While New York City is home to that famous gift from the French — the Statue of Liberty and has more than one street named for Lafayette, it would be hard to dispute that Louisiana, and New Orleans in particularly, is the most French place within the United States.
So while many Americans admire French fashions and that certain je ne sais quoi of the Gallic people, it’s interesting to reflect that the early origins of modern French Republic were rooted in an admiration of our own Spirit of ’76!
Hope you had a Happy Fourth of July… & Happy Bastille Day to France… & all Francophiles near & far!!
NYLI’s Technical Services Librarian, Eileen Dolan was a guest speaker at an AALL Annual 2024 all-day pre-conference workshop titled Metadata Magicians’ Secrets Revealed: Basic Legal Cataloging and the recording has now been made available here. Speakers and moderators included: This workshop was intended to be a cataloging overview that focuses on the basics of the…
Thanks to Lin-Manuel’s musical, Alexander Hamilton is again known for so much more than the face of the ten-dollar bill…. But did you know that Alexander Hamilton Jr. was Madame Jumel‘s attorney in her divorce suit against aging husband Aaron Burr? Yes, that Burr of the famous duel! And Burr’s attorney was none other than…
The New York Law Institute offers members a variety of resources and services including two eBooks collections providing access to over 270,000 eBook titles. We offer the entire West Academic Nutshells series in eBook format, hundreds of ABA titles, and Mathew Bender legal treatises. We also offer access to valuable electronic resources such as Proquest…
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. Any one of her many careers — as a literary editor and author, labor activist, and librarian — is a cause for celebration…. As labor activist, Helen Marot ….investigated child labor…
