Initially released as a beta service in the spring of 2016, this catalog is the result of a two year effort to improve and replace our twenty-year-old Main Catalog and incorporate the best features of contemporary library search technology.
The catalog is based on Blacklight, which is an open source collaboration across several institutions including Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Stanford, Yale, and a number of others.
As the examples above demonstrate, Blacklight is highly configurable and customizable, which provides a number of advantages:
We will continue to update and refine this service based on feedback from the Princeton community. If you notice something wrong, or think something could be improved, please send us feedback.