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Fales Library

Fales Library

New York University's Fales Library and Special Collections is located on the third floor of the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library on the university's Washington Square Park campus. It houses nearly 200,000 volumes, and 10,000 feet (3,000 m) of archive and manuscript materials, including the Fales Collection of Rare Books and manuscripts in English and American literature, the Downtown Collection, the Food and Cookery Collection, and the general Special Collections from the NYU Libraries.