NYU Libraries

Great libraries are essential to great universities. They support and empower scholarship and research innovation. The NYU Division of Libraries is an eight-library, 6 millionvolume system that continually enhances its on-site and online services and resources for students and faculty and expands its research collections in all formats, from paper to electronic and multimedia. NYU Libraries provides students and faculty with access to the worlds scholarship; its resources and services are central to the university communitys intellectual life. Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, which houses millions of volumes, more than 53,000 serial titles, and over 43,000 linear feet of archives, is the systems flagship library. The Libraries catalog also provides NYUs global community with access to thousands of electronic resources. Bobst receives 10,000 visits per day and circulates 159,000 items annually. Within Bobst is the Special Collections Center, which houses the Fales Collections of literat...