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Bobst, located on Washington Square, is the main library in NYU's 9-library system. This video provides a quick overview of Bobst Library's study spaces, collections, and specialized services.
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Join the Office of Sustainability and NYU Libraries for a climate action mixer! Participate in a 30-minute meditation where we will engage our senses and practice focused attention using plants, offering gratitude to the natural world. Afterwards, enjoy plant-based snacks while getting to know peers and friends who are interested in environmental issues and combatting climate change.
Registration is required. Plants will be provided as giveaways for the meditation.
Grad Student Open House at NYU Libraries
Tuesday, September 9, 2025
Time: 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Welcome to the Libraries! Drop in during our Open House with subject liaisons and other library specialists to learn about the variety of resources available as you launch your graduate journey at NYU. Light refreshments and scheduled raffle giveaways will be provided. Hosted by NYU Libraries and Grad Life.
Location: Bobst Library | Second Floor North Reading Room
Join MindfulNYU and NYU Libraries as we celebrate the start of the semester with a candlelight yoga class overlooking Washington Square Park. This will be a 75 minute all levels yoga class where we will focus on stretchy postures to loosen and relax your body. Modifications will be offered to accommodate all bodies. We will then proceed to some breathwork and meditation to provide a sense of steadiness and calm. Come enjoy the view and practice as the sun goes down over the park, but rises on the beginning of the semester.
Location - 2nd Floor North Reading Room
We recommend wearing comfortable clothing that allows you to move and bend. Yoga mats will be provided, but you are welcome to bring your own.
Provided in partnership with MindfulNYU
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Each academic year, NYU Reads brings the NYU community together around a single common reading, chosen by a University committee made up of faculty, student, and administrator representatives. Building on our undergraduate schools’ first-year reading programs, NYU Reads extends this dialogue beyond Welcome Week and opens it up to the entire University community.
This year's pick is Orbital by Samantha Harvey (2023). For every one day on earth, the four astronauts and two cosmonauts in Samantha Harvey’s novel Orbital circle the earth sixteen times; from their space station, they swiftly circle the globe, looking back at Earth, experiencing “a day of five continents and of autumn and spring, glaciers and deserts, wilderness and warzones.” The “whip-crack of morning arrives every ninety minutes.” These astronauts are here for nine months: by the time they descend, they will have orbited Earth more than four thousand times. What might we understand about ourselves and others when we move at these kinds of speeds, and at this kind of distance? How does our understanding of place—earth, nation, culture—change? What about memory, or love, or time? As Harvey writes, it’s not that we have new thoughts, but “old thoughts born into new moments.” The astronauts and cosmonauts—American, Japanese, British, Italian, Russian—exercise, clean, dream, remember, but most of all, they monitor: their own bodies, molds, plant roots, forty resident mice, cultures of heart cells, cabbages and dwarf wheat, and the Earth, photographed over and over again, from every angle. Meticulously researched and lyrically rendered, Harvey’s novel is a call to step back, take perspective, and achieve deeper understanding. Orbital is a meditation on what it means to progress: observation by observation, reflection by reflection, accelerated day by accelerated day. Her novel helps us see our homes and lives—and our own orbits—anew.