New NYSBA CLEs & more

Recent acquisitions of NYSBA CLE digital media are now available for check-out.

Accounting for Lawyers (2019)
Avoiding Contract Drafting Landmines (2019)
Commercial Mortgage Foreclosures & Workouts (2019)
A Critical Review of Mental Hygiene Law Article 81 (2019)
Family Court Practical Skills: Support, Custody Offense (2019)
New York Appellate Practice (2019)
Premises Liability (2019)

Also on the shelves, the latest National Business Institute upstate New York seminar manuals. You'll find these and a wide selection of manuals of interest to local practitioners in our New York Treatises area, at call number KFN 5079 N356.

Estate Planning and Administration From A to Z
Gun Law in New York
Handling the Workers' Compensation Case From Start to Finish
Human Resource Law: The Ultimate Guide
Land Use Law: Current Issues in Subdivision and Zoning
Legal Descriptions, Title Insurance and Surveys in Real Estate Transactions
Medicaid Planning
Pain and Suffering Damages in Personal Injury
Resolving Boundary Disputes in New York
The Rules of Evidence: A Practical Toolkit

New on the shelves

The latest shipment of National Business Institute upstate New York seminar manuals is here. You'll find these and a wide selection of manuals of interest to local practitioners in our New York Treatises area, at call number KFN 5079 N356.

Estate Administration From Start to Finish

Personal Injury 101

Social Security Claims from A to Z

Top Tools for Curing Title Defects

MCC paralegal program visits the library

Yesterday the library once again hosted students from Monroe Community College’s paralegal program. For over a decade, the library has annually welcomed MCC paralegal students to get hands-on experience working with legal resources. The three sessions in the library serve as a “lab” for students seeking to embark on a career in the legal field, allowing them to develop the skills needed to succeed in their careers. For most students, the sessions serve as their first exposure to working with law library resources. Students learn to locate and analyze New York and federal statutes, case law and “secondary” sources like legal encyclopedias and treatises. Many former students have said the library sessions were their favorite part of the paralegal program, and several have returned to use the library once they’ve landed a job in the profession. The current instructor of the course is herself a former student!

The library can host these class sessions due our accreditation with the American Bar Association, which has certified our collection is more than sufficient to support a high-quality paralegal program.

From the Monroe County Library System

We pass along this news release from the Monroe County Library System.

Monroe County Library System Joins Macmillan Boycott

(Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019) Rochester, NY — Effective immediately, the Monroe County Library System (MCLS) and all public libraries in Monroe County will no longer purchase eBooks from Macmillan Publishers or any of its imprints. This decision comes in reaction to Macmillan’s new library eBook embargo, which went into effect Nov. 1. Under these new terms, public libraries are only allowed to purchase one copy of a new eBook for the first eight weeks after release.

To provide access to new titles, MCLS purchases multiple copies to help reduce wait times. Under the new model, MCLS would only have a single copy to share among the 744,344 residents of Monroe County.

“In some instances, this embargo will force readers to wait a year or more to borrow an e-book published by Macmillan, whose authors include J.D. Robb, Liane Moriarty, Bill O'Reilly and Louise Penny,” said Patty Uttaro, Director of MCLS and the Rochester Public Library.

MCLS joins concerned patrons, libraries and library systems across the nation in boycotting Macmillan eBooks, urging Macmillan to reverse its decision to embargo new titles.

The American Library Association (ALA) has also denounced Macmillan’s decision, and asks that the public express their concerns to press.inquiries@macmillan.com, or ALA’s Public Policy and Advocacy Office at alawash@alawash.org. More information, along with a petition requesting Macmillan to reverse their decision, are both available at https://ebooksforall.org/.

New on the shelves this week

Just in: a shipment of four new National Business Institute upstate New York seminar manuals. You'll find these and a wide selection of manuals of interest to local practitioners in our New York Treatises area, at call number KFN 5079 N356.

Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and Collection Law

Injury Claims: Anatomy & Physiology Made Simple

IEP and 504 Plan Legal Workshop

Student Safety: Laws and Liabilities

African American Lawyers in Monroe County, 1864-2007

The Library is grateful to the King family for the generous donation of 8 copies of “And Then They Came”: the Contributions of African American Lawyers in Monroe County, NY, 1864-2007 by the late Judge Roy Wheatley King, from Dr. Rashid Muhammad, son of Judge King and Director of Community Partnerships, Volunteer Legal Services Project of Monroe County. Comprising over 100 biographical sketches, the book is a most welcome addition to our collection - invaluable both as reference and as chronicle of the achievements of African Americans in law in our area.

The Honorable Roy Wheatley King was born in Cat Island, Bahamas on July 15, 1936. He served 2 years in the U.S. Army, going on to earn degrees from Drake University, Des Moines, IA and Syracuse University Law School.

Judge King practiced law in Rochester, NY for over 30 years and was the first African American to work in the City of Rochester Law Department. He was appointed City Court judge by former mayor Bill Johnson in 1996, serving 10 years.

Forty years after completing law school, the ever-energetic Judge earned a master’s degree in theological studies from Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester, NY. In addition to the pastoral duties he assumed thereafter, he continued active as adjunct faculty at various institutions and a member of many community organizations.

Judge King passed away on January 5, 2018 in Rochester, NY.

Celebrate Fall Foliage

Happy Fall! We hope you took advantage of the fine weather over the weekend to do some leaf peeping!
Here are some ideas for celebrating the beauty of the changing foliage, courtesy of a UB science librarian.

Image of Canandaigua Lake from the I Love NY Fall Foliage Report