Librarians find, compile, and share: See iLibrarian posts:
“30 Twitter Accounts to Follow for Technology News and Insights,” by Ellyssa Kroski, June 20, 2013 (From Pogue, Hurley. Li, Stone to ReadWrite, Kotaku, and more.)
“The Ultimate, Mega, Essential Website Design Guide – 115 Tools and Resources,” Ellyssa Kroski, June 26, 2013
Band applications are available at the Multnomah Bar Association (MBA) website for the September 5th competition.
Performance will be:
Date: 9/5/2013
If you’ve been following the news, you will have heard that people with first aid and other types of lay or professional medical training can be lifesavers during, and after, disasters.
So, if you want to “do something” after a disaster, take a Red Cross First Aid Class!
Take along friends, your book group, your family, your softball league, etc., and plan a celebration in honor of your new life-saving skills.
Looking for a place to host a meeting in Oregon that enables participation by those who can’t attend in person?
Check out this recently updated guide on publicly-accessible sites that make videoconferencing equipment available to users. Please note that most require a reservation, and some locations charge for the service.
We admit the list is not as expansive as we’d like; please let us know about places we’ve missed and we’ll gladly include them!
An Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was proposed in 1923:
“Freedom from legal sex discrimination, Alice Paul believed, required an Equal Rights Amendment that affirmed the equal application of the Constitution to all citizens. In 1923, in Seneca Falls for the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the 1848 Woman’s Rights Convention, she introduced the “Lucretia Mott Amendment,” which read: “Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.” The amendment was introduced in every session of Congress until it passed in reworded form in 1972….” [Link to more from ERA History at Equal Rights Amendment dot org.]
Are you ready to Spring Forward in Oregon? March 10th is the Day the Clocks Change.
If you want to know why you have to Spring Forward (and if not, risk missing a lot of meals and time checks), read our Fall Back blog post from October 2012.
HOW you count words matters when word-counts matter.
The Legal Skills Prof Blog 1/29/13 post: Different Computer Systems Give Different Word Counts
Excerpt:
State Courts and Oregon State Government offices will be closed on Friday, January 18, 2013, and Friday, April 19, 2013, and Friday, May 24, 2013.
Lawyers, law firms, and law libraries have historically shared books with each other. We now have some important eBook purchsing, borrowing, lending, and licensing issues to catch up on.
This will cost time and money to learn, prepare, monitor, and audit.
At the very least you will need the right eReader, the right App, and the right license.
An awful lot of people have a hard time saying “no, thank you.”
Unless you have a burning desire to be scammed, I recommend you practice, practice, practice.
If you want another really good reason for saying, “no, thank you,” here’s a story for you, from the 11/6/12, Law for Real People Blog:Every Season is “Attempt to Scam the Elderly Season”
Oregon Legal Research Blog