Welcome back!
Hope you all had a relaxing and rejuvenating winter break. Alas, all good things must come to an end.
All of us at the Mendik Library wish for you a rewarding and fulfilling semester. We’d love to be a part of your success and hope you will let us help you with all your research projects and information needs.
Good luck and best wishes for a great semester! We’re looking forward to strengthening our partnership.
The Mendik Library Staff
The ABA Journal has just released its fifth annual list of the top 100 law blogs (or blawgs). The alphabetical list is annotated, with short descriptions of each blog.
New York Law School students from the Program in Law and Journalism rip cases from the headlines, break them down and assess their merits (and the media’s accuracy in reporting the case). Though its name pays homage to English As She Is Spoke, a laughable, incoherent 19th century Portuguese guide to the English language, these bloggers have shown they know of what they write.
Happy Halloween from the Mendik Library! As a Halloween treat, here’s your opportunity to be entered into a drawing to WIN one of more than a dozen valuable study aids and texts we will be giving away (see a sampling of titles below).
Click here to access the Haunted Halloween Hunt. Each slide includes one question (there are only 5) plus helpful guidance on sources and steps to get you to the answer. Press Enter to reveal each step in the research process and to move on to the next question. Click here to access a PDF answer sheet (or pick up a copy at the Reference Desk) and submit your completed copy at the Reference Desk by 5 PM on Monday, October 31st to enter the drawing.
Among the titles winners will choose from are:
Reading like a Lawyer – Time-Saving Strategies for Reading Law like an Expert
Persuasive Written and Oral Advocacy
Guide to Legal Writing Style
Legal Writing and other Lawyering Skills
New York Practice Hornbook (Siegel)
The Question Presented: Model Appellate Briefs
Winning an Appeal
Questions & Answers: Evidence
Legal Interviewing and Counseling Nutshell
What’s Mendik Mobile? It’s an App that will let you access some of the Mendik Library’s key services on your smartphone. It’s a free download and is now available for Apple, Android, Blackberry and a wide variety of other smartphone platforms.
Want to see the App in action? Visit the Library Reference Desk on Tuesday, October 18, at 12:45 pm and/or 5:45 pm. As an added bonus, you can have your photo taken with your favorite librarian while enjoying some sweet pre-Halloween treats.
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We’re pleased to introduce an exciting new development, Mendik Mobile, an app that will let you access some of the Mendik Library’s key services on your smartphone. It’s a free download at all of the major smartphone app stores.
Using Mendik Mobile, you’ll be able to:
• Search our catalog for books and other library resources.
• Find the books your professors have placed on course reserve, and check on their availability.
• Login to your account to renew books you’ve borrowed, or to check on fines.
• Contact us by phone, text or email.
• Follow our blogs to learn about new books we’ve acquired and new services we’re offering.
• Search our DRAGNET search engines for free and reliable research sources.
Mendik Mobile is now available for Apple, Android, Blackberry and a wide variety of other smartphone platforms. Discover this new world, just in time for Columbus Day, by visiting: http://bit.ly/mendikmobile.
Attend tomorrow’s (Wednesday’s) 1:00 p.m. or 5:45 p.m. prize drawings (1:00 for 1Ls in the day division and 5:45 for 1Ls in the evening division) where we will select and announce the winning entrants in the Legally Clueless Info Hunt. We’ll be awarding prizes to a total of 3 lucky winners (in each division) and 1 consolation prize (in each division). There will also be sweet treats (for winners and non-winners). The drawing will take place right outside the library entrance. We’re hoping to see you there.
There’s no need to be legally clueless or legally prizeless anymore. All you need to do is turn in your completed Legally Clueless Info Hunt answers at the Library Reference Desk before Thursday, August 25 at 8:30 p.m. (Thursday August 31 for evening students) and you may win one of more than a dozen valuable study aids and texts we will be giving away. Among the titles winners will choose from are:
Reading like a Lawyer – Time-Saving Strategies for Reading Law like an Expert
Questions & Answers: Torts
Understanding Contracts
Property – Examples & Explanations
The Law & Harry Potter
Persuasive Written and Oral Advocacy
A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage
Guide to Legal Writing Style
Legal Writing and other Lawyering Skills
The Process of Legal Research
Foundations of Criminal Law
New York Practice Hornbook
The Legally Clueless Info Hunt form is in the blue folder you received on your library tour. If you can’t find your copy, pick up another one at the Reference Desk. Remember, you can work with a partner or a group and you should always feel free to ask one of the reference librarians for help.
Good luck to all!
As of May 1, 2011, you can no longer find the New York Law Journal, the National Law Journal, the American Lawyer, or any other ALM (American Lawyer Media) publication on Westlaw. Lexis has become the exclusive online provider for ALM publications (with the exception of ALM itself, which provides direct online access via subscription).
If you are looking only for the New York Law Journal, the best way to access it from the main directory page is States Legal – U.S. >> New York >> Search News >> New York Law Journal. If you’re looking for content in other ALM publications, go to Secondary Legal on the main directory page and click the link for ALM.
Coverage for the New York Law Journal begins as of August 1, 1991. (We have full coverage in microfilm back to March 26, 1888.) Lexis coverage for the National Law Journal begins as of January 3, 1983. Coverage for other publications varies.
One caveat to keep in mind, courtesy of New York Times Co. v. Tasini, 533 U.S. 483 (2001): Access to certain freelance articles and other features (e.g., photographs, classifieds, etc…) may not be available.
That’s right; it’s not us, but your fellow students, who want the library to remain QUIET during finals. Please do your part. Even if you can study amidst noise and commotion, remember that not everyone else can. At this time of year, even a little noise for a short time around those who are preparing for finals, doing take-home finals, or writing papers, is the height of rude behavior.
Please remember, all reading and stack areas in the Library are QUIET STUDY ZONES. You should avoid conversation and unnecessary noise. Be particularly mindful of the need for quiet as you enter and leave the Library. Voices in the corridors and elevator vestibules carry into the reading areas and disturb those trying to study.
The Library can get crowded, and tensions can mount. The only way to maintain an appropriate study atmosphere is through student cooperation. Please keep this in mind always, and especially at this time of year.
Thanks to everyone for their anticipated cooperation. And best of luck to you all on your exams.
Effective Monday April 11, study areas and computer labs in the Mendik Library at 185 West Broadway will remain open to NYLS students 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This Study Hall schedule will remain in effect through the end of the exams period, except for the holiday week of April 18 – 24.
During the Study Hall period all areas behind the Circulation Desk, including the Reserve Collection and the Reserve Reading Room, will close at 11 p.m. on Monday through Thursday, and 10 p.m. on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The Library opens for business at 8 a.m. on weekdays, and 9 a.m. on weekends.
During overnight Study Hall hours there are no librarians on duty; security guards patrol Library rooms and study areas. All Circulation transactions, including borrowing and return of books, as well as charge-out and charge-in of Reserve materials must be complete by regular closing time. Policies regarding food, drink and quiet study remain in effect.
Overnight Study Hall is for NYLS students only; you’ll need your NYLS OneCard ID to stay at closing time, and to enter the Library after closing. Please have your ID ready to show the guard.
Extended Study Hall hours are suspended for the holiday week, Monday April 18 through Sunday April 24. 24-hour Study Hall resumes at 8 a.m. on Monday morning, April 25.