Library News

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
Inside the Milberg Gallery: Landscape and natural scenery
This series highlights features of the exhibition: In Pursuit of the Picturesque – British Color Plate Books: 1776 to 1868.
Posted on Tuesday, February 11, 2020 in Exhibitions, Special Collections, Series: Inside the Milberg Gallery
Advancing science: Princeton graduate students learn how to manage research data in workshop with campus experts
Princeton University held its 2nd annual research data management workshop for graduate students from Jan. 27 to 29. Some 40 graduate students attended lectures and breakout sessions.
Posted on Monday, February 10, 2020 in Events & Workshops, General news
Mudd Library symposium focuses on revealing underrepresented demographics in Special Collections
On Jan. 24, Mudd Library held a symposium to share the curation process of the exhibition, On Display: The Public Lives of 20th-Century American Women, discuss challenges of conducting research on underrepresented demographics, and brainstorm strategies to promote access to students and researchers.
Posted on Sunday, February 9, 2020 in Anti-Racism & Social Justice, Events & Workshops, General news, Special Collections
CDH and PUL partner to offer Princeton researchers grant opportunity to collaborate on humanities data curation
This spring, the Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) and Princeton University Library (PUL) are partnering to offer Princeton scholars a unique grant opportunity to transform their humanities research material into analyzable datasets.
Posted on Friday, February 7, 2020 in General news