The striking, 12-story Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, designed by Philip Johnson and Richard Foster, is the flagship of a nine-library, 5.1 million-volume system that provides students and faculty members with access to the world’s scholarship and serves as a center for the University community’s intellectual life. The Bobst Library houses more than 3.7 million volumes, 58 thousand serial titles, and over 5.4 million microforms; and provides access to thousands of electronic resources both on-site and to the NYU community around the world via the Internet. The Library is visited by more than 7,400 users per day, and circulates almost one million books annually. Bobst Library offers three specialized reference centers, 28 miles of open stacks shelving, and approximately 2,200 seats for student study.
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012