Following are brief descriptions of these collections. If you wish to find out more information, please see the NYU Information Bulletins and the other pages of this web for more details about collections, services, and access.
Appointments are necessary to consult manuscript and archival materials.
The Fales Library, comprising over 150,000 volumes, houses both the Fales Collection of rare books and manuscripts in English and American literature and the general special collections from the NYU Libraries. It is especially strong in English literature from the middle of the 18th century to the present, documenting developments in the novel. 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. 10-5 Appointments are recommended to consult manuscript and archival materials. The Tamiment Institute Library was originally the library for the Rand School of Social Science, founded in 1906.