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InfoDocket links us to, “New Report from ALA Explores Challenges of Equitable Access to Digital Content”

“The American Library Association (ALA) today released a new report examining critical issues underlying equitable access to digital content through our nation’s libraries. In the report, titled “E-content: The Digital Dialogue,” authors explore an unprecedented and splintered landscape in which several major publishers refuse to sell e-books to libraries; proprietary platforms fragment our cultural record; and reader privacy is endangered….” [Link to ALA press release and report.]

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The 2012 PNPA Seminar and Annual Meeting will be held on Saturday, June 2, 2012 at the Governor Hotel in downtown Portland.

The topics and speakers for this year’s meeting are:

  • “How to Obtain Useful Information About Your Cases Using the Freedom of Information Act and Oregon Public Records Law,” presented by Elizabeth D. Wright, Esq., Bullivant, Houser, Bailey PC
  • “Cyber Crime,” Presented by Sean Hoar, Esq., U.S. Attorney’s Office
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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.

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The Columbia Human Rights Law Review (publisher of the Jailhouse Lawyer’s Manual) presents the evidence in its website publication of:

“An Anatomy of a Wrongful Execution,”

 including court records, photos, news stories, audiotapes, interviews, maps, etc.

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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.

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Excellent CFR News: CFR Table of Contents

“Cornell Legal Information Institute has released an online version of the CFR.  This new online edition of the CFR is the result of an unprecedented two-year collaboration between the Government Printing Office (GPO), the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School (LII), and the Cornell Law Library. …

The project implemented features that have been often requested by government regulators, corporate counsel, and law librarians. The LII’s edition of the CFR has the same search and navigation features that have made its edition of the United States Code the leading free, online source for Federal statutes for over a decade.”

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There is a new website from the Immigration Advocates Network for low and moderate-income immigrants:

Immigration Law Help dot org

The website includes a searchable directory of free or low-cost nonprofit immigration legal services providers in 50 states. Users can search by state, county, or detention facility and refine their search by types and areas of legal assistance provided, populations served and languages spoken.

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