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  2. Elmer Holmes Bobst Library - Wikipedia

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    Description Bobst Library's Lobby A view of the interior of Bobst. The library, built in 1972, is NYU's largest library and one of the largest academic libraries in the U.S. Designed by Philip Johnson and Richard Foster, the 12-story, 425,000 square feet (39,500 m 2) structure is the flagship of an eleven-library, 5.9 million-volume system.

  3. New York University Libraries - Wikipedia

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    New York University Division of Libraries (NYU Libraries) is the library system of New York University (NYU), located on the university's global campus, but primarily in the United States. It is one of the largest university libraries in the United States.

  4. New York University - Wikipedia

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    New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City, United States. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature , [12] NYU was founded in 1832 by a group of New Yorkers led by Albert Gallatin [13] as a non-denominational all-male institution near City Hall based on a curriculum focused on a secular education .

  5. History of New York University - Wikipedia

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    The history of New York University begins in the early 19th century. A group of prominent New York City residents from the city's landed class of merchants, bankers, and traders established NYU on April 18, 1831. These New Yorkers believed the city needed a university designed for young men who would be admitted based on merit, not birthright ...

  6. New York Public Library - Wikipedia

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    The New York Public Library ( NYPL) is a public library system in New York City. With nearly 53 million items and 92 locations, the New York Public Library is the second-largest public library in the United States behind the Library of Congress and the fourth-largest public library in the world. [5] It is a private, non-governmental ...

  7. Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Archives - Wikipedia

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    The Tamiment Library is a research library at New York University that documents radical and left history, with strengths in the histories of communism, socialism, anarchism, the New Left, the Civil Rights Movement, and utopian experiments. The Robert F. Wagner Archives, which is also housed in Bobst Library at NYU, documents American labor ...

  8. Gould Memorial Library - Wikipedia

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    Designated entity. Interior. The Gould Memorial Library (GML; also nicknamed Gould) is a building on the campus of Bronx Community College (BCC), an institution of the City University of New York (CUNY), in University Heights, Bronx, New York City, United States. The building was designed by Stanford White of the firm McKim, Mead & White.

  9. New York Public Library Main Branch - Wikipedia

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    The Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (commonly known as the Main Branch, the 42nd Street Library, or just the New York Public Library [b]) is the flagship building in the New York Public Library system in the Midtown neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The branch, one of four research libraries in the library system, contains nine ...