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The Princeton University Library, consisting of the main Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library and 13 special libraries in locations around campus, is one of the world's most distinguished research libraries. Since its founding in 1750, the Library's collections have grown to include more than 6.2 million books, 6.3 million microforms, 36,000 linear feet of manuscripts, and impressive holdings of rare books, prints and archives.

The origins of the Princeton University Library can be traced back to a donation from the personal library of Colonial governor Jonathan Belcher in 1750. In the intervening years the continual growth of the library has necessitated its move to a series of new homes. After the 1802 fire in Nassau Hall, what remained of the library was moved to Stanhope Hall. Here it remained until 1860 when it was transferred back to Nassau Hall, moving again in 1873 when the college's first dedicated library building, Chancellor Green Library, was completed. This space was soon outgrown however, and a second library building, Pyne Library, was built in 1877. Finally in 1948, the Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library was completed, which has been the University Library's main home ever since. The University's first librarian was Frederic Vinton, brought from the Library of Congress in 1873 by President McCosh. His successors have all been involved in national library affairs, and Firestone itself was one of the first modern open-stack research libraries in America.

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