Library News

Yours, mine, and hers: Her Book project identifies missing female book ownership in PUL collections
Her Book creates an inventory of women’s ownership markings found within Special Collections material in an effort to promote the study of gendered patterns of book ownership at Princeton and afar.
Posted on Tuesday, March 16, 2021 in Anti-Racism & Social Justice, General news
A 'Wonder Theatre of Nature' in Marquand Library
Scholars and wealthy amateurs acquired examples of both natural phenomena and the material evidence of earlier civilizations for their private “cabinets of curiosities.” Guests were invited to visit these “Wunderkammern,” the precursors of today’s public museums.
Posted on Tuesday, March 16, 2021 in Recent Acquisitions
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, March 16, 2021 in Anti-Racism & Social Justice, Collections, Special Collections, Acquisition Highlights
Join us for Mithila Art in 2020: Life, Labor, and COVID-19 in South Asia, March 26
Join us for Mithila Art in 2020: Life, Labor, and COVID-19 in South Asia with panelists Julie Melby, Graphic Arts Curator, Ellen Ambrosone, South Asian Studies Librarian, Amanda Lanzillo, Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows, Lina Vincent, art historian and curator based in Goa, India, Peter Zirnis, curator and collector of Mithila art
Posted on Monday, March 15, 2021 in
In case you missed the Gillett G. Griffin Memorial Lecture: Promoting African American artists from the South
On March 5, 2021, Raina Lampkins-Fielder, curator for the Foundation and program officer for the Community Partnership, spoke as part of the Princeton University Library (PUL)’s Gillett G. Griffin Memorial Lecture Series.
Posted on Sunday, March 14, 2021 in Talks
Join us for Why Black Bibliography matters, March 23
Join us to learn about the Yale-Rutgers Black Bibliography Project that uses linked open data technologies to encode the intersection of African American studies, descriptive bibliography, rare book cataloging, and emerging standards for modeling bibliographic metadata.
Posted on Sunday, March 14, 2021 in Anti-Racism & Social Justice
Virtual teaching with Special Collections: 'Language to Be Looked At'
In fall 2020, students examined modernist and avant-garde experiments in word and image in the 20th century in the Program in Humanistic Studies course, “Language to Be Looked At,” co-taught by Joshua Kotin, associate professor of English, and Irene Small, associate professor of art and archaeology.
Posted on Sunday, March 14, 2021 in Series: Teaching with Collections
Newly formed Library department will streamline services for research life cycle
Newly formed Library department will streamline services for research life cycle. Learn more about the Office of Research Data & Open Scholarship.
Posted on Sunday, March 14, 2021 in
Library services: What's new for spring 2021?
Check out new library services for Spring 2021!
Posted on Saturday, March 6, 2021 in
PUL identifies women in the Latin America manuscripts collections, securing a place in history
In fall 2020, Princeton University Library (PUL)’s Inclusive Description Working Group (IDWG) sought to identify 82 unnamed women in the Latin America manuscripts collections.
Posted on Friday, March 5, 2021 in Anti-Racism & Social Justice