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While you are channeling Your Inner Sherlock Holmes, you can also engage your inner Consumer Self-Help resourcefulness.

The Oregonian’s Complaint Desk had an excellent story of how you can resolve a consumer mystery and find your missing mo-ped, by following the trail of a missing-in-action company, aptly named Knuckle Head (but still nice guys and not out to harm anyone – librarians love happy endings!).

A bit of online sleuthing brings mo-ped reunion, from the Sunday Oregonian (print) and online, September 20, 2009.

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Unshelved Comic Strip (published Sunday, September 27, 2009) features the book “Graphic Artists Guild Handbook: Pricing and Ethical Guidelines, 12th edition.”

Don’t you love it when you learn from comic book? (And, how about a comic book on copyright law, which I blogged about here.)

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Just a reminder that the 2009 Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS) will not be available in print or online until 2010.

But you can still read the 2009 Oregon laws enacted by the Legislature and the Governor.

(Note: Oregon “Effective Date of Legislation”: “In accordance with ORS 171.022, “Except as otherwise provided in the Act, an Act of the Legislative Assembly takes effect on January 1 of the year after passage of the Act.”)

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It’s been a busy season for people (and librarians) wanting to find missing documents, from policies and certificates last seen 40 years ago to ones misplaced last month, from trusts, insurance policies, case files, and beyond.

So, here are some important tips:

1) Don’t panic, not now, and not as you keep crossing possibilities off your list.

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I recently gathered information about where to find public video-conferencing sites around the state, for use by government and non-profit organizations. I’ve posted my list at the Washington County (Oregon) Law Library website.

Look for the link to the guide under What’s New or under Other, at the bottom of the Legal Research Guides webpage.

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I’ve been grousing for a while about the online absence of the Oregon AG Public Records Manual and others have done more than grouse!

Open Up Oregon has links to PDFs for the full manual and the story behind their efforts. Hurrah!

Thank you to Professor Harbaugh (and Carl Malmud) for his (their) efforts and for bringing me up to date.

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Librarians are in favor of giving everyone a fair hearing (and reading). Let’s hope for more conversation and debate, however vigorous or passionate, and no shouting:

1) Sometimes the Victim Is at Fault, Argues Rutgers–Newark Law Professor Vera Bergelson in New Book on Comparative Criminal Liability, September 10, 2009

2) Justice Stevens and the NRA

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The August/September 2009 issue of the Oregon State Bar Bulletin (OSB) had a useful list of recent legislative bills that passed this past Legislative Session. It’s a list that will come in handy until the full session summary reports roll in.

This OSB list includes bills on estate planning (e.g. small estate limits), debt collection, elder law, and many other topics.

To find the full text of all bills, visit the Oregon Legislature’s website.

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