(Link found at the Multnomah Bar Association home page.)
The Library Law blog (not to be confused with the Law Librarian Blog 🙂 takes comments on this question (see full post and comments here):
“I wonder if you can help me locate information on the following scenario. I borrow a book from a library (public or school) which was published before 1923 and is therefore in the public domain. I would like to make a digital image copy of this book both for my own use and to distribute freely to others.
Assuming there’s no license or other relevant & explicit limitation on borrowers’ use of library materials, is it necessary to obtain permission from the library before doing this? Is it common for libraries to create such limitations regarding public domain works?”
If you are staying in Portland (Multnomah County), you are but a Trimet (MAX or bus) ride to Washington County, home of some terrific public libraries, Linus Torvalds (Torvald’s mascot is Tux, not this Torvald), Intel and Nike, Orenco Station (which has a Sunday farmer’s market!), numerous parks and other beautiful sights, not the least of which is my own little gem of a public law library (from which I went peach-picking at lunchtime yesterday – there must be a dozen or more u-pick farms within 15 minutes of my law library in Hillsboro).
I live in the city (I have a darker soul than can be accommodated out here in beautiful farm country), but it is a form of therapy to ride the bus and train to charming Hillsboro every morning.
(The introductory post to this AALL08 series is here.)
If you plan to travel around Oregon before or after the Annual Meeting in July 2008, here’s another route to consider. Sunday’s Oregonian (8/19/07) Travel section had a Beginner’s Guide to Eastern Oregon, with some terrific photos and maps. And if you are a fossil or photography buff, you must visit the Painted Hills near Fossil and the John Day fossil beds. Lots more information at Oregon visitors websites, here and here and here and here.
See AALL PDX 2008 Post #1 to find out what this is all about.
I’m not sure if it is right to begin our AALL PDX 2008 posts (the intro AALL08 post is here) with Movie Madness, but the toss up was among Movie Madness, Voodoo Donuts, and Crater Lake, so hold your fire. Voodoo Donuts may get its own posting in time (so don’t finish your coffee) and so will Crater Lake. The Church of Elvis has not yet been resurrected so it’s not on our short list.
If you visit Portland and if you care at all about movies, you have to visit Movie Madness. Where else will you see the Psycho Knife and other such noteworthy one-of-a-kind items AND visit a Portland “Neighborhood” (92 at last count – can you stand it!).
Anyway, here’s the Movie Madness website again, in case you missed it the first few times I linked to it. And to be fair, it is not the only terrific local movie rental business in town. There is also Video Lair, Video Verite, Trilogy Video, and Clinton Street Video (all in neighborhoods worth visiting).
In July 2008, about 2,000 law librarians and their families will descend upon Portland, Oregon. Many will arrive just in time for a conference, from July 12th to 15th, but many others will arrive earlier, stay longer, travel Oregon and Washington and Idaho and Montana and (enough!), and some may even decide to stay – forever.
So, if you see this in the title field, AALL PDX 2008, the blog posting contains information for law librarians and others who plan to attend the 2008 American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon, July 12th to 15th, 2008. You can also use it in the search box later to find all the AALL PDX 2008 posts.
These posts will cover a wide variety of content, from food, to travel, to advice, to weather, etc. Our main purpose is to include for our fellow law librarians some of the more offbeat or oft-missed sights and sounds. It also might include some of our own personal favorite Portland Plus places and things, like Portlandia, Dan & Louie’s, the Horse Project, the Gold Man atop the State Capitol (it’s a long distance relationship between him and Portlandia, so don’t ask).
Law Librarian Disclaimers: Please use disclaimers and use them with great feeling whether you are responding to a patron’s legal reference question or preparing a handout, a Power Point, or a web page on legal reference materials. Disclaimers come in all shapes and sizes. We’ll link later to a variety of them, but in a pinch, use this one:
“It is against state law for library staff members to engage in any conduct that might constitute the unauthorized practice of law (ORS 9.160, 9.166 and 9.21). They may not interpret statutes, cases and regulations, or advise patrons regarding their legal rights. They may, however, assist patrons in locating materials or links that would aid in individual research.”
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