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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:

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”