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A List of Reports to the Oregon State Legislature can be found at the Committee Services Legislative Library blog and you can subscribe to their email notification service, which sends us this message:

“To sign up for Legislative Library News, go to http://www.leg.state.or.us/ and click on http://www.leg.state.or.us/learnmore/ in the center of the page, and then follow the prompts. Legislative Library News is under the “General Legislative” heading.

Agencies: for instructions on submitting required reports to the legislature, see http://www.leg.state.or.us/comm/commsrvs/legReports.html

The Legislative Library is located in the Capitol Building, Room 446, and is open M-F, from 8:00-5:00 during session. Our telephone number is 503.986.1668; email is help.leg@state.or.us”

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The collection of materials in the Oregon State Bar (OSB) BarBooks database is impressive – see the list below. Our lawyers and self-represented litigants still like the print for certain types of research, but the database is an excellent addition to our collection (and to the database collections of many Oregon county law libraries around the state).

For you self-represented (aka pro se) litigants: This online collection does not necessarily mean you will find easy answers to your legal questions and problems; there is generally no such thing. You will still need to update the case law and statutes, determine what procedural steps to follow, and not to put too fine a point on it … figure out what to do with the information you find.

The other useful thing about having these online is that updates can be made easily and quickly. This list is up to date as of a few days ago:

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The 2011 OSB & LASO Bankruptcy Clinic schedule is out:

The Bankruptcy Clinic classes are held on Tuesday evenings, from 6:15 to 7:15 p.m. Appointments follow the classes. There is no child-care available.

The Clinics begin at 6:15 p.m. and start with a bankruptcy class taught by a judge or experienced bankruptcy lawyer. Class are open to all residents of Clackamas, Columbia, Multnomah, Washington, and Yamhill Counties.

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We not infrequently get questions from people worried about some new animal law they heard about or who just have an “animal law” question. You can start with one or more of these resources to find an answer to your question:

1) Oregon Legislature: searching for bills and laws by session

2) Lewis & Clark Animal Law Clinic

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“The Portland and Spokane Field Offices of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will hold a Citizenship Instructor Workshop – via webinar – on Monday, March 21st, 2011 at 9:15 a.m.

Please re-register if you would like to take this webinar.

The webinar is a continuation of the on-location workshops presented around Oregon over the last seven years that are aimed at instructors who are currently teaching classes – and those who anticipate teaching in the near the future. Topics covered include teaching civics, basic naturalization laws and procedures, the exam and tests, and resources for instructors. The webinar allows participants to interact with the instructor and ask questions.

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What DO public law librarians do? We all do pretty much what public law librarians do in Texas, Maryland, Wisconsin, Georgia, Ohio, Colorado … and California, whose county law librarians made this excellent 2 minute, 35 second video.

Among other things, we save people time, money, aggravation, and fear:

CA County Law Library Video now on YouTube: Who Have You Helped Today?

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Legal Research for Parents of Adult Children with Disabilities
Questions from parents about adult children with disabilities can cover a very wide range of legal issues. The following resources (and our new Disability Law Legal Research Guide) cover a few popular topics.

Special Needs Trusts:
1) The Arc of Oregon has a website on the Oregon Special Needs Trust. The Oregon Special Needs Trust is a “pooled trust” fund that provides supplemental needs to disabled individuals.
2) The National Special Needs Network offers answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Supplemental Needs Trusts.

State and county resources:
1) The Oregon Department of Human Services has a list of County Developmental Disabilities Programs and a Support Services Brokerages List by county/region.
2) The Washington County Developmental Disability Program offers a number of useful agency links on their website.
3) Lifespan Respite, from the Oregon DHS, provides information for families and providers about caring for a child or adult with special needs.

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Oregon has three law schools, and three law school libraries, two of which are private. Each provides a generous amount of service to the public even though their primary mission is to serve their student and faculty research needs. (They also provide invaluable assistance to the Oregon county law librarians.)

Oregon also has a state law library and a network of county law libraries. (There are also law firm and bar association law libraries, but they are for employees and lawyers only.)

If you need to do legal research:

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[And don’t forget to look at the ABC blog post: “How Many Different Ways Can You Spell ‘Gaddafi’?” They list 112 ways to spell Gaddafi!!]

If you are a researcher, then you know that using the very literal Internet for your research means that you need to know multiple spellings for names and words.

The Library of Congress has an Authority File that is a useful tool for this purpose. For example, if you were researching Mr. Qaddafi, here are some of your options (and this is a “Name Authority Headings” example).

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