Get Smart! Check out Uncuffed Crime and Dear Rich, Intellectual Property – or one of Nolo’s other highly informative blogs.
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Legal Research Databases in Oregon County Law Libraries
We’ve updated our guide to legal research, and other, databases in Oregon county law libraries:
OREGON COUNCIL OF COUNTY LAW LIBRARIES (OCCLL): ONLINE DATABASE SUBSCRIPTIONS
(or from this Washington County Law Library webpage – under “O” for OCCLL).
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U.S. Congress Finally (Almost) Master of its Own Domain: Thomas Becomes Congress
The 1990’s Thomas dot gov becomes the 00’s (beta) Congress dot gov. It’s about time, but bittersweet nonetheless. Thomas was on the cusp, riding the web wave, a time and money saver to us all, and made teaching federal legislative history a little more fun than it was in the all-paper days.
So visit Congress dot gov: Let’s hope its ratings will be higher than the branch of government after which it is named (e.g. see Gallup).
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Friday Funny: Justice Bedsworth Offers a Cheap Solution for Underfunded DUII Patrols
“Interactive Urinal Cakes,” by Justice William W. Bedsworth, in the OC Lawyer, December 2013:
Excerpts (footnotes omitted, but always worth reading):
‘Yep, that’s what it says. Interactive urinal cakes…. Apparently, someone noticed that a man who has had too much to drink may be unsteady on his feet. This might cause his stream into the urinal to waver, thereby betraying his inebriation. Inability to keep the urinal stream aimed correctly is probably directly proportional to inability to keep an automobile aimed correctly.
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Reading the Law in 7 States: How to Practice Law (legally) Without Going to Law School
Just like the Rule of Real Estate: Location, location, location,
Just like the Rule of Carnegie Hall: Practice, practice, practice,
There might soon be a Rule of Law School Without Debt: Read, read, read.
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Gift, Luxury, or Necessity: How to Buy the Tablet or e-Reader that Suits You
Public libraries have some of the best buyers’ guides for e-Reading devices. Check at your own public library or start with this one to find links to reviews, consumer tips, and more:
Washington County (Oregon) Cooperative Library Services (WCCLS), “Choosing a table or e-reader” (and check out their Library2Go help pages – or visit your own public library’s eBook pages)
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Disease Outbreaks, Comets, War Monuments, oh my! Entertaining and Educational Government Apps
From a GovLoop blogger: 10 Most Entertaining Government Mobile Apps:
1) Solve the Outbreak, from the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention
2) NASA App: NASA’s official app enables you to discover the galaxies from the palm of your hand.
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Earn $1,000 – by NOT Going to Law School?
Anything But Law School Graduate Scholarship
The flip side of “too many lawyers“: Some reports estimate that 55% of attorneys are baby-boomers. If that % is correct, and the tail end of baby-boomer-dom was 1958, it’s quite possible we’ll need a lot of replacement lawyers really soon.
Some lawyers retire in order to do other things, but many lawyers will retire because the practice of law isn’t much fun anymore (e.g. legal research has become no “more than a google box on top of a legal database.”
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States Must Spend Millions for ID Law
Remember “unfunded mandates?” They never really went away so you may as well get reacquainted with them. (See also, National Conference of State Legislatures on unfunded mandates.)
Interesting story in the Salem (Oregon) Statesman Journal, 11/21/13:
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How to Preserve and Collect Cartoon Art
Is a cartoon library worth $10 million? You bet it is, if consider the history and the joy it contains.
The Cartoon Library at Ohio State University is a one place to start your cartoon preservation and collection research. Heaven knows archivists know about preservation of printed, and other, materials – and while heaven might look fondly upon archivists, it tests them mightily to see if they are worthy of persisting on such a quixotic journey. Talk about a dream job – a Cartoon Archivist. As Mark Twain apocryphally advised writers: make ’em laugh and make ’em cry. That’s good cartooning (and librarianship) in a nutshell.
And possibly just worth the long journey to Columbus, Ohio: Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes) and Richard Thompson (Cul de Sac) will appear on the same stage in the Spring 2014 at Ohio State. Wowsers!