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LLAGNY’s Graphic Novel Book Group May Online Meeting

LLAGNY’s Graphic Novel Book Group will meet via Zoom on Thursday May 18th at 12. We will discuss White Bird: A Wonder Story by R. J. Palacio (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 11th, 2023|Announcements|Comments Off on LLAGNY’s Graphic Novel Book Group May Online Meeting

LLAGNY Book Club to meet May 16th.. @ NYLI !

LLAGNY Book Club will be meeting on May 16th at — in person!– to discuss People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks….

RSVP to Jill Gray at jill.gray@friedfrank.com

& mark your calendar — May 16th, 6 p.m. — at The New York Law Institute… for another great read & discussion of ideas with your LLAGNY colleagues!

The […]

By |May 10th, 2023|Uncategorized|Comments Off on LLAGNY Book Club to meet May 16th.. @ NYLI !

Take a Wright on Miller – Let NYLI be your GPS for Federal Practice & Procedure Research

Wright & Miller — as it is commonly known — has been the go to resource for attorneys researching federal civil, criminal and appellate procedure, as well as rules of civil, criminal, and appellate procedure, rules of evidence, the federal judicial system, jurisdiction of all federal courts, venue, removal of cases, res judicata, […]

By |May 8th, 2023|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Take a Wright on Miller – Let NYLI be your GPS for Federal Practice & Procedure Research

Australia & Boston… Metafiction and Mystery: LLAGNY Book Club Review

The LLAGNY Book Club met once again in late February to discuss Australian author Sulari Gentill’s mystery novel The Woman in the Library….

For more on the book club’s discussion of this very contemporary mystery, click here for my full review as posted in Law Lines…. & keep an eye out for posting & […]

By |May 3rd, 2023|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Australia & Boston… Metafiction and Mystery: LLAGNY Book Club Review

Celebrities surprise NYLI by attending Fave Song Lyric Contest!

We were more than a little surprised when Elvis Presley showed up at NYLI with his entourage — Carmen Miranda, Tina Turner, Marilyn Monroe and Amy Winehouse, for our Favorite Song Lyric Contest Drawing. Tina had the honor of drawing the winners — but all of of our celebrity guests were […]

By |May 2nd, 2023|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Celebrities surprise NYLI by attending Fave Song Lyric Contest!

It’s May 1st… Law Day

Law Day is over 60 years old but its mission remains the same: held annually on May 1, it is a national day set aside to celebrate the rule of law. 

Past Law Day Themes included celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment, the Constitution in Times of Change, and Advancing the […]

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Recording: NYLI Skills Series: How to Canva

If you were unable to join us for yesterday’s webinar in our NYLI Skills Series: How to Canva, you can still check out the session in this 15-minute video where you will learn the ins and outs of how to use Canva including:

What can be designed in CanvaHow to navigate the […]

By |April 27th, 2023|Announcements|Comments Off on Recording: NYLI Skills Series: How to Canva

It’s Library Week– Celebrating Great Librarians!!

It’s Library Week… and the American Library Association’s 2023 theme is “there’s always more to the story” …

And we’ll be concluding our month long blog celebration of the profession with a profile of great librarians. There is always more to our story — & so here are just a few of the many […]

By |April 26th, 2023|Uncategorized|Comments Off on It’s Library Week– Celebrating Great Librarians!!

NYLI’s Emily Moog Named PLLIP-SIS of AALL’s Best Blogger of the Year!

We are very proud to announce that NYLI’s own Emily Moog will receive the AALL Private Law Librarians & Information Professionals Special Interest Section’s Best Blogger/Writer of 2023 at this year’s annual meeting in Boston. Her consistently outstanding blog posts keep law librarians in the know about news from the field, library holidays […]

By |April 25th, 2023|Announcements, New at NYLI, News from the Field|Comments Off on NYLI’s Emily Moog Named PLLIP-SIS of AALL’s Best Blogger of the Year!

NYLI Skills Series: How to Canva

Next up in our NYLI Skills Series is How to Canva.  Join Ellyssa Valenti Kroski, NYLI’s Director of Innovation & Engagement on April 26th at 1:30 pm for this 30-minute instructional webinar on how to use this powerful (and free!) graphic design platform.  Participants will learn:

What can be designed in CanvaHow to navigate the […]

By |April 24th, 2023|Announcements|Comments Off on NYLI Skills Series: How to Canva