The Association for Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies (ASCLA) offers these, and other, courses for library employees:
Going to Jail: How Juvenile Books Portray the Prison Experience:
“This five week course will explore portrayals of the incarceration experience in juvenile and young adult literature. Participants will be assigned to read several books written for young people that include scenes in prison or juvenile detention facilities….”
If you think you live in the most interesting of times, you are not reading enough history – or not reading the right wild and crazy stories that make reading history so absorbing and enlightening. The Library of Congress has marvelous history in small bites blog posts, like this one:
“Love, Adultery, and Madness,” February 13, 2015 by Robert Brammer, Law Library of Congress
Excerpt: “It is often said that love can drive you mad. As further evidence, take the 19th Century case that is said to have introduced the defense of temporary insanity in American jurisprudence. This case resulted from an affair between the wife of a member of Congress and one of Francis Scott Key’s sons….” [Link to full blog post.]
“As Google abandons its past, Internet archivists step in to save our collective memory…“:
Not my dream job, but maybe yours: Visit Disney Careers for more information.
Master of Library or Information Science required.
5 years minimum experience in a law library work performing legal and business research;
“It Takes More Than a Dumpster to Build A Digital Law Library: 12 Critical Components For Digital Law Library Transformation.” from Dewey B Strategic,
12/10/14
“.… For the past two decades law librarians and legal information professionals have been assessing products and developing in house solutions to support virtual library resources. We have been sharing best practices and advising legal publishers on how to build the next generation of products that lawyers will be willing to use ….” [Link to full blog post.]
These Christmas Book Trees (and other holiday book-based decorations) images were compiled by a law librarian at the Jameson Law Library, University of Montana Law School in Missoula:
“Oh Christmas Tree …. this is the time of year when ordinary stacks of books turn in to book trees in libraries everywhere….”
You can find Menorahs that have been made from books: e.g. run this search in Google Images: menorahs made from books
You can read the Multnomah Law Library Report at the PSU CPS website:
“This report reviews the current operations of the Multnomah Law Library and makes recommendations, based on best practices, for ways to restructure the Multnomah Law Library into a self-help center to better serve pro se litigants.”
The report’s full title: “Building the 21st Century Legal Resource Center and Law Library: A Report on the Current Status of the Multnomah County’s Law Library and Recommendations for Addressing the Needs of Current Patrons”
The IRS does still distribute some paper tax forms. It does this through their Tax Forms Outlet Program.
“The Tax Forms Outlet Program offers tax products to the American public primarily through participating post offices and libraries.”
For Free Tax Help in Oregon: Libraries, Post Offices, Senior and Community Centers, etc.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has an excellent Library Resources website for librarians who manage their library’s programming, websites, and research and reference services.
If you haven’t heard or read the eloquent Ursula Le Guin speech, that brought the audience to their feet, upon accepting the distinguished contribution to American letters award at the 65th annual National Book Awards ceremony in New York this week – you must:
View the speech at NPR: “Book News: Ursula K. Le Guin Steals The Show At The National Book Awards,” November 20, 2014
Read the speech at various websites, including:
Oregon Legal Research Blog