The New York Public Library is eliminating overdue fees ! The NYPL is now the largest library to do away with late charges. San Diego, San Francisco and Chicago library systems also no longer charge patrons for overdue items.
For more on NYPL’s new policy, see link to their announcement here.
While you may be hearing a great deal from cable pundits about various state election results and what they portend, a very important time for choosing also occurred for the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL)…..
Congrats — & our sincere good wishes for success! — to the the new officers & board […]
SAT’s, then College, LSAT’s, Law School…. and finally… the Bar Exam! After a marathon of studying, you’ve done it !! You passed the New York State Bar Exam !Check out the list … of all who passed the 2021 NY State Bar Exam!!
As you begin your career… consider a free […]
Fair Elections Center – state specific guides, election reform sources, vote by mail guides Can I Vote? Nat’l Assoc. of the Secretaries of State provides voter registration, absentee forms, valid forms of ID. […]
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, […]
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 […]
