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With Black History month coming to an end, we’ve saved the best for last — a NYLI blog salute to African- American librarians!

Arthur Alfonso Schomburg’s life mission was to teach African Americans about their own history and achievements. A bibliophile, historian, curator and most famously now remembered as a collector: his artwork, manuscripts and rare […]

This Valentine’s Day… the phrase “hearts and flowers” came to mind… and like any word-loving librarian, I began to wonder about its origins…And, what better source for word queries than the Oxford English Dictionary (OED to the cognescenti, lol)…

Ahh…the OED..present day meanings AND etymology! Up to date OED available remotely with NYLI membership….

As any […]

This Black History Month, we’d like to begin with an appreciation of Thurgood Marshall… along with NYLI resources where you can learn more about the first African-American U.S. Supreme Court Justice….

Thurgood Marshall’s Supreme Court Hearings.. available on LLMC with NYLI membership

Perhaps Marshall’s best known case was the landmark Supreme Court case of […]

Regarded as a definitive legal authority, Black’s Law Dictionary was first published in 1861. Author Henry Campbell Black’s original preface describes the work as “a concise and yet comprehensive book of definitions of the terms, phrases, and maxims used in American law…necessary to be understood by the working lawyer and judge, as […]

The written word, images, music and film all exit the world of copyright and enter into public domain….. This Public Domain Day (1.1.2025), we’ve got some interesting graduates entering into the latest class of public domain works of art….

“Virginia Stephen (Woolf)” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1902. […]