About the Library

The Mathematics-Natural Sciences Library [Momota Ganguli, Librarian] is centered in Fuld Hall with collections in various locations on campus. The library contains about 30,000 volumes of bound periodicals and monographs plus print and electronic subscriptions to about 175 journals. The areas covered by the library collection are pure and applied mathematics, astrophysics, theoretical particle and mathematical physics and biology. The library adds approximately 350 new books annually to the collection. Its collection of older periodicals is housed in compact shelving on the lower level of Historical-Social Sciences library.

The Mathematics-Natural Sciences Library has access to the Math-Sci Online database as well as to the backfiles of some core Mathematics journals through the JSTOR database.

Both of the Institute's libraries participate in the shared cataloguing system to the Research Libraries Group, which gives Institutes scholars computerized access to a database that contains more than twenty-two million records. Searches of this database retrieve bibliographic information and identify the location of materials in all participating libraries.

All scholars affiliated with the Institute enjoy the same privileges as Princeton University faculty in the Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library, Fine Hall (mathematics), as well as in the Robert E. Speer Library of the Princeton Theological Seminary.

The librarians and the Faculties of all four Schools at the Institute warmly appreciate gifts of books and articles from former and current Members of the Institute.