by Eileen Dolan, Technical Services Librarian
It has been over a year. Sometimes it feels like a week,
other times it feels like forever.
The Library of Congress (LC) has started building
collections documenting this time in history.
LC is crowdsourcing photographs and graphic art on Flickr. You may submit your pictures of the pandemic to the […]
The New York Law Institute will close at 2 PM on Friday, April 2, 2021 for Good Friday. NYLI will reopen Monday, April 5th at 9AM.
The New York Law Institute now offers members a variety of resources and services including 2 eBooks collections providing access to over 160,000 eBook titles. We offer the entire West Academic Nutshells series in eBook format, hundreds of ABA titles, and Mathew Bender legal treatises. We also offer access to valuable electronic resources such as […]
Register to attend the live training webinar, “Locating Historical and Contemporary U.S. Treasury Content on the Open Web.”
Date: Wednesday, April 7, 2021Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (EDT) Recording and closed captioning are available. All webinars are free of charge.
Speakers:Kimberley Carter, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Treasury LibrarianAndrew Young, U.S. Department of the […]
Check out the Spring issue of our quarterly newsletter for a quick update on everything that’s been happening here at NYLI.
Read more here.
Check out all of the most recent releases on govinfo.gov and congress.gov. Updates to these two excellent, research-friendly government sites are detailed in this new post from the CRIV blog.
Read more here.
By Karen Oesterle, Head of Reference
The 2021 PLLIP Diversity & Inclusion Summit was held on Friday, Feb 26, 2021. The keynote speaker, Michelle Silverthorn, best-selling author, keynote speaker, and Founder & CEO of Inclusion Nation, was deeply impressive. The event was a nice combination of keynote address, zoom breakout rooms for discussion, and […]
by Eileen Dolan, Technical Services Librarian
In 2009, the United States House of Representatives
officially recognized March 14 as National Pi Day (H.Res.224
— 111th Congress). The most recent Resolution
regarding Pi Day is from 2019 (H.Res.232
– 116th Congress).
An excellent way to celebrate, even without a nod from
Congress, is with NASA.
For those of us who are more […]
NYLI’s Director of IT & Marketing, Ellyssa Valenti Kroski, is partnering with SJSU and Library 2.0 to organize this free virtual mini conference titled Reinventing Libraries for a Post-COVID World which will take place on Thursday, June 17th, 2021 at 3pm EST/12pm Pacific .
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, librarians have been […]
LLAGNY’s Graphic Novel Book Group will meet via Zoom on Thursday March 18th at 12pm. We will discuss Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio, by Derf Backderf . Please see our LibGuide for past and upcoming titles.
Please contact, Eileen Dolan at edolan@NYLI.org to be added to the meeting