You can now IM with the librarians at the Reference Desk (AIM screen name = nylslib). We welcome your IM inquiries about library services, facilities, and legal research. A librarian is available to answer instant messages whenever the Reference Desk is staffed (M-F 9 AM to 9 PM and Sat-Sun 11 AM to 6 PM). Please take advantage of this new service, but remember that for some things, an in-person visit to the reference desk will still be your best bet. …
Beginning Monday, April 17 most Library study areas will remain open for extended Study Hall hours that run from regular closing time until 2:00 a.m. Also, these areas will open an hour early, at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
The Library’s Study Hall areas include the entire 240 Church St. building (the old Library) and the 14th floor of 40 Worth St. During these extra hours there are no librarians on duty, but the Study Hall areas are patrolled by security guards. The extended hours will continue for the duration of the exams period.
The Library space on the 4th floor of 40 Worth St. will not be open for extended hours; rather it will function on the regular semester schedule. Thus, the Library’s book collections, Circulation, and the Reserve Room will close at 11 p.m. on weekdays, and 10 p.m. on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. All circulation transactions, including borrowing and return of books; and charge-out and charge-in of Reserve materials must be complete by regular closing time.
For those following the current debate over immigration reform, there are two new online resources to visit. Check out A National Survey of Voter Attitudes on Immigration Reform, available on the National Immigration Forum’s web site, as well as the TRAC Immigration Project, a self-described “centralized location for authoritative information about a vast range of immigration matters.”
Keep up with the library’s always growing collection by reviewing the New Titles lists. The lists are updated bi-monthly and can be accessed from the online catalog’s homepage. Click here for the most recent list.
HeinOnline has recently added two new libraries to its collection — the U.S. Federal Legislative Histories Library and the U.S. Statutes at Large Library. You can access both libraries here or via the HeinOnline link on the Library’s homepage.
Six additional PCs have been installed for student use in the study area on the 14th floor of the library at 40 Worth Street. These computers, now in room 1402, are identical to the ones students are familiar with in the Library’s other computer labs. They access the Internet, email, and a full suite of productivity applications. They send print jobs to the Océ network printer that is located in the same room. These six PCs were moved over from the small computer lab on the 2nd floor of the 240 Church Street building (rm. L213). This room is still open, but now contains only an Océ network printer. Print jobs from the Lexis Learning Center in room L214 default to this Océ printer.
Registration is now open for Library Skills Sessions. These include LexisNexis and Westlaw training as well as research skill sessions focusing on those areas most useful to journal members, research assistants and anyone else needing to brush up on their research skills.
The NYS Law Reporting Bureau is now offering free access to NYS Official Reports and slip opinions back to Jan. 1, 2000. All decisions of the Court of Appeals and Appellate Division are included. Additionally, they include all Appellate Term and lower court decisions selected for publication in either full text or abstracted form in the Miscellaneous Reports.
Want to develop practical skills and approaches to master your summer employment? Attend the March 24, 2006 Bridge the Gap program at the New York City Bar, sponsored by the Law Library Association of Greater New York. Click here for a PDF version of the program announcement and registration form.
This full-day program will enhance your legal and factual research skills in a number of specific practice areas (including intellectual property, employment/labor, tax, corporate transactions and securities, criminal law, commercial litigation, and legislative history). The program concludes with a panel discussion about life as a summer associate. Panel members include U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Elizabeth S. Stong, Peter J.W. Sherwin, a litigation partner at Proskauer Rose LLP, and Nicole Silvestri, an associate at Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto.
The restrooms on the 4th floor of 40 Worth Street are finally open!
This is true despite the fact that work on them is not quite finished. There are no mirrors, toilet paper dispensers, or towel or soap dispensers at the sinks. The building staff has left rolls of toilet paper sitting in the stalls, and at the sinks. They’ve also placed a trash receptacle in each room. The bottom line is that these facilities are rustic, but clean and ready to use. We expect that work on them will be complete within a few weeks.