Assistance with references, research consultations, and instruction is available remotely or in-person. Contact us to speak with an Institute of Fine Arts Library subject specialist.
Course reserve materials are available digitally and physically on-site. Physical course reserves have two locations, open and closed.
Open course reserves are on the second floor between the Archeology and Modern Reading Rooms.
Closed course reserves are in the library office and are only accessible during library office hours.
All course reserves must be signed out and returned to their respective shelves. Please do not keep course reserve books on personal shelves.
Physical items may be ordered online and accessed through contactless pick-up, delivery, or scanning.
Registered full-time NYU Ph.D. and Master’s degree graduate students and faculty may borrow circulating Stephen Chan Library of Fine Arts materials. This service is not available to NYU undergraduate students or staff.
For the Fall 2023 semester, non-NYU visitors may not use the Institute of Fine Arts Library materials on-site during open hours. Users not affiliated with NYU may be able to access IFA materials through their affiliated institution’s interlibrary loan program. If you are not affiliated with an institution, please contact your local, public library for assistance or locate other libraries through WorldCat.
If the IFA Library is the only institution that holds the material, please provide this information in an email request to: ifa.library@nyu.edu and we may be able to provide up to 50 pages in scans.
NYU Libraries strives to ensure that our users have access to the full range of information and services, including those with temporary or permanent disabilities. Please visit NYU Libraries' Accessibility Services page for more information or email lib-accommodations@nyu.edu.
Users may check out up to 50 books.
NYU MA students may borrow materials to the end of semester. Faculty and PhD students may borrow materials for 120 days.
Items can be renewed an unlimited number of times.
Library staff may ask for a recall if an item needs to be returned as soon as possible. A hold is a process in which the library does not allow an item’s current borrower to renew it. Because the user to whom the item is currently checked out cannot renew it, they must return the item.
Users are responsible for returning borrowed items on time, as well as paying any fines and fees associated with overdue or non-returned items.
NYU students, faculty, and staff can access resources through the NYU Libraries online catalog. Log in with your NetID and password.
Materials from Cooper Union, The New School, and New York School of Interior Design or other libraries may be requested using the Interlibrary Loan (ILL), or you may use EZBorrow if you are in a rush. Books arrive more quickly than traditional ILL in most cases.
If you would like to request a purchase, please email Annalise.Welte@nyu.edu.
Delivery times are based on demand, the delivery option chosen, and delivery distance. We will do our best to process requests.
All circulating library materials from the IFA, Bobst, and ISAW Libraries can be picked up and returned to the Institute of Fine Arts, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, and Elmer Holmes Bobst Library.
At the James B. Duke house, a designated area across from the public safety desk will be available for the pick-up and return of circulating library materials.
Institute of Fine Arts students with shelves will have their books delivered to a designated space across from course reserves on the 2nd floor.
Please show the public safety officer on duty your checked-out books as you leave the building.
Stephen Chan Library of Fine Arts materials can be delivered to Bobst and ISAW. Please expect to wait 3-5 business days for your materials to be processed and delivered to these libraries.
You may check out materials in the library office Monday-Friday from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm or request materials through the library catalog for pick-up. All materials must be checked out before putting them on personal shelves, bringing them to offices, or leaving the building.
You may request scans from book chapters and journal articles located in the Institute of Fine Arts Library. Please make no more than 5 requests per week, up to 50 pages per request.
Users not affiliated with NYU may be able to access IFA materials through their institution’s interlibrary loan program. If you are not affiliated with an institution, please contact your local, public library for assistance or locate other libraries through WorldCat. If the IFA Library is the only institution that holds the material or you are not able to access the title elsewhere, please provide this information in an email request to: ifa.library@nyu.edu and we may be able to provide up to 50 pages in scans.
Home delivery will be available to faculty and PhD students as a secondary option when necessary.
Log in with your NetID and password to see request options.
Log in to the NYU Libraries online catalog.
Conduct your search.
Click on the bibliographic record.
Eligible materials will display a blue Request button next to the call number.
Click this button to request the item and choose a delivery option or location.
Click the black Submit Request button.
Log in to the NYU Libraries online catalog.
Conduct your search.
Click on the bibliographic record.
Eligible materials will display a blue Request a Scan button next to the call number.
Click this button to request the item and enter all information necessary to complete your request.
Click the black Submit Request button.
Log in to the NYU Libraries online catalog.
Conduct your search.
Click on the bibliographic record.
Eligible materials will display a blue Request a Physical Copy button next to the call number.
Click this button to request the item. IFA will display as the only pickup location.
The item will be available in the Library Office for library-use only (Monday through Friday from 9:00-5:00).
If this will be your first time using the IFA Library please contact ifa.library@nyu.edu to set up a brief orientation.