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. Read more about our ongoing projects and participate in discussions about our archives and special collections on the blog, The Back Table.
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The Fales Library & Special Collections
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- Finding Aids and Collection Descriptions
- 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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- Collection Development Policy
- 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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- Collection Development Policy
- 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 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 …]
Poly Archives
- The mission of the Poly Archives is to collect, preserve, and provide access to the records of the Institute and related historical collections. As NYU-Poly’s official repository, the archives documents the history of the Institute as well as influential members of the NYU-Poly community. [more …]
Online Exhibits
- 1968 Revisited
- A Time To Live: The Life and Writings of Erich Maria Remarque
- Anarchist Collections in the Tamiment Library
- CPUSA: Ninety Years of History, a Tamiment Library Exhibit on Flickr
- Database of Recorded American Music (DRAM) (NYU NetID required)
- John Penley Photographs: Highlights from the Collection on Flickr
- Kicking Culture: Fragments from the Downtown scene, 1975-Present
- Labor & the Holocaust: The Jewish Labor Committee and the Anti-Nazi Struggle
- Master of Mythologies: the Fictional Worlds of Jerome Charyn
- Mick Moloney Irish American Music and Popular Culture Collection
- NYU and the Village: An Urban University in Bohemia
- Rand School of Social Science
- Reading Wilde, Querying Spaces
- Sam Reiss: An Eyewitness to Labor History, 1948-1975
