Princeton University Library is one of the world’s most distinguished research libraries, consisting of the Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library and nine buildings across campus.
The library's collections include more than eight million books, six million microforms, 49,000 linear feet of manuscripts, and impressive holdings of rare books, prints, archives and other material that require special handling. The library's extensive electronic resources include databases and journals, statistical packages, images and digital maps.
The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections sponsors two major exhibitions a year in the Main Gallery located on the first floor of the Firestone Library. The Cotsen Children's Library includes an interactive exhibition gallery for children. In addition, materials from the collections are displayed in various lobby cases, in online galleries, and in the exhibition gallery of the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library at 65 Olden Street. All exhibitions are free and open to the general public.
Current Exhibition:
Versailles on Paper: A Graphic Panorama of the Palace and Gardens of Louis XIV
This exhibition documents the contemporary representation of Versailles through a multifaceted array of prints, books, maps, medals, and manuscripts. It highlights in particular those elements that today survive only on paper: ephemeral festivals; short-lived creatures (courtiers, animals, flowers); fragile groves and fountains too costly to maintain; and once celebrated masterpieces of art and architecture that were irrevocably destroyed or altered.
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Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library
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Princeton, NJ 08540
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