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Princeton University Websites Collection
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This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Princeton University Library: University Archives. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
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The collection, assembled by staff of the University Archives, contains captures of public websites created and maintained by various units at Princeton University, primarily those serving administrative or academic functions. The collection does not contain exhaustive captures of all public websites, but rather captures those select websites whose provenance is not directly linked to an existing collection (e.g., Dean of the College, School of Engineering). Websites selected for this collection execute core aspects of the University's mission, such as teaching, learning, and research, but also provide information about the people responsible for that mission's execution. Changes in policy and practice can be found within these websites as well as factors shaping the student experiences for undergraduates and graduates alike.
Records in this collection are arranged by their function within the University.
The websites of this collection were crawled periodically beginning in 2015.
Full text searching of this collection's archived websites are available through the Archive-It interface.
For preservation reasons, original analog and digital media may not be read or played back in the reading room. Users may visually inspect physical media but may not remove it from its enclosure. All analog audiovisual media must be digitized to preservation-quality standards prior to use. Audiovisual digitization requests are processed by an approved third-party vendor. Please note, the transfer time required can be as little as several weeks to as long as several months and there may be financial costs associated with the process. Requests should be directed through the Ask Us Form.
Finding aid written by Jarrett M. Drake in 2017.
No materials were separated from this collection.
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- University Archives
- Finding Aid Date
- 2017
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The collection is open for research use.
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Collection Inventory
Full text searching of this series' website(s) is available through the Archive-It interface.
This series is arranged chronologically by the order that seed URL's were captured by the web crawler.
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Since its founding as part of the Department of History, Politics, and Economics in 1904, Princeton University's Department of Economics has acquired a worldwide reputation for research and scholarship, attracting faculty and students alike. Particularly notable was the expansion of the Department's graduate program in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1961 and the concurrent addition of several internationally renowned economists to the faculty.
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Princeton University's Department of Mathematics, founded in 1904 under the chairmanship of Henry Burchard Fine, saw the flowering of a unique mathematical community in the 1930s sparked by the construction of a luxurious new building Fine Hall (now Jones Hall) designed to facilitate a real community of mathematicians engaged in research and closely linked with mathematical physicists in the attached Palmer physics laboratory. This community was unlike any other in America before that time and perhaps afterwards, and had important consequences for American mathematics. With the planning and founding of the Institute for Advanced Study at the beginning of the decade, which shared Fine Hall with the university mathematics department during the period 1933 to 1939, a very exciting environment developed which many students and faculty were loath to leave.
Background on the Oral History Project: The 1930s saw the flowering of a unique mathematical community at Princeton University with the construction of a luxurious new building Fine Hall (now Jones Hall) dedicated to the mathematician and Dean Harry Fine and designed to facilitate a real community of mathematicians engaged in research and closely linked with mathematical physicists in the attached Palmer physics laboratory to which it was connected and shared a joint math-physics library. This community was unlike any other in America before that time and perhaps afterwards, and had important consequences for American mathematics. With the planning and founding of the Institute for Advanced Study at the beginning of the decade, originally having only a mathematics department, which then shared Fine Hall with the university mathematics department as a single institute during the period 1933 to 1939, starting with three of the university's leading mathematicians joined by Einstein and Gödel and attracting many visitors, a very exciting environment developed which many students and faculty were loath to leave. Half century later in 1984, one of the original participants Albert Tucker, himself a former mathematics department chair at Princeton, was motivated by Princetonian historian of science Charles Gillispie to capture some of the personal reminiscences of the remaining survivors of the period on tape himself with the help of William Aspray, which were then transcribed and organized into a body of written transcripts by then graduate student Rik Nebeker.
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Princeton University formed the Department of Oriental Languages and Literature in the spring of 1927. This was the precursor to the Near East Studies and East Asian Studies departments. To reflect its broadening scope of interests the Department of Oriental Languages and Literatures changed its title to the Department of Oriental Studies in 1959-1960. In 1961, a growing number of classes in East Asian languages and culture led to the formation of an interdisciplinary program in that field. The East Asian section of Oriental Studies grew primarily in the areas that would remain at the core of the future Department of East Asian Studies: Chinese and Japanese language, history, and literature. The program drew heavily on the Gest Oriental Library. In 1969 full departmental status was bestowed upon both the Program in Near Eastern Studies and the Program in East Asian Studies, which resulted in the dissolution of the Department of Oriental Studies.
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The websites within this series document various administrative functions within the University, including finance, housing, and audit and compliance.
Full text searching of this series' website(s) is available through the Archive-It interface.
This series is arranged chronologically by the order that seed URL's were captured by the web crawler.
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This website, which is managed by the Office of Vice President for Advancement, is intended to encourage Princeton alumni and supporters to donate funds to the university. The website contains instructions for donors to give as well as reasons for giving. Also found on the website is a staff directory for the entire office.
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The University Services public website gives students, faculty, and staff information about campus dining options, transportation, and services for housing and real estate as well as events and venues. The website also contains information about the university's Trademark Licensing Program.
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The Audit and Compliance public website is home to the chief auditing unit of the university. It contains information pertaining to the office's charter, process, services, and compliance matrix, including both the strategic and operational compliance matrices.
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This website contains information about the university's endowment and the office that manages it, the Princeton University Investment Company (PRINCO), including the company's investment strategy, mission, organizational model, and listings of staff as well as its board of directors. Also found on the website is information for prospective employees.
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