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It will be many years before you can do all your legal research online all the time.

Librarians get daily requests for documents that aren’t online or are behind firewalls or are available only to subscribers of particular databases.

You can find a “Not Online“ guide for Oregon legal researchers at the Washington County Law Library Document Index website.

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There are many free, publicly accessible, legal research databases in Oregon County Law Libraries.  We update the Oregon County Law Libraries Legal Research Databases directory at least twice a year.
It’s called the “Oregon County Law Libraries Legal Research Database Grid,” and you can find it at the Oregon Resources webpage of the Washington County Law Library.
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If you need to know the legislative history of an Oregon statute, please remember:

You need to know something about how a bill becomes a law.  The Citizen’s Guide at the Oregon Legislature’s website will help you with that.
You then need to know HOW to compile a legislative history.  I’ve blogged about Oregon legislative history research guides, but run a new search to find updated links.  For example, on Google, search using words like these: oregon legislative history research.
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Some stories just catch your eye – from Justia Verdict (via Law in the News):
“In the second of a two-part series of columns raising questions about the legal effect of online ordination, Justia columnist and Hofstra law professor Joanna Grossman discusses whether persons who are ordained only by an online ministry, with no prerequisites for ordination but the payment of a fee, can legally perform marriages. Such online ministries include the Pastafarians (who belong to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster), the Church of Body Modification, the Universal Life Church, and others. Grossman points out that in some states, such ordinations mean nothing, and thus, marriages performed by such “ministers” will not be valid….” [Link to full article.]
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Now that you’ve found out who your state and federal legislative representatives are, let them know.
You can speak out in writing, remotely, or at a legislative hearing.
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If you’re looking to buy or borrow a DVD copy of either “How to Die in Oregon” or “Hot Coffee, the Movie,” please check the documentary’s website for ordering and availability information.
In the fullness of time, public libraries will have these DVDs in their collections, but documentary and independent film distribution business models are different from mainstream movie rollouts.
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The next scheduled meeting for the Oregon Commission on Public Safety’s is November 21, 2011, in Portland (at a location yet to be determined).
The December meeting is scheduled for December 5th, 2011, in Salem.
Link to Commission’s website for updated information.

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Deadline, Nov. 30, 2011.

Who qualifies?: Through the University of Oregon Law School clinic, nonprofits (budget size $50k to $1m) in Eugene, Springfield and surrounding rural areas (within 1.5 hours from Eugene) can apply.
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Here is some additional information on our previous “right to record” blog posts.
From the Digital Media and Data Privacy Law Blog, May 2, 2011 by Elizabeth Spainhour:
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