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Featured E-Resource: Rosetta Stone
Rosetta Stone is available to Princeton students, faculty, and staff.
Posted on Saturday, March 21, 2020 in Newspapers and Other Leisure, Featured E-Resource, Resources -
New browser extension gives access to Library-subscribed content from any search engine, any location
Princeton University Library now offers Anywhere Access, a new browser extension that gives access to Library-subscribed and Open Access content from any physcial location, through any scholarly search engine or publisher site.
Posted on Thursday, March 12, 2020 in Resources -
Featured E-Resource: Stream music, concerts, opera & more
Princeton University Library offers many audio and visual streaming resources in the performing arts.
Posted on Thursday, March 12, 2020 in Featured E-Resource, Resources -
Now available: Premium accounts to protocols.io, an open access repository of research protocols
Princeton University students, faculty, and staff now have access to free premium accounts of an open access repository of step-by-step, detailed protocols and methods for researchers across multiple disciplines, particularly those in the sciences and engineering.
Posted on Sunday, March 8, 2020 in Resources -
Featured E-Resource: Digital maps, geospatial data, & virtual consultations
Princeton University Library’s Maps and Geospatial Information Center provides access to digital maps and geographic data from all over the world.
Posted on Friday, March 6, 2020 in Featured E-Resource, Resources -
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, March 5, 2020 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, March 3, 2020 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, February 28, 2020 in Collections, General news, Special Collections, Recent Acquisitions -
'In Pursuit of the Picturesque,' exhibition tours with talks by curators
Join a tour and talk by an exhibition curator of "In Pursuit of the Picturesque" every other Tuesday at 12:30 p.m. and select weekends at 1:00 p.m.
Posted on Thursday, February 20, 2020 in Exhibitions, Events & Workshops, Special Collections -
Viz Hub Consultations at Stokes Library
Drop in to meet on-on-one with a graduate student consultant for support with data visualization and qualitative data analysis.
Posted on Friday, February 14, 2020 in Events & Workshops
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