At the beginning of each Fall Semester, NYLS students are given 300 free copies/prints for use in the Library’s networked copier/printers.  This appears on your NYLS OneCard Account as a “Print/Copy Fund.”  If your “Print/Copy Fund” is getting low, you may now wish to replenish it, using your own funds.

The OneCard system does not allow you to deposit funds to your “Print/Copy Fund.”  But when this fund runs out, the system looks to your “FlexFund” Account to cover printing/copying charges.  So you may add funds for printing and copying by depositing to your “FlexFund” Account with cash or a credit card at the AMC machines located in 185 West Broadway on the first floor near the Coffee Bar, and the fifth floor vending area.

Due to a winter storm, the Library will be closed today, February 26, 2010.

Remember, the Mendik Library will be open for its regular hours (8:00 a.m.-11:00 p.m.) on Monday February 15 (Presidents Day).  We will also be open tomorrow and Sunday (February 13 and 14) from 10:00 a.m.-10:00 p.m.

The Mendik Library will be open tomorrow, Thursday February 11.  The regular semester schedule (8:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.) will apply.

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

Due a planned power outage at 40 Worth Street, all phones in the Library, and the Banner administrative system are down. OIT has informed us that electricity (and the phone service) should be restored around 8 PM tonight.

If you need to renew a book, please go to https://lawlib.nyls.edu/patroninfo

If you need research assistance, you can instant message a librarian until 6 PM Saturday via AOL instant messenger: nylslib or Google Talk: nylslib.

Access has now been restored to the online catalog and to materials from the Electronic Resources page.  Thank you for your patience.

On Tuesday January 5, 2010, the Mendik Library’s online catalog will be unavailable from 9:30 a.m. until sometime in the mid-afternoon, to allow for a server upgrade.  You will not be able to search the catalog or use any of the Library’s online materials from the Electronic Resources page.  If you are on campus, however, you will be able to access those online materials through an alternate page we have created.  All users will continue to have access to Lexis and Westlaw through direct links to their respective web sites.

We apologize for any inconvenience this disruption may cause.  We will post an announcement as soon as services have been restored.

If you’re interested in “authoritative guidance to reasonable questions on subjects covered by the Bluebook,” visit Blue Tips at the Bluebook’s web site.  There, Bluebook editors answer common questions and provide helpful advice on a wide range of citation issues.  You can submit your own questions as well.  If the editors find the answer to your question “useful to Bluebookers generally, it may be formulated into a new tip,” which would appear on the Blue Tips page.  Thanks to Amy Burchfield at the CM Law Library Blog (Cleveland-Marshall College of Law) for the tip.

On the lighter side . . . just in time for Halloween come these Extreme Pumpkins.  Quite a collection; make sure to check out the Photo Gallery and previous Contest Winners.

Don’t forget to stop by the Reference Desk for some Halloween chocolate (not to mention answers to all your questions!).  No costume required.

Sorry, end of study break.