PrincetonUniversity
A Princeton Profile 1997-98Educational 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 more than 68,000 monographs each year in more than 52 languages.
The budget for 1996-97 exceeded $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; important collections of prints, drawings, and photographs; and a collection of 20th-century sculpture displayed throughout the campus.
Computing and Information Technology
CIT supports the use of information technologies and Internet access for the University's academic as well as administrative needs. Princeton's computing resources, including office and student workstations, a large IBM mainframe, and a general-use Unix system, are connected to a campus fiberoptic network and to the Internet.
Students have access to workstations in clusters around campus; students' personally owned computers can access the campus network and the Internet from campus residences through the Dormnet subscription service.
CIT also provides the University's telephone system and centralized printing services, Princeton's World Wide Web server, audiovisual services, a language laboratory, administrative information systems, computer and software purchases and repair, and assistance in the use of these resources.