| 212-998-2596 fales.library@nyu.edu |
Hours: | Monday to Thursday, 10:00 - 5:45 Friday, 9:00 - 4:45 |
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| Fales will be Closed Monday February 15. Learn about our new Riot Grrrl Collection. Join us for the panel Art or Archive? What Matters to Artists' Estates Tuesday, February 16. |
The Fales Library & Special Collections
The Fales Library, comprising nearly 200,000 volumes, and over 8,000 linear feet of archive and manuscript materials, houses the Fales Collection of rare books and manuscripts in English and American literature, the Downtown Collection, the Food and Cookery Collection and the general Special Collections of the NYU Libraries. The Fales Collection was given to NYU in 1957 by DeCoursey Fales in memory of his father, Haliburton Fales. It is especially strong in English literature from the middle of the 18th century to the present, documenting developments in the novel. The Downtown Collection documents the downtown New York art, performance, and literary scenes from 1975 to the present and is extremely rich in archival holdings, including extensive film and video objects. The Food and Cookery Collection is a vast, and rapidly expanding collection of books and manuscripts documenting food and foodways with particular emphasis on New York City. Other strengths of the collection include the Berol Collection of Lewis Carroll Materials, the Robert Frost Library, the Kaplan and Rosenthal Collections of Judaica and Hebraica and the manuscript collections of Elizabeth Robins and Erich Maria Remarque. The Fales Library preserves manuscripts and original editions of books that are rare or important not only because of their texts, but also because of their value as artifacts.
Collection Development
Collection development policies for the Fales Library and Special Collections are available for each area of collecting: General Special Collections General Special Collections, the Downtown Collection , and the Food Studies Collection.
Access
The Fales Library is open to all NYU students, faculty, staff, administrators, alumni, researchers, and scholars from other institutions throughout the US and abroad. Appointments are necessary for all researchers who wish to consult archival and manuscript materials. Private scholars and other non-affiliated patrons must make appointments to use both print and archival collections by sending a note of inquiry to fales.library@nyu.edu before they plan to visit the Library. All patrons must provide a valid photographic identification card to register as readers in the collection. The Fales Library operates on a closed stack system; books are retrieved for patrons who read them in the reading room; Fales/Special Collection items do not circulate. Patrons may bring personal computers into the reading room. To schedule an appointment, please email Fales at fales.library@nyu.edu or call 212-998-2596.
Location
Fales is located on the third floor of NYU's Bobst Library. Our mailing address is:
70 Washington Square So, Third Floor
New York, NY 10012