Digital Library

Inside the Milberg Gallery: The Aurat March and Environmental Justice

A series of inside looks at the current exhibition in Princeton University Library’s Ellen and Leonard Milberg Gallery at Firestone Library - “Records of Resistance: Documenting Global Activism 1933 to 2021.”

PUL to play a critical role in newly awarded NEH grant

Reconstructing the lost archives of an 18th-century Spanish-Philippine library will now be possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). 

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.

New PUL program provides Princeton students, faculty, and staff opportunities to curate digital collections

A new program at PUL, Curated Collections, provides the Princeton community opportunities to curate these digital items into online exhibits, add detail and narrative, and contextualize them within a larger theme. 

Preservation Packaging

As we are implementing preservation in Figgy, we have faced a couple of challenging decisions that lay just outside the concern of preservation-oriented specifications like BagIt and OCFL. Two inter-related questions that took us a lot of discussion and exploration to reach consensus on are:

1. What is the best unit of preservation?
2. Should preservation packages be compressed and/or archived?

Preservation

Lately we’ve been working on preservation within Figgy and have come up with a strategy we think works for us. However, in doing so, we’ve evaluated a few options and come up with some assumptions which could be useful to others.

This isn’t our entire preservation story (there are other issues such as replication, management, audit trails, etc), but it compares a few options for our back-end storage.

New East Asian Library Supplementary Site in DPUL

Valkyrie, Reimagining the Samvera Community

I generally don’t find looking at slides to be a good substitute for watching a talk, and I’d rather read a text version than watch a video, so I thought I’d write up a text version of my talk at Open Repositories.

Valkyrie