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I’ve been talking a lot lately with others about public sector blogging and I thought it might be useful to start posting about the issue.

(And, some of the best, and most productive, discussions I’ve had have been with the people at the Multnomah County Library who drafted these: a) Social Software Policy for Multnomah County Library Users and b) Blog Comment Guidelines)

Blogging issues that arise in the Public Sector World include technological, budget, practical, policy, politics, and literary ones, and, of course, legal questions and puzzles. I’m sure there are others, but one has to start somewhere.

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Clocks change Sunday, 2 a.m., March 8th, 2009: Jump, spring, fall, collapse FORWARD (and sadly lose) one hour.

I know. It feels as if we just went through this – and we did!

You’re not really saving any daylight (what a thought!), and, the clocks don’t really change – they just hiccup, forward or backward. But you have to go with the plan, or miss a lot of great dinner dates.

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Oregon Historical Society Library Closing

A librarian colleague brought this to my attention:

“Researchers needing to access OHS collections before then should make plans immediately…. Due to budget cuts, the Oregon Historical Society Research Library will be closing on February 28, 2009. After that date, collections will no longer be available to the public. At this point, photo and film reproduction orders will still be taken.

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From Jim Calloway’s Law Practice Tips blog, link to: Site of the Week: The Invent Blog®, and find this provocative suggestion: Purchase Your Kid’s Domain Names (and their nicknames, maybe, while you’re at it? 🙂

It’s not enough to feed, clothe, school, and love them ….

There are additional SEO tips from The Invent Blog (and from Jim’s blog):

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This recent post at f/k/a will take you to previous ones on lawyer billing, all worth reading. It will also take you to a definition of agita, a condition not unknown to those of us who don’t get a chance to get it all out of our systems (though blogging does help).

This leads me to my current lament (but no agita), which is: “why isn’t there a satisfactory legal equivalent to The Best American Science Writing?” (I’m working through the 2008 edition now.) Or is there?

There are a lot of “The Best American xxx Writing”: science and nature writing, short stories, mystery stories, comics, erotica, political writing, plays, sports writing, etc. Why not law?

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It won’t be the first time (nor the last) that I connect dots in a way that makes your eyes cross, but work with me here:

(First, here is some comic relief from Courtoons (thanks to Jim Calloway for the lead!).

Now, full speed ahead:

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I hear far too many lawyers say, “I don’t understand technology. I do just fine with the telephone and my legal assistant.” This is a far more dangerous situation than “I don’t need no stinkin’ email.”

As a public librarian, I’m in favor of self-help and I know my way around a law library, but I’m also smart enough to know when to hire lawyers (and doctors). And I sure want to know the professionals I hire to protect my legal interests also know how to protect my privacy interests. If there is a computer in the law office, but no one who knows about protecting data, let alone understanding how those computers work … well …. good grief.

Not knowing about scrubbing legal documents submitted electronically could lead to a Bad Outcome, for all. And, it can be as fatal to clients (their cases and their privacy) as it is to that lawyer (or public servant or financial advisor or bank or doctor) who doesn’t lock up paper files or encrypt electronic data. (And why DO we keep hearing about custodians of personal records leaving laptops, with unencrypted data, unattended in garages, driveways, cars, airplanes, etc.?)

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