Collections

Featured Collection: PUL’s Indigenous Studies Collection

In October 2022, Princeton University Library (PUL) took a step towards promoting the study and appreciation of Indigenous cultures and histories by unveiling its Indigenous Studies Collection. The resource was born out of a vision to center Indigenous voices and perspectives. 

PUL leads the Ivy League in Latin American Indigenous languages materials

According to a recent article published in College & Research Libraries (C&RL), Princeton University Library (PUL) ranks as the third academic library in the U.S. for holdings in Latin American Indigenous languages, behind Tulane University and the University of Texas. 

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.

PUL receives gift of books with inscriptions by Nelson Mandela and his inner circle 

Recently, the Princeton University Library received a gift of rare and personal books by and about Nelson Mandela, many of which bear the signatures and inscriptions by Mandela and his inner circle.

New Tools and Technology Collection at the Engineering Library circulates materials that help students explore, experiment, and create 

Now available at the Engineering Library is a new collection of materials curated to help inspire engineering students to explore, experiment, and create with items that are not at their disposal year-round. 

Marquand and East Asian Libraries collect Chinese COVID-19 posters

Recently, Marquand Art and Archaeology Library and the East Asian Library jointly acquired a collection of 32 Chinese COVID-19 posters.

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.

Marquand Library's rare books acquisitions during the pandemic

Nicky Shilliam shares recent rare books she acquired for Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Making reservations: An exciting Japanese purchase at Marquand Library

Over the past three months, Marquand has reserved some exciting titles for purchase, guaranteeing important books for the PUL collection are not lost during the pandemic. 

Princeton University Library begins collection of oral histories of student, faculty, staff, and alumni experiences with COVID-19

Princeton students, faculty, staff, and alumni can record their experiences with COVID-19 in their own voice for the historical record.

Using the Sylvia Beach Papers in PUL’s Special Collections, new ‘Shakespeare and Company Project’ unveils renowned authors’ reading habits

Using the Sylvia Beach Papers housed at Princeton University Library, the Shakespeare and Company Project at Princeton University reveals the reading habits of renowned authors and more, unveiling a deeper understanding of many of the authors famously coined the Lost Generation, as well as insight into their lives in interwar Paris. 

Inside the Hellenic Collections: Maps

Forty years ago, a gift from Stanley J. Seeger Jr. ’52 transformed Hellenic studies at Princeton University. This series highlights the impact of Seeger’s gift.

Teaching with collections: ‘America Then and Now’

This fall semester, Princeton undergraduates in the team-taught course “America Then and Now” explored the shaping of America through a range of experiences in and outside the classroom. In mid-November, the nearly 100 students in the course visited Princeton University Library’s Special Collections to gain hands-on experience in archival research. 

PUL builds special collection of early editions of Frederick Douglass autobiographies

Douglass, an enslaved citizen from Maryland who escaped slavery and later became a leading voice in the anti-slavery movement, wrote three autobiographies in his lifetime: “Narrative of the Live of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (first published in 1845),” “My Bondage and My Freedom (1855),” and “Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881).” PUL’s goal, according to history and African American studies librarian Steve Knowlton, is to eventually own copies of each of the early editions produced in Douglass’s lifetime.

Inside the Milberg Gallery: What is the picturesque?

This series highlights features of the exhibition: In Pursuit of the Picturesque – British Color Plate Books: 1776 to 1868.

Inside the Hellenic Collections: Photography

Forty years ago, a gift from Stanley J. Seeger Jr. ’52 transformed Hellenic studies at Princeton University. This series highlights the impact of Seeger’s gift.

Highly anticipated T.S. Eliot letters, among best known sealed literary archives, open at Princeton University after more than 60 years

Researchers gain access to one of the world's best known sealed library archives.

Inside the Milberg Gallery: Survivals

This series highlights collections included in the "Gutenberg & After: Europe's First Printers 1450-1470" exhibition.

Inside the Hellenic Collections: Post-Byzantine Greek manuscripts

Forty years ago, a gift from Stanley J. Seeger Jr. ’52 transformed Hellenic Studies at Princeton University. This series highlights the impact of Seeger’s gift.

Inside the Milberg Gallery: Fragments

This series highlights collections included in the "Gutenberg & After: Europe's First Printers 1450-1470" exhibition.

Inside the Hellenic Collections: Early Greek printing

Forty years ago, a gift from Stanley J. Seeger Jr. ’52 transformed Hellenic Studies at Princeton University. This series highlights the impact of Seeger’s gift.

Inside the Milberg Gallery: Johann Neumeister, a wandering printer

This series highlights collections included in the "Gutenberg & After: Europe's First Printers 1450-1470" exhibition.

Inside the Milberg Gallery: Uniqueness

This series highlights collections included in the "Gutenberg & After: Europe's First Printers 1450-1470" exhibition.

