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Two Inter-Alia posts that caught my eye:

Reprints of Public Domain Works
Excerpt: “Now this is seriously cool. Let’s say you’re looking for a book, but it’s out of print. Head over to Google Books and do a search for a book. Once you find one you want, copy the URL and take it to PublicDomainReprints.org (if you don’t want to use Google Books, there’s a search feature here where you can search over 1.7 million titles). Paste the URL into the Reprint Request box, enter your email address, and in a while you’ll get a message that your book is available to purchase at Lulu….”

Creating Chat Rooms on the Fly
Excerpt: “As readers of this blog may know, Dennis Kennedy and I have written a book on collaboration technologies for lawyers — The Lawyer’s Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies: Smart Ways to Work Together will discuss not only collaboration strategies but also the tools that will help you work with others. We’ll also be creating an online companion for our book, with a constantly-updated directory of the collaboration technologies we find. Today I’ll mention one of those sites.”

Inter-alia = inter alia

Interesting case out of the Oregon Court of Appeals today (2/20/08), with a legislative history of ORS 31.735:

MAN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT and OREGON DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Appellant Cross-Respondent, v. DAIMLERCHRYSLER AG (A135989)

“… Before Schuman, Presiding Judge, and Brewer, Chief Judge, and Rosenblum, Judge.

Joy of Computing: recipes for a 5-star library

When you blog and write and teach (and all public service librarians teach to some degree or another) you think about writing, about how to teach, about style, presentation, story-telling, about learning, and all those other good things. So I like finding manuals that take interesting approaches to teaching and learning, especially when they are written by people who understand what libraries are and what librarians do.

Thanks to Nicole Engard for the link from her What I learned today blog.

From the Salem, Oregon, Statesman Journal, 2/14/08: “Police warn of scam involving sex-offender list.”

From the article:

“Aumsville Police Department is warning residents of a suspected scam of a caller attempting to sell a list of sex offenders, police said Wednesday.

The Citizen Media Law Project’s Legal Guide has some good stuff (and here is their press release).

Thanks to the Law Librarian Blog for the link.

Question to web comic strip creator(s): Why aren’t you in newspapers?

Answer (excerpt):

“Without question this is the most common question we’re asked, often preceded by the nice compliment, “Your stuff is as good or better than the strips in my newspaper.” And it’s a good question, for which I don’t have a particularly short answer. Here’s the long one.

Today is Oregon’s birthday and the Oregon Historical Society and Portland State University have teamed up to bring you the Oregon Encyclopedia as a gift.

From the Oregon Blue Book:

“… For months the fate of Oregon statehood floated on shifting political coalitions distrustful of changing the fragile balance of power in Congress. It was known Oregon would be a free state, yet its newly elected senators–Joseph Lane and Delazon Smith–were proslavery Democrats. Finally Congress acted and on February 14, 1859, President Buchanan signed the bill. Oregon joined the federal union.”

And, here’s a story on the Oregon Encyclopedia from the 2/14/08 Oregonian, “Call it Oregon-Pedia”

You may have heard about the groundbreaking Public Library of Science (PLOS) …

but have you heard about the Public Library of Law (PLOL)?

These are all works in progress (isn’t all learning a work in progress?), but wonderful all the same. The PLOL is sponsored by FastCase.

Legal writers take note: Can you say it in Six-Words?

From the smithmag/six-word memoirs web site:

“Six-Word Memoirs: The Legend

This Oregonian “Complaint Desk” article from 2/10/08, “Handling inspectors and inspections is tricky,” was interesting:

What do you do when you believe that the home inspector hired by a potential buyer of your house managed to damage your house in the course of the inspection?

Excerpt from the article: