Membership Options

The New York Society Library offers a number of membership options.

An iPad and a laptop side by side on a desk.

E-Member $100

For one person

Includes access to all digital resources, member-only events

+ 10 building visits/year

Join
Person reading in Members' Room

Individual $270

For one person

Includes all benefits of membership

+ unlimited building access

Join
2 people viewing special collections materials

Dual $335

For two people at a single address

Includes all benefits of membership

+ unlimited building access

Join
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Family $350

For three or more people at a single address

Includes all benefits of membership

+ unlimited building access

Join

Institutional rates are also available. Please contact us at 212-288-6900 x214 or membership@nysoclib.org.

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Membership benefits include:

  • Beautiful reading and study spaces
  • 300,000 print books in open stacks available for browsing and checkout
  • Writer Services
  • Interlibrary Loan service
  • Thousands of e-books, audiobooks, and digital magazines
  • Digital journals, newspapers, periodicals, and reference works covering the arts, literature, history, and biography
  • Member-only events
  • Books by Mail service
  • Day lockers & six-month lockers
  • Research support from our skilled team of reference librarians
  • Expert readers advisory from our book-loving staff