Leaves are beginning to color, there is a nip in the air… and students are back to class….
Leaving Summer behind, Autumn’s cooler weather beckons us into a more serious season. As we don our sweaters, perhaps we librarians also wish to go “back to school” with a webinar or two. […]
This Halloween — consider celebrating your creativity AND highlighting librarianship with one of these costumes! You may have to explain the character you represent – but what better way to sell the librarian profession to the public.
Here’s the list –from film, Broadway, T.V., comics.. and of course, from real life…
20. Ben […]
The New York Public Library is one of our great city’s greatest treasures.
Not content to be one of the most comprehensive lending libraries in the world, the Fifth Avenue building with the lions has also served as a museum — presenting such varied exhibits as A Dickens Christmas, Crusader: Martin […]
Ingrid Mattson, winner of the AALL short form division award, recently presented a program on her research secrets and struggles as she tried to definitively prove that Billie Holiday recorded at 55 Fifth Avenue . Ingrid is currently the Associate Dean for Library Services at Cardozo L.S. and, we are proud to say, […]
It’s been a long time since newspapers were hawked on the streets of New York, but you can get articles free from these websites:
New York Historic Newspapers Colonial times – recent. Allows you to search by county, city, or newspaper and date ranges to narrow!New York Public Library With a NYPL card, […]
Official end of Summer…Last of the Barbecues…Closing of most beaches & public pools…Another opportunity for bargains at a Labor Day Sale…And, at least from my childhood experience, the dreaded return to school.
But the origins of Labor Day Holiday tells us that it is much more than a Monday off.
Nutshells –both in […]
Crack the law open with one of West’s Nutshells available with NYLI membership. Lawyers, librarians & paralegals — get to know new areas of law by borrowing eBooks or print Nutshells on over a hundred topics including…
Constitutional Law
Estate Law
Legal Research
Mergers & Acquisitions
And just where in heck did the term “nutshell” originate??
Check out the […]
Ingrid Mattson, former NYLI intern and current Associate Dean of Library Services at Cardozo Law School, won a AALL award for her paper “Billie Holiday’s Legacy walks the Halls of 55 Fifth Avenue”.
Of her research, Ingrid enthusiastically shares finding out about the musical greats who recorded at the site where Cardozo […]
What materials are essential? How can information be made more accessible? How do we know what our patrons need? How can we foster better communication ? How do we develop a budget strategy so that it is our story?
AALL Conference once again allows us to learn from our colleagues — those in […]
Thanks to Lin-Manuel’s musical, Alexander Hamilton is again known for so much more than the face of the ten-dollar bill….
eBook @ NYLI Author claims Eliza Jumel was one of Alexander Hamilton’s extramarital flings!!
But did you know that Alexander Hamilton Jr. was Madame Jumel’s attorney in her divorce suit against aging husband Aaron Burr? […]
