Library History

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

❧ For articles and photographs relating to the history of the Princeton University Library see these four (4) URLs

[Nota bene: This medley of URLs is the result of locating pages built almost 20 years ago via locating them on various currently working servers. The search for the few remaining non-working links continues.]

Main page • https://web.archive.org/web/20240225013621/http://libweb2.princeton.edu/rbsc2/libraryhistory/main.html
Direct links to a number of files listed on the Main page • https://static-prod.lib.princeton.edu/scsites/libraryhistory/
Set 2 referenced on Main page • https://web.archive.org/web/20151024161649/https://daviesproject.princeton.edu/documents/PUL_set2/
Set 2 (bis) • Set 2 (bis) of documents relating to the history of the Princeton University Library, including 19th century student accounts, newspaper clippings, and other data

AMERICAN LIBRARY HISTORY

❧ Much work in American library history was gathered and organized by the Davies Project. In the last year or two, the Davies Project website has been reconfigured. It now features the database ‘American Libraries to 1876’. So-called static content relating to the history of American libraries was not carried over into the reconfiguration. To access that content, go the the link below on the Internet Archive:

•https://web.archive.org/web/20211129152033/https://daviesproject.princeton.edu/index2.html

However some links in the web-archived URL don't work – The following are working links replacing those no longer working the web-archived site --

❧ Documents on learned libraries in the United States between 1793 and 1863 transcribed by K.E.Carpenter

•https://daviesproject.princeton.edu/documents/KEC_docs/

❧ One hundred and one transcriptions of articles from American newspapers, reviews, and other periodicals published between 1818 and 1925 giving a wide variety of particulars about private libraries, 19th century American book collectors (e.g. E.B. Corwin, Alexander A. Smets, W. E.Burton, leading Brooklyn collectors, et al.), learned libraries (Kirkland, 1818; Patton, 1838), the future of libraries (Brockett, 1870), and many related topics. Most of the transcriptions are from clippings compiled by William H. Dorsey during the period 1875 to 1890 and pasted into his scrapbooks numbers 247-251, currently held at Cheyney University. Transcribed by Max Bialek (May-July, 2006) and Jared Camins-Esakov (January, 2007).

•https://daviesproject.princeton.edu/documents/Max_docs/

❧ Statistics – All links in the web-archived URL are working except ‘1831 Statistics’ – Here is the URL for that document - LINK

S. Ferguson - 10 Sept 2026