Fales Library & Special Collections

Archival Collections

Appointments are necessary for all researchers who wish to consult archival and manuscript materials. To schedule an appointment, please email Fales at fales.library@nyu.edu. Please allow 48 hours advance notice when making appointments.

To locate material, you can use our search tool, or browse our finding aids by collection:

x	Downtown Collection
x	Food & Cookery Collection
x	Riot Grrrl Collection
x	General Special Collections
x	Avant Garde Collection

The Avant-Garde collection was begun by Mel Edelstein in the mid-1960s when he was director of the Fales Library. It includes the archives of several small literary and artistic magazines, the papers of some poets, and an extensive collection of printed books, chapbooks, broadsides, etc from poets working in the 1960s and 1970s. The print collections have been cataloged and can be searched in Bobcat.