(URL = Uniform Resource Locator, e.g. this is a url: http://www.tinyurl.com/ and so is this: http://oregonlegalresearch.blogspot.com/)
TinyURL has been around for donkey’s years, but it’s never too late be the latest person to learn about TinyURL. And, best of all, the service has about a 3-second learning curve. Paste in your long URL, wait a second, and voila, out comes your TinyURL:
From their web page:
Sources of information on the FRCP:
1) The U.S. Courts Rulemaking pages.
2) The U.S. Courts homepage on rules of practice, procedure, and evidence.
I don’t know if a lunch pail lawyer is different from a brown-bag lawyer, but it’s a useful question to ponder if you don’t have anything at hand to read, that is to say, from the f/k/a post on lunch pail lawyering – as always, haiku-bountiful:
lunch alone
without a book
i read my mind
(haiku by tom clausen)
It’s not enough to know your own country’s copyright laws …
From Library Link of the day (Nov 8, 2007 posting), a link to this story: The Day the Music Died, on BBC News.
Excerpts:
A fellow law librarian alerted us to this report from the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics on State Court Organization, 1987-2004.
Also from Virtual Chase:
‘Organizations Issue “Orphan Works” Statement
(30 Oct) The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers and the Professional/Scholarly Division of the Association of American Publishers have issued a statement on orphan works, or copyrighted materials whose owners cannot be found. The opinion of the trade associations “is that private market solutions are almost always to be preferred, since they are the most likely to provide tangible results, and that solution is put forward in the new ‘safe harbor’ document. Users who conduct such a search where the owner of such a work is later identified, will be subject only to a normal license fee and will not be subject to any statutory, punitive or special fees or damages.”‘
From the Virtual Chase (their Research News Alerts), comes this:
“Urban Legend: Expunged Records Disappear
(30 Oct) BRB Publications, Inc. reprints an excellent article by Lester S. Rosen, an employment law attorney, on what happens to expunged criminal records. “[J]ob applicants [generally believe] that after a judge vacates, expunges, sets aside, defers the adjudication or otherwise judicially erases a criminal record in some fashion, the records disappear and can never be found. With limited exceptions, the general rule is that the government does not destroy records. In the typical scenario, even if the judge orders a set aside, the consumer’s name can still be found by searching the court indexes and the case can still be viewed as a public record.”
LLRX has a book review by Julia Wotipka, of Mark Frauenfelder’s “Rule the Web.”
Excerpt from Wotipka’s book review:
“I consider myself a deep web research pro. I’ve been using the Internet for over 15 years. Back in the day when V.E.R.O.N.I.C.A. (Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Net-Wide Index to Computer Archives) – was a computer search engine for Gopher, the prelude to today’s Web. Fast-forward to this year’s Nerd Chic best-selling book Rule the Web: How to Do Anything and Everything on the Internet – Better, Faster, Easier by Mark Frauenfelder, is not to be missed. Recently one reviewer described it as “The Joy of Cooking, only it’s about the Web instead of meatloaf.”
The free Oregonian Index now covers the years 1851-1987. For those of you who might think online indexes spring full-blown from thin ether(nets), more information on this project can be found here, including this:
“The Oregon Newspapers Index has been supported in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Library Services and Technology Act, administered through the Oregon State Library, by the University of Oregon Libraries, and by several anonymous donors. To learn how you can contribute to the project, contact the Office of Library Development.”
beSpacific reports on a National Archives announcement:
“Today at a National Archives press conference, Allen Weinstein, Archivist of the United States, Michael Kurtz, Assistant Archivist for Records Services and Robert M. Edsel, author of Rescuing Da Vinci and President of the Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art, announced the discovery of two original leather bound photograph albums documenting art that was looted by the Nazis during World War II, both of which Mr. Edsel will donate to the National Archives under separate terms.”
There is also a link from the beSpacific post to a legal research guide on the protection of cultural heritage.
Link to the beSpacific home page.
Oregon Legal Research Blog