Oregon Legal Research BlogThe exact quote, “Keyes finds that quotations tend to mutate in the direction of greater pith,” is from Louis Menand’s New Yorker book review of the “Oxford Book of…
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Quotations Mutate Toward Greater Pith
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Access to Justice: Oregonians Who Can’t Afford Lawyers: Quotations
A former Umatilla County Law Librarian said during a discussion about the importance of public law libraries: “The folks who cannot pay for a private attorney…
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Not Dead Yet: Santa Claus, Yogi Berra, and Source Verification (Churchill not Reagan)
No, Virginia, you can’t believe anything you read “on the Internet,” except of course that there is a Santa Claus. Yogi Berra is still alive. And, from the…
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New Lawyers and Business Cards
No Excuses – it’s time to think about technology and your law practice: “When I meet someone in a bar, in a meeting or at the bar during…
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Surviving Victimhood
It occurred to me recently that I don’t like the word victim and don’t want ever to be called one, unless I’m not around to argue the point,…
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Churchill not Reagan? “Trust, but Verify”
Ye old, “trust, but verify” cliché that many, most, attribute to Ronald Reagan, and that one hears way too often nowadays, surely goes back much further than Reagan,…
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Librarians are Prestidigiterians
I was reading the Rex Stout novel (League of Frightened Men, with Nero Wolfe) and came across this wonderful, and largely forgotten, word: prestidigitation (see also Word…
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Libraries and the Internet Quotation: Another View of the Cathedral(s)
Every once in a while we run into a memorable Library-Internet quotation: From: “At Your Service,” by Robert Leo Heilman, OLAQ, Vol. 17, no. 3, p….
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Oregon County Law Library “Rumors”: Don’t Trust & Always Verify
In this political campaign season (365 days a year), I hope you have learned not to believe much of what you hear, read, or see online, or on…
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Book: Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars From Gutenberg to Gates
…to spread cheap reprints of popular sheet music. In the 1950s, a pirate music label named Jolly Roger issued recordings by Louis Armstrong and other jazz greats from LP’s that…