| The Marquand Library (Floor Plans) of Art and Archaeology was officially established in 1908 when Allan Marquand, the first professor of art at Princeton and founder of the Department of Art and Archaeology, presented his personal art library of 5,000 volumes to the University. He began collecting books on the Italian Renaissance, classical archaeology, and medieval art as early as 1879. The original focus was quickly expanded to include architecture, Chinese and Japanese art, and baroque art and architecture. While all of these fields of art history remain strong components of the collection and are added to consistently, the focus has widened considerably in the last two decades. |
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We now collect in all fields of art and architectural history, artistic photography, and several new fields of archaeology including Islamic and pre-Columbian. We collect in most languages and formats, including microforms, CDs, and electronic resources. We now buy more materials in American, third world, and contemporary art. The collection has grown to some 400,000 volumes total in Marquand and off-site (Annex A and ReCAP). After the summer renovations of 2003, Marquand Library was moved back to its home adjacent to the Department of Art and Archaeology, the Princeton University Art Museum, and the Index of Christian Art. More than a transformed space that incorporates relevant technologies, the library is at the center of the campus and therefore it is used by scholars from many disciplines. Art historians from the Institute for Advanced Study and Hellenic Studies lead the people who come to Marquand to find materials that are unavailable at many other art libraries in the world. |
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