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Even if you plan to hire someone to build your business website, it helps to have a general understanding of how a website is created.  How else will you know what to look for when you review resumes and interview job applicants for your website design project?
You can sign up and pay for training classes yourself, and there are some excellent classes available online and at training centers, but wouldn’t it be nice to get a FREE introductory hands-on tutorial with a friendly public library techno-trainer before being thrown into the mysterious and stressful world of bytes, fields, frames, call-outs, HTML, Flash, domain names, URLs, Java, etc.?
I was looking at my own public library’s list of free computer classes and here are some of the many skills you can learn: spreadsheets, creating a basic website, Windows and Web for beginners, word processing, and an HTML lab.
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California appellate court’s Justice Bedsworth tries to stay upbeat about the likelihood of retiring before age 93, while simultaneously trying to understand the war between the sexes in China.  Are they connected?  Stay tuned:
“Jabberwocky, Part Deux,” by Justice William W. Bedsworth
See his monthly column, “Criminal Waste of Space,” in the Orange County Bar Association’s monthly magazine, August 2011 OC Lawyer.
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If there is a particular book you want and you know its title, you can check library catalogs or run a web search or ask a law librarian (who have access to this wonderful resource, Svengalis, “Legal Information Buyer’s Guide and Reference Manual”).
But sometimes you don’t know exactly what you want or even if there are books on the subject you are researching.  In addition to checking your local libraries’ catalogs using keyword and subject searches, run a web search using the words free law books.  You can also check out these:
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I first wrote this blog post in 2007 and it’s high time for an update:

 
As you might imagine, libraries get lots of questions about building codes, specifically asking if we have them. The short answer is, no.  (If the answer you get is yes and you need the information for a client, please read on.)
 
You see, it’s next to impossible to keep building codes up to date in a small library, in almost any library for that matter.  But we can refer you to a better source of information. Here’s some advice I published a few years ago in a bar association newsletter and it is still good information:
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I’ve updated my “Oregon Legal Research Resources Not Online or Through Fee-Based Databases Only” PDF grid.
You can find it from each of these web pages:
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Please note corrected effective date for this law – and thank you to the lawyers who alerted me to this!

The Oregon Small Claims Court jurisdictional limit has been raised to $10,000.

HB 2710 was signed by the Governor on June 30, 2011.  (Chapter 595, (2011 Laws): Some parts effective date July 1, 2011; the Small Claims Court amendments are effective October 1, 2011.)
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But when you’re in the early stages of research, or just curious, try these websites:
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Forbes dot com brings us this story:
More scam and other consumer protection information from the:
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The Uniform Law Commission (ULC) recently approved the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act. Find links to the latest UELMA draft and other documents and more at the June 11, 2011, Legal Informatics blog post: Uniform Electronic Material Act Approved by ULC.
For more about official, authenticated laws, follow the links at the June 11, 2011, AACPLL blog post, National inventory of primary legal materials, including a link to the seminal AALL State-by-State Report on Authentication of Online Legal Resources and updates.
Law librarians, lawyers, legislators, and others have been working on this problem for a very long time.  The problem: most digital (including online) statutes and other legal research materials are not official, authenticated, and are only prima facie evidence of the law.
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