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PUL to launch new service platform - summer 2021; HathiTrust ETAS update
PUL to launch new library service platform during summer 2021; temporary disruption to catalog services
Posted on Monday, August 2, 2021 in -
Virtual teaching with collections: 'Archiving the American West'
Students in the course, “Archiving the American West,” taught by Martha Sandweiss, professor of history, in collaboration with Gabriel Swift, curator of Western Americana, and Brian Wright, Ph.D candidate in history, explored these questions by engaging with Princeton University Library (PUL)'s Collections of the American West.
Posted on Thursday, July 22, 2021 in Series: Teaching with Collections, General news -
Hyoungbae Lee receives U Chicago’s Provost’s Global Faculty Award
On July 1, Korean Studies Librarian Hyoungbae Lee and his colleagues at the University of Chicago, University of Tokyo, and Yale University were awarded the Provost’s Global Faculty Award for their forthcoming colonial Korea bibliography project.
Posted on Wednesday, July 21, 2021 in General news -
Molly Greene on 'The Greek World: Before and After 1821'
Please join us on Sunday, July 25 at 3 p.m. when Molly Greene, professor of history and Hellenic studies and director of the Program in Hellenic Studies, will outline the contours of the Greek world from the 15th through the early 20th centuries, a world that is generally little known and which bears only a tenuous relationship to the country we know as Greece.
Posted on Friday, July 9, 2021 in General news, Talks -
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, June 29, 2021 in Anti-Racism & Social Justice, General news -
Featured E-Resource: Dixon eBooks collection
Princeton University Library offers the Dixon eBooks Collection to the Princeton University community. An extension of the print Dixon Collection, this collection has 3,000+ ebooks and audiobooks available for downloading or streaming on your desktop or e-reader, featuring bestsellers, award winners, science and technology titles, popular fiction, history, biographies, and more. PUL highlights the following books in the collection from a variety of authors and subject matter.
Posted on Monday, June 28, 2021 in Featured E-Resource, General news -
International research group studies PUL's acquisition of a 16th century book of Chinese poetry
In fall 2019, Japanese Studies Librarian Setsuko Noguchi received a request from Associate Professor of East Asian Studies Brian Steininger about a manuscript coming to auction in Tokyo. Entitled “Chūkō zenrin fūgetsushū shō,” which translates to “Commentary on the Anthology of Poetry from the Revitalized Grove of Zen,” the 16th-century manuscript features translated and annotated Chinese poems that were used by Japanese monks to study Chinese literature.
Posted on Wednesday, June 23, 2021 in General news -
Virtual teaching with collections: 'A History of Words'
Students in the spring 2021 course, “A History of Words: Technologies of Communication from Cuneiform to Coding,” examined cutting-edge digital archives and applied new tools that are transforming how historians engage with the past.
Posted on Tuesday, June 8, 2021 in Series: Teaching with Collections -
Merle Eisenberg, fellow at SESYNC, researches the Philosophy of Constantine of Nicaea
Merle Eisenberg, postdoctoral fellow at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) published the article "The Philosophy of Constantine the Philosopher of Nicaea" in Byzantinische Zeitschrift, the world’s most prestigious Byzantine studies journal.
Posted on Thursday, June 3, 2021 in General news, Series: Spotlights -
A new Tokaido Road acquisition for Marquand
Adventure was promised to those who traveled the three-hundred-mile-long Tōkaidō Road, which linked Japan’s modern capital, Edo (present-day Tokyo), with the ancient imperial capital at Kyoto from the seventeenth though early twentieth century. For more than three centuries, illustrated books and woodblock prints created and fostered a perception that the Tōkaidō was more than a route along the country’s eastern seacoast—it was a destination in and of itself.
Posted on Wednesday, June 2, 2021 in Acquisition Highlights
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