Oregon Legal Research BlogThis was an interesting list and worth passing along – and clearly useful for all, not just libraries:
13 Ways (and 147 Tools) to Help Your Library Save Money on Technology
(Thanks to iLibrarian for the lead to the Librarian in Black link.)
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Slush Piles: Writers and the Law
Publisher slush piles have collapsed as much from too many lawyers (and people wanting to sue) as from the sheer volume of “slush.”
Here’s an interesting article from the Wall Street Journal:
The Death of the Slush Pile: Even in the Web era, getting in the door is tougher than ever,
Wall Street Journal, January 15, 2010, by Katherine Rosman:
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Favorite Book of the Year: “The Healing of America,” by T.R. Reid
If you want an absorbing, fascinating, and fun book to read … if you want to sound (and possibly be even more) intelligent and well-informed when discussing health care systems around the world, and you don’t want to slog through zillions of pages in boring tomes, I highly recommend that you read:
T.R. Reid’s “The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care”
This is a “I missed by bus stop!” sort of read (which is much better than saying, “whoops, I missed Minneapolis!”). Reid is a great researcher and storyteller (and very funny, at that – you might have enjoyed T.R. Reid’s other books or radio appearances.)
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Automobile Fraud and Unsafe Vehicles
This could be a Traffic Week post, but it’s a new week and time to move on. That said, it’s hard to let go of the steering wheel:
Automobile Fraud and Unsafe Vehicles: How the National Motor Vehicle Title Information System Can Help You Protect Yourself, January 6th, 2010, by Tracy Russo:
Excerpt: “…[C]ar fraud can place unsuspecting consumers in unsafe vehicles….
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Consumers can access critical nationwide total loss and salvage vehicle information on vehicles by visiting www.vehiclehistory.gov. NMVTIS is the only publicly available system in the U.S. to which all insurance carriers, and auto recyclers, such as junk yards and salvage yards, are required, under federal law, to report to on a regular basis….” (link to full post)
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Traffic Week: How to Beat Your Oregon Traffic Ticket
Welcome to the end of Traffic Week at the OLR Blog. Traffic law posts will appear throughout the year, but this is the end of my Traffic Week experiment.
Despite all efforts at smart driving, even the best amongst us will get a traffic ticket. I’m not sure I can do better than my Oregon Legal Research blog posts on Beat Your Ticket, Get Your Day in Court.
Happy Trails!
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Traffic Week Miscellany: Human Transit, Jump Starts, and, of course, Cows
For my penultimate Traffic Week blog post, I give you these:
1) Transit musings: Try this transportation blog: Human Transit
2) Traffic law sometimes surprises: If you ever were in doubt about the truth of this statement, “if you read only what is written in the statutes and the constitutions you will be absolutely wrong about what the law is,” let the following be a wake-up call:
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Traffic Week: Oregon Traffic Accident and Crash Data
Don’t let your kids grow up to be traffic statistics. Maybe you want them, instead, to grow up to be transportation analysts or transportation journalists!
Some Oregon traffic statistical compilations:
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Traffic Week: Public Transit in Oregon (Mostly Portland-Metro)
A few of the on and off-the-grid Portland-metro, Trimet, and traffic blogs for more than you might want to know about public transit in the Portland-metro area:
1) Trimet official website
2) History of Public Transit in Portland
3) Hard Drive: A commuting blog
4) Association of Oregon Rail and Transit Advocates (and their Transit Links)
5) Portland Transport
6) Transit Sleuth
7) Trimetofficialinformation
8) Trimetiquette
Traffic Week and Traffic Law OLR blog posts.
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Traffic Week: Not-So-Smart Joggers and Pedestrians with Death Wishes
Pedestrians have to follow the law, too. The Oregon Pedestrian Rights [and responsibilities] website links to laws and other resources.
I drove (very slowly) past a jogger the other day. It was a dark, gloomy, wet early – very early – morning. The not-so-smart jogger was in the street, jogging in the same direction as traffic, on a narrow 2-way street, dressed in black, WITH HEADPHONES ON.
This person definitely had a death wish. We all see this every day. I’m a hard-core pedestrian and public transit rider, someone who drives very, very little, and these pedestrians make me very nervous. (I suppose it’s the same way bad bicyclists make good bicyclists nervous and irritable.)
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Traffic Week (Oregon): Hand Signals
No, not that hand signal, although, a Nov. 15th, 2009, Ask Marilyn column had a wonderful Q&A about those hand signals (aka “motorist salute”), that is, she agreed with a reader that a SORRY! hand signal was desperately needed.
(And this post is not about Turn Signals, which I talked about in another Traffic Week blog post.)
None of us is perfect and there are times when we wish to convey our contrition.