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Tune into NYLI for Earth Day Environmental Resources…

NYLI T.V. is now showing…. environmental resources to help you celebrate Earth Day….

To research New York’s take on environmental laws, check out….

Environmental Law and Regulation in New York… the title says it all… available @ NYLI

And then, there is always the nutshells… NYLI’s nearly 200 including..

Available as an eBook at NYLI….

And… we can’t forget […]

By |April 22nd, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Tune into NYLI for Earth Day Environmental Resources…

With Contest Deadline of 4/25…Celebrities are on their way !!

Reminder…. Favorite Library Memory Contest deadline is April 25th…

Write up your favorite library memory… and you may win a prize at our annual celebrity drawing…..

So…. don’t delay… email me (emoog@nyli.org) your entry today….

Last year’s celebrities…. New celebrities will be time traveling in from Victorian London for this year’s drawing….

By |April 18th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on With Contest Deadline of 4/25…Celebrities are on their way !!

Celebrate Guitar Month by listening to these clips… and by checking out NYLI resources!

Celebrate the guitar this month — the instrument of the Medieval troubadour, folkie protester. Country star and the Rock and Roll rebel….

A guitar as a local marker in Tutweiler, Mississippi, on the “Blues Trail” in the state’s vibrant Mississippi Delta region. Library of Congress image.

Before we starting mentioning NYLI music law resources such […]

By |April 17th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Celebrate Guitar Month by listening to these clips… and by checking out NYLI resources!

LLAGNY Book Club Discusses Plath’s Bell Jar

At February’s meeting, LLAGNY Book Club had a spirited discussion of poet Sylvia Plath’s classic novel The Bell Jar….

Check out my full review as posted on Law Lines by clicking here ….

And remember to check the calendar for future book club information and all things LLAGNY….

By |April 8th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on LLAGNY Book Club Discusses Plath’s Bell Jar

No April Fool… For Library Week… a Contest !!

April means showers, a fool or two, taxes due, Poetry Month & Library Week…

And, once again, it’s the month The New York Law Institute runs a contest….

Submit your favorite library memory – it could be anything from your first trip to get a card, first library job, or a more recent recollection…

Please no […]

By |April 1st, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on No April Fool… For Library Week… a Contest !!

Helen Marot: Writer, Labor Activist….& Librarian

As NYLI comes to its conclusion of celebrating Women’s History Month, we’d like to focus on a name far from household knowledge… Helen Marot.

Helen Marot part of feature article from NY Tribune article on Women’s Suffrage and the Labor Movement (NY Tribune; March 3, 1915, pg. 7)

Any one of her many careers — as […]

By |March 27th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Helen Marot: Writer, Labor Activist….& Librarian

NYLI Will Close Early for Good Friday

The New York Law Institute will close at 2 PM on Friday, March 29, 2024 for Good Friday.  NYLI will reopen Monday, April 1st at 9AM.

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March into Uniform! Old & New ULA @ NYLI…

Uniform Commercial Code…. Uniform Telehealth Act… Uniform Probate Code… Who designs and sews up these uniforms anyway, lol?

Around since 1892 (and still active!) – the Uniform Laws Commission provides all 50 States with non-partisan and well drafted legislation for vital areas of state statutory law.

The ULC has also developed Model Laws. Jurisdictions may […]

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Celebrate March with NYLI’s Irishmen — Brady, O’Connor & Emmet

Irish immigrants have been part of the American landscape since before the American Revolution…

Great resources of Irish History…& both available in NYLI’s eBook collection….

And some early & notable members of The NY Law Institute were Irish American Lawyers. There’s Thomas Addis Emmet….

“Thomas Addis Emmet” photograph from The Emmet […]

By |March 13th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Celebrate March with NYLI’s Irishmen — Brady, O’Connor & Emmet

This month… on NYLI T.V. .. Shirley Chisholm!

We are in the middle of March… Women’s History Month… and who better to have on our NYLI T.V. set (which doubles as pencil holder photo frame, lol!)… than Brooklyn’s own – Shirley Chisholm!

Want to know more about the life of Shirley Chisholm? Then tune into NYLI’s eBook collection….

Available at NYLI […]

By |March 6th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on This month… on NYLI T.V. .. Shirley Chisholm!