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🎞️ NYU Libraries was awarded a national grant to preserve pioneering computer-animated films by A. Michael Noll.

✨ Bobst Library’s newly renovated 1st floor Service Desk opened today!

🤖 The NYU Abu Dhabi Library is accepting submissions for “Transforming Information: Libraries in the Age of AI,” a two-day virtual conference that seeks to address the impact that Generative AI has had on libraries. Submissions are due September 5.

At NYU Libraries, we’ve reached a major milestone in the digitization of the Daily Worker and Daily World Negatives Collection, a project funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC). This effort to digitize over 185,000 images spanning from 1930 to 2006 has unearthed vivid glimpses into the lives of laborers, activists, and communities across the U.S., now accessible publicly for the first time. Captured by staff and freelance photographers of the Daily Worker and Daily World, these images chronicle significant moments in labor history from historic strikes, Labor Day parades, and protests to the everyday joy and struggle of working people.

This project represents a true multi-departmental collaboration, bringing together staff from the Barbara Goldsmith Preservation and Conservation Department, Archival Collections Management, Digital Library Technology Services (DLTS), Budget and Finance, and Special Collections. Much of the digitization work was carried out in-house by library staff and student employees, with additional support from the vendor Picturae. Now on view in the Special Collections Center, the exhibition Bringing the Daily Worker to the World showcases images selected by the student employees themselves, displayed alongside original creative works inspired by their experience with the collection. From taxi drivers and sanitation workers to anti-fascist fighters and neighborhood revelers, the photographs speak to the enduring vitality of American social movements and highlight the significance of documentary photography as both record and art.

In a recent interview with People’s World, Shannon O’Neill, curator of the Tamiment-Wagner Collections and project principal investigator, noted: “The Daily Worker photographers understood the significance of documenting and humanizing the lives of everyday people. Alongside the demonstrations, rallies, and uprisings, there are photos of neighbors sharing a pint at the bar, beachside celebrations, marching bands—all an incredible reminder that we must incorporate joy and pleasure in the fight for freedom.”

COLLECTIONS

Meticulously researched and lyrically rendered, Harvey’s novel is a call to step back, take perspective, and achieve deeper understanding. Orbital is a meditation on what it means to progress: observation by observation, reflection by reflection, accelerated day by accelerated day. Her novel helps us see our homes and lives—and our own orbits—anew.

Orbital is available in multiple formats through NYU Libraries: ebook, audiobook, and physical copies. Get yours and join the conversation this semester.

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Washington Square Park in the 1930s

From the Archives: Summer in the City, Through the Decades: A seasonal tour of NYU Libraries’ Special Collections, from summer school in the 1930s to art on the beach in the 1970s

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Through September 12 | Bobst Library, 2nd Floor Special Collections Center Gallery

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