Collections
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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.
Posted on Monday, 26 April 2021 - 9:01am in Collections -
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 -
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.
Posted on Tuesday, 26 January 2021 - 4:42pm in Collections -
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.
Posted on Wednesday, 20 January 2021 - 11:20am in Collections -
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.
Posted on Monday, 14 December 2020 - 10:55am in Collections, Recent Acquisitions -
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 -
Marquand Library's rare books acquisitions during the pandemic
Nicky Shilliam shares recent rare books she acquired for Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology.
Posted on Wednesday, 9 September 2020 - 4:15pm in Collections, Recent Acquisitions -
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 -
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 -
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.
Posted on Wednesday, 3 June 2020 - 3:23pm in Collections -
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.
Posted on Thursday, 28 May 2020 - 4:32pm in Collections, General news, Special Collections -
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.
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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.
Posted on Thursday, 5 March 2020 - 1:21pm in Collections, Series: Inside the Hellenic Collections -
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.
Posted on Tuesday, 3 March 2020 - 5:19pm in Series: Teaching with Collections, Collections, General news, Special Collections -
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.
Posted on Friday, 28 February 2020 - 11:46am in Collections, General news, Special Collections, Recent Acquisitions -
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.
Posted on Wednesday, 22 January 2020 - 3:23pm in Collections, Special Collections, Series: Inside the Milberg Gallery -
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.
Posted on Wednesday, 22 January 2020 - 1:39pm in Collections, Series: Inside the Hellenic Collections -
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.
Posted on Wednesday, 18 December 2019 - 3:37pm in Collections, General news, Special Collections -
Inside the Milberg Gallery: Survivals
This series highlights collections included in the "Gutenberg & After: Europe's First Printers 1450-1470" exhibition.
Posted on Tuesday, 10 December 2019 - 1:45pm in Collections, Exhibitions, Special Collections, Series: Inside the Milberg Gallery -
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.
Posted on Thursday, 5 December 2019 - 9:16am in Collections, Series: Inside the Hellenic Collections -
Inside the Milberg Gallery: Fragments
This series highlights collections included in the "Gutenberg & After: Europe's First Printers 1450-1470" exhibition.
Posted on Sunday, 10 November 2019 - 3:35pm in Collections, Exhibitions, Special Collections, Series: Inside the Milberg Gallery -
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.
Posted on Wednesday, 6 November 2019 - 5:27pm in Collections, Series: Inside the Hellenic Collections -
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.
Posted on Friday, 25 October 2019 - 1:26pm in Collections, Exhibitions, Special Collections, Series: Inside the Milberg Gallery -
Inside the Milberg Gallery: Uniqueness
This series highlights collections included in the "Gutenberg & After: Europe's First Printers 1450-1470" exhibition.
Posted on Wednesday, 16 October 2019 - 2:03pm in Collections, Special Collections, Series: Inside the Milberg Gallery -
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.
Posted on Tuesday, 8 October 2019 - 4:43pm in Collections, Series: Inside the Hellenic Collections -
Inside the Milberg Gallery: Illumination
This series highlights collections included in the "Gutenberg & After: Europe's First Printers 1450-1470" exhibition.
Posted on Wednesday, 2 October 2019 - 4:38pm in Collections, Special Collections, Series: Inside the Milberg Gallery -
Inside the Milberg Gallery: Indulgences
This series highlights collections included in the "Gutenberg & After: Europe's First Printers 1450-1470" exhibition.
Posted on Friday, 27 September 2019 - 9:35am in Collections, Exhibitions, Special Collections, Series: Inside the Milberg Gallery -
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.
Posted on Monday, 23 September 2019 - 3:13pm in Series: Teaching with Collections, Collections, Special Collections -
Inside the Milberg Gallery: Authenticity
This series highlights collections included in the "Gutenberg & After: Europe's First Printers 1450-1470" exhibition.
