Thanks to everyone who participated in this year’s Valentine’s Day Info Hunt!
We want to thank ALL of you for putting your research skills to work and joining us in what we hope you all found to be a great learning experience. Here are the 18 winners drawn from our renowned Raffle Drum:
Find Love in the Library!!
The Valentine’s Day Info Hunt is back! Can you find love in the Library?
With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, here’s a sweet treat for you: an opportunity to WIN study aids, Lexis points, NYLS swag, and other swell stuff. Just answer the easy (and fun) Valentine’s Day Info Hunt questions. Your answers don’t need to be perfect—just close!
Click here to access the questions. Each slide includes just one question, along with step-by-step instructions to get you to the answer. Print the PDF answer sheet (or pick up a copy at the Reference Desk) and drop it in our Reference Desk Raffle Drum by 3:00 pm on Thursday February 14, and then join us outside the library at 5:30 for some sweets and the prize drawing at 5:45pm.
xoxo
Moses Leonard Frazier, Class of 1899, is believed to have been NYLS First African American Graduate. In the early days of NYLS, students enrolled by signing a student registration ledger and writing certain basic information about themselves, e.g., their age (in years, months and days!), the college or graduate school they had attended (although a college degree was not a requirement for admission to NYLS until the 1960s), their address and the names and addresses of their parents or guardians. Moses Leonard Frazier’s signature appears on the Student Ledger Book 7, page 13, line 9.
A collection of all student ledgers can be found on the NYLS Digital Commons Page.
Martin Luther King Day
Legislation signed in 1983 marked the birthday of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as a federal holiday, celebrated on the third Monday of each January. In 1994, Congress designated the Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Holiday as a national day of service, now led by the Corporation for National and Community Service.
This year, the NYLS community is honoring Dr. King’s legacy by expanding its traditional day of service to a week of volunteering, trainings, and discussions. The “Week of Action” is being organized by NYLS’s Impact Center for Public Interest Law, one of its six academic centers. Click here for more information.
Registration is open for this semester’s Research Skills Workshops (RSW):
Please Note:
Important changes have been made to the Library lab PCs. Most students use these labs, and so should pay careful attention to the following:
Network Login: All lab PCs have been reconfigured to login automatically to a generic account named “Lab User”. You will no longer login with your personal username and password. Rather, the PC you’re using will have a desktop that gives you access to internet browsers and applications – Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat – logged in as Lab User.
Password? Your lab PC shouldn’t be asking you for a password, but if it does, just restart the PC.
My Network Account? You won’t be able to login to your own network account when you’re working at a lab PC. If you want to save a file you have several choices: 1) Save it to your OneDrive; 2) Email it to yourself; 3) Save it to a thumb drive.
Name Your Documents before Printing!!! When you send a document to print, it will appear in the queue as coming from “Lab User”, a generic name. To make sure you can identify your own document in the queue, you must give it a name you can recognize! If your document is named “Document1” you won’t be able to distinguish it from other users’ documents. Save it with a unique name before you send it to the printer!
The Library staff stands ready to help you adjust to these changes. Just visit the Reference Desk, or call us at ext. 2332.
Welcome Back!
We hope you all had a relaxing and rejuvenating winter break!
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 and information needs.
Good luck and best wishes for a great semester! We’re looking forward to strengthening our partnership.
The Mendik Library Staff
A historic moment in New York Law School’s 126-year history came on December 27, 1974, when we received accreditation as the 133rd member of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS).
Accreditation came just four months after submission of the school’s application, and made NYLS the first AALS-accredited law school not affiliated with a university.
To learn more, read (or download) the February 1975 issue of Equitas, available on New York Law School’s Digital Commons.
Exam period is here and your easygoing nature probably is diminishing quickly. So much studying and outlining to do! Because of that, little things that you ignored last week are a big deal today. So, if it bugs you, say something.
Tell us about the light bulb over your favorite study spot that is out. And the person who brings in those delectable garlic fries you love, that now seem too garlicky and too greasy for the library. And the guy in the stairwell talking on his cell phone at full volume.
If you see, hear, or smell something, say something. It’s your library and you are here to study without distractions. Let us help do that.
With finals approaching, your thoughts may be turning to study aids. If you’re interested in digital versions, you’re in luck. Our LexisNexis Digital Library, a collection of eBooks that you can check out and read on your computer, includes dozens of study aids and treatises.
You can access all of them from the Library’s home page. Click on LexisNexis Digital Library (under Electronic Resources) and then enter your NYLS credentials.
The service is easy to use, but if you have any questions, just contact a Reference Librarian.
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