Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from our family to yours!
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from our family to yours!
Something to contemplate as you attend Holiday Office parties and tree trimmings….. On December 5, 1933, the 18th Amendment – popularly known as “Prohibition,” was repealed… The 21st Amendment is the only one that repeals a previous amendment. Additionally, it is the the only time an amendment was sent out for ratification by state conventions…
Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at The New York Law Institute!
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…
Event Date: October 21, 2025 · 1:00 PM 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…
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…
Wartime aide-de-camp to George Washington? Involvement with Aaron Burr? Fatal Duel in New Jersey? No, it’s not the guy on the ten-dollar bill, founder of The NY Post, and subject of Broadway’s phenomenal hit. It’s Henry Brockholst Livingston (1757-1823), U.S. Supreme Court Justice and participant in a 1798 duel that killed James Jones! …