The Multnomah County Auditor has released its public records law report on eliminating barriers to public access. Today’s Oregonian had an editorial about the report, here.
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Oregon Public Records Laws
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Read Widely and Carry a Big Book
We should always read outside our fields (and out in the fields and on the beaches whenever possible :-). I was reading my favorite librarian cartoon today and it linked to this, which got me thinking differently than before about my own plans for the future of my library. Way back in my East Coast academic law school library days, I once found an answer to an elusive legal research question while reading a David Lodge novel, 35,000 feet in the air above the Atlantic. So don’t ever feel guilty about reading whatever, whenever.
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Nine Tips for Office Celebrations
Via Ernie the Attorney, I was led to these Nine Tips for Office Celebrations, via Kring & Chung. Let’s be careful out there now.
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More on the HOA Front
The Oregonian’s Edge (the first column Oregonian readers head for when the paper arrives on the doorstep :-), has in today’s (12/11) column:
“Peace on Earth, good will toward Satanic traitors!
A Pagosa Springs, Colo., homeowners’ association president demanded that a homeowner remove the Christmas wreath shaped like a peace sign she had placed on the front of her home because he saw it as a protest of the Iraq war and a symbol of Satan.”
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Oregon Practice Materials
This terrific bibliography of Oregon practice materials can be found here (or, if this direct pdf link doesn’t work, try here and click on the pdf link at the bottom of the page). University of Oregon Law School John E. Jaqua Law Library law librarians Mary Clayton and Stephanie Midkiff wrote the guide.
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Law Library Borrowing Privileges to Be Forfeited
Librarians have a bad reputation for being pushovers. We are on occasion, though I like to think it is more a matter of our wanting to be fair that the punishment fits the crime. Do I really want to flog someone for not returning library books? But we do have our limits and some of my library patrons, WHO KNOW WHO THEY ARE, have not returned their CLE course materials and if I do not see them or my library’s books within the next couple of day, WILL HAVE THEIR BORROWING PRIVILEGES WITHDRAWN through the end of this MCLE reporting year. Happy Holidays!
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“In the end there will be better access”
More federal libraries closing, via Library Link of the Day, Dec 11th.
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1,500+ Law Librarians in Portland!
Don’t say I didn’t warn you – in July 2008, more than 1,500 law librarians (and families) will be arriving in Portland for the annual conference of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL). Brace yourself, Bridget.
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Wireless Cloud in Portland
Unless you live in a cave inPortland (and I’m sure someone does – dontja just love Portland!), you know about the MetroFi free wireless cloud that is starting to blanket the city. But not everyone knows that (if the word on the “street” is correct) the more you bug-em (Metrofi, that is) about getting wireless into your neighborhood, the faster you move up on the priority list for service coverage.
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Presidents, Islands, and Sportswriters
I’ve been at this blogging (aka blorking) more than a year now and have never reviewed, however briefly, any books. But sometimes the urge is just is too strong and you can’t fight Mother Nature, who I swear was a librarian (who else wouldn’t have played dice with the universe?).
When you ask a librarian, or any bibliophile for that matter, what books s/he’s reading, the answer is usually something like this: “Where?” Most bibliophiles have living room books, bathroom books, napping/sleeping books, kitchen books, train books, airplane books, hammock books, waiting-for-someone-to-get-ready or get-picked-up books, lunchtime books, supermarket line books, post office line books, restorative yoga books (so you’ll hold the poses longer without getting bored out of your mind), blood-pressure lowering books, give-me-strength books, and more. Not every book we read deserves a recommendation (yes, Virginia, there are bad books out there), but three books out of my past have recently come back, not to bite but to amuse anew and they are worth mentioning, partly because they have been more enjoyable, or simply less depressing, than most of the contemporary crop of books I’ve also been reading. Those serious books do need to be read, and some are very good, but life is too short not to have a laugh and a dream once in a while and what better place to find that than in a book.
Dedication: Book writers get to make dedications, so why shouldn’t bloggers also have them? I’m going to dedicate these book recommendations to my fellow lawyer and librarian bloggers who have led me to great books and articles, on subjects other than the law of course.