General & Humanities Reference Division
The General and Humanities Reference Collection is located on the First Floor of Firestone Library in the Trustee Reading Room.
Contact UsBy Phone: (609)-258-5964 or (609)-258-4820 General & Humanities Reference Librarians
General & Humanities Reference Staff
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Hours Hours during the academic year: During
break weeks, intersession, holiday periodsr During
the summer (mid-June until Labor Day): Hours for all Libraries and Library Units
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Scope of the Collection:
The General and Humanities Reference Collection is located on the First Floor of Firestone Library in the Trustee Reading Room. It serves as the main general reference collection for the Princeton University Library, and is particularly strong in multi- and interdisciplinary resources in the humanities:
Anthropology, History, Philosophy, and Religion Major reference tools including bibliographies, abstracts, indexes, methodologies, and dictionaries comprehensively support the work of these departments.
Area Studies Selected reference tools, primarily in English, are included for: African Studies, African-American Studies, American Studies, East Asian Studies, European Cultural Studies, Hellenic Studies, Latin American Studies, Near Eastern Studies, and Russian Studies.
Languages and Literatures Indexes, bibliographies, guides, dictionaries, and handbooks are included for a broad range of both individual and comparative languages and literatures.
Gender Studies Guides and bibliographies support the interdisciplinary study of women’s and men’s roles and the function of gender among various cultures.
The collection does not circulate and contains of 25,000 volumes including almanacs; atlases; biographical, geographical, language, and subject dictionaries; directories; encyclopedias; statistical compilations; style manuals; indexes and abstracts to journals, newspapers, dissertations, and government documents; union lists of monographs, serials, and manuscripts; library catalogs; national, trade, and subject bibliographies
