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Thursday, May 20, 2010

Firestone Library at Princeton University

Princeton, NJ - This is a beautiful picture I took of the Firestone Library at Princeton University.

Princeton University Library, one of the world’s most distinguished research libraries, consists of the Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library and 10 special libraries in 11 buildings across campus.
The library's collections include more than 6.9 million books, 6 million microforms, 35,000 linear feet of manuscripts, and impressive holdings of rare books, prints, archives and other material that require special handling. The library's extensive electronic resources include databases and journals, statistical packages, images and digital maps (
http://www.princeton.edu/main/library/).

I actually had the pleasure of pretending I was a student for a day at the university. I bought a Princeton t-shirt from the bookstore, went to the library and read an entire book in one of the private alcoves on the second floor overlooking the University Chapel.


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