Q. What digitization services do you offer for material in Special Collections?

Many items from the Department’s holdings have already been digitized and are available to download via the item’s record in the Catalog or Finding Aids. 

Princeton University Community (Current students, faculty and staff):

There is no cost for digitization of Special Collections materials housed in Firestone and Mudd Libraries for the Princeton University community.

In order to provide effective and equitable service to all Princeton researchers, requests are limited to approximately 300 pages per person/project per 6 months. Published materials may be further limited due to copyright restrictions. Due to the current large demand, we cannot guarantee turnaround times, but will strive for 4-6 weeks. There is no rush option. Should you believe you are in need of services that do not align with our order fulfillment period or page limits, please reach out to us to discuss it further. All orders will be delivered to an active @princeton.edu email address.

Please review the Copyright, Credit, and Citation Guidelines page for more information on publishing from the collections.

Non-Princeton University Community (includes alumni):

We are currently updating our digitization service and have paused accepting new orders from non-Princeton researchers (including alumni).

Audio Visual Materials

At this time, we are not accepting new requests for digitization of audiovisual material in the collections.