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 […]
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? […]
Lucy Curci-Gonzalez, The New York Law Institute’s very own Executive Director, has been nominated to receive Special Library Association’s New York Community’s Dana Gordon Special Librarian of the Year Award. The award recognizes a professional librarian for outstanding achievement and accomplishments reflecting the shared purpose and goals of the library profession.
A past member […]
Technology moves fast but librarians are moving faster . Our profession is adopting the new realities – Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed – to provide gaming, exhibits, tours, immersive experiences and STEM education programs for our patrons.
And NYLI’s Director of IT & Marketing Ellyssa Valenti Kroski has once again captured librarians’ creativity […]
