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The Social Science Reference Center began as the federation of three subject collections: the Pliny Fisk Collection of Economics and Finance, the Industrial Relations Collection, and the Public Administration Collection. Over time the Center incorporated the collections of depository government documents (United Nations, New Jersey, European Union and United States). The complex history of the subject and government documents collections in SSRC is summarized very briefly by the following timeline:
1884 Princeton University Library is designated a United
States
documents depository library.
1895 The Pliny Fisk Collection of Economics and Finance
begins with a
large gift of railroad
and corporate documents.
1922 The Industrial Relations Collection is established,
the oldest
university
collection of its type in the nation.
1930 The Public
Administration Collection is founded.
1946 Princeton University Library becomes a United Nations
and GATT
documents depository, housed and served by the Public Administration
Collection, as will all later depository collections.
1950
Princeton becomes a secondary New Jersey documents depository.
1964 Princeton becomes a depository library for documents of
the
European Community.
1970 First steps are taken to bring together the three subject
collections.
1975 Microforms sets related to the social sciences are
brought into
SSRC.
1979 A separate documents division is established to
process and shelve new
United
States government publications according to the SuDoc numbering system.
Records for new New Jersey and United States documents, including
documents of the 96th and subsequent Congresses, are no longer added
to the Library's catalog.
1981 The first joint reference
service is offered for all these subjects and for
sociology.
1982 The U.S. government documents collection is
incorporated into SSRC.
1985 The physical renovation to create the Social
Science
Reference Center, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is completed.
1996 Data and Statistical Services is transferred from CIT to
SSRC.
2001 Marcive records for U.S. documents are loaded into Voyager.
Currently received documents are again represented in the catalog.
2003 A single current periodicals collection is created
from
all the SSRC subject collections, including
several titles from the documents collections.
Other important microfiche collections of documents, including all documents cited in American Statistics Index (ASI), Congressional Information Service (CIS), and Index to International Statistics (IIS), are located on C-Floor (C-7-F and C-16-F).
The codebooks and statistical package manuals used to support this work are shelved in Stacks 38 - 42. Both data on CD ROMs and the links to data available online are cataloged. The CDs are housed in cabinets behind the SSRC reference desk by study number. Check the catalog for both data and codebooks.
The Data and Statistical Services Laboratory is in A-16-H-3.
New Jersey
Documents
Except for documents of reference value and current periodicals,
currently received and older New
Jersey documents (those received from July 1, 1981 through 2002) are
slowly being cataloged and moved from SSRC to
Firestone stacks or ReCAP. (Some older New Jersey documents are also in
the Forrestal Annex.) If a search in the Library's catalog for a New
Jersey document is
unsuccessful, try searching the New Jersey
State Library Catalog for the state document number and check
for the document
in SSRC stacks 33 and 34.
The monographs and bound volumes of periodicals (including the Daily Labor Report) in the IR collection are shelved in the regular stacks OUTSIDE of SSRC (A-17-F) by Library of Congress call number.
The offices of Industrial Relations faculty and the Education Research Section lie to the south of SSRC (A-16-J to A-19-G).
Pliny Fisk Collection for Economics
and
Finance
This collection supports reference service for economic
conditions, economic theory,
banking, international trade, development, finance, business, and
statistics and for management, advertising, and real estate.
Princeton subscribes to many working
paper series (Stack 8). These come
from the economics departments of major universities as well as research
organizations such as the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).
Many working papers are only available electronically.
The filing cabinets next to Stack 1 hold annual reports of
foreign central banks and stock exchanges.
On the FINANCIAL SERVICES AND DIRECTORIES TABLE are directories
and
investment analysis reference works, such as Thomson Bank Directory,
Ward's Business Directory, Standard & Poor's Stock Guide, Standard &
Poor's Industry Surveys, and Value Line.
Current Periodicals and Newspapers
The current issues of economics, finance, industrial relations, law and
political science journals, as well as the current issues of government
documents periodicals, are shelved, alphabetically by title, in Stacks 1
through 7. Most of the older, bound volumes of these titles are shelved
in Firestone stacks.
In cases near the indexes,
SSRC keeps two months of the New York Times, Wall Street
Journal, Financial Times, New Jersey Business,
and the Nikkei Weekly.
ATLASES
SSRC owns a few atlases, which are kept on top of Index Bookcases I31
- I34. These are the Rand McNally Road Atlas and Commercial
Atlas & Marketing Guide, Times Atlas of the World, National Geographic
Atlas of the World,
Historical Atlas of United States Congressional
Districts,
Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress, Atlas
of the Middle East, National Economic Atlas of China, and
Socio-economic Atlas of India.
INDEX BOOKCASES AND COMPUTER WORK STATIONS
This area houses numbered bookcases which hold indexes in
economics, sociology, politics, law, and industrial relations, and indexes
to international, federal, state, and municipal government documents. The
Guide to Print Indexes and Online Equivalents lists both the
indexes that exist only in print and the ones for which there is a
database to which Princeton subscribes.
The computer terminals provide access to the databases generally
available to the University community and to the
electronic
resources not available campus-wide such as the financial and legal
sources from
Datastream International, Securities Data Company, Lexis Commercial
and Westlaw Commercial, which are restricted
for use by Princeton University students and faculty for educational
purposes.
STATE REFERENCE
In bookcases 18 and 19 are the latest available state manuals for each of
the
fifty states. They also contain The Book of the States.
READY REFERENCE
The Ready Reference Collection contains the dictionaries, directories,
handbooks, statistical compilations, and other key, frequently used
reference materials
chosen from each SSRC subject and document collection.
FOREIGN STATISTICAL YEARBOOKS
Immediately to the left of the Ready Reference Collection are the
foreign statistical yearbooks. The
Center attempts to acquire the most recent statistical yearbook for each
member country of the United Nations. They are arranged alphabetically by
country. The older volumes of these yearbooks are in Firestone stacks.
They are supplemented by the microforms set Current National
Statistical Compendiums, which contains yearbooks going back to
1970 for some countries, and is housed in SSRC microfiche cabinet 78 at
the back of the room.
CD ROM CABINETS
Cd roms and floppy disks from the U.S. documents collection, Data
and Statistical Services and Pliny Fisk are stored here, the documents cds by
SuDoc
number, the DSS cds and floppies by study number (an accession number) and
the Pliny
Fisk cds (Disclosure SEC, Morningstar Principia-for Closed-End Funds
and
Plus for Mutual Funds and Worldscope) by title.
Last revised August 24, 2004