NYLI Newsletter Summer 2025

NYLI’s Director of Innovation & Engagement, Ellyssa Valenti Kroski will be presenting the following webinar with special guest NYLI’s Executive Director Lucy Curci-Gonzalez: Learn about the process of legal research in this beginner webinar on law librarianship. This informative session will discuss where to find the law including primary sources such as constitutions, statutes, court…

Our very own Brooke Raymond was recently interviewed by the Trinity College Alumni magazine! Click here to read all about Brooke’s work with Room to Read — including the opening of the Raymond Library in Cambodia — as well as her experiences at Trinity and work as a Senior Research Analyst @ NYLI…..

The New York Law Institute will close at 2 PM on Friday, April 18, 2025 for Good Friday.  NYLI will reopen Monday, April 21st at 9AM.

LLAGNY’s Graphic Novel Book Group will meet via Zoom on Thursday January 29th at 12. We will discuss Are you my mother? by Alison Bechdel  (available at NYPL) and her recent NYT Opinion piece “Egalitarian Overalls”. Please see our LibGuide for past and upcoming titles. Please contact, Eileen Dolan at edolan@NYLI.org to be added to…

The ABA issued its first formal opinion covering the growing use of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) back in July. Not surprisingly, the ABA emphasized that model rules related to competency, informed consent, confidentiality and fees principally apply. For full text of ABA Formal Opinion 512 (July 29, 2024), click here. And, not surprising to NYLI…