Inside the Hellenic Collections: 40th Anniversary of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund

Forty years ago, a gift from Stanley J. Seeger Jr. ’52 transformed Hellenic Studies at Princeton University. This series highlights the impact of Seeger’s gift.

Inside the Milberg Gallery: Illumination

This series highlights collections included in the "Gutenberg & After: Europe's First Printers 1450-1470" exhibition.

Inside the Milberg Gallery: Indulgences

This series highlights collections included in the "Gutenberg & After: Europe's First Printers 1450-1470" exhibition.

Teaching with collections: Students in French renaissance seminar visit early printing exhibition

A graduate seminar in French renaissance literature tours an unprecedented exhibition of early European printing. 

Inside the Milberg Gallery: Authenticity

This series highlights collections included in the "Gutenberg & After: Europe's First Printers 1450-1470" exhibition.

Now available online: ancient Egyptian manuscripts

Princeton University Library has digitized ten Pharaonic rolls, written in Hieroglyphic and Hieratic script either on papyrus or linen.

Princeton University Library builds collection of local history across the United States

Established by Steve Knowlton, the Librarian for History and African American Studies, the project aims to fill a current gap in collection development created by a steady decline of local library budgets.

Inside the Milberg Gallery: Manuscripts

This series highlights collections included in the inaugural exhibition, "Welcome Additions: Selected Acquisitions 2012-18."

Inside the Milberg Gallery: Rare Books

This series highlights collections included in the inaugural exhibition, "Welcome Additions: Selected Acquisitions 2012-18."

Inside the Milberg Gallery: Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology

This series highlights collections included in the inaugural exhibition, "Welcome Additions: Selected Acquisitions 2012-18."

Inside the Milberg Gallery: Graphic Arts

This series highlights collections included in the inaugural exhibition, "Welcome Additions: Selected Acquisitions 2012-18."

Now on display: Selected highlights from PUL's Gender and Sexuality Studies Research Collection

A new exhibition in Firestone Library highlights select materials from Princeton University Library's Gender and Sexuality Studies Research Collection.

Inside the Milberg Gallery: Western Americana

This series highlights collections included in the inaugural exhibition, "Welcome Additions: Selected Acquisitions 2012-18."

Inside the Milberg Gallery: University Archives

This series highlights collections included in the inaugural exhibition, "Welcome Additions: Selected Acquisitions 2012-18."

Inside the Milberg Gallery: East Asian Library

This series highlights collections included in the inaugural exhibition, "Welcome Additions: Selected Acquisitions 2012-18." 

Inside the Milberg Gallery: Cotsen Children's Library

This series highlights collections included in the inaugural exhibition, "Welcome Additions: Selected Acquisitions 2012-18." 

Lithographed cover art on 19th-century love songs in Mendel Music Library

Pictured are lithographed covers from love songs in Arthur Mendel Music Library's 19th-century sheet music collection.

In honor of William Boulton Dixon '15: a collection of contemporary works at PUL

This month marks the centenary of the death of a 1915 Princeton University alumnus whose name is on a unique memorial collection at Princeton University Library.

Revolution-era textbook, a time capsule from Princeton's past

A recent gift to the Princeton University Library opens a time capsule from the university's remote past. 

PUL builds a nearly comprehensive collection of newspapers published for African American audiences

The collection features 72 newspapers from cities and towns in 32 states, ranging from New York City to Eutaw, Alabama.

PUL assembles collection of illustrated Soviet sheet music from New Economic Policy period

Princeton University Library has assembled a collection of illustrated Soviet popular-song sheet music from the 1920s, documenting a historical moment famous for its intensely productive cultural instability.

Now open for research: the papers of Ricardo Piglia, distinguished Latin American contemporary writer and professor emeritus

The collection documents Piglia's work as an author, critic, and professor at the University.

Toni Morrison Papers Open for Research

The Princeton University Library is pleased to announce that the major portion of the Toni Morrison Papers (C1491), part of the Library’s permanent collections since 2014, is now open for research. The papers are located in the Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, in the Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library.

Princeton’s Digital Archive of Latin American and Caribbean Ephemera

The Digital Archive of Latin American and Caribbean Ephemera (http://lae.princeton.edu) is a steadily growing repository containing a previously unavailable subset of Princeton’s Latin American Ephemera Collection as well as newly acquired materials being digitized and added on an ongoing basis.

WWI European Pamphlet Collection Now Available Online

PUL is pleased to announce the availability of a large digital collection of pamphlets documenting World War I in Europe.

Taller de Gráfica Online

The Princeton University Digital Library (PUDL) includes this digitized collection of popular prints and posters.

Annotated Books Digitized

The Library's annotated books today provide evidence not only for historians of reading but also for anyone interested in how and why the mentalité of an era was formed. See what has been digitized!

Plan Your Getaway at Firestone!

Whether it is off to Washington, DC or to Kandy, Sri Lanka, Library patrons can plan their trips with Firestone's Travel Guides collection.

Blue Mountain Project