Wonderful and heartwarming story about an illiterate Brazilian book collector at the Library Link of the Day, here. Makes my own passion about law libraries pale by comparison, though in the spring my garage does overfloweth with recycled law books waiting for pick-up by worthy solo and small law firm attorneys.
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MILITARY AND FAMILY LAW: Military law is heating up especially for us law librarians. The latest issue of ABA’s “Family Advocate” devotes almost the whole issue to The Military Divorce, plus some very useful new Bankruptcy Act information. I was looking at it and one of my regular attorneys practically snatched it out of my hand. It had an article on a subject he was researching that very moment here in my law library. A nice aha moment for me.
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ROBERT AMBROGI’S BLOG: Robert Ambrogi’s web site may drive me crazy what with its gray on blue screen , but he is fun and smart (not unlike Ernie the Attorney). Ambrogi points to an excellent story on the Open Source Constitution, so if you are in need of a laugh, go to http://www.theonion.com/content/node/40990 or directly to Ambrogi’s web site at: http://www.legaline.com/lawsites.html
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“Solo and small firm conferences spring up all over.” See Jim Calloway’s law practice blog at:
http://jimcalloway.typepad.com/lawpracticetips/
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CATALOGING A SMALL LIBRARY COLLECTION: Need to set up and catalog a small collection? We’re trying this: http://www.librarything.com/.
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ENCRYPTION SOFTWARE: Before buying encryption software, which you should of course be doing for any computer with any personal data (yours and especially anyone else’s), make sure you read Bruce Shneier and everything he has ever said about encryption software: http://www.schneier.com/blog/
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The OSB Board of Delegates met on October 1st. See http://www.osbar.org/ for updates.
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Gonzalez v. Oregon in the U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court to hear Gonzalez v. Oregon on Wed, Oct 5, 2005. See http://egov.oregon.gov/DHS/ph/pas/index.shtml for information about assisted suicide in Oregon.
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Favorite Lawyer Blogs 2005
FAVORITE LAWYER BLOGS: For public law librarians, and in my case for county law librarians, serving the needs of our local solo and small law firm practitioners is a top priority so I try and keep up with news I can pass along to them. These are three of the lawyer blogs I check on practically a daily basis: http://www.lawbizblog.com/, http://myshingle.com/, and http://jimcalloway.typepad.com/lawpracticetips/. I’ll list other favorite lawyer blogs in a later post along with some terrific law librarian/legal research posts of use to all legal researchers.
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This is a new blog from an extremely new blogger who also happens to be an Oregon public law librarian with the usual law librarian urge to share what she knows about legal research. Posting will be sporadic until I get into the flow of blogging. Advice, comments, and encouragement are always welcome. It is now time for me to figure out how to add links.