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Portland City Records Online: The Portland Auditor’s Office has gone online with Efiles, a database of city records, resolutions, historical documents and photos. Link to it here.
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Plastic Packaging: The Oregonian ran an interesting story on Saturday (12/10/05) in the Living Section (On Sunday the section is called Oy, or at least that’s how I always read it when I see that Big O. At least I don’t see Oprah 🙂 The writer, Jeff Gammage (who works for the Philadelphia Inquirer) states that “according to government figures,” 220,000 Americans are injured by packaging annually, more “than are hurt in skateboard accidents ….” Pretty amazing. He doesn’t say where he gets those “government figures,” but I’m the librarian and should be able to to find them – or email Jeff and ask him. The real lesson to learn from this article, other than to buy books instead of things in plastic packaging, is to Please Cite Your Sources when you write – Oy. Nu?
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OSB 2006 Law Library Values: The OSB Law Library Values grid is available now through the OSB web page. The 2005 grid is there as well. I can usually find this useful grid under “Bar News” or using the web site search engine, but sometimes the grid just seems to go into hiding. If that happens, feel free to phone the bar or email me. I usually save it for just those occasions and can send it to you.
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New HeinOnline Offerings: HeinOnline has added some interesting journals to their already impressive array. (Disclaimer: I’m a HeinOnline fan and my Law Library offers remote access to the database for my county’s public library cardholders.) For your reading pleasure (note: an entire run of the “Green Bag” is already there), new additions, among many others, include: “Nexus: A Journal of Opinion”, “Arab Law Quarterly”, and the “Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law.”
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Best Law Blogs – Your Turn to Vote: You have until 12/15 to record your vote. Here are the finalists for Best Law Blogs 2005.
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Freeware Utilities: Looking for the “best-ever” web browser, anti-virus software, or firewall. Include this site , 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities, in your research (and I assume you will do lots of research before loading anything free onto your computer). I found this at this blog, Neat New Stuff, which rarely disappoints. It takes about a minute to check it once a week and it always seems to have something useful, informative, or fun, if not all three, e.g. the IVR Cheat Sheet.
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Web Design v Web Marketing: These are two different things. When you search the web as much as librarians do (how many reference questions an hour x 40 hours?) you get a little cranky about web design and readability. If you have any control over your web site (not all of us do and we understand that), please read as much as you can bear about web site readability (which is different from usablity, another important factor to consider). It’s not at all hard to search “web mistakes readability or design or mistakes” online. The latest one I’ve looked at is this. It has lots of examples and is itself easy and fast to read, but there are hundreds of others. You’ll get to know the guru of Usability, but feel free to find your own. And then there’s Edward Tufte for those who are artists at heart.
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Tasini v Clinton: Jonathan Tasini is about to challenge Hillary Clinton in the primary for her Senate seat. Let the games begin. Whatever else happens, we’ll always have Tasini (Tasini v New York Times, U.S. S. Ct. 2001).