Report for the Academic Year 1992-1993 - The Institute Libraries ...

THE LIBRARIES
The Historical Studies-Social Science Library [Dr. Elliott Shore, Librarian] contains
about 100,000 volumes and has subscriptions to about 1,000 journals. The library
is strongest in classical studies, ancient history and archaeology, but it contains
basic document collections, reference works and important secondary works of
scholarship in most fields of history and the social sciences. The journal collec-
tion is extensive, and fairly complete back runs exist to the founding of the
Institute. The library has occupied its present building since 1964.
The Institute's rare book collection, the gift of LessingJ. Rosenwald, consists of
about 2,000 volumes on the history of science and was compiled by Herbert M.
Evans in the 1930's. The collection, which is housed in a special room, includes
numerous first editions of important scientific works in mathematics, astronomy,
physics and the life sciences.
The library has an extensive offprint collection that includes offprints received
by Professors Kurt Godel, Ernst H. Kantorowicz, Elias Avery Lowe, Millard
Meiss and Erwin Panofsky and former Member Walter Kirchner.
The microfilm collections of the library include a large selection from Manu-
scripta, a collection of several thousand fifteenth- to nineteenth-century printed
books from the Vatican Library. The Bavarian Academy has given the Institute
a microfilm copy of slips presented for the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. The library
has microfilm copies of the papers of Albert Einstein, Kurt Godel and Simone
Weil.
The Historical Studies-Social Science Library houses the Institute archives. The
papers in the collection date from the 1930's and include official correspondence
of the Director's Office, minutes of meetings of the Faculty and the Board
of Trustees, miscellaneous correspondence concerning past Faculty members,
records of the Electronic Computer Project and other documents. The archives
also include the Institute's extensive photograph collection.
The Mathematics-Natural Sciences Library [Momota Ganguli, Librarian] is located
on the second floor of Fuld Hall and contains some 30,000 volumes (including
bound periodicals and monographs) plus subscriptions to nearly 200 journals.
Its collection of older periodicals (prior to 1940) is housed in compact shelving
on the lower level of the Historical Studies-Social Science Library. The areas
covered by this collection are pure and applied mathematics, astrophysics and
theoretical, particle and mathematical physics.
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