This post was written by Umrat Khan, while she was a Graduate Student Assistant at NYU Special Collections. She graduated from NYU’s Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement Program in 2024. Collection materials in foreign languages tend to be overlooked due to language barriers, limited access,
This post is written by Maddie DeLaere, an Archival Collections Management Graduate Student Worker. She is completing the NYU/LIU Dual Degree program, pursuing a Masters in Food Studies alongside an MLIS. Sometimes, when a new collection is processed – materials sifted, organized, and removed to
This post is written by Weatherly Stephan, Head of Archival Collections Management, and Rachel Searcy, Accessioning Archivist In 2019, Archival Collections Management received the Collection on Enslavement in Cuba for accessioning into the Fales Library. The collection consists of documents concerning slavery in Spanish-colonized Cuba
This post is written by Julie Park, Assistant Curator and Faculty Fellow in the Special Collections Center. The exhibition she curated, Portable Devices, 1574-1998: Notebooks from NYU Special Collections, on display April 14-June 21, is based on her current book project, Writing’s Maker, a study
This entry is written by Camila Aguirre, a graduate student in NYU’s Archives and Public History Program. As part of her capstone project, Camila rehoused and amended the description of Mark Bloch PAN Archive’s Series I: Mail Art and Correspondence. Saving the Mail: The Rehousing
This piece is written by Kiera Eriksen-McAuliffe, a former NYU Special Collections Student Employee who graduated from NYU in the spring of 2021. Kiera is now a Master’s Student at Columbia University in the MA program in European History, Politics, and Society. She is also
This is post is written by Julie Park, an Assistant Curator and Faculty Fellow in the Special Collections Center. Hot foil stamped in blue are the words “20 Slices” on the cover of an orange clothbound book. Square shaped, the book is the same size
This post is authored by curators Karen Finley and Marvin J. Taylor. The NYU Libraries has installed panels from the Names Project AIDS Quilt as the final event of Stonewall@50–NYU’s year-long commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, which launched the modern queer
Over the past two years, we have been gradually digitizing the Nelson Sullivan Video Collection (Fales, MSS.357) in the Media Preservation Unit. The tapes are a treasure trove of documentation of LGBTQ (and other) life in downtown Manhattan (and elsewhere) in the 1980s. Tomorrow marks
Gay Rally, 1977; Richard Berkowitz Papers; MSS 421; 421.0019, Fales Library & Special Collections, New York University. If you haven’t guessed from the rainbow flags that proudly flap around the city, this weekend is the NYC Pride Parade, a celebration of the LGBTQI+ community