NYLI Newsletter Spring 2025

Before Brooklyn was a brand and long before it gave hipsters bragging rights, Brooklyn was a City…. Brooklyn was incorporated as a Village in 1816, and as its own city in 1834. The first Brooklyn Day , also called Anniversary or Rally Day, was celebrated in 1838 to commemorate the founding of the Brooklyn Sunday…

Staff Picks: NYLI’s Super Superseded Collection by Brooke Raymond I’ve been at NYLI since June 2022 and am still continually amazed at the breadth of its collection.   It’s been hard to pick a favorite – our print, eBooks, Records & Briefs, LLMC, ProQuest Congressional and all the standard databases – are all essential resources for…

NYLI’s Director of Innovation & Engagement has been interviewed by Lauren Hays at Lucidea about her new book in Interview with the Editor: Ellyssa Kroski on Law Librarianship Challenges and Opportunities. Read more here.

Inspired by both the American and French Revolutions, particularly by the writings of Thomas Paine, historians consider the Irish Rebellion of 1798 as the greatest threat to English Rule between 1641 revolt and the Easter Uprising of 1916. And the participants and sons of this rebellion would help shape 19th Century American Law and help…

Created during the Cold War to commemorate the Rule of Law as opposed to totalitarianism, the ABA continues to create themes for the celebration of Law Day as well as special programs…. Start off your Law Day by listening to ABA President Mary Smith and Law Librarian of Congress Asilhan Bulut discuss this year’s theme…

Works of literature are often rediscovered when they find their way to a new medium.  When Netflix adapted Nella Larsen’s 1929 classic novel Passing into a hit series for the small screen, a new generation of readers was found for this seminal yet still timely novel.  The LLAGNY Book Club became part of that new generation as Passing was our…