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Portable Devices, 1574-1998, Exhibition Program

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This exhibition, highlighting notebooks in NYU Library’s Special Collections, shows how the blank book has for centuries served as an infinitely adaptable form of portable information storage.

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LifeWork: The Kathe Burkhart Papers

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EXHIBITION EVENTS for LifeWork: The Kathe Burkhart Papers, a site-specific solo exhibition of drawings, paintings, photographs, as well as new Puzzle Haiku floor works, raw videos, literature, and objects drawn from NYU Special Collections.

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Locating Downtown Conference

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Locating Downtown Conference is a three-day gathering focused on the study of downtown NYC—its artists, archives, institutions, and histories. Co-sponsored by NYU Special Collections and the Whitney Museum of American Art, January 23-25, 2026.

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Preservation Week 2024

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Join NYU Libraries for events featuring the work of the Barbara Goldsmith Preservation & Conservation Department.

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Preservation Week 2025

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Join NYU Libraries for events celebrating American Library Association, Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures’ annual Preservation Week.

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Preservation Week 2026

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Preservation Week at NYU Libraries is designed to inspires action to protect collections by raising awareness of how libraries and cultural institutions help preserve materials that sustain community and cultural identity for the future.

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Pride Screening Series at NYU Libraries

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Join NYU Libraries we celebrate Pride Month with a series of film screenings.

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The Public's Domain Exhibition Events

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Please join NYU Libraries for these a series of public events to accompany the exhibition, "The Public's Domain: Transforming Iconic Works of Fiction and Sound."