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“Helping people find the resources they need is incredibly rewarding. Sometimes, it’s like a treasure hunt tracking down...
01/22/2025

“Helping people find the resources they need is incredibly rewarding. Sometimes, it’s like a treasure hunt tracking down specific recordings, manuscripts, or bits of information.”

Meet Lisa Read, our Music Librarian:

Lisa Read joined in July 2024 as the Music Librarian at Mendel Music Library. She is the subject specialist and library liaison for music, dance, theater, and musical theater.

It’s 2025. You know what that means?  New (er... old?) items enter the public domain!  From Tintin comics to books from ...
01/16/2025

It’s 2025. You know what that means?

New (er... old?) items enter the public domain!

From Tintin comics to books from the Harlem Renaissance, our digital exhibit is a curated guide to what’s new in the public domain:

God's glory and my country's shame,And how one man who cursed Christ's nameMay never fully expiateThat crime till at the Blessed GateOf Heaven He meet and pardon meOut of His love and charity;How God, who needs no man's applause,For love of my stark soul, of flawsComposed, seeing it slip, did stoopD...

Applications for Summer 2025 Rare Book School are open! We’ll be hosting two courses this summer: 15th Century Books in ...
01/15/2025

Applications for Summer 2025 Rare Book School are open! We’ll be hosting two courses this summer: 15th Century Books in Print and Manuscript, and Print for Children:

Applications are now open for summer 2025 courses in the myRBS portal. Before heading to myRBS, please read the instructions found on the Course Application page. To be considered for the first round of admissions decisions, please submit your application(s) before 17 February. Applications received...

Last fall, Professor Christopher Blair’s American Foreign Policy class visited Mudd Library to learn about archival rese...
01/08/2025

Last fall, Professor Christopher Blair’s American Foreign Policy class visited Mudd Library to learn about archival research. In the process, students got hands-on with Mudd's Special Collections holdings, such as:

✒️ A first copy from the press of the original draft of the Treaty of Versailles (Ray Stannard Baker’s personal copy)

🇯🇵 Atomic-bombed roof tiles that the Association of Hiroshima University sent to in an effort to raise awareness about the bombings.

📜 George F. Kennen's copy of “The Long Telegram,” which outlined his U.S. policy recommendations regarding the Soviet Union.

All of these (and so much more) are available to you to study in the Reading Room at Mudd Library.

We're accepting applications for the next series in our Digital Scholarship Foundations training program! The spring 202...
01/02/2025

We're accepting applications for the next series in our Digital Scholarship Foundations training program! The spring 2025 course focuses on digital skills for website building for a range of projects:

Across four class periods during the Fall 2024 semester, participants in Princeton University Library’s (PUL) inaugural Digital Scholarship Foundations (DSF) Program learned how to build a web-based digital exhibition from scratch.

Congratulations to Dennis Schäfer for taking second place in the National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest for his col...
12/27/2024

Congratulations to Dennis Schäfer for taking second place in the National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest for his collection of illustrated editions of works by E.T.A. Hoffman!

Currently a Ph.D student in the Department of German, Schäfer’s interest in collecting began during his undergraduate work at the University of Cologne. Though he purchased Hoffman editions for his studies, his collecting habit began after receiving an illustrated edition of “The Golden Pot.”

“The experience of receiving such a masterfully done limited edition transformed the way I began to engage with the text,” Schäfer said. “All of a sudden, my reading experience was transformed by the simple and yet arresting beauty of a book.”

If you have a collection you're proud of, consider entering the 2025 Adler Prize contest! A top prize of $4,000 will be awarded to two winners, one undergraduate and one graduate student (more info in bio!).

Looking for something to do over winter break? Tell us about your collection! One undergraduate and one graduate winner ...
12/23/2024

Looking for something to do over winter break? Tell us about your collection! One undergraduate and one graduate winner will take a $4,000 grand prize: https://libguides.princeton.edu/adler

Making your year-end goals? Make an ORCID iD!If you have plans to apply for NIH or DOE funding next year, you’ll need an...
12/19/2024

Making your year-end goals? Make an ORCID iD!

If you have plans to apply for NIH or DOE funding next year, you’ll need an ORCID iD.

Princeton University now supports linking your Net ID to your ORCID iD, which helps in identifying your research online, applying for funding, and more:

A new University support “ORCID@Princeton” is now available to help Princeton researchers connect their ORCID iD to their Princeton NetID, which has various benefits. The site will also help researchers establish an ORCID iD or reconcile multiple records.

Dear Mr. Mudd, what is the origin of the "'Old Nassau' Salute"?  investigates:
12/18/2024

Dear Mr. Mudd, what is the origin of the "'Old Nassau' Salute"? investigates:

By April C. Armstrong *14 Dear Mr. Mudd, What is the origin of the “‘Old Nassau’ Salute”? It has a concerning appearance to me, and I wondered if it has any relationship to …

Whether you're printing a poster for a presentation, or need to make designs for garments, the printers at the PUL Maker...
12/16/2024

Whether you're printing a poster for a presentation, or need to make designs for garments, the printers at the PUL Makerspace have got you covered!

These wooden cutting boards were made in a collaboration between the PUL Makerspace and the wood shop in the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education -Princeton University Makerspace during a workshop co-taught by Leigh Cole (Keller Center) and Ariel Ackerly (PUL). Both spaces are part of MakeNet, a group of maker resources at that cover everything from the sciences to performing arts. Chances are, whatever project you have, you can bring it to life at Princeton!

https://makenet.princeton.edu/maker-resources-at-princeton/

Earlier this fall, Professor Christopher Blair’s American Foreign Policy class visited Mudd Library to learn about archi...
12/13/2024

Earlier this fall, Professor Christopher Blair’s American Foreign Policy class visited Mudd Library to learn about archival research. In the process, students got hands-on with Mudd's Special Collections holdings, such as:

✒️ A first copy from the press of the original draft of the Treaty of Versailles (Ray Stannard Baker’s personal copy)

🇯🇵 Atomic-bombed roof tiles that the Association of Hiroshima University sent to in an effort to raise awareness about the bombings.

📜 George F. Kennen's copy of “The Long Telegram,” which outlined his U.S. policy recommendations regarding the Soviet Union.

Helen Baker developed an unparalleled collection of industrial relations material at Princeton University Library and be...
12/11/2024

Helen Baker developed an unparalleled collection of industrial relations material at Princeton University Library and became the first woman to achieve the rank of associate professor at Princeton in 1948.

Now, her work is on display, curated by Labor Economics Librarian Charissa Jefferson:

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...

Whether you're printing a poster for a presentation, or need to make designs for garments, the printers at the PUL Maker...
12/07/2024

Whether you're printing a poster for a presentation, or need to make designs for garments, the printers at the PUL Makerspace have got you covered!

These wooden cutting boards were made in a collaboration between the PUL Makerspace and the wood shop in the Makerspace, during a course co-taught by Ariel Ackerly (PUL) and Leigh Cole (Keller Center). Both spaces are part of MakeNet, a group of maker resources at that cover everything from the sciences to performing arts. Chances are, whatever project you have you can bring it to life at Princeton!

Learn more about MakeNet: https://makenet.princeton.edu/maker-resources-at-princeton/

12/05/2024

Applications are now open for Friends of Princeton University Library Research Grants!

Each year, the Friends of the Princeton University Library offer short-term Library Research Grants to promote scholarly use of the Princeton University Library special and distinct collections.

The bulk of the research grants are funded through the Friends of the Princeton University Library. Funding for grants may also be supplemented by the Program in Hellenic Studies, which, with assistance from the Stanley J. Seeger Fund, supports a limited number of Library grants in Hellenic studies.

The deadline for applications for 2025-26 is 12 p.m. (noon) Eastern Standard Time on January 15, 2025.

Applications will be considered for scholarly use of archives, manuscripts, rare books, and other rare and unique holdings in Special Collections, including Mudd Library, as well as rare books in the Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology and in the East Asian Library (Gest Collection).

These grants, which have a value of up to $6,000 plus transportation costs, are meant to help defray expenses incurred in traveling to and residing in Princeton during the tenure of the grant.

The length of the grant will depend on the applicant’s research proposal but is ordinarily between two and four weeks. Library Research Grants can be used from May of the year they are awarded through the following April. Applicants are notified in April.

Learn more here: https://bit.ly/4eZgFNz

Caption: A detail from a portolan navigational chart of the Mediterranean Sea (1640). Photo courtesy of Princeton University Library, Special Collections.

12/05/2024
Helen Baker developed an unparalleled collection of industrial relations material at Princeton University Library and be...
12/05/2024

Helen Baker developed an unparalleled collection of industrial relations material at Princeton University Library and became the first woman to achieve the rank of associate professor at Princeton in 1948.

Now, her work is on display:

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...

Applications for The Friends of PUL Research Grants are open!  This program offers researchers from around the world acc...
12/03/2024

Applications for The Friends of PUL Research Grants are open!

This program offers researchers from around the world access to our collections and supports research for up to four weeks plus travel expenses:

Applications for the research grants, which promote scholarly use of PUL's unique and rare collections, will be accepted through noon eastern time on January 15, 2025.

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