Monthly Archives: April 2023

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

In Anticipation of Library Week… A Celebration of Great Moments in Library History….

Well, we are in our third week into blogging about libraries and librarians, and after last week’s rather lighthearted topic of Librarians in Pop Culture, we thought we’d turn our attention to important moments in library history. Which, when you think about it, are important moments in human progress…..

Information really isn’t information […]

By |April 19th, 2023|Uncategorized|Comments Off on In Anticipation of Library Week… A Celebration of Great Moments in Library History….

LLMC-Digital Records & Briefs Webinar

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The New York Law Institute offers web-based training sessions to help you discover new resources and enhance your research with LLMC-Digital, an extensive archive of historical primary and specialized legal materials covering the U.S. federal and state governments, the British Commonwealth, other foreign countries, and […]

By |April 17th, 2023|Announcements|Comments Off on LLMC-Digital Records & Briefs Webinar

In Anticipation of Library Week — Librarians in Pop Culture!!

Well, here we are, another Wednesday in April, and that means a NYLI blog celebrating librarians….

Sophisticates pretend they aren’t effected by the popular… but images often subtly change our opinions or can, unfortunately, reinforce long-held stereotypes….

So here’s a salute to those pop culture creations that advanced the image of the librarian profession….

While […]

By |April 12th, 2023|Uncategorized|Comments Off on In Anticipation of Library Week — Librarians in Pop Culture!!

LLAGNY’s Graphic Novel Book Group April Online Meeting

LLAGNY’s Graphic Novel Book Group will meet via Zoom on Thursday April 20th at 12.  We will discuss The Crossroads at Midnight by Abby Howard (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 |April 10th, 2023|Announcements|Comments Off on LLAGNY’s Graphic Novel Book Group April Online Meeting

In anticipation of Library Week…. great Library Buildings

National Library Week isn’t until the end of the month, but we’ve decided to feature a blog celebrating libraries every Wednesday in April. After all, libraries & librarians are just too vital to be relegated to a single week!

How a society values an institution is often reflected in the grandeur of architecture… and so […]

By |April 5th, 2023|Uncategorized|Comments Off on In anticipation of Library Week…. great Library Buildings

Hey Librarians! Tell us your Fave Song Lyric (& why) & (maybe) win a prize!

April is here… & that means it’s officially poetry month!

Recently, songwriter Bob Dylan won the Nobel prize for “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”… confirming what we all know… that song lyrics are poetry too!

Send us the title of your favorite Song Lyric…. (a classic rock tune? […]

By |April 3rd, 2023|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Hey Librarians! Tell us your Fave Song Lyric (& why) & (maybe) win a prize!