Ellyssa

About Ellyssa

Ellyssa Valenti Kroski is the Director of Innovation & Engagement at the New York Law Institute as well as an award-winning editor and author of 77 books including Law Librarianship in the Age of AI for which she won the AALL's 2020 Joseph L. Andrews Legal Literature Award. She is a librarian, an adjunct faculty member at Drexel and San Jose State Universities, and an international conference speaker. She received the 2017 Library Hi Tech Award from the ALA/LITA for her long-term contributions in the area of Library and Information Science technology and its application. She can be found at: http://www.amazon.com/author/ellyssa

Building a digital library for non-English practitioners

October 2024

by Martin Korn, Golden Arrow Publishing

The New York Law Institute, located in one of the World’s most
cosmopolitan cities counts many international law firms as members.  This brief post will highlight the importance
of offering foreign language titles to attorneys in the non-United States
office locations for many of these global firms.

One of the issues I’ve […]

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LLAGNY Book Club October Discussion

The LLAGNY Book Club Meeting will be held on Tuesday, October 22nd @ 6 p.m. at The New York Law Institute (120 Broadway / 9th Floor – Rm. 932/NY NY  10271. The book to be discussed is Murder at the 42nd Street Library by Con Lehane.  Overview:

Murder at the 42nd Street Library follows Ambler and […]

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NYLI Fall 2024 Newsletter

Our latest NYLI Newsletter is now available to read in your browser! Access it here.

By |October 14th, 2024|Announcements|Comments Off on NYLI Fall 2024 Newsletter

LLAGNY’s Graphic Novel Book Group October Online Meeting

LLAGNY’s Graphic Novel Book Group will meet via Zoom on Thursday October 17th at 12.  We will discuss This place : 150 years retold by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm (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 |October 9th, 2024|Announcements|Comments Off on LLAGNY’s Graphic Novel Book Group October Online Meeting

Welcome to NYLI Services and Resources Webinar

The New York Law Institute offers members a variety of resources and services including two eBooks collections providing access to over 230,000 eBook titles.

We offer the entire West Academic Nutshells series in eBook format, hundreds of ABA titles, and Mathew Bender legal treatises.  We also offer access to valuable electronic resources such as Proquest […]

By |October 7th, 2024|Announcements|Comments Off on Welcome to NYLI Services and Resources Webinar

FAQ: Generative AI in Law Libraries & Notebook LM

NotebookLM is an exciting new (and free!) AI application modeled on Google’s generative AI model, Gemini 1.5 Pro, that will create briefing documents, FAQs, timelines, study guides, tables of contents, and even a podcast based on your content!

After signing up for an account with NotebookLM, you can create different notebooks made up […]

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LLAGNY’s Graphic Novel Book Group September Online Meeting

LLAGNY’s Graphic Novel Book Group will meet via Zoom on Thursday September 19th at 12. We will discuss Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American by Laura Gao (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.

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Recording: Prompt Engineering & Chatbots in Law Libraries

Here are the slides from yesterday’s webinar.

And here is the video recording:

This 1-hour webinar discusses prompt engineering techniques for use with general large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Claude AI including the Costar Framework, zero shot, few shot, and chain of thought prompting among others. Prompt engineering […]

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It’s Annual Budget Season! – 2025 NYLI Dues

It’s annual budget season. NYLI supports the strategy of filling content gaps and saving on costs by joining a membership library such as The New York Law Institute!  If you need your firm’s projected 2025 NYLI dues or are considering adding NYLI membership in the coming year, please contact Executive Director Lucy Curci-Gonzalez at lcurcigonzalez@nyli.org  or […]

By |September 9th, 2024|Announcements|Comments Off on It’s Annual Budget Season! – 2025 NYLI Dues

NYLI Skills Series: Prompt Engineering & Chatbots in Law Libraries

Sept 10th: 11am

This 1-hour webinar will discuss prompt engineering techniques for use with general large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Claude AI including the Costar Framework, zero shot, few shot, and chain of thought prompting among others. Prompt engineering techniques for interacting with retrieval augmented generation (RAG) models such […]

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