Special Collections and Archives
Bobst Library's special collections and archives house significant resources, rare books, personal papers, University history, and more. Additionally, they sponsor numerous events throughout the year, and contribute widely to many publications.
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The Fales Library & Special Collections
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- Collection Development Policy: General Special Collections
- Collection Development Policy: Dowtown Collection
- Collection Development Policy: Food and Cookery Collection
- The Fales Library, established in 1957 by DeCoursey Fales and comprising nearly 200,000 volumes, houses both the Fales Collection of rare books and manuscripts in English and American literature and the general special collections from the NYU Libraries. [more …]
The Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
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- The Tamiment Institute Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives form a unique center for scholarly research on labor history and the history of socialist, anarchist, communist and other radical political movements. [more …]
New York University Archives
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- The New York University Archives serves as the final repository for the historical records of NYU and its impact of the University's activities on the history of American social, cultural, and intellectual development. [more …]
The Archives of Irish America
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- The Archives of Irish America has been building upon a pilot project started in 1997 to survey and collect materials related to the New York Irish community. [more …]
The Research Institute for the Study of Man
- Between 2004 and 2007, the Research Institute for the Study of Man [RISM] transferred its library, including the holdings of its Library of Caribbean Research and significant research and conference collections from its institutional archives, to New York University Libraries. [more …]
Online Exhibits
- Database of Recorded American Music (DRAM) (NYU NetID required)
- Labor & the Holocaust: The Jewish Labor Committee and the Anti-Nazi Struggle
- Sam Reiss: An Eyewitness to Labor History, 1948-1975
- NYU and the Village: An Urban University in Bohemia
- 1968 Revisited
- Archives of Irish America
- Kicking Culture: Fragments from the Downtown scene, 1975-Present
- A Time To Live: The Life and Writings of Erich Maria Remarque
- Master of Mythologies: the Fictional Worlds of Jerome Charyn
- Reading Wilde, Querying Spaces
- Anarchist Collections in the Tamiment Library
- CPUSA: Ninety Years of History, a Tamiment Library Exhibit on Flickr
- Rand School of Social Science
