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I loved this story. It’s not the first time a library has offered this service, but it becomes more intriguing every time I hear about the service. I live in a region of the country that is rich in great people and excellent public libraries, but every community has fascinating people and maybe even a small library could do this. Maybe one could even Rent-a-Lawyer to raise money for a good cause?

Library of humans: Guelph University lends people for 30-minute talks on prejudice, by Macleans.ca, March 5th, 2010

‘When Chris Langley volunteered to help out with a project at his university library last year, he didn’t imagine he’d wind up becoming a book. The 25-year-old master’s student was intrigued by the notion of a human library, a space in which prospective readers scheduled half-hour time slots with real people and engaged in direct conversations about prejudice.

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Salon has an excellent interview with Marilyn Johnson, author of:

“This Book Is Overdue!”: Hot for librarian: The author of a new book talks about the secret lives of America’s favorite — and endangered — disciplinarians,” Salon, Sunday, Feb 21, 2010.

Excerpt: “Behold the stereotypical librarian, with her cat’s-eye glasses, bun and pantyhose ….
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A new generation of young, hip and occasionally tattooed librarians is driving them out. They call themselves guybrarians, cybrarians and “information specialists,” and they blog at sites like The Free Range Librarian and The Lipstick Librarian. They can be found in droves on Second Life, but also outside the Republican National Convention, dodging tear gas canisters and tweeting the location of the police….” (link to full article)

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A Mediocre Criminal, but an Unmatched Jailhouse Lawyer, Adam Liptak, New York Times, February 8, 2010

‘… Mr. [Shon] Hopwood spent much of that time in the prison law library, and it turned out he was better at understanding the law than breaking it. He transformed himself into something rare at the top levels of the American bar, and unheard of behind bars: an accomplished Supreme Court practitioner….
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The law library changed Mr. Hopwood’s life.

“I kind of flourished there,” he said. “I didn’t want prison to be my destiny. When your life gets tipped over and spilled out, you have to make some changes.”

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For prisoners, the library as lifeline, by Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, Feb. 7, 2010

‘… Was she scared to be among men who had murdered and raped?

“No. They behaved more respectfully than many of the persons I encountered in public libraries. They were also grateful for the reading materials and for any questions that I answered.

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U.S. Presidents have been speaking out to members of Congress for a long time, and vice versa. Supreme Court Justices speak out every week, at the very least, and members of Congress get to have their say every minute of every day, or so it seems.

So, why the fuss when they disagree (e.g. making faces or outbursts)? It’s often about manners (e.g.), or history, or protocol, or even just frustration. Sometimes it’s about maturity and gravitas and mental health and sometimes it’s just about childish behavior. It might help if we had a Question Time where members of Congress could get it all out their systems, but that’s their own fault. If members of Congress wanted a Question Time, they could make that happen (House and Senate).

But we can all speak out. Isn’t that what America is about?

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On the countdown to the 2010 Legislative Session, I offer this:

While listening to a particularly interesting Oregon Legislative Committee hearing (yes, they can be interesting), I noticed how wide-ranging the questions from Legislators were. So, I made a list of the types of information that were asked about during this single hearing:

(See also, How To Testify Before a Legislative Committee.)

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Did you ever wonder what a U.S. Supreme Court law librarian job description looks like? Here’s your chance – and it’s a part-time job too (well, at least you’ll be paid for only 30 hours a week).

Direct link or link from Law Librarian Blog:

“Provides complex, interdisciplinary reference and highly technical research support services; uses resources in newly emerging information sources in all formats; creates new methods and formats for assembling, organizing and delivering knowledge and information to Court constituencies; participates in the design, implementation, and maintenance of a complex relational database incorporating imaging, indexing, data migration and file transfer across the Court intranet and extranet; serves as an expert in all aspects of the evaluation, navigation, access and retrieval of worldwide online and Internet resources and services; works under great time pressures; performs collection development and related collections services duties; conducts tours, briefings and orientations; and undertakes broad programmatic responsibilities for long-term projects and programs which impact the overall effectiveness of the Research Department. “

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Publisher slush piles have collapsed as much from too many lawyers (and people wanting to sue) as from the sheer volume of “slush.”

Here’s an interesting article from the Wall Street Journal:

The Death of the Slush Pile: Even in the Web era, getting in the door is tougher than ever,
Wall Street Journal, January 15, 2010, by Katherine Rosman:

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