Oregon Legal Research BlogIf you delight in being a doubter or a skeptic and haven’t yet found these … enjoy:
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Take it Back: Retraction Watch and Recalls
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Libraries and the Internet Quotation: Another View of the Cathedral(s)
Every once in a while we run into a memorable Library-Internet quotation:
From: “At Your Service,” by Robert Leo Heilman, OLAQ, Vol. 17, no. 3, p. 9 (2011), (author of “Overstory: Zero: Real Life in Timber Country“)
“.... Both the internet and the library are sources of information. The difference is that the virtual help offered by the worldwide web is impersonal, while libraries have librarians. When you walk in the door of your local public library, there is someone there who is ready to help you. Librarians aren’t there to run a scam on you, nor to try to turn a profit, nor to deceive you—all common enough occurrences in this, the so-called “information age.” A librarian is more than just a specialist but rather a sort of friend to one and all, someone with nothing more than your own good at heart ….” OLAQ, Vol. 17, no. 3, p. 9 (2011).
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Oregon History Buff, Writer, or Researcher? Open House at the State Archives (in Salem)
If you’ve never visited the Oregon State Archives, here’s your chance to go behind the scenes. Most of these documents are not online and may never be online (at least in our lifetimes).
You can also take the State Archives web tour!
Combine your visit to the Archives with some other Salem treasures, such as the Hallie Ford Museum of Art.
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Project Gutenberg Founder, Michael Hart, Has Passed Away
Project Gutenberg Founder, Michael Hart, Has Passed Away,” posted on INFOdocket, September 7, 2011, by Gary D. Price, and a link to the Project Gutenberg website for a full obituary.
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Oregon History Night: How Southern Oregon Got Its Ornery Streak
Oregon Encyclopedia History Nights has this program, among others coming up:
Presented by Dr. Jeff LaLande
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Oregon Lawyers Celebrate Punctuation Day (with a side of interrogatories)
The Oregon State Bar (OSB) August/September 2011 Bulletin has a lot of interesting news. We’ll start with the Fun (to librarians, lawyers, and writers, at least):
Thank you to Suzanne Rowe, the University of Oregon Law School Director of Legal Research and Writing and author of the book(s), “Oregon Legal Research,” now in its 2nd edition, we find out from her “The Legal Writer” column, “Let the Festivities Begin!” column that September 24th is:
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Oregon Wordstock Festival 2011
The Wordstock Festival will be October 6-9th, 2011, in Portland, Oregon.
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Justice Bedsworth and the Hot Diggity Dogs: Competitive-eaters Lawyer Up and Create Jobs
California appellate court’s Justice Bedsworth stifles a gag (mostly) in his latest monthly column, “Criminal Waste of Space,” in the Orange County Bar Association’s monthly magazine, September 2011 OC Lawyer
“Eat, Drink, and Hire Lawyers,” by Justice William W. Bedsworth
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Classroom Law Project: Multnomah County Courthouse Tour Guide Volunteer Opportunity
Oregon’s Classroom Law Project (CLP) Multnomah County Courthouse Experience tour guide volunteer program is fun and educational and perfect for non-attorneys.
Orientation for the upcoming Courthouse Experience tour guide season will be held on Friday, September 9, 2011, at Noon. Sign up to meet other volunteers and CLP staff.
I volunteered last year and will sign up for another round. I met excellent co-volunteers, CLP staff members, lawyers, judges, and judicial staff all of whom cheerfully welcomed the CLP tour guides and the students who participated in the court tour program.
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Read the Whole Screen: You’re Never too “Experienced” for More Training
This is true whether you climb mountains or research the law. How many times do you read a news report about a tragedy on a mountain where the climber, hiker, skier is described as “experienced.”
How about those Facebook and Twitter meltdowns with people, quite old enough to be considered “experienced” by any measure, who seem not to have read the whole screen, literally and figuratively speaking.
This is a rather roundabout way of saying, we’re never too old to learn new tricks, to learn from young and old, and to jump at any chance to learn or refresh our skills, whether they are computer, notary public, search engine, or database searching skills.