Monthly Archives: November 2016

NYLI ProQuest Congressional Webinar

November 30th @ 1:30 pm – 2:30 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 of the […]

By |November 28th, 2016|Announcements|Comments Off on NYLI ProQuest Congressional Webinar

New Nutshell eBooks at NYLI!

 We have recently acquired more Nutshell eBooks to add to our growing eBooks collection including the following titles.  All Nutshell digital books are cataloged in our OPAC and are available through our our OverDrive eBooks collection.  Here are the new titles:

·        Consumer Protection Law in a Nutshell 4th edition
·        Criminal Law in a Nutshell 5th edition
·        Death […]

By |November 23rd, 2016|New at NYLI|Comments Off on New Nutshell eBooks at NYLI!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Our best wishes for the Thanksgiving holiday everyone!!  The New York Law Institute will be closing early on Wednesday, November 23rd at 3 pm and will remain closed through the Thanksgiving weekend.  We will reopen on Monday, November 28th at 8:30 am.

By |November 21st, 2016|Announcements|Comments Off on Happy Thanksgiving!

Recent Presentation at NYLI: Open Access, Copyright, and Repositories

NYLI recently co-hosted a talk with LLAGNY on Open Access, Copyright, and Repositories. The presentation was given by Kyle K. Courtney, a lawyer and librarian. Kyle is the Copyright Advisor for Harvard University Library working in the Office for Scholarly Communication. He works closely with Harvard Library to establish a culture of shared understanding […]

By |November 16th, 2016|Announcements, Open Access|Comments Off on Recent Presentation at NYLI: Open Access, Copyright, and Repositories

NYLI Board Member Elected to AALL Executive Board

We are proud to announce that NYLI Board member and author of the Dewey B Strategic blog, Jean O’Grady, has been elected to the AALL Board for a three year term from July 2017 – July 2020. Jean O’Grady is the Director of Research Services and Libraries at DLA Piper and is consistently ranked among […]

By |November 14th, 2016|Announcements|Comments Off on NYLI Board Member Elected to AALL Executive Board

CATALOGING FOR THE NEW AND THE NON-CATALOGER at NYLI

Wondering what the new elements in RDA catalog records look like?  How do you decide if an item is a multi-volume monograph, a serial, or an integrating resource?  Want help loading and analyzing vendor-supplied MARC records or an introduction to “MARCEdit” software?  Join Yael Mandelstam of Fordham University Law Library and Joni Cassidy of […]

By |November 9th, 2016|Announcements, New at NYLI|Comments Off on CATALOGING FOR THE NEW AND THE NON-CATALOGER at NYLI

Wednesday EBL eBooks Webinar

NYLI EBL eBooks Webinar
November 9th 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), […]

By |November 7th, 2016|Announcements|Comments Off on Wednesday EBL eBooks Webinar

Records and Briefs at NYLI

Did you know that NYLI has a large collection of Records & Briefs?

Need a copy of a lower court trial decision?
Looking for the original complaint in a case that made it all the way to the Supreme Court?
Do you want to get the actual transcript of a trial?
All of these – and more – may […]

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