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

NYLI closes early Fri 8/30 and will be closed Labor Day Mon 9/2

The New York Law Institute will close at 2:00 PM on Friday, August 30th and will be closed on Monday, September 2, 2024 in observance of the Labor Day national holiday. NYLI will reopen at 9 AM on Tuesday the 3rd of September.

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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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NYLI Summer 2024 Newsletter

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

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The Struggle and the Splendor: Harnessing the Disruptive Force of Generative AI in Law Libraries

AI is not going to replace you. You’re going to be replaced by someone who uses AI to outperform you.​

– Laurence Liew, director for AI Innovation at AI Singapore

There’s no doubt about it; today’s Generative AI (GAI) tools, such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and Claude, are disruptive technologies.  Boasting the ability […]

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NYLI’s Eileen Dolan to speak at AALL Annual Conference

NYLI’s Technical Services Librarian, Eileen Dolan will be a guest speaker at an AALL Annual all-day pre-conference workshop titled Metadata Magicians’ Secrets Revealed: Basic Legal Cataloging on Saturday, July 20, 2024 at 9:00am – 4:00pm.

Speakers and moderators include:

Coordinator/Speaker(s): Keelan Weber (she/her/hers) Head of Technical Services Cassidy Cataloguing Services, Inc., New Jersey, United StatesModerator/Coordinator(s): Joni […]

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Happy Independence Day!

Happy 4th of July everyone!

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NYLI Closing for 4th of July

NYLI will close on Thursday July 4th and Friday July 5th in observance of Independence Day. We will re-open on Monday, July 8th at 9 am.

Happy 4th of July!!!

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NYLI will close for Juneteenth

NYLI will be closed on Wednesday, June 19th, 2024 in celebration of Juneteenth.

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Don’t forget about NYLI’s LibGuides!

The staff here at The New York Law Institute have developed nearly twenty detailed LibGuides for research and subject guides for our law firm members such as: 

2024 Summer Associate Training… Guide for the Busy Librarian– from Summer Associate to Future Partner!: nyli.libguides.com/c.php?g=1041729 New York State Legislative History Research Guide: nyli.libguides.com/NYLegislativeHistory Government […]

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LLAGNY Book Club June Discussion

The LLAGNY Book Club Meeting will be held on Tuesday, June 11th @ 6 p.m. at The New York Law Institute (120 Broadway / 9th Floor – Rm. 932/NY NY  10271. The book to be discussed is Fleischman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner.  Overview:

Toby Fleishman thought he knew what to expect when he and […]

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