Life, which is not Black or White or On or Off, and that may or may not be “as it is written,” gives us much to think about if we are so inclined.
In Law: Anyone who teaches law, thinks about law, or is faced with the law has to think about the “What Ifs” in life.
Here is a simplified example of “What if” dialogues – and anyone who has taken a criminal law class or thought about crime and punishment in the face of actual crimes committed by actual people is familiar with this mental gyration:
If you’re interested in redistricting, among other places to learn about the process, attend the Oregon Legislature’s December 14, 2010, hearing:
SENATE INTERIM COMMITTEE ON RULES
AGENDA: ISSUED 12-02-2010
December 14, 2010
1:00 P.M., Room: HR C
900 Court Street NE, Room 453, Salem, Oregon 97301
I’ve written before about the difference between the public perception of “library work” and the reality of working in a library.
One needs to do little more than read library job descriptions to get the point. Here is a recent job posting for a Content Librarian in Washington County (Oregon).
I picked up the paper Multnomah County Library brochure on Finding Local Newspaper Articles and thought the information might be useful to my readers here at the OLR blog.
1) You can see their online list of newspaper and other media web resources.
2) A similar list is at the University of Oregon website, Finding Articles in Oregon Newspapers
Justice Bedsworth, in his Criminal Waste of Space column in the OC Lawyer Magazine, gives litigants some advice from the bench (and the stadium sidelines):
December 2010: “Take Me Out to the Pre-Trial,” by Justice William W. Bedsworth:
Excerpt: “…I have a particular interest in continuances. I’ve gone all over the world urging lawyers to devote less time to their practice and more time to their family. My remarks on this topic have been cited to me more than once in continuance requests. It’s difficult—though, I should warn you, not impossible—to turn down a continuance when you are the primary authority cited in support of the request.
The Multnomah Law Librarian has graciously allowed me to post her Solo Lawyers bibliography here (and in PDF format, from my Law Library’s website):
HOW TO START AND BUILD A LAW PRACTICE. Platinum 5th ed. by Jay Foonberg. [KF 300 F65 2004]
FLYING SOLO: A survival guide for the solo and small firm lawyer 4th ed. by K. William Gibson. [KF 300 E59 2005]
A lot of people think those of us who choose to work in libraries do so because we “like to read” and “don’t like noise very much.”
Give us a moment to stop laughing, deposit those beer cans in the recycle bins, return from making a statement to the police about that “incident in the stacks,” and wipe our brows after successfully and peacefully removing that badly behaving patron from the library to the relief of our other library patrons.
It is only 10:30 a.m. and way too early to crank up the Closing Time rendition of “Hit the Road, Jack,” so let’s instead talk about Library Work. In a nutshell:
1) It’s rarely quiet – at least not the kind of library-quiet you might remember from days of yore.
2) We rarely get time to read anything more exciting than official memos and emails, unless you count the latest behavior policy.
3) Most of what we have to read is digital and official (e.g. memos, procedures, policies, law, budgets, etc.)
4) Most, 99.99 %, of library patrons are wonderful.
5) A few library patrons should be banned for life from … the planet.
6) Library people know what RFID, Dublin Core, metadata, and digital asset management are.
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