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A trip to ReCAP, the off-campus storage facility shared with Harvard, Columbia, and the New York Public Library. We will be touring the facility to see how the more than 17 million books there are stored and processed, with books shipping out daily to Princeton and other institutions. For more information visit their website at: https://recap.princeton.edu/ We will be having lunch after the tour at Thai Village. Spaces are limited for this special event and only open to Student Friends of PUL. Registration is required. Transportation to and from ReCAP will be provided from Firestone Library.

Join the Student Friends for a paid trip into New York City to visit the private collections of two Friends of the Princeton University Library this Friday, March 3! Friends Scott Clemons and Gene Flamm have offered to take ten students through their unique private collections and host us for lunch at The Groiler Club, America’s oldest society for bibliophiles! Scott will take us “From Princeton to Venice,” with his collection focusing on the history of humanity in print. Gene has been collecting the printed history of medicine for sixty years, finding other amazing things along the way ...

The Student Friends of the PUL invites its members to a guided tour of PUL's spring exhibition: "Toni Morrison: Sites of Memory." Dinner in town will follow the event. The exhibition includes around 100 original archival items—most of them never before exhibited—curated into six categories. “Beginnings” charts Morrison’s emergence as a writer, editor, and the author of “The Bluest Eye,” published in 1970; “Writing Time” draws from her day planners to emphasize the process of her craft, which she often honed in spare moments around her full-time career as an edi...

Join the Student Friends of the Princeton University Library for a showcase of highlights from the Scheide Library led by Eric White, Scheide Librarian & Assistant University Librarian for Special Collections, Rare Books & Manuscripts. The Scheide Library is one of the foremost collections of rare books in the entire world. Housed in Firestone Library on C Floor, this one-of-a-kind library belonged to William H. Scheide, a 1936 Princeton alumnus who left an extraordinary collection of more than 2,500 rare printed books and manuscripts (valued at more than $300 million) to Princeton, th...

Princeton seniors Shaun Cason and Anna Allport and University of Oxford student Isabelle (Izzy) Stuart have been named recipients of the Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholarship, one of Princeton University’s highest awards.