Professional indexing is an art and a craft. If you are a writer who is inclined to go it alone, for money or for love of indexing, or if you have someone who loves you and is willing to create an index for your book:
Chronicle of Higher Education has a 3-part article about DIY book indexing:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
The May 25th, 2012, Library Link of the Day, and other sources, tip us off to this article:
“How the Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit,” by Yoni Appelbaum, The Atlantic, May 15 2012.
We have updated our guide: “How to dispose of used law books.“
You can link to the guide from the Washington County (Oregon) Law Library website (under the heading “Donations“).
(Other Oregon State offices will be closed, too, e.g. DMV.)
Oregon state courts and their offices will be closed Friday, May 25, 2012, because of budget cuts. It’s also wise to check with the court for open hours; many have had to cut hours due to budget cuts and staff layoffs.
Some Oregon county law libraries will be open; many are not located in courthouses and are staffed by county employees, not state employees.
Hatfield U.S. Courthouse Sculpture: Cat on Trial in Law of Nature
I only today discovered this garden while looking at the Judith Resnik, Dennis Curtis online edition of their book: “Representing Justice,” but locals may recognize the sculptures. There is a field trip in my future.
The “Law of Nature” sculpture might be more familiar.
If you’re not a lawyer, law librarian, or have never researched the law, where do you begin?
No, it’s not enough to find cases and statutes online. It’s also not enough to toss a question into cyberspace and expect someone to answer it with anything more than research tips.
Think about it.
Librarians, like mathematicians, find humor in the oddest places, so unless you’re one of us, don’t expect to find this as funny as I did:
While catching up on the back-issue research tip wonders to be found in the excellent LLSDC Law Library Lights newsletters, I came upon this article:
(Sometimes people call this 2009-2010 law the Health Care Reform Act, ObamaCare, the Affordable Health Care Act, etc.)
Do you want the enrolled bill, the session law, a section number, or a page number? (If the latter, you’ll need to be specific about which version of the law the page number appears.)
This information may help – or so we can hope:
The Justice’s May 2012 Criminal Waste of Space column in the OC Laywer takes on a crime “wave” (rather a crime “splutter”) in Laguna Beach:
“Dispatches From Lesotho”: The Good Justice Examines Urban—Well, Kind Of Urban—Crime,” by Justice William W. Bedsworth:
“…You can’t follow Shakespeare with How I Met Your Mother. You can’t follow The Firebird Suite with a Pontiac Firebird. When you get to pantsless men standing on rocks and hollering, you just gotta stop….”
If you need a specific article, and have the author or title, you might be able to find it free on the Internet.
(You will need many indexes and a full-service legal research database, and a research strategy, to perform a full legal literature subject search for magazine, journal, law review, newsletter, and newspaper articles.)
1) Use your Internet search engine of choice: enter the article title or keywords from the title and the author(s) name(s).
Oregon Legal Research Blog