Posted on Wednesday, 18 September 2019 - 9:22am in Collections, Exhibitions, Special Collections, Series: Inside the Milberg Gallery -
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.
Posted on Thursday, 15 August 2019 - 9:41am in Collections, General news, Special Collections -
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.
Posted on Friday, 12 July 2019 - 11:18am in Collections, General news -
Inside the Milberg Gallery: Manuscripts
This series highlights collections included in the inaugural exhibition, "Welcome Additions: Selected Acquisitions 2012-18."
Posted on Monday, 17 June 2019 - 10:38am in Collections, Exhibitions, Special Collections, Series: Inside the Milberg Gallery -
Inside the Milberg Gallery: Rare Books
This series highlights collections included in the inaugural exhibition, "Welcome Additions: Selected Acquisitions 2012-18."
Posted on Monday, 10 June 2019 - 2:46pm in Collections, Exhibitions, Special Collections, Series: Inside the Milberg Gallery -
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."
Posted on Wednesday, 29 May 2019 - 2:26pm in Collections, Exhibitions, Series: Inside the Milberg Gallery -
Inside the Milberg Gallery: Graphic Arts
This series highlights collections included in the inaugural exhibition, "Welcome Additions: Selected Acquisitions 2012-18."
Posted on Monday, 20 May 2019 - 10:17am in Collections, Exhibitions, Special Collections, Series: Inside the Milberg Gallery -
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.
Posted on Wednesday, 15 May 2019 - 2:37pm in Collections, Exhibitions, General news -
Inside the Milberg Gallery: Western Americana
This series highlights collections included in the inaugural exhibition, "Welcome Additions: Selected Acquisitions 2012-18."
Posted on Tuesday, 7 May 2019 - 4:00pm in Collections, Exhibitions, Special Collections, Series: Inside the Milberg Gallery -
Inside the Milberg Gallery: University Archives
This series highlights collections included in the inaugural exhibition, "Welcome Additions: Selected Acquisitions 2012-18."
Posted on Thursday, 25 April 2019 - 7:44am in Collections, Exhibitions, Special Collections, Series: Inside the Milberg Gallery -
Inside the Milberg Gallery: East Asian Library
This series highlights collections included in the inaugural exhibition, "Welcome Additions: Selected Acquisitions 2012-18."
Posted on Friday, 19 April 2019 - 8:50am in Collections, Series: Inside the Milberg Gallery -
Inside the Milberg Gallery: Cotsen Children's Library
This series highlights collections included in the inaugural exhibition, "Welcome Additions: Selected Acquisitions 2012-18."
Posted on Friday, 12 April 2019 - 1:06pm in Collections, Exhibitions, Special Collections, Series: Inside the Milberg Gallery -
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.
Posted on Thursday, 14 February 2019 - 10:56am in Collections -
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.
Posted on Monday, 29 October 2018 - 12:17pm in Collections -
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.
Posted on Tuesday, 16 October 2018 - 3:35pm in Collections -
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.
Posted on Tuesday, 28 August 2018 - 9:26am in Collections -
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.
Posted on Tuesday, 8 May 2018 - 11:28am in Collections -
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.
Posted on Monday, 12 February 2018 - 11:31am in Collections -
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.
Posted on Wednesday, 8 June 2016 - 10:21am in Collections -
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.
Posted on Thursday, 19 March 2015 - 1:40pm in Collections -
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.
Posted on Tuesday, 9 September 2014 - 2:31pm in Collections -
Taller de Gráfica Online
The Princeton University Digital Library (PUDL) includes this digitized collection of popular prints and posters.
Posted on Monday, 2 December 2013 - 2:41pm in Collections -
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!
Posted on Tuesday, 9 April 2013 - 5:08pm in Collections -
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.
Posted on Tuesday, 22 January 2013 - 10:49am in Collections -
Blue Mountain Project
Posted on Wednesday, 2 January 2013 - 12:00am in Collections
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