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It’s that time of year again (scary, isn’t it): Daylight Saving Time.

Clocks change on March 9th, 2008. Jump, spring, fall FORWARD (and sadly lose) one hour.

The “Welcome to the Information Website for Wilson v. Airborne, Inc. et al., Case No. EDC V07-770 VAP (OPx)” is up and running.

A news story from YubaNet, by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, about the settlement and the case: “Airborne Agrees to Pay $23.3 Million to Settle Lawsuit Over False Advertising of its “Miracle Cold Buster Company Now Under Scrutiny By FTC & 24 State Attorneys General.”

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.