Archive for the 'Archives' Category

Search the Libraries’ Archival Collections

April 4, 2008

Details of many archival collections in NYU Libraries’ Special Collections are described in “finding aids.” Now you can search these finding aids directly from the homepage of NYU Libraries website.

NYU Libraries Special Collections include the Fales Library, The Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, the NYU Archives. Descriptions of some collections in [...]

Fales Library Food Studies Programs on the Web

September 24, 2007

If you missed NYU’s Fales Collection’s “Critical Topics in Food Studies” live programs last year, you can see them on the Web!
http://www.nyu.edu/tv.media/nyutv/media.archive/food.html
Programs include:

The Communist Party of the USA: 90 Years of History

August 16, 2007

The Communist Party traces its origins to the militant labor struggles of the early years of the twentieth-century. It was forged by the industrial union movement of the 1910s, opposition to World War I, and the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. Throughout its history the Communist Party and the nearly one million people who were [...]

Exhibition in Bobst Library: Posters of the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939

June 18, 2007

Mamdouha S. Bobst Gallery, Main Floor, Bobst Library
The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) was the culmination of centuries of division: centralists against nationalists, anti-clericals against the Catholic Church, workers against industrialists, landless agricultural laborers against landowners, monarchists against republicans. The weak Second Republic could not contain the demands for regional independence, land reform and worker control. [...]

The Continuing History of the Spanish Civil War: A Tamiment Library Symposium

April 23, 2007

April 27, 2007 - 4 PM - 8 PM
Tamiment Library, 70 Washington Square South (West 4th Street between Greene and LaGuardia), 10th Floor
Co-sponsored by the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives
This symposium celebrates the opening of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives that was preserved and processed with assistance from the National Endowment for Humanities.
Program details
An exhibit of [...]

Faculty Digital Archive Now Available

April 17, 2007

NYU’s Faculty Digital Archive ( http://archive.nyu.edu ) is a new repository into which full-time NYU faculty can deposit their work in digital form. The Faculty Digital Archive (FDA) is intended to be a highly visible repository of NYU faculty digital scholarship, though collections can also be set up to restrict access to only selected people. [...]

RLG’s Archival Resources Now Called ArchiveGrid

July 7, 2006

ArchiveGridSM is RLG’s international Web site describing primary sources. ArchiveGrid is the most thorough research tool available for material on family and corporate histories, personal papers, and historical records. ArchiveGrid provides direct search access to dispersed collections and meaningful, comprehensive collection descriptions written by archivists. Scholars can easily locate relevant research institutions, arrange visits, or [...]