Spurred on by a recent American Lawyer article, Jean O’Grady at Dewey B Strategic writes an insightful piece asking whether outsourcing firms are Throwing Law Firm Intelligence Out with the Books?
“Let‘s be frank there are law firms which have tolerated law libraries staffed by “book tenders” which are rightly at risk for drastic measures […]
The New York Law Institute will be closing early at 3 PM Friday, May 27, 2016 and closed Monday, May 30, 2016 in observance of Memorial Day . NYLI will reopen on Tuesday, May 31st at 8:30 a.m.
Happy Memorial Day!
Paramount Pictures and CBS are suing Axanar Productions along with executive producer Alec Peters over their 2014 short film Prelude to Axanar, and the planned full-length Axanar.
In their brief, Paramount identifies “infringing elements,” including original Star Trek characters, races and species, and the Klingon language. This has raised the issue of whether a language can […]
NYLI EBL eBooks Webinar
May 25 1:30-2:00 pm Eastern
The New York Law Institute now offers members direct free access to a collection of over 100,000 eBooks from major legal, academic, business and general-interest publishers such as Cambridge University Press, Economist Books, John Wiley & Sons, Kluwer Academic Publishing, Routledge, Springer, and many more.
Join Ellyssa Valenti (Kroski), […]
It’s that time of year again, and The New York Law Institute would like to welcome summer associates to enjoy free access to our facilities and resources. All summer associates working at NYLI member organizations are invited to access NYLI from May through August either online or onsite to conduct their research. We welcome […]
NYLI ProQuest Congressional Webinar
May 18th @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Eastern
Optimize your federal legislative history research with ProQuest Congressional
The Library of the New York Law Institute offers web-based training sessions to help you discover new resources and enhance your research with Proquest Congressional, the premier electronic service for access to the activities and publications […]
Our augmented reality rare books exhibit was a big hit with members yesterday as visitors waved their tablets over books dating back to 1597 to view videos, images, and summaries of the texts. We featured books owned by Alexander Hamilton such as The Right and Dominion of the Sea as well as General George […]
Marshall Breeding has published another comprehensive Library Systems Report for American Libraries which summarizes all of the acquisitions and mergers that happened last year. Some of the highlights include:
Proquest’s acquisition of Ex Libris this past October which brings them the Alma cloud-based LMS along with the Primo discovery service in addition to their 2011 acquisition […]
Tomorrow at The New York Law Institute, we’ll be hosting an augmented reality tour of our rare book treasures and cutting-edge technology. Drop by anytime between 12-7 (registration link below). Refreshments will be served all day!
When: Tuesday May 10th between the hours of 12-7. Refreshments will be served all day.
Where: The New York Law […]
Proquest’s EBL eBooks have a brand new look! For those of you who haven’t seen the new and improved platform, Proquest has added many new features for readers including:
Superior search
Search terms are highlighted in the search results along with a short book description and explanation of its ranking.
An uncluttered search results page and redesign […]
