Built between 1967 and 1972, the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library serves the New York University community. Designed by Philip Johnson and Richard Foster, the 12-story, 425,000 square feet structure sits on the southern edge of Washington Square Park and is the flagship of a nine-library, 4.5 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. Bobst Library houses more than 3.3 million volumes, 20 thousand journals, and over 3.5 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 6,500 users per day, and circulates almost one million books annually.
External Links
New York University Libraries website (http://library.nyu.edu/)
Avery Fisher Center for Music and Media (http://library.nyu.edu/afc/)
Fales Library and Special Collections (http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/fales/)
The ElmerHolmesBobstLibrary, built between 1967 and 1972, is the largest library at New York University and one of the largest academic libraries in the United States.
While BobstLibrary is seen as a trophy building for NYU, one which was able to transform the school from a regional commuter school to a national research university, it is widely disliked by the greater Greenwich Village community.
Also in 2003, BobstLibrary was in the news for being the home of a homeless student who took permanent residence at the Library since he could not afford student housing.
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