By Charles Doran The Marrakesh Treaty was adopted on June 27, 2013, in Marrakesh, Morocco, and is administered by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The core component of the treaty is to align and create exceptions to existing copyright laws of its signatories, which […]

On the second Thursday of the month, five objects from across Special Collections’ vast holdings will be on display in the lobby of Firestone Library for anyone to come and see. Here are the objects featured in September 2023.

By Will Noel 2023 is the 400th anniversary of the publication of the First Folio, the first edition of the complete works of William Shakespeare, printed by Jaggard and Blount in 1623.  To celebrate it, tomorrow we are opening an exhibition entitled “In the Company of […]

Selected by Adrienne Rusinko

Alexander Wainwright, associate librarian for acquisitions, effected the purchase of these selections, amounting to a total of 186 volumes, using monies from the Charles F. Wells Library Fund during the academic year 1973-74.  The acquisition was announced in the Princeton University Library Chronicle for Autumn 1974.

Selected by Adrienne Rusinko

By Will Noel Junius Spencer Morgan gave a phenomenal collection of materials to the Princeton University Library, so last year I decided to create a small online exhibition on items from that collection that we have digitized already.  With very many thanks to Steve Ferguson […]

his unique item presents the very definition of research value. It is also one of the last sources for John Donne remaining in private hands, and so many, many thanks to the Friends for bringing it to Princeton, where it will be available for research and study by all.