As we head into the third week of classes, the Mendik Library staff hopes you are finding your way around your new digs and getting comfortable in your library. Our Student Services Guide and Research Tools Guide are great starting places for finding important links to services, tools and library info.  The Finding the Law Guide from 1L Orientation is now linked from the Student Students Guide.  If you have not already, you should check out our LexisNexis Digital collection of online study aids and treatises.

The reference librarians are eager to work with you and provide support as you work toward your degree and your career.  Please don’t hesitate to stop by the Reference Desk or make an appointment with a librarian.  Whether you are in your first, third, fifth or last semester we are here for you. We can help you get familiar with library materials, course reserves, and the many services we offer.  We can also provide advice on approaches to studying, help you develop a strong research strategy, help you find the most helpful secondary sources in a subject, or help you research an employer of interest.  Who knows – we might even be able to demystify the Bluebook and help you create correct citations.

It’s your Library – Check it Out … We would love to chat with you – Stop by; Email us; Team-up with us; call us (212.431.2332); or make an appointment with one of your librarians.

After nearly a year and a half of remote teaching, learning, and studying, we are thrilled to welcome back all of our 3L and 4L students!  We’ve missed you and look forward to greeting and working with each and every one of you.

We’re also thrilled to welcome our 2Ls (last year’s entering class) along with the new entering class!  Few if any of you have had the opportunity to experience the Mendik Library in person due to the pandemic. That’s about to change as we open for business seven days a week beginning Monday August 23. (We’ve been open all summer but on a reduced schedule. See our home page for the fall semester schedule.)  Please make sure to visit and make yourselves at home!

We’re wishing everyone 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.  Check us out!

The Mendik Library Staff

Beginning on Monday August 23, the Mendik Library’s hours will be as follows:

A Firm Perspective is written by Martha Goldman, a retired Big Law firm library manager who then returned to the Mendik Library where her career began…

When you need to research aspects of setting up, running and terminating businesses in New York State, White on New York Business Entities is your essential treatise.  This nine-volume set dives into all aspects of corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies and not-for-profit organizations.  It includes forms for each type of entity, and information about tax implications of the use of corporate entities, their operation and termination.  Relevant state and federal cases, New York and federal statutes are also covered.  Updated twice per year, it is well-indexed.   New York Business Entities is available via the LexisNexis Digital Library (NYLS sign-on required) for members of the NYLS community, as well as via Lexis (username and password required).  Happy Researching!

Hearty congratulations to Associate Dean and Director of the Mendik Library Camille Broussard on being named the American Association of Law Libraries’ Diversity and Inclusion Librarian of the Month!  The program highlights “librarians . . . whose work advances the cause of diversity, equity and inclusion.” Dean Broussard was recognized for her “decades of work and contributions within the profession, along with her involvement in creating the Social Responsibilities SIS Standing Committee on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity” in 1985. Dean Broussard noted that from its inception, the Committee “worked to create an educational space for discussion on issues of concern to the lesbian and gay community and to raise awareness of law-related problems of gay men and lesbians within the law librarian profession, their patron groups, and the society at large.” Over the years, the Committee expanded from LGBTQ+ to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity. Dean Broussard remarked that after 36 years, “it is amazing to see how far we have come—how many new members we have welcomed, mentored, and given a place to call home.”