Monthly Archives: May 2024

NYLI Now Offers Over 270,000 eBooks

Our eBook collection has been growing steadily over the years and has now reached close to 300,000 titles!

Our diverse ebook collection runs the gamut including everything from aviation treatises and technology primers for legal professionals to books on Disaster Management and International Space Law and International Law and Corporate Actors in Deep Seabed Mining. […]

By |May 29th, 2024|Announcements, New at NYLI|Comments Off on NYLI Now Offers Over 270,000 eBooks

NYLI Closed for Memorial Day Holiday

The New York Law Institute will be closing early at 2 PM Friday, May 24th, and will be closed Monday, May 27, 2024 in observance of Memorial Day . NYLI will reopen on Tuesday, May 28th at 9 a.m.

Happy Memorial Day!

By |May 22nd, 2024|Announcements|Comments Off on NYLI Closed for Memorial Day Holiday

Welcome Summer Associates! NYLI offers Resources & Research assistance.. (& a LibGuide or two!)

It’s May… a month whose very name suggests possibilities .. and it’s the start of Summer Associates season at law firms in New York…

To make full use of NYLI’s resources, we ask our members to give authorization for their Summer Associates to use the firm’s account. Summers can also have their own […]

By |May 15th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Welcome Summer Associates! NYLI offers Resources & Research assistance.. (& a LibGuide or two!)

NYLI’s Executive Director at SLA-NY Career Event

Pictured above: Pratt student, Executive Director Lucy Curci-Gonzalez, and Queens College student Javasha Brooke.

by Lucy Curci-Gonzalez

I recently took part in another
successful SLA-NY program- Speed Career Event: An Evening of Mentoring & Networking
– on April 24th. This event always highlights the power of professional
networking for both aspiring and seasoned librarians.

During the 2-hour event I, along
with […]

By |May 13th, 2024|New at NYLI, News from the Field|Comments Off on NYLI’s Executive Director at SLA-NY Career Event

LLAGNY’s Graphic Novel Book Group May Online Meeting

LLAGNY’s Graphic Novel Book Group will meet at noon via Zoom on Thursday May 16th .  We will discuss Shubeik lubeik by Muḥammad, Dīnā, author, illustrator, translator. (also available at NYPL).    Please see our LibGuide for past and upcoming titles.

Please contact, Eileen Dolan at edolan@NYLI.org to be added to the meeting.

By |May 8th, 2024|Announcements|Comments Off on LLAGNY’s Graphic Novel Book Group May Online Meeting

Welcome to NYLI Services and Resources Webinar

The New York Law Institute offers members a variety of resources and services including two eBooks collections providing access to over 230,000 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 Proquest […]

By |May 7th, 2024|Announcements|Comments Off on Welcome to NYLI Services and Resources Webinar

Legal Research for Beginners LibGuide

For anyone looking for a primer on legal research, we have a brand new LibGuide detailing where to find the law including primary sources such as constitutions, statutes, court opinions and case law, regulations, and administrative decisions as well as important secondary and scholarly sources which may be cited as persuasive authority […]

By |May 6th, 2024|New at NYLI|Comments Off on Legal Research for Beginners LibGuide

And the Winner is… Wonderland Celebrities attend Contest Drawing…

The New York Law Institute is pleased to share the many heartwarming library memories shared with us by our colleagues. And we were more than a little surprised that this year’s celebrities were able to time travel from Victorian England to present day New York City for the drawing […]

By |May 2nd, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on And the Winner is… Wonderland Celebrities attend Contest Drawing…

It’s May 1st… LAW DAY!… How will you celebrate?

Created during the Cold War to commemorate the Rule of Law as opposed to totalitarianism, the ABA continues to create themes for the celebration of Law Day as well as special programs….

Start off your Law Day by listening to ABA President Mary Smith and Law Librarian of Congress Asilhan Bulut discuss this year’s theme […]

By |May 1st, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on It’s May 1st… LAW DAY!… How will you celebrate?