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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 16
special libraries, including 14 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 also
has many electronic resources. The library system subscribes
to over 30,000 periodicals and acquires more than 68,000
monographs each year in 52 languages.
The budget for 1999&endash;2000 exceeded $30 million,
which included more than $10 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
The Office of Computing and Information Technology (CIT)
supports the use of information technologies and Internet
access for the University's academic and administrative
needs. Princeton's computing resources, including office and
student workstations and general-use shared systems and
storage, 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 and network access points around campus through
the Dormnet subscription service. CIT also provides the
University's telephone system, centralized printing and
mailing services, the University ID card office, Princeton's
World Wide Web server, audiovisual services, an
instructional technology new media center, a language
resource center, administrative information systems,
software purchases, computer hardware repair, and assistance
in the use of
these resources.
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