Last week, I built an AI agent that will automate the creation and marketing of events in my library. Each month we run instructional webinar events for our members and setting these up every month is a time-consuming process with many moving parts and a lot of room for human error. With this new automation…
We’re proud to share that Law Librarianship Practice: Challenges and Opportunities in Law Firm, Government, and Academic Law Libraries, a groundbreaking new volume on the evolving roles and responsibilities of law librarians, features contributions from two of NYLI’s own. Edited by NYLI’s Director of Innovation & Engagement, Ellyssa Valenti Kroski, the book brings together thought…
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….
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 of documents…
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 to…
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 States…
Pictured above: Pratt student, Executive Director Lucy Curci-Gonzalez, and Queens College student Javasha Brooke. by Lucy Curci-Gonzalez I recently took part in another successful SLA-NY program- Speed Career Event: An Evening of Mentoring & Networking – on April 24th. This event always highlights the power of professional networking for both aspiring and seasoned librarians. During…
NYLI’s Director of Innovation & Engagement, Ellyssa Valenti Kroski has published The Big Sourcebook of Free and Low-Cost Library Programming: 300+ Resources, Ideas, and Tools with ALA Editions. From the press release: CHICAGO — There’s no need to spend hours trying to come up with creative programming ideas—bestselling library activity guru Ellyssa Kroski has already…
NYLI’s Director of Innovation & Engagement, Ellyssa Valenti Kroski, will be giving a webinar for the American Library Association (ALA) on Law Librarianship for Beginners. In this webinar, participants will learn the fundamental elements of finding legal materials, including primary sources like constitutions; statutes; court opinions and case law; regulations; and administrative decisions. Kroski will…
Just when you thought Nerd Heaven might be out of reach… there’s a podcast to the rescue…. Check out PLI’s most recent podcast —featuring NYLI Alum (with an NPR ready radio voice!) Karen Oesterle chatting it up with very own Director of Innovation & Engagement, Ellyssa Valenti Kroski– It’s all about Librarianship, NYLI, sustainability, technology……