New York University Libraries

Representative: Alla Roylance

NYU Bobst Library’s Slavic Studies collection supports instructional and research programs at the colleges on the main campus in New York and several global campuses and sites, most importantly, in NYU Prague.

At NYU more than 40 undergraduate and 40 graduate courses deal with Slavic Studies in the disciplines of art, Central and East European literature, comparative literature, cultural studies, drama and cinema studies, economics and economic development, gender studies, history, immigration studies, international education, linguistics, music, politics, public administration, Russian language and literature.

The majority of materials are acquired in Russian and English, and more selectively in Old Church Slavonic, French, German, and Italian.

Among Slavic languages, Russian is by far most prevalent. However, NYU continues to build collections in Polish and Czech languages and, most recently, initiated a collection in Ukrainian with the focus on history, current events, history of religion and culture studies.

Tamiment/Wagner (Tamiment Collection and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives) is one of NYU’s three special collections which contains large caches of materials relevant to the Slavic area studies. Most notable among them are the archives of the USA Communist Party and the Cold War collection which hold personal papers, film and periodicals from the late Cold War era. While there is a noticeable slant toward the American side of the Cold War, efforts are under way to balance it with new collections of late Soviet publications, film and ephemera.