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Wikis are not the easiest creatures to wrestle into submission, with anyone coming out the real winner. I like how this one was organized and especially like that it was done by someone with one foot in a long, long ago century and the other foot planted solidly in this 21st century: ENGLISH MEDIEVAL LEGAL DOCUMENTS: AD 600 – AD 1535: A COMPILATION OF PUBLISHED SOURCES.

Thank you to Hazel D. Lord, Senior Law Librarian, at the Asa V. Call Law Library of the University of Southern California School of Law.

The 2007 ORS (Oregon Revised Statutes) is happily, fully, and finally online!

Now we have only to wait, and wait, and wait for the 2008 …

In case you were wondering … and this question comes up at least once a week …:

A new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) is not due until 2012. See the APA web site for this and more:

“… The next edition of the DSM, DSM-V, is not scheduled for publication until 2012. More information about the DSM revision process and the current activities in planning for the development of DSM-V are available on this website.”

These are more than trends; these are words to the wise.

Much of what Dennis Kennedy says in his “Eight Legal Technology Trends for 2008” rings true to law librarians and we hope, more to the point, to attorneys.

His #3 “Security Begins to Matter …Really” point is one we’ve been hammering on for years. Excerpt:

Yes, you read that correctly; the 2007 Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS) are NOT online, yet. Yes, we all are hoping it will be soon. (The 2008 ORS won’t be for even longer. I’ll blog soon about how laws are codified.)

When the ORS is online, it will be here, here, here.

In the meantime, you can probably find a print 2007 ORS at the public library (yeah!) and you can also look at the 2007 Oregon Advance Sheets (aka Session Law (look that up in the Legislative Glossary)).

A lot of our attorneys practice animal law, from equine law to estate planning for pets. This also means they are animal lovers (no surprise to anyone here in the Portland metro area).

So, visit the Pet of the Day blog, which is supported by Oregonlive blogs and has posts from the Cat Adoption Team (CAT), Bonnie Hayes Small Animal Shelter, Multnomah County Animal Services, and the Oregon Humane Society.

Here is a link to their pet-key.

Dennis Kennedy’s Feb 24th Links of the Week included a link to this:

The answer to the toughest interview question, “what’s your salary range?”

Law librarians get a variation on this interview question from database vendors: “How much are you willing to spend?” For some negotiation strategy advice on this subject, see “You Want What? How to Have Fun while Negotiating Contracts,” by Sarah Nichols (Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP) at 12 AALL Spectrum #4, CRIV Sheet, vol. 30, #2 (Feb 2008), pp. 10-12.

Transportation Security Administration (TSA) blog:

“This blog is sponsored by the Transportation Security Administration to facilitate an ongoing dialogue on innovations in security, technology and the checkpoint screening process.”

In the waning days of the Oregon Legislature’s one-month supplemental session, among other hot topics, there is health care. There are lots of ways to track what is going on in Salem, including this, this, and this. The clock is ticking so speak out soon on any issue the Legislature is considering now or you think they should be considering. You can find your legislator’s contact information here.

This morning’s Oregonian had a story about the waning days of the legislative session and had a front page story by Bill Graves about Rep. Mitch Greenlick’s health care campaign, “Lawmaker always has health care answer.”

And yesterday’s Oregonian (2/20/08), had this story by Andy Dworkin, “A Powerful Tower,” with the story’s second-page heading, “Treating cancer is a profit center for hospitals,” and this excerpt: