Firestone Library services request

Library staff go to Princeton University’s Firestone Library twice per week. These trips usually occur on Tuesdays and Fridays, weather permitting. If a trip is postponed or cancelled for any reason, an email will be sent to everyone who made a request for that trip. In the rare event that the schedule has to be adjusted for holidays or other planned disruptions, a message will appear here informing you.

We offer three services:

  1. A short term loan service (we bring books back for you for a one month loan),
  2. placing books on hold in Firestone Library for you to pick up for longer use, and
  3. scanning (within copyright limits).

We will have to follow the limit of six books each trip and six scans when there are a large volume of requests or are oversized. Requests take time for processing when held in Recap by Princeton University Library. 

Larger multi-volume requests may have to be placed in the Institute room for you to use.

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Would you use an ebook if print is unavailable?

For scans, please supply the following:


If you have any questions, please contact the staff at:

hslib @ ias.edu

Thank you.

The copyright law of the United States (Title 17. United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy/reproduction is not to be "used for any purposes other than private study, scholarship, or research." If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes "in excess" of fair use, that user may be liable for copyright infringement. This institution reserves the right to refuse to accept a copying order if, in its judgment, fulfillment of the order would involve violation of copyright law.