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Get ready for exams with the Library

Four important Library resources to keep in mind as you prepare for upcoming exams.

First: The Library’s Study Aids guide contains links to digital study aids and locations of print versions) to help you review particular subjects and enhance or test your understanding of a particular topic or point of law.

Second: Check out our complete collection of digital study aids on the LexisNexis Digital Library. Log in with your network ID.

Third: One of the best ways to prepare for a professor’s exam is to see what they have done in the past! It’s a great way to understand how your professor thinks. The Library maintains an archive of previous years’ exams for most courses. To access, log into the NYLS Portal. Under the Student Resources tab, select “Exams, Grades, and Registration.” You can access these exams by course or professor name.

Fourth: The Library’s Exam Preparation Resources guide offers a host of materials containing practical advice and strategies designed to help you navigate the exam process. They include NYLS resources, the LexisNexis Digital Library, CALI Lessons, exams tips and podcasts and videos.

Reminder about our Halloween Info Hunt

As a Halloween treat, here’s your opportunity to WIN great prizes—study aids, law dictionaries, NYLS commuter mugs, Starbucks gift cards, Lexis points, Westlaw fleece blankets, a bluebook or two and more! That’s no treat bag full of rocks!  Just answer the six Halloween Info Hunt questions.  Your answers don’t need to be perfect—just close!

Click here to access the questions.  Each slide includes just one haunting question, along with step-by-step instructions that will get you to the answer.  Complete and submit your answers by noon on Tuesday October 31.  The drawing of winning entries will take place just outside but in front of the library at 5:30 p.m. on October 31. Although you don’t need to be present to win those in attendance will receive an extra entry, giving them an extra chance to win!

If you prefer, you can print out a copy of the questions, write in your answers, and drop the completed entry into the raffle drum stationed at the reference desk. (Pre-COVID, the raffle drum was a sometimes-steady fixture at the reference desk, and we are thrilled to see its return!)

And don’t forget to stop by the Reference Desk for Halloween candy (no costume required).

 

Happy soon-to-be-Halloween from the Mendik Library

As an early Halloween treat, here’s your opportunity to WIN great prizes—study aids, law dictionaries, NYLS commuter mugs, Starbucks gift cards, Lexis points, Westlaw fleece blankets, a bluebook or two and more! That’s no treat bag full of rocks!  Just answer the six Halloween Info Hunt questions.  Your answers don’t need to be perfect—just close!

Click here to access the questions.  Each slide includes just one haunting question, along with step-by-step instructions that will get you to the answer.  Complete and submit your answers by noon on Tuesday October 31.  The drawing of winning entries will take place just outside but in front of the library at 5:30 p.m. on October 31. Although you don’t need to be present to win those in attendance will receive an extra entry, giving them an extra chance to win!

If you prefer, you can print out a copy of the questions, write in your answers, and drop the completed entry into the raffle drum stationed at the reference desk. (Pre-COVID, the raffle drum was a sometimes-steady fixture at the reference desk, and we are thrilled to see its return!)

And don’t forget to stop by the Reference Desk for Halloween candy (no costume required).

 

First Monday in October 2023

The new Supreme Court term will begin this Monday, October 2d, 2023.

The Court has an active term ahead with cases surrounding the ADA and hotel online reservation systems, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and whistleblowers, racial gerrymandering in South Carolina, and a statutory interpretation question under the federal sentencing statute.

You can find more information on the upcoming Supreme Court term at HeinOnline’s Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases or the SCOTUS Blog (includes case summaries).  You can also view the case briefs at the Supreme Court’s website (under CASE DOCUMENTS click the link for Docket Search and enter the docket number of the case you are interested in).

The Court will again be making available to the public live audio of the arguments.  Click the ORAL ARGUMENTS link on the Supreme Court’s web site on the day of argument.