Effective Monday November 26, all study areas and computer labs in the Mendik Library will remain open late night and early morning hours. The late hours extend to 2 a.m. every day, and the Library space reopens at 7 a.m. every morning. This Study Hall schedule will remain in effect through the end of the […]

How much do you know about the turkey? Take Aristotle’s Turkey Trivia Quiz and find out. Happy Thanksgiving!

We wanted to congratulate all of the winners in this year’s Halloween Info Hunt!  Even Hurricane Sandy couldn’t scare off these (or the many other) intrepid researchers.  We also wanted to thank ALL participants for joining in what we hope you all found to be a fun learning experience!  At our November 8, 2012 drawing, we […]

You may have missed Halloween but you definitely don’t want to miss this week’s prize drawing in the Haunted Halloween Info Hunt —Thursday November 8th at 5:45 p.m.  We still have all of our candy to give out and then there are all the prizes . . . . Click here for the details and […]

For the sixth consecutive year the Mendik Library surveyed 1Ls during First Week library tours about their use of digital communication tools.  Below is a quick summary of the results. You can see all the survey questions (and the responses) here. In addition to telling us their favorite pizza topping (answer below), 411 members of […]

October 21 through 27, 2012 is Celebrate Pro Bono Week.  Lawyers have a long tradition of providing pro bono services to Americans in need of legal assistance.  Pro bono has been a part of our legal culture for a long time. Yet, despite our efforts, many of the civil legal needs of the poor are […]

Happy Halloween from the Mendik Library! As a Halloween treat, here’s an easy opportunity to WIN prizes, including study aids, texts and other legal dictionaries, flash drives . . . and more. Using Internet Explorer, click here  to access the Haunted Halloween Hunt.  Each slide includes one question (there are only 6) and easy, step-by-step […]

The United States Supreme Court’s new term begins today (October 1, 2012), the first Monday in October.  The 2012-2013 docket thus far includes at least one case of particular interest to members of the NYLS community:  In Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, involving a challenge to the University of Texas at Austin’s consideration of […]

Take a break from the tedium of law study and enjoy the pleasures of punctuation!  September 24 is National Punctuation Day:  “A celebration of the lowly comma, correctly used quotation marks, and other proper uses of periods, semicolons, and the ever-mysterious ellipsis.”  How do you celebrate such an event?  Enter the Presidential Punctuation Challenge; entries […]

Constitution Day (September 17) commemorates the day the members of the Philadelphia Convention signed the United States Constitution.  Of the three delegates from New York, only one participated through to the end and affixed his name:  Alexander Hamilton.  Revolutionary War veteran and lawyer, Hamilton was also a co-author of The Federalist Papers and the first […]