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This library supports teaching and research in the areas of architecture and design, history and theory of architecture, professional practice, urban studies and planning, urban and environmental design, and urban history.

ArticleExpress is the Library’s electronic document delivery service available to current members of the Princeton University community. Journal articles, book chapters or selections, conference proceedings papers, and newspaper articles are available through ArticleExpress. The service offers electronic delivery of these materials in the shortest possible time.

Articles+ provides a broad search for academic resources, including scholarly articles, journals, and other digital content. It allows users to explore a wide range of materials from various databases and repositories. 

Borrow Direct is a patron-initiated borrowing and lending service of physical books offered by Princeton University Library and twelve partner libraries--Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, MIT, the University of Chicago, the University of Pennsylvania, Stanford, and Yale.

Circulation services include checking out materials, requesting materials from the stacks, requesting items from off-site storage, managing physical course reserves, and technology lending. 

The Princeton University Library collections are rich and diverse, with more than 7 million printed works, 5 million manuscripts, and 2 million non-print items including archival materials, maps, prints, coins, and incunabula. Extensive digital holdings are represented by primary sources, data, images, electronic databases, e-books and journals, music and audio files, and video.

The Library provides both wired computers in all library locations that connect to Library-licensed databases. We also offer laptop lending in some locations, as well as computers in labs that have specialized software. 

Working with the Office of General Counsel, the Scholarly Communication Office assists faculty and students with questions related to copyright (such as how to legally share your publications, how to retain some author rights when publishing, how to address creative commons), fair use, and permissions. 

The Library's Course Reserves Service allows instructors to set aside books, films, or sound recordings for class use, or make articles or book excerpts electronically available through Canvas. Reserve lists typically include required and recommended reading for Princeton courses. Firestone and most PUL branches provide course reserves services.

Data and Statistical Services (DSS) provides data and statistical consulting. Experts are available to advise Princeton University student, faculty, and staff on choosing appropriate data, application of quantitative research methods, the interpretation of statistical analyses, data conversion, and data visualization. 

Use subject-specific databases to discover library subscribed resources and high-quality open access materials. 

View digital collections and exhibitions from the Library’s collections and archives. 

Digital Scholarship Services (DiScho) supports and collaborates with Princeton University researchers navigating digital skills, tools, and methods needed to create digital scholarship projects using tools such as programing with Python, text analysis, 3D imaging, working with APIs, and digital exhibitions. 

The University's Office of Disability Services works in conjunction with the Library to offer a range of support services for students, faculty, staff, and campus visitors with disabilities.

The East Asian Library collects materials in practically all subjects in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, as well as works on Chinese, Japanese and Korean linguistics and literatures in Western languages. Although the Gest Library was originally begun with the acquisition of many rare books, today it is the working collection that supports all kinds of research done in the Department and Program of East Asian Studies.

This library supports teaching and research in all engineering disciplines, including energy and environment and computer science.

Find archival collections of unique primary sources such as records, personal papers, or manuscripts.

The Fine Collaboration Hub is a department neutral library space that can be reserved for presentations, workshops, collaborative work, club meetings, study groups, and more.

A lab with advanced visualization resources, including high-resolution screens, access to Linux, Windows, and Mac computers, touch-screen annotation capabilities, a document camera, and support for scientific visualization and geospatial codes. The room is mediated with a high-resolution video camera, wireless microphones, and assistive listening devices.

The Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library serves as the main library on campus and assumes primary responsibility for humanities and social sciences collections and specialized research support services.

Interlibrary Loan (ILL) provides academic materials not available at the University. Service is available to any member of the University community who needs material for an academic research project or course-related assignment. 

This library supports teaching and research in Astrophysics, Biology, Chemistry, Geosciences, Mathematics, Neuroscience, Physics, and Psychology, and includes the Map and Geospatial Information Center.

Use the Library Catalog to search library holdings for resources, in a variety of formats, on your topic of interest.

The Library collaborates with faculty to provide course-related research instruction as well as a slate of independent workshops and programs for students who want to upskill. 

The Library offers equipment lending at Firestone and branch locations. 

Application for assigned lockers in Firestone Library and Lewis Library. Eligibility is on applicant's academic department and year of study, with priority given to seniors and graduate students in their final year.

The Princeton University Library Makerspace is an informal learning space, open to faculty, students, and staff from all disciplines.

The Map and Geospatial Information Center is located in the Lewis Library’s Fine Hall Wing. The Center provides access to paper maps, geospatial data, digital maps and geographic information systems (GIS) services. In addition, we provide ongoing reference, research consultation and instruction to all levels of user experience in our facility or in your office or classroom. 

Search for scanned maps and geospatial data in the library's collection.

Marquand is one of the oldest and most extensive art libraries in America. The collection of some 500,000 volumes covers world art and architecture from antiquity to the present, and includes distinguished rare book holdings. For the next three to five years, McCormick Hall will be undergoing renovation for construction of the new Princeton University Art Museum. Marquand Library’s physical collections are currently available only by advanced request via the library catalog for consultation in two temporary reading rooms in Firestone Library, C Floor. 

The Mendel Music Library holds books, scores, microfilms, and sound and video recordings focused on all aspects of classical, popular, and world music, jazz, and dance, and offers playing and viewing equipment for all media formats.

The Ellen and Leonard Milberg Gallery highlights PUL’s world-renowned collections while also drawing upon complementary collections from campus partners and peer institutions.

PUL recommends accessing electronic resources (databases, eBooks, eJournals, etc.) off-campus via the links on the Library’s website.

The Princeton Open Access (OA) fund aims to help Princeton authors, especially underrepresented groups, underwrite reasonable publication charges when publishing in fee-based OA publications when no other funding sources are available. Funding article charges removes barriers to open access publishing practices and promotes the value of OA to scholarship, research, and creative output. 

The Princeton University Library Open Access Publishing Program (POAPP) provides a suite of services to help Princeton faculty, researchers, students, and staff create high quality, peer-reviewed, and open access scholarly publications. 

OAR@Princeton provides a platform for collecting scholarly articles authored by Princeton University faculty members. Articles in the repository are publicly accessible in accordance with Princeton’s Open Access Policy. The goal of the repository is to make Princeton scholarly articles available to the widest possible audience and to preserve them for long-term use. 

A Personal Librarian is assigned to every undergraduate student in the first few weeks of their first year at Princeton. Personal Librarians can help with research, finding materials, point you to a subject specialist, and answer questions about library policies and procedures.

Multidisciplinary digital repository with expert curation services and is designed to archive and publicly disseminate data and code that are the result of research activities by Princeton University's research community.

We provide research community with expert services and infrastructure to store, manage, retain, and curate digital research data, and to make their digital research data available to the broader network of academic researchers, as well as the general public. We provide consultations, training, and data curation services to researchers throughout the life cycle of research projects, working with them to make the process of data management and storage as seamless as possible with their current research practices.

All locations of Princeton University Library offer printing for those with a Princeton University Net ID. Scanning is available at each library location for all patrons. 

The Research Collections and Preservation Consortium (ReCAP) was created in 2000 to support its members' goals of preserving their library and archival collections, and making them available to researchers. The ReCAP facility consists of a preservation repository and resource sharing services, and is located on Princeton University's Forrestal Campus. ReCAP is jointly owned and operated by Columbia University, Harvard University, The New York Public Library and Princeton University. More than 18 million items are currently in ReCAP's care and they are used to fulfill approximately 200,000 requests for materials each year, from its partners and from libraries around the world.

These research guides are collections of resources created by library staff to assist you in your research project.

The Scholarly Communications Office works with the Princeton University community throughout the life cycle of the research and publishing process. The office helps in open access/public access policy compliance, assists with copyright and scholarly communications issues, provides open access fund, and offers open access publishing program. 

The Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, a division of the Department of Special Collections, is a state-of-the-art repository constructed in 1976 to house the Princeton University Archives and a highly regarded collection of 20th-century public policy papers.

Specialized software is available across the library branches. 

We invite you to explore Princeton University’s rare books, manuscripts, and archives, which include the Cotsen Children’s Library, the Scheide Library, and the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, home of the University Archives and Public Policy Papers. We look forward to helping you engage with our holdings, which span five continents over five millennia and include items of global cultural significance. We aspire to be active and creative partners in the interpretation of these documents by providing you with as much access to our materials as possible and by engaging with you to develop innovative forms of pedagogy and research.

This library maintains course reserve readings for the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs; a core set of journals and reference materials for public and international affairs; and the renowned Ansley J. Coale Population Research Collection.

The Library offers a variety of individual and group study spaces throughout its various campus buildings. 

The Systematic Review Service offers consultations to researchers seeking to produce a systematic review or meta-analysis. 

The Library provides a wide range of technology services, including computing, printing and scanning, and specialized software. 

Princeton University Library welcomes visitors to use our collections. 

Princeton University provides wireless internet service to campus visitors through either eduroam or the Visitor Wireless service.