To visit the Psychology Library's website, click here.
To visit Princeton University's main library system online, click here.

The Psychology Department has its own library located off the lobby in Green Hall. The Psychology Library has an extensive collection of more than 35,000 volumes, including 349 subscriptions as well as standard reference works, texts and monographs in psychology. Some of the subject areas covered are cognitive, developmental, social, experimental and physiological psychology, perception, memory, personality, psycholinguistics, health psychology, neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, psychopharmacology and artificial intelligence. The library also maintains approximately 5,000 microfiche that range from various reference sources to journal subscriptions and a collection of psychological documents. The library has eight workstations, which connect patrons to the Princeton University Library Homepage where one can search databases such as PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES, MEDLINE, Web of Science, Lexis-Nexis, Mental Measurements Yearbook, PEP Archive (Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing), Scopus, MIT’s Cog Net etc.; as well as the Online Catalog, and numerous other information retrieval systems. Many databases and journals are also available electronically and can be searched and read full-text from any computer on campus or through VPN or proxy service when off campus. For more information, please consult the Psychology Library’s home page at http://psychlib.princeton.edu or call the library at (609) 258-3239. The main library of the University is Firestone Library, which is located directly across Washington Road from Green Hall. The Princeton University Library home page can be found at http://library.princeton.edu/.

The library staff consists of the Librarian, Steven M. Adams, two full-time Special Collections Assistants, Linda Chamberlin and Mei-Ying Wang, a part time Library Office Assistant, Ted Nghiem and approximately 15 student assistants. Library patrons must present their PU ID or Access Card to enter the library after 5 p.m. weekdays and all day on weekends. For the library hours, please see http://libweb4.princeton.edu/about/hours and drop down to Psychology Library.

In 1893, a Psychology Laboratory was established in Nassau Hall. One of the four rooms of this laboratory served as a library. In 1920, the Department of Psychology was founded by a separation from the Department of Philosophy. In 1924, Eno Hall was built for the Psychology Department and one room was set aside as the library. Eno Hall was the very first building of any university in the United States, built for the exclusive study of Psychology. In 1963, when the Psychology Department moved to Green Hall (the former engineering building) on the corner of Washington and William Streets, one room next to the lobby served as the library. By 1968, a second and third room had been added for monograph and journal stacks. In 1990, the third room was moved into the basement to accommodate compact shelving for the bound journal collection.

During the summer of 2002, the Psychology Library underwent major renovations. The library was temporarily moved out of its space for the major overhaul. When the work was completed in September of 2002, it no longer had the basement room but it gained the stunning “Langfeld Reading Room” which has seating for 24 people, with 18 electric hook-ups for laptops as well as wireless. A customized Circulation Desk was added. The staff moved into the office previously occupied by the librarian and a new librarian’s office was built next to one of the computer clusters. A new glass display cases at the front of the library houses the books by the department’s faculty.