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In less than 3 weeks, about 2,000 law librarians (including the law lib bloggers) and their families will be converging on the Portland Metro area for the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL). This is a lot more exciting than you might imagine (and very good for local businesses and the tourism sector).

In honor of the Descent of the Law Librarians, Jenn Dalglish, Clackamas County Law Librarian, and I, Washington County Law Librarian, will talk about all things Law Librarian (a lot more fun than you might imagine!) on the public, cable-access TV program:

“Legally Speaking,” on TVCTV, June 26th, 8-9 p.m. (live) (reruns thereafter):49 minutes of Fast Talking about Law Libraries, With Call-In Possibilities.

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Over the next few weeks, the Washington County Law Library hopes to fill either or both of these temporary, part-time positions (the permanent position opportunity is noted below ***).

1) Library Clerk: Temporary Lib Clerk needed for 10-12 hours a week at the Washington County Law Library in downtown Hillsboro. The Lib Clerk will answer the telephone, direct people to other offices, and assist the Law Librarian with daily tasks. This job will last 6-8 weeks, with possible on-call hours after June. Hourly rate will be in the $14-16 range.

2) Library Assistant: Temporary Library Reference Assistant needed for 10-12 hours a week at the Washington County Law Library in downtown Hillsboro. The library assistant will provide circulation and basic legal reference assistance to patrons, file loose-leaf supplements, and search the Internet and legal databases. Basic knowledge of library practices is required. The job will last 8-10 weeks, with possible on-call hours after June. Hourly rate will be in the $15-17 range.

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The County Law Librarians of Clackamas County and Washington County are seeking to fill part-time Library Assistant job openings:

*** Clackamas County Law Library has a position open for a permanent, part-time Law Library Assistant II. Visit the Clackamas County Dept of Employee Services and click on “View Jobs”. The position closes May 6, 2008. Hours are M-F, 8:30 – 1:30. Compensation is $14.09 – $17.73/hour with full benefits. This position is a member of the Employee’s Association Union Group.

*** The Washington County Law Library, located in downtown Hillsboro, Oregon, is seeking a permanent part-time Law Library assistant. The duties for this paraprofessional position in a county law library include building the law library’s online catalog (LibraryWorld), updating the law library’s web pages, developing electronic outreach services to the community, and providing reference assistance to law library patrons. Hours: M-F, Noon – 5. Compensation: $16.48 to $20.04/hour, plus full-benefits. Visit the Washington County Human Resources Dept for Current Job Openings.

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Here, Creative Uses for Old Books (thanks, Bonnie!), are some great ideas for things to do with used books. (I’m not sure they would work with that duplicate set of Regional Reporters you have in the basement, but maybe starting a small business is the way to go in coming days, not to mention that those hollowed out books might be the bibliophile’s alternative to the Cash under the Mattress method of saving for the future).

I posted here on this subject and here is my How to Dispose of Used Law Books guide, which needs some updating with these excellent new ideas.

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(See AALL PDX 2008 Post #1 to find out what this AALL PDX stuff is all about. And here’s the official AALL Portland Annual Meeting web site & blog.)

July is Oregon Craft Beer Month (see Governor’s 2006 Proclamation and news from July 2007) so be prepared. Here are some early tastings:

Oregon Brewers Guild
Spring Beer Fest
The Portland Beer Blog
Oregon Brewers Festival
Oregon dot com Beer
Beer Advocate’s Portland Guide
All-Oregon Breweries and Brew Pubs
Classic City Brew on Portland
Beer Haiku Daily

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Uniform – Digital – Library: These used to be considered very dry geeky librarian words but now they are not (though I could be kidding myself here :-).

The UDL has both a Vision and a Mission. What more could you want (other than, perhaps, a shorter commute and more time to cook, maybe)?

Library Link of the Day today (check their Archives if it is no longer “today,” i.e. 11/28/07) alerted us about this story about the Uniform Digital Library.

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I happen to be reading Everything is Miscellaneous in spare moments (which is a not-inappropriate way to read such a book). Today I came upon this at Nicole Engard’s What I learned today: … an interview of Cory Doctorow (boing boing) by David Weinberger (Everything is Miscellaneous)

The absolute funniest thing about it is that they are such librarians – guy librarians, though, for sure (not to mention bibiliophilian digerati ). For example, what’s missing from this exchange?

“David: ‘In my book, I actually use the example of “Capri, ” where it’s the Island Capri, the Ford Capri, and there’s a motel Capri that shows up for some reason. The remarkable thing is they do it, as you say, completely by looking at the tags and not by doing any analysis of the picture itself, and it’s remarkably accurate. Which is, I think, actually a very good answer or rebuttal to the criticism that tags are chaos, and as you get more and more of them, it will get more and more chaotic. It turns out that when you have a lot of them, the statistical analysis becomes really pretty precise….’”

Most women will immediately notice the omission: Capri pants 🙂

But it is nonetheless an interesting interview – at least to us librarian types, even us Capri-less (though Capri-savvy) ones.

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