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Category: Library News

  • Exhibition features diplomat’s photos from rural China

    Drawing from more than 1,600 photographs taken in rural China between 1913 and 1917, the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library at Princeton University is hosting an exhibition based on the collection of the American diplomat John Van Antwerp MacMurray (1881-1960). Nine Dragon Mountain near T’an Che Ssu, September 1914 (MacMurray Photograph Additions, Volume VI, #22)…

  • Record Retention Guidelines and Schedules Now Available

    The University Archives has posted a working draft of Record Retention Guidelines and Schedules on its website at http://www.princeton.edu/records/ (You will need to enter your NetID to access the site.) These schedules can help you and your staff more easily access record retention and document destruction guidelines for the common sets of records in your…

  • Announcing the Mudd Manuscript Library Blog

    I am pleased to announce the creation of this blog to keep you up-to-date on the news and activities of the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library. Watch this space or subscribe to our feed for news on new collections, exhibitions, finding aids and other information concerning activities related to the Princeton University Archives and the…