- Location
- Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, Third Floor
70 Washington Square South
New York, New York 10012
Telephone: 212-998-2596
Fax: 212-995-3835
Email: fales.library@nyu.edu
- Hours
- Monday-Thursday 10:00 AM - 5:45 PM, Friday 9:00 AM - 4:45 PM
Appointments are necessary to consult manuscript and archival materials.
Summer Hours:
Monday - Friday 10:00 AM - 4:45 PM
Closed: Memorial Day, May 26; Independence Day, July 4; Labor Day, September 1
- Mailing List
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If you want to be notified of upcoming events in the Fales Library, please call (212) 998-2446, or e-mail library.events@nyu.edu with your full address, and we will add you to our mailing list.
- Introduction
- The Fales Library, comprising nearly 200,000 volumes, and over 10,000 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 Policy
- Collection development areas for the Fales Library and Special Collections include the following: The Fales Library of British and American Literature, The Downtown Collection, The Food Studies Collection. Collection Development Policies for each of these three areas are available here:
Fales General Collection Development Policy
- 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. 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. Appointments are necessary for consulting all archival and manuscript materials. Please dial 212-998-2596 to schedule an appointment.
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