Avery Fischer Center for Music and Media
Elmer Bobst Library, 2nd Floor

70 Washington Sq. South, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10011

Telephone: 212.998.2500

The Avery Fisher Center for Music and Media was founded with the purpose of providing access to multiple forms of communications media: audio, visual, and interactive multimedia. It is the nature of these technologies to be constantly evolving, and this has given rise to a variety of media and formats, each with its own special strengths. For more information on the Avery Fisher Collection Development Policy, please see http://library.nyu.edu/collections/policies/afc.html

Elmer Bobst Library - New York University

70 Washington Sq. South
New York, NY 10011

Telephone: 212.998.2500

Shelved in open stacks on the second and fourth through tenth floor is the library’s circulating collection of 2.5 million volumes. The collection grows by 50,000 volumes annually. More than 500,000 of these items circulate per year. Also shelved in the stacks are bound volumes of journals. Housed in the Microforms Center is another significant component of the collection -- 2.3 million microform items to which 40,000 units are added per year.

The collection in Bobst supports the research and instructional needs of the University's Washington Square programs. Separate libraries support the curricula of the schools of Law, Medicine and Dentistry, and the Real Estate, Courant and Fine Arts Institutes (see below about access privileges to the Avery Fisher Collection supporting NYU's Fine Arts Programs)

The research value of Bobst's resources are enhanced by its special collections. Foremost among these are the Fales Library of English and American Literature and the Tamiment Institute Library of American radical and labor history. Fales houses approximately 150,000 rare books and about 1,100 linear feet of manuscripts relating to nineteenth and twentieth century British and American literature. The Tamiment Library is one of the nation's finest collections for scholarly research in labor history, socialism, anarchism, and American radicalism. Also in Bobst is the United Nations Collection that includes documents from the League of Nations and various UN affiliate organizations.

Library of the Courant Institute of Math Sciences

251 Mercer Street, 12th Floor

New York, NY 10011
Telephone 212.998.3311 for recorded information on library hours

The collection is focused on research level material in mathematics, computer science and related fields, including fluid mechanics, image processing, and robotics. The collection contains over 60,000 volumes and receives 220 current journal subscriptions.

Dr. Lillian & Dr. Rebecca Chutick Law Library
Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University

55 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY 10011

The Dr. Lillian and Dr. Rebecca Chutick Law Library, newly expanded and renovated, is the center of student and faculty research at Cardozo. Encompassing four floors of Cardozo's building, the library holds more than 500,000 books, periodicals, microforms, and audio and video materials, and maintains an exceptionally comprehensive reference collection. Resources for computer-assisted research are readily available.

The Cooper Union Library

7 E. 7th Street

New York, NY 10003

The Cooper Union Library's collections provide support for the academic programs at the institution's three degree-granting schools of Art, Architecture and Engineering, as well as courses in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Library houses approximately 100,000 volumes of books and back issues of periodicals, the current issues of over 300 periodicals, as well as CD-ROM, microfilm and microfiche. Electronic resources include Internet access and databases in many subject areas.

New York Academy of Art

111 Franklin St.

New York, NY 10013

The Academy library's collection of books, videos, slides and periodicals is designed to give students immediate access during school hours to visual images and ideas that enhance their efforts in the studio and classroom. The book, video and slide collections include works specifically selected to support the M.F.A. curriculum. Emphasis is on anatomical studies and figurative art, as well as the historical periods in which figurative art flourished-ancient Greece and Rome, the Renaissance, Baroque and Neo-Classical periods. The media of painting, sculpture and drawing are emphasized, as are the issues and methodological problems faced by artists.

New York Historical Society Library

2 West 77th Street

New York, NY 10024

The New-York Historical Society houses one of the oldest research libraries in the United States. It is one of 16 libraries qualified to participate in the Independent Research Library Association, where membership is open only to institutions that "house collections of national or international significance that are capable of supporting sustained research in a variety of interrelated subjects and of attracting scholars from all over the world."

The library collection encompasses a breadth of formats: printed books and pamphlets, manuscripts, which include diaries, letters, and business records from four centuries, maps and atlases, newspapers with a special concentration on pre-1820 titles, broadsides, sheet music, scrapbooks, menus, and an unparalleled variety of ephemera. Two hundred years of gathering research materials has allowed the Historical Society to develop collections which are rich, deep, and diverse, covering a 400 year period with a concentration on pre-1900 imprints and manuscripts.