Firestone covers the Humanities and Social Sciences broadly. See Call Number information with locations here.
Special services:
Data and Statistical Services
Microforms
Video Services
Marquand Library, normally located in the central building attached to the Art Museum complex, is one of the most notable art history, architecture, and archaeology libraries in North America, used by the Princeton community and visited by students and scholars from all over the world. One will find many books and exhibition catalogs that are not available widely. Marquand also has a sizeable and growing rare book collection. More information about Marquand is available on its website.
Since March 2021 when the new Art Museum was being built, Marquand has been operating in two reading rooms in Firestone Library (C Floor). The physical collections are divided between Marquand Library (open to the public 1/26/26), ReCAP off-site, and most rare materials in Special Collection in Firestone. All requests--including for scans--must be made via the library catalog. Use Article Express for scans as a backup if requesting via the catalog is not possible. Email marquand@princeton.edu with any questions about using the art collection.
Marquand is non-circulating so no art book may leave the C-Floor rooms. Any item in use by someone else (i.e. in a faculty/curator office) will have a status of ASK STAFF. Ask at a staffed desk or email marquand@princeton.edu as to the whereabouts of an item.
School of Architecture Library
(Located on 2nd Floor of Architecture building)
Guide to conducting architecture research
RECAP and FORRESTAL ANNEX are off-site locations. Normally, these items are requested via the library catalog and one must designate a pickup library of choice [Marquand ReCAP materials may only be consulted in Marquand]. Requests take a day or two to arrive (excluding weekends - LONGER for Marquand materials during Art Museum construction). You will be notified via e-mail address when the item is available for pickup.
The Forrestal Annex contains older humanities materials and multiple copies of reserve titles. ReCAP includes many Princeton items as well as items owned by Columbia University, New York Public Library, and Harvard: records for these last will have a C, N or H at the bottom (and "SCSB" in the URL) and may be requested much like Princeton ReCAP items. If possible, look for and request the Princeton copy of a title, as you can do more with it and we can scan more from it.