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I’ve been talking a lot lately with others about public sector blogging and I thought it might be useful to start posting about the issue.

(And, some of the best, and most productive, discussions I’ve had have been with the people at the Multnomah County Library who drafted these: a) Social Software Policy for Multnomah County Library Users and b) Blog Comment Guidelines)

Blogging issues that arise in the Public Sector World include technological, budget, practical, policy, politics, and literary ones, and, of course, legal questions and puzzles. I’m sure there are others, but one has to start somewhere.

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Oregon Historical Society Library Closing

A librarian colleague brought this to my attention:

“Researchers needing to access OHS collections before then should make plans immediately…. Due to budget cuts, the Oregon Historical Society Research Library will be closing on February 28, 2009. After that date, collections will no longer be available to the public. At this point, photo and film reproduction orders will still be taken.

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If you’ve ever wanted to contribute to Project Gutenberg, this article will be helpful (and fun to read if you like creating UGC (user generated content)):

U-Content: Project Gutenberg, Me, and You, by Nicholas Tomaiuolo

And it includes an interview with Michael Hart, one of the original open sourcers (or maybe I should say sorcerers, since it is really is magic).

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Position: Part-time Law Library Assistant, Washington County Law Library, Hillsboro, Oregon
Deadline for applications: 1/30/09
Application URL:
Washington County Human Resources Department (or http://tinyurl.com/yr7qr7)

The Washington County Law Library is seeking candidates to fill a part-time paraprofessional position in the county law library. The person in this position will provide reference and circulation assistance to law library patrons, perform routine administrative tasks, update the law library’s online catalog and webpage, and participate in planning and implementing outreach projects.

Hours of employment: Monday to Friday, 12:15 – 5:15 p.m., with occasional additional hours. Salary range: $17.00 to $20.67/hour, plus benefits.

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Writers have excellent online and professional organization resources (including libraries!) for researching the publishing business, but two topics a lot of writers don’t think about, until it’s too late:

1) Publishing scams (see, e.g. Writers Beware, from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc.)

2) What to do if your publisher goes bankrupt?

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From the Washington County (Oregon) Law Librarian:

HALT has a new (free and downloadable) booklet on Understanding Attorney Fees: So You Can Keep Legal Costs Down. You can also link to it from the HALT homepage and from their Legal Information Clearinghouse webpage.

Read about HALT here. They have many useful legal self-help publications free or for low-cost.

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If you use the OHS research library, mark your calendar with the info below. If you’ve never visited OHS and their library, you’ve missed an Oregon treasure. Plan a trip during the upcoming holiday season when there are so many other events drawing you to downtown Portland.

The Oregon Historical Society Research Library will be closed January 11-19, 2009 for collections maintenance. Regular hours will resume January 20. The OHS Museum will remain open during this time.

Oregon Historical Society Research Library
1200 SW Park Avenue
Portland, OR 97205
503-306-5240

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GPO Library of the Year: San Bernardino County Law Library

It’s pretty special in my world (where public law libraries are constantly under threat of losing funding) for a county law library to win such a national award. Congratulations to Larry Meyer and his incredible staff at the San Bernardino County Law Library for winning this award. In addition to their usual excellent public law library services (and they have rescued me on more than one occasion when on the prowl for elusive CA docs), they are also a Federal Government Depository Library (and I know how much work that is, former gov docs law librarian that I am).

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Inter-Alia is one of those blawgs that I almost never miss, though its guru, Tom Mighell, sure makes it easy to catch up on past posts and newsletters if you get swamped and miss an issue or a posting, or two or three.

A entry from the Oct. 5th, ILRW, contained this tidbit, which is a good follow-up to my post on Let’s (Not) Kill All the Law Libraries (and my own follow-up), arguing that if “the law” really was “all online,” then why would we need lawyers?

Verbatim from Tom Mighell’s Internet Legal Research Weekly, Oct 5th, 2008:

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