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Here, Creative Uses for Old Books (thanks, Bonnie!), are some great ideas for things to do with used books. (I’m not sure they would work with that duplicate set of Regional Reporters you have in the basement, but maybe starting a small business is the way to go in coming days, not to mention that those hollowed out books might be the bibliophile’s alternative to the Cash under the Mattress method of saving for the future).

I posted here on this subject and here is my How to Dispose of Used Law Books guide, which needs some updating with these excellent new ideas.

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People who know absolutely nothing else about parliamentary procedure always seem to know absolutely, positively (!) that motions have to be “seconded.” It’s not necessarily so.

You can look in any number of other sources, but I found this in the January 2008 Oregon Attorney General’s Public Records and Meetings Manual (partially online – and don’t blame me for that “partially” – ask the candidates running for Oregon AG this year):

“To facilitate decision-making, a simplified and flexible approach to parliamentary procedure is helpful. The author of one text on parliamentary procedures believes that ‘stressing a more straightforward and open procedure for meetings eliminates the parliamentary impasses that appear to follow when too much attention is given to parliamentary intrigue and manipulation.’ He has, for example, eliminated the ‘seconding’ of motions because it is ‘largely a waste of time.’ [See Meetings Manual for footnote to R. Keesey, Modern Parliamentary Procedure (1994).] This warning against blind adherence to parliamentary rules is echoed by the author of another text ….”

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This is my Oregon Legal Research blog’s 1,004th post, so this one looks back. Here are a few of the most recent popular posts if haven’t already found them.

1) Babysitting and leaving kids alone (and the law) posts are by far the most popular. Go figure. Parenting is rough; sometimes you just need to get away.

2) Beat Your Traffic Ticket (and the follow-up)

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I know the name JD Supra sounds like someone you once dated and remember fondly from afar (good old JD), or maybe it’s a new Toyota model made just for lawyers (the name Infra just didn’t rock anyone’s world). And then there is the citation signal Supra, but you still might want to take a look at the latest JD Supra incarnation.

Jason the Content Librarian blogs about JD Supra and links to others who have too.

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Everyone has a punctuation bugaboo; mine is the semicolon*. So I liked this post at Adams Drafting:

Excerpt: “Perhaps because they’re aware that I’ve had occasion to consider punctuation, some readers contacted me about the February 18 New York Times article about use of a semicolon in a New York City Transit subway placard….

And more generally, semicolons are creatures of nuance—less than a period, more than a comma. A contract isn’t the place for nuance.

But fans of semicolons shouldn’t despair: even with the limited use I put them to, my contracts still end up containing quite a few of them.” (Full post, here.)

*Though Victor Borge’s “Phonetic Punctuation” routine could make anyone laugh about punctuation.

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beSpacific also posts about the University of California’s eScholarship Repository, which is an amazing collection of scholarship, commentary, research, wisdom, and I’m sure even foolishness.

I’ve blogged before about the University of Oregon’s Scholars’ Bank.

Universities were at the forefront of web content management, which the legal community appreciates greatly (see e.g. Cornell, Michigan, and hundreds of other educational institutions that have been adding value to the web since there was a world wide web to manage – and making the information freely available).

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