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Category: Library News

  • Introducing the Special Collections Blog

    Introducing the Special Collections Blog

    As we recently told you in our post explaining the refreshed design of this blog, those interested in the Public Policy Papers can find our future writing about them in a new place. We are pleased to introduce you to the all-new Special Collections blog! Our posts about the history of Princeton University will stay…

  • A New Look for the “Mudd Blog”

    A New Look for the “Mudd Blog”

    You may have noticed that we’ve spruced things up around here this week, but rest assured: Everything you loved about the “Mudd blog” will still have a place in our blogosphere. After all these years since we first announced our presence here in 2007, we were simply overdue for some redecorating. There will still be…

  • 2020 ARCH Participants Write

    Learnings from the ARCH Program: Archives, Objectivity, and New Skills By Etana Laing, Lincoln University This summer I had the privilege of participating in the ARCH program. Coming into this experience I had a very surface-level understanding of archives; little did I know I was uncovering just the tip of the iceberg. On my journey,…

  • On Display: The Public Lives of 20th-Century American Women

    By April C. Armstrong and Amanda Ferrara, exhibition curators Men, especially political leaders, are usually assessed on their professional records. Women, no matter how professional they may be, are often judged on their personal lives. –Brenda Feigan Fasteau and Bonnie Lobel, New York Magazine, December 20, 1971 Visitors to Mudd Library will notice a new…

  • Selections from Women’s World Banking Records Now Available Online

    By Amanda Ferrara Mudd Manuscript Library is pleased to announce the completion of the Women’s World Banking records digitization project. Women’s World Banking (WWB), founded in 1979, is a not-for-profit international financial institution, committed to facilitating the participation of low-income women entrepreneurs in the modern economy at the local level. The WWB’s records document the…

  • Two Historical Princeton Area Publications Now Freely Available Online

    By Dan Linke An initiative undertaken jointly by the Historical Society of Princeton (HSP), the Princeton Public Library (PPL), and the Princeton University Library (PUL) has begun to unlock decades of the town and the university’s history by making the historical runs of two local publications full-text searchable and available online via a Princeton University…

  • ARCH Participants Write, Part VI

    As part of the Princeton University Library’s inaugural Archives Research and Collaborative History (ARCH) Program, 12 undergraduates and two graduate students from five historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) explored the connections among archives, historical narratives, and social justice at Mudd Library and Firestone Library from July 9 to July 13, 2018. They were asked to…

  • ARCH Participants Write, Part V

    As part of the Princeton University Library’s inaugural Archives Research and Collaborative History (ARCH) Program, 12 undergraduates and two graduate students from five historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) explored the connections among archives, historical narratives, and social justice at Mudd Library and Firestone Library from July 9 to July 13, 2018. They were asked to…

  • ARCH Participants Write, Part IV

    As part of the Princeton University Library’s inaugural Archives Research and Collaborative History (ARCH) Program, 12 undergraduates and two graduate students from five historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) explored the connections among archives, historical narratives, and social justice at Mudd Library and Firestone Library from July 9 to July 13, 2018. They were asked to…

  • ARCH Participants Write, Part III

    As part of the Princeton University Library’s inaugural Archives Research and Collaborative History (ARCH) Program, 12 undergraduates and two graduate students from five historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) explored the connections among archives, historical narratives, and social justice at Mudd Library and Firestone Library from July 9 to July 13, 2018. They were asked to…