Dear faculty, student, and staff, NYU Shanghai Library’s collection and services will be closed from June 16-18. It will reopen on June 19. Electronic resources are available 24/7. For research assistance in the meantime, please email librarians in NYC at or use the chat widget on the library website. Hope you have a wonderful Dragon Boat Festival! NYU Shanghai Library

We are happy to announce the launch of the new BobCat interface. BobCat is NYU’s branded name for our Library discovery platform! The new BobCat interface has a modern look and feel, and offers new features in addition to all the features of the previous interface.

What’s new in BobCat?

• Responsive design is mobile-friendly.
• Search experience improvements with a single-search bar, collection- scoping, and an update to the advanced search features.
• Virtual Browse is a new discovery feature in beta
• Filters & facets have new features and look.
• Item details screens were updated.
• Search history is more robust
• Report issues, or just tell us you think about the new BobCat, right from the interface.

Screenshot of search results   Screenshot of a bibliographic page for a book