Educational Resources

The Library

Princeton's library system consists of the Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library (with 70 miles of shelving for the largest portion of Princeton's collection) and 18 special libraries, including 15 department collections. The libraries contain more than 5 million books, 3 million microforms, 36,000 linear feet of manuscripts, and smaller but distinguished holdings of prints, theatrical set and costume designs, archives, coins, maps, death masks, and other items that require special handling. The library system subscribes to over 30,000 periodicals and acquires 68,000 monographs each year in more than 52 languages. Students and faculty check out an average of 86 items each year.

The budget for 1995-96 was $27 million, which included more than $9 million for acquisitions.

The Art Museum

The Princeton University Art Museum is used extensively as a teaching resource. Its collections and exhibitions include artifacts of the ancient world (including rare pre-Columbian, classical, and Far Eastern objects); paintings and sculpture of the Renaissance, modern Europe, and America; a collection of outdoor sculpture displayed throughout the campus; and important collections of prints, drawings, and photographs.

Computing and Information Technology

Princeton's computing resources include a large IBM mainframe, a general-use Unix system, specialized workstations, and various microcomputers. TigerNet, a broadband communications system, connects most of the University's buildings (including the undergraduate dormitories) and allows members of the University community access to information resources around the campus and throughout the world. Public clusters of Apple Macintoshes and IBM PCs (also connected to TigerNet) are located throughout the campus. Specialized campus workstations include NeXT workstations, Silicon Graphics personal IRIS workstations, and Sun scientific SPARC stations.