28am in Anti-Racism & Social Justice, General news -
Inside the Step by Step exhibit: “‘An Equal Chance to Get the Job, To Keep the Job, To Grow on the Job,’ by New York State Commission Against Discrimination, 1948
The following is the next in a series of inside looks at the current exhibition in the Industrial Relations Section at Princeton University.
Posted on Wednesday, 4 May 2022 - 4:27pm in Anti-Racism & Social Justice, Exhibitions, General news -
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 Thursday, 31 March 2022 - 2:22pm in Anti-Racism & Social Justice, General news -
Varied Activities of Women tells little known stories about women’s history
How do you research an early 20th century female wreckage diver whose entire career is summarized in a couple sentences in the Chicago Tribune? Reference Professional for Special Collections Emma Sarconi and Gender and Sexuality Studies Librarian Sara Howard set out to answer that question through their project and Wintersession course, “An Archival Treasure Hunt in the Chicago Daily Tribune’s Varied Activities of Women Column.”
Posted on Monday, 21 March 2022 - 10:06am in Anti-Racism & Social Justice, Featured on Social Media, General news, Special Collections -
Inside the Step by Step exhibit: “Why?” The National Foremen’s Institute guide to managing an interracial workplace (c.1954)
The following is the first in a series of inside looks at the current exhibition in the Industrial Relations Section at Princeton University.
Posted on Thursday, 17 March 2022 - 10:53am in Anti-Racism & Social Justice, General news -
New PUL fellowship program aims to address racial and ethnic disparities in the library & information science field
Princeton University Library (PUL) announced today the PUL Early Career Fellowship Program. In collaboration with Princeton University’s Office of the Provost and North Carolina Central University (NCCU) School of Library and Information Sciences (SLIS), the program creates eight fellowship opportunities aimed at recent graduates of NCCU SLIS over the course of the next four years.
Posted on Thursday, 24 February 2022 - 9:09am in Announcements, Anti-Racism & Social Justice, General news -
PUL remembers the life and legacy of bell hooks
bell hooks was an activist, author, feminist, poet, professor, and scholar, and from reading accounts from those who were blessed to know bell hooks personally, a phemeonal family member, friend and teacher. Trying to encompass the work of bell hooks in a few sentences is a futile task. Dr. Imani Perry stated, “I think we can’t overstate her influence.”
Posted on Wednesday, 9 February 2022 - 10:08am in Anti-Racism & Social Justice, General news -
New Exhibit! Step by Step: The March Towards Equal Employment Opportunity
A new exhibit in the Industrial Relations Section of Princeton University displays a series of pamphlets that help depict the political origins of antidiscrimination efforts in the workplace.
Posted on Wednesday, 2 February 2022 - 4:52pm in Anti-Racism & Social Justice, Exhibitions, General news -
PUL Celebrates Native American Heritage Month: selections from Native American life and culture collections
Princeton University Library highlights a sampling of our collections on Native American life and culture, including phonotapes, advocacy records, newspapers, postcards, photographs, and manuscripts.
Posted on Monday, 29 November 2021 - 2:38pm in Anti-Racism & Social Justice -
Wild Reads: Navajo Nation and the environment
In recognition of Native American Heritage Month, Chemistry, Geosciences and Environmental Studies Librarian Emily Wild recommends the following books on the topic of the Navajo Nation and the environment.
Posted on Friday, 19 November 2021 - 1:14pm in Anti-Racism & Social Justice, General news -
New art exhibition documents the struggles of debtors in America
The “Debt Collectors Series” art exhibition, conceptualized by Frederick F. Wherry *00 *04, the Townsend Martin, Class of 1917 Professor of Sociology at Princeton, tells the story of the debt industry and the lives it has impacted. It opens November 10, 2021.
Posted on Monday, 8 November 2021 - 9:32am in Anti-Racism & Social Justice, Exhibitions, General news -
PUL Special Collections now accepting applications for spring 2022 intern
Princeton University Library's (PUL) Special Collections is excited to announce the opportunity for a paid internship position through the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL) Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Internship Program.
Posted on Monday, 1 November 2021 - 4:36pm in Anti-Racism & Social Justice, General news, Special Collections -
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 Wednesday, 15 September 2021 - 8:31am in Anti-Racism & Social Justice, General news -
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.
Posted on Wednesday, 8 September 2021 - 1:52pm in Anti-Racism & Social Justice, General news -
18th century abolitionist coin acquired by PUL’s Numismatics Collection
In May 2021, Princeton University Library’s (PUL) Numismatics Collection acquired a rare copper eighteenth-century British token advocating the abolition of the slave trade.
Posted on Tuesday, 29 June 2021 - 3:24pm in Anti-Racism & Social Justice, General news -
Q&A: FLI is Fly Week and SIFP with Sara Howard
Between April 19-25, Princeton University Library joins the University community in celebrating FLI is Fly week, which celebrates the successes of first-generation and low-income (FLI) students while shining a spotlight on available resources and services.
Posted on Thursday, 22 April 2021 - 5:34pm in Anti-Racism & Social Justice -
Featured E-Resource: Black Lives Matter research guide for systemic racism and activism
To support research related to the Black Lives Matter movement, this Princeton University Library research guide features information about systemic racism and activism.
Posted on Tuesday, 20 April 2021 - 9:53am in Anti-Racism & Social Justice, Featured E-Resource, Resources -
Featured E-Resource: Black Lives Matter research guide for policing and incarceration
Princeton University Library draws your attention to its Black Lives Matter research guide about policing and incarceration.
Posted on Sunday, 18 April 2021 - 9:48am in Anti-Racism & Social Justice, Featured E-Resource, Resources -
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, 16 March 2021 - 1:07pm in Anti-Racism & Social Justice, General news -
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, 16 March 2021 - 10:39am in Anti-Racism & Social Justice, Collections, Special Collections, Acquisition Highlights -
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, 14 March 2021 - 10:30am in Anti-Racism & Social Justice -
PUL identifies women in the Latin America manuscripts collections, securing a place in history
In fall 2020, Princeton University Library (PUL)’s Inclusive Description Working Group (IDWG) sought to identify 82 unnamed women in the Latin America manuscripts collections.
Posted on Friday, 5 March 2021 - 2:25pm in Anti-Racism & Social Justice -
PUL acquires limited-run items from the 20th-Century Black Arts Movement
This past year, with the support of faculty and subject-area librarians, Special Collections at Princeton University Library (PUL) acquired important additions to its collection in support of the African American studies curriculum.
Posted on Monday, 1 March 2021 - 5:42pm in Anti-Racism & Social Justice, General news -
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, 27 January 2021 - 7:53pm in Anti-Racism & Social Justice -
New photographs in PUL's digital archive document Chilean protests, Oct. to Dec. 2019
Princeton University Library recently published a collection of photographs documenting the social upheaval and crisis in Chile that began in October 2019.
Posted on Monday, 14 December 2020 - 10:22am in Anti-Racism & Social Justice, Collections, Digital Library -
Featured E-Resource: Black Arts Research Guide
The guide provides resources to related to Black arts from the 1800s up to the present.
Posted on Monday, 14 December 2020 - 10:22am in Anti-Racism & Social Justice -
Inside Marquand Library: A century of collecting Harlem Renaissance art
Over the past hundred years, Marquand Library has sought to preserve the art historical record of the Black artists who lived and worked during this period that spanned roughly 1918 to 1935.
Posted on Monday, 14 December 2020 - 9:11am in Anti-Racism & Social Justice, Acquisition Highlights -
Grappling with archival silences: Decolonizing knowledges, Nov. 17
Library and special collections staff across the world are grappling with how to address inherent biases and silences in the archives.
Posted on Sunday, 8 November 2020 - 10:01am in Anti-Racism & Social Justice -
Featured E-Resource: The HistoryMakers, oral history database of African American leaders
Princeton University Library is pleased to provide faculty, students, and staff access to The HistoryMakers, a database of oral history interviews with more than 2,600 historically significant African Americans in fields such as the arts, business, education, entertainment, the law, the military, politics, religion, and science.
Posted on Thursday, 10 September 2020 - 1:32pm in Anti-Racism & Social Justice, Featured E-Resource -
Celebrating the life and work of Congressman John Lewis: A visual record of the civil rights movement at Marquand Library
In honor of congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis (1940-2020), Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology is honored to highlight a collection of books that visually document the 1960s civil rights movement.
Posted on Monday, 10 August 2020 - 9:41am in Anti-Racism & Social Justice, Collections -
PUL’s inclusive description working group shares progress on effort to describe collections accurately, respectfully
A team of archivists at Princeton University Library is working to describe archival materials in a manner that is accurate and respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in the collections.
Posted on Sunday, 2 August 2020 - 7:16pm in Anti-Racism & Social Justice -
Notable movies on systemic racism, racial justice, and anti-racism, available at PUL
Princeton University Library has compiled a list of movies on systemic racism, racial justice, and anti-racism.
Posted on Thursday, 30 July 2020 - 1:08pm in Anti-Racism & Social Justice -
Afrofuturism: How Octavia Butler is moving us forward
Octavia E. Butler was a visionary African American author, who imagined an alternate future for herself and our shared world.
Posted on Friday, 24 July 2020 - 11:25am in Anti-Racism & Social Justice, Events & Workshops, General news -
Highlighting archival materials about and by Black and Latinx communities: Selections from the Mudd Library blog
PUL highlights a selection of Mudd Library blog posts about Black and Latinx people in the Princeton University Archives.
Posted on Monday, 6 July 2020 - 2:45pm in Anti-Racism & Social Justice, Collections -
Celebrating Black LGBTQIA Stories: Selections from the Gender and Sexuality Studies Collection
In celebration of Pride Month this year, Princeton University Library highlights the following books written by Black LGBTQIA authors or about Black LGBTQIA lives, stories, and histories, selected from the Gender & Sexuality Studies Collection at Firestone Library.
Posted on Monday, 29 June 2020 - 10:07am in Anti-Racism & Social Justice, Collections -
Notable books on systemic racism, racial justice, and anti-racism, available at PUL
To encourage learning and research in systemic racism, racial justice, and anti-racism, Princeton University Library staff highlight the following notable books on the topic, available at the Library.
Posted on Tuesday, 16 June 2020 - 3:31pm in Anti-Racism & Social Justice, Collections -
Mudd Library symposium focuses on revealing underrepresented demographics in Special Collections
On Jan. 24, Mudd Library held a symposium to share the curation process of the exhibition, On Display: The Public Lives of 20th-Century American Women, discuss challenges of conducting research on underrepresented demographics, and brainstorm strategies to promote access to students and researchers.
Posted on Sunday, 9 February 2020 - 2:12pm in Anti-Racism & Social Justice, Events & Workshops, General news, Special Collections -
Student Activism at Princeton: Then & Now
Explore the past and record the present with Princeton University Library's Archives Ambassador Program.
Posted on Friday, 24 January 2020 - 10:00am in Anti-Racism & Social Justice, Events & Workshops, Special Collections -
PUL and HBCUs join forces to launch inaugural archives student program
During the week of July 9 to July 13, 2018, 12 undergraduate students and 2 graduate students from historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) across the nation will visit Princeton University to explore archives, historical narratives, and social justice.
Posted on Wednesday, 13 June 2018 - 2:13pm in Anti-Racism & Social Justice
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