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American Library Association celebrates Library week with the theme of joy. Themed days throughout the week emphasize library’s varied role…

Monday, April 20: Right to Read Day

Tuesday, April 21:National Library Workers Day

Wednesday, April 22: National Library Outreach Day 

Thursday, April 23:Take Action for Libraries Day,

While you often don’t think of ‘joy’ being part of legal research, here at […]

Entering our 120 Broadway office on a recent early Spring morning, Brooke & I noticed an unusual haze in the foyer area….

Our NYC office was recently renovated… BUT WHAT’S WITH THE HAZY FOG??

And, even more mysterious, was the rarely seen Vegetarian Flesh Eating Zombie (commonly referred to as VFEZ), toiling away at our microfiche […]

I was surprised one early morning in March to see Messrs. Anthon, Cutting & Brady decked out for St. Patrick’s Day…. Mr. Brady (the one with scarf and green top hat) is the only Irish-American of the trio, but none of them made it known why they were dressed to impress and ready to […]

It’s March, which means it is officially Women’s History Month…. so many great women to celebrate, in so many different roles, all who helped shape the world we are living in….

This year, my NYLI colleagues and I decided to focus on Women who have made the law their profession, pioneers and contemporaries, who have […]

Black History Month is now a one hundred year tradition! Carter G. Woodson, who in 1915 formed the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, stated in a 1926 press release that his newly formed group was declaring mid February to be Negro History Week.

In honor of its hundredth birthday, […]