PrincetonUniversity
A Princeton Profile, 2002 edition

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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 15 special libraries. The libraries contain more than 5 million books, 3 million microforms, 36,000 linear feet of manuscripts, and smaller but distinguished holdings of rare books, prints, archives, coins, maps, and other items that require special handling. The library also has many electronic resources.

The budget for 2001-02 exceeded $30 million, which included more than $12 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.

Information Technology

The Office of Information Technology (OIT) 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' personally owned computers can access the campus network and the Internet from campus residences and network access points around campus, including areas equipped for wireless communication. Students also have access to workstations in clusters around campus. OIT also provides the University's telephone system, it's World Wide Web server, coordination and training for distributed campus computing support personnel, centralized printing and mailing services, audiovisual services, the University ID card office, the Blackboard course management system, an instructional technology new media center, the language resource center, software purchases, administrative information systems, computer hardware repair, and assistance in the use of these resources.

 
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