Helen Baker developed an unparalleled collection of industrial relations material at Princeton University Library. Baker joined the Industrial Relations Section in 1930 as the Section’s first librarian and research assistant, and became the first woman to achieve the rank of associate professor at Princeton in 1948. 

Between the 17th and 19th centuries, new conceptions of human liberty, political order, and scientific reasoning emerged in the Anglo-American intellectual world. Sid Lapidus ’59 has devoted many years to building a collection of rare books that demonstrates the emergence of Enlightenment ideas and their influence on politics, medicine, and society.

Kindness, positivity, imagination, hope, and happiness run through Barbara Valenza’s works like golden threads on a beautiful tapestry. In her illustrations and words, Valenza shared her artistic soul while also encouraging readers to embrace and express their own creativity. 

Extended to May 27! The University Archives owe a great deal of our visual evidence of Princeton University in the mid-twentieth century to local photographer, Elizabeth Menzies (1915-2003). Menzies contributed countless photographs of the Princeton campus to Princeton Alumni Weekly magazine starting in 1936, through World War II, and late into the 1960s.

Belle da Costa Greene (1879–1950) is renowned today as the founding director of the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York, where over a 40-year period she built a collection of unparalleled quality. Key to preparing da Costa Greene for her success in the exclusive world of rare books was her position at Princeton University Library, where she launched her career.

“Monsters and Machines: Caricature, Visual Satire, and the Twentieth-Century Bestiary,” the Library's fall 2024 exhibition in the Milberg Gallery at Firestone Library, will focus on the use of animal and zoological motifs in visual satire between World War I and the Cold War. 

Princeton University Library (PUL) is delighted to present “Ulises Carrión: Bookworks and Beyond,” the spring 2024 exhibition in the Milberg Gallery at Firestone Library. Curated by Sal Hamerman, Metadata Librarian for Special Collections at PUL, and Javier Rivero Ramos, a recent Ph.D graduate from the Department of Art & Archaeology

Opening April 24, 2023, a new exhibition at Seeley Mudd Manuscript Library showcases photographs and documents from two watershed events during the 1960s U.S. civil rights movement: the Freedom Rides of 1961 and the Selma-to-Montgomery marches of 1965. 

Come see tales transformed at “Once Upon New Times: Reimagining Children’s Classics,” currently on display at the Cotsen Children’s Library! Curated as a companion to the larger exhibit in the Milberg Gallery of Firestone Library, each item offers a different perspective on a cherished classic. 

In honor of the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s First Folio of 1623, Princeton University Library (PUL) presents “In the Company of Good Books: Shakespeare to Morrison,” in PUL’s Milberg Gallery.