Lawyers, law firms, and law libraries have historically shared books with each other. We now have some important eBook purchsing, borrowing, lending, and licensing issues to catch up on….
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Oregon Public Law Librarians go Live with Call-In TV Show
…2008 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL). This is a lot more exciting than you might imagine (and very good for local businesses and the tourism…
Access to Justice in Oregon (with an antipasto of Firefighters and Drug Courts)
…the Equal Access to Justice community, in which public law libraries play a pivotal yet virtually invisible role. Several months ago I proposed to a group of public law librarians…
Oregon’s Surgical Checklist and Medical Practitioner Bona Fides
If you have surgery in your future, don’t think about lawyers and medical malpractice if something goes wrong … think preventive, preemptive action, that is, BEFORE something goes wrong….
Oregon Medical Malpractice & Physician-Assisted Suicide
The latest Willamette Law Review, Summer 2007 (to be posted here in time), has several articles (comments) on Oregon law, including these two: Hedrick, Valerie, “The Medical Malpractice Crisis:…
Health Care (Medical) Advocates
…included lots of self-help tips and links. Health care advocates can, among other things, scrutinize your medical bills for errors the same way legal billing auditors do (though mostly for…
Medical Marijuana and New U.S. Attorney Guidelines
From the U.S. Justice Department blog: Memorandