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Campus Reopens After Bomb Threat. RBSC to Open Reading Rooms on Wednesday at 8:45 a.m.
6:25 P.M. UPDATE – Princeton University reopened its campus at 6:25 p.m. Tuesday, about eight hours after students, faculty and staff were evacuated because of a bomb threat. The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections will resume normal hours on … Continue reading
Library Renovations Under Way in Rare Books and Special Collections
Summer Renovations In light of the library’s importance in teaching and research at Princeton, the University has committed to a comprehensive renovation of the Firestone Library that began in 2010 and is scheduled to be completed in September 2018. … Continue reading
Envisioning the World: Henry and Holly Wendt Donate Historic World Map Collection.
An extraordinary collection of world maps, dating from 1472 to 1700, has found a permanent home in the Historic Maps Collection of the Princeton University Library. Collected by Henry Wendt, Class of 1955, and his wife, Holly, the thirty items … Continue reading
The Great Gatsby : From Princeton to Hollywood
The film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, directed by Baz Luhrmann and starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby and Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan, premieres this evening in New York and arrives in theaters on May … Continue reading
The Hudson Review Celebrates 65th Anniversary
The Hudson Review celebrates its 65th anniversary next month. One of the most notable and influential American literary quarterlies of the post-World War II era, it was co-founded in 1947 by Princeton graduates Frederick Morgan (Class of 1943), Joseph Bennett … Continue reading
