The Southern California Association of Law Libraries’ (SCALL) Public Access to Legal Information Committee (PALI) has published the fifth edition of: Locating the Law: A Handbook for Non-Law Librarians…
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Researching Medicare and Medicaid Law
This is mostly a reminder for me, and colleagues, but others might find it useful: A Few BASIC RESOURCES ON MEDICARE and MEDICAID LAW: 1) CCH Medicare and Medicaid…
Why I (sometimes) Don’t Like the Term Social Media (with a side of Men With Pens)
…to read” and “I read a lot” people who believe they can manage libraries, without knowing anything about budgets, contracts, licensing, employee management, politics, etc. There’s also that small matter…
Will Librarians Do Almost Anything for a Gold Book Cart?
…book cart competition, see Unshelved’s Pimp My Bookcart Contest, an annual tradition since 2006. Now, about those Sacred Stacks and Higher Purposes of Libraries and Librarians ….Google Image Librarians….
Tax Preparation Assistance in Oregon
Please pass this information along to people you know who may need tax preparation assistance and who do not have Internet access. Many public libraries work with AARP and…
How to Find Oregon PECBR Cases
…from the Employment Relations Board. 2) Most small or even medium-size Oregon law libraries do not have these PECBR orders in full-text format and often just call the ERB in…
Covid-19 Metaphors: Express Train, War, Black Box, Oh My
…that local arrives at its final destination, it may be wise to label all this research—preprints, peer-reviewed papers, and for goodness’ sake, pronouncements from Donald Trump— with a black-box warning:…
Oregon Historical Society Library Closing
Oregon Historical Society Library Closing A librarian colleague brought this to my attention: “Researchers needing to access OHS collections before then should make plans immediately…. Due to budget…
Criminal Background Checks on Employees and Volunteers
A recent story in the Portland Tribune (and many other similar ones lately) reminded me how many questions law librarians get from people who think conducting background checks is…
Don’t Treat Your Lawyer Like a Button
The very funny title leads into a very, very interesting blog post from BlawgIT. I love it also because it ties in with what law librarians say all…
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