Maps and Directions
Getting here
Street Address
Wright Library, 25 Library Place, Princeton, NJ 08540
Tip: Use for visiting the Library yourself and for package delivery (UPS, FedEx, etc.)
Mailing Address
Princeton Theological Seminary
Wright Library
P.O. Box 821
Princeton, NJ 08542 USA
Tip: Use for sending mail via US Postal Service
library@ptsem.edu
Princeton is an academic, research, business, and residential community located midway between New York and Philadelphia. Residents and students have access to libraries, museums, churches, theaters, concerts, athletic events and public lectures in the immediate vicinity.
Parking
We welcome visitors to park in one of the 10 identified visitor spaces near the Center of Theological Inquiry in the Library Lot without a special permit.
If those spaces are occupied, you may park along Mercer Street, Library Place, Stockton Street, or in the municipal lot next-door (metered parking).
The Library Lot is monitored. Vehicles parked in non-visitor spaces within the Library Lot without valid, current Princeton Seminary parking permits (or temporary permits issued for specific events) are subject to ticketing.
For general parking information, please see “Visitor Parking” section of the Public Safety website.
Library Locations
Study tables, soft seating options and restrooms are available on each floor.
A water bottle refilling station is located near the main entrance.
Follow the link below to view the full building directory; some locations are also listed below.
Visit the Circulation Desk on the first floor to check out and return library materials, including course reserves.
Visit the Reference Desk on the first floor across from the Circulation Desk for reference and research assistance.
Study spaces in Wright Library include places for both quiet and collaborative study. Current Princeton Seminary students may reserve a study room.
Library of Congress Call Number System
- Reference B–BR, First Floor balcony
- Reference BS–Z, Lower Level
- Reference 2, A–Z, Lower Level
- A–BS, Third Floor
- BT–BX, Second Floor
- C–Z, Lower Level
- Current issues of selected print journals, Periodicals Reading Room, First Floor (shelved by title)
- Periodicals (Journals), Lower Level (shelved by call number)
- Braille Collection, Second Floor
- Folios, Lower Level
- Media, Second Floor
- Microforms, Second Floor
- New Books (a selection of recent publications), First Floor
- Reigner Collection, Second Floor
Staff-guided library tours of Wright Library are available by request.
Selected additional locations
Computers
- Lower Level
- Second Floor
- Third Floor
First Floor
- Brick Café (1020)
- Circulation Desk (See also: Access and Circulation Services)
- Concourse
- Copy and Scan Center (1045)
- Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church Seminar Room (1060)
- New Books (See also: New Titles)
- Reference Desk (Hours)
Lower Level
- IT Help Desk (North Wing 0130)
- Johnson Seminar Room (0060)
- Reference Reading Room (1090)
Second Floor
- Alumni Room (2036)
- Charles G. Reigner Collection
- James A. Unruh Family Seminar Room (2060)
- South Gallery
- Special Collections (2173, by appointment)
Third Floor
- Center for Barth Studies (3173)
- Digital Learning Lab (3132)
- Frykberg PhD Suite
- Seminar Room (3060)
- Women in Ministry Room (3028)