DIGITAL DOWNTOWN: Home page.
I. ABOUT: Contextual information including site credits, copyright information, how to use the collection, and where to find us.
- SITE MAP (you are here)
- THE DOWNTOWN COLLECTION
- USING THE COLLECTION
- Setting up class visits (for faculty).
- Setting up a research account and requesting materials (for students and researchers).
- CONTACT
- Address, phone number, email, and map.
II. CONTEXTS: Readings that illuminate the history, theory, and activist collecting philosophy of the Downtown Collection.
- THE DOWNTOWN SCENE
- Marvin J. Taylor, “Playing the Field: The Downtown Scene and Cultural Production” (2006). An essay elucidating the concrete and conceptual relationship between the New York downtown scene and the Downtown Collection.
- ARCHIVES: HISTORY / THEORY / PRAXIS
- Tamar Barzel, “Archive and Counter Archive.” An essay that places the Downtown Collection in historical and cultural context, tracing the origins and development of archives and the emergence of critical archives theory and activist archiving.
- ORAL HISTORY & PUBLIC HISTORY
- THE RIOT GRRRL COLLECTION
- Kate Eichhorn, “Redefining a Movement: The Riot Grrrl Collection at Fales Library and Special Collections” (2013) (permission pending). An essay adding theoretical and contextual frames for an archival collection at NYU that documents the evolution of the Riot Grrrl movement and adjacent activism from 1989 through the 1990s.
III. SCENES: Introductory essays, linked to related content in the Downtown Collection, about downtown’s overlapping arts scenes and activist concerns.
- MUSIC
- Accessing the Audio / Video Collection: How to watch and listen to audio/video in the Downtown Collection.
- Voices from the Downtown Scene: Clips from an oral history project.
- LITERARY ARTS
- VISUAL MEDIA
- PERFORMANCE
- ACTIVISM
IV. RESEARCH & TEACHING: Resources for teaching, doing research, and developing multimedia projects.
- Doing Primary Source Research.
- Using Archives and Manuscripts.
- Finding Aids
- How to use a finding aid.
- Annotated finding aid.
- Glossary of specialized terms.
- TEACHING RESOURCES
- Setting up a consultation to learn about digital multimedia and storytelling tools (for faculty).
- Assignments from NYU courses that engage with the archive.
- Teaching and Research Tools.
- STUDENT WORK
- NEW SCHOLARSHIP
- DAVID WOJNAROWICZ KNOWLEDGE BASE: a project of the Artist Archives Initiative at New York University.
- SELECTED READINGS
This website is under construction and will be completed by the end of Fall 2020. To access the main website for the Downtown Collection, click here. To access the main website for Fales Library & Special Collections, click here.
Note: Due to a renovation, all special collections repositories will be closed to researchers the following dates: May 22, 2019–September 2, 2019 and May 21, 2020–September 7, 2020. To explore the construction of NYU’s new Special Collections Center, click here.