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Get ready for finals with library resources to support your work and your wellbeing. We’re rounding up our top picks to help you survive (and thrive) this finals season! 📚

Swipe through for details on extended hours, study support, student spaces, tech, and more.

🔗 Link in bio for the full lineup

Looking to bring your data to life? 📊

NYU Libraries offers access to powerful data visualization tools to help you turn ideas into compelling visuals, interactive dashboards, and more. Whether you’re just getting started or refining a project, we’ve got resources to support you.

✨ Not sure where to start? Explore 5 tools that make it easier to visualize your data, from charts and maps to design-forward platforms that turn insights into impact.

🔗Check out our data visualization tools at guides.nyu.edu/viz/resources

✨ Want a reason to try them out? Put your skills into action with our Data Visualization Competition, featuring urban datasets and cash prizes.

🔗Learn more and submit your entry at guides.nyu.edu/dataservices/representingdata
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🗓 Submissions due: April 3
📍 Showcase: April 9

Explore the tools. Build something meaningful. Share your work.

As global momentum grows to properly value Indigenous ways of knowing alongside Western scientific research practice, a Māori community in New Zealand illuminates a powerful strategy for change in the 2023 documentary, “E Kore Au E Ngaro [The Connection Remains]”.

Join us during Love Data Week for a special screening of “E Kore Au E Ngaro” and post-film discussion on Indigenous data sovereignty with Associate Professor Jane Anderson (Law/Anthropology, ), co-founder of Local Contexts (), and film director Andreas Burgess.

Co-sponsored by NYU Data Services, NYU School of Law Library (), Local Contexts, and Center CIRCL ()

🗓️ February 12, 3:30–5pm
📍 Bobst Library

Save your spot and register on LibCal (link in bio)

🎬 Film stills courtesy of Andreas Burgess
Image 1: Maui Hudson and Aaron Wilton in Manaaki Whenua Archives
Image 2: Olearia Pachyphylla Sample at Manaaki Whenua

How did New Yorkers beat the summer heat back in the day? They frolicked in the Washington Square Park fountain, cooled off with public art and plenty of ice cream, and NYU summer school students enjoyed tea time and daily dancing in the student center.

NYU News visited Bobst Library to chat with our archivists and curators to uncover how generations past survived summer in the city. Here’s a taste of what they found:

Slide 1: A vendor sells hotdogs and pretzels in this photograph from the 1960s

Slide 2: A man skates in the park in the 1980s

Slide 3: Art on the Beach showcased large-scale works on the beach in Lower Manhattan, in the shadow of the newly opened Twin Towers of the World Trade Center

Slide 4: “Ice Cream Diets” is one of the thousands of food related books donated to NYU by food scholar Dalia Carmel

📸 Jonathan King/NYU

🔗 Link in bio for the full story on NYU News

We are now accepting artwork proposals for NYU Libraries’ upcoming exhibition, “The Public’s Domain: Transforming Iconic Works of Fiction and Sound”!

🗓️ Deadline: Sunday, July 27, 2025, at 11:59 PM (ET)

Each year, creative works previously protected by U.S. copyright law enter the public domain—meaning they can be freely used, shared, and reimagined. We invite NYU students, faculty, staff, and alumni to submit artistic pieces that remix, reuse, adapt, or transform works that entered the public domain in 2025.

🔗 Learn more and apply via the link in our bio.

📸The image in this post features covers of books and albums that entered the public domain in 2025.

Join us to celebrate International Love Data Week, happening February 10–14! This year’s theme is "Whose Data Is It, Anyway?": an invitation to remember to think about where data came from before using it.

At Bobst Library, Bern Dibner Library, NYU-Tandon School of Engineering, and online, we’ll be hosting a series of data-related events including:

💜 Discussions on data privacy, open data, and data inclusivity
💜 Hands-on tutorials for tools like R and LaTeX
💜 A career panel featuring NYU alums turned data professionals
💜 A film screening of “WALL-E”

Find out more and register to attend on our Love Data Week 2025 website: guides.nyu.edu/love-data

What secrets lie beneath the sands of Egypt’s Western Desert? 🏜️

Deep in the Dakhla Oasis, more than 300 miles from the city of Luxor in Upper Egypt, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World is uncovering the ancient city of Trimithis (modern Amheida)—a thriving Roman-era city that endured until the 5th century CE.

Among the remarkable finds is a mid-fourth-century Christian church, housing Egypt’s oldest excavated funerary crypts.

The church’s basilica design and decorative ceiling fragments also offer new insights into early Christian architecture. “It is a testament to the ways in which this local community was connected to and participated in wider imperial culture,” says David Ratzan, project director and head of ISAW’s library.

Excavations at Trimithis have revealed a thriving agricultural economy supported by investments from Nile Valley elites and managed by a rising local class. They managed complex enterprises for export to the Nile Valley, bringing back hardwoods, metals, and luxury goods to the oasis.

But questions remain: why did this 40-hectare city flourish in such a remote desert? As the sands yield their secrets, Trimithis provides a captivating window into the ancient world.

Photo credit: The NYU Amheida Excavations.

📖 For more: "Early Christianity at Amheida (Egypt’s Dakhla Oasis), A Fourth-Century Church Volume I, The Excavations (Amheida VII)" by ISAW and NYU Press.

Over the past two years, our Imaging Lab has taken part in the multi-department effort to preserve and digitize the "Daily Worker and Daily World Photographs Collection" funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).

Currently housed in the Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, the collection consists of roughly 185,000 photographic negative images across several formats.

"Photographic negatives are my favorite materials that our lab works with," says Michael Stasiak, Digital Content Manager at NYU Libraries, "precisely because they require a transformation in order to be useful to a researcher. Our lab uses high-resolution cameras originally developed for commercial fashion photography to capture detail down to the grain level of the film, then transforms those photos into positive images for publication. With this collection, the result is going to be a huge trove of expressive, electrifying, never-before-seen photojournalism."

The photographers for the "Daily Worker" (later the "Daily World") turned their lenses to the tectonic events of the 20th century: labor strikes, protests, marches.

"The powerful thing about these images is that they refuse nostalgia, our urge to freeze the past and hurry onward to a comfortable and unashamed future," says Stasiak. "People today are still striking, protesting, and marching for the same kind of recognition and respect that invigorated the people in these photographs from 60 years ago."�

Slide 1: Memorial Service for Martin Luther King, Jr and Demonstration for Making his Birthday a National Holiday. March from 8th Street and Broadway to Manhattan Center, New York, New York.

Slide 2: Memorial To Martin Luther King by New York University Interfaith Council, Washington Square Park, New York, New York.

Slide 3: Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Parade, Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York. Photos by Bill Andrews.

Slide 4: Harlem Memorial March For Martin Luther King, Jr., Down 7th Avenue from 145th Street to Central Park Mall, New York, New York.

Slide 5: Resurrection City, Washington, District of Columbia.

Each year, the NYU Abu Dhabi Library creates their Engagement and Impact Report, which summarizes the library's activities, events, and impact for the previous academic year. The report presents both a high-level and granular overview of the many ways we support the success of our users in NYU Abu Dhabi and the University's mission globally.

This year's highlights include:
✨ A notable increase in instruction sessions for NYU Abu Dhabi students
✨ Significant community engagement around information literacy
✨ Digital humanities and research initiatives
✨ Notable Special Collections acquisitions
✨ Continued work in our digital preservation program

Check out the full report to learn more: https://www.canva.com/design/DAGUYvqJ_-w/7OJsaZfaHNpd23bxciMyYQ/view?utm_content=DAGUYvqJ_-w&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=editor #1

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On November 13th, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World faculty member Prof. Sebastian Heath welcomed Prof. Peter Cobb from Hong Kong University for a fascinating discussion on the use of Augmented and Mixed Reality (AR/MR) in archaeological fieldwork!

A visionary in prehistoric studies and digital innovation, Prof. Cobb shared insights from his groundbreaking experiments with the Ararat Plain Southeast Archaeological Project (APSAP), conducted in collaboration with the Armenian Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography. Using AR/MR headsets, APSAP has been able to enhance excavation, 3D modeling, and digital restoration and manipulation.

🔍 Discover more about the tools shaping the future of fieldwork and the collaborative vision they inspire: https://isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog/peter-cobb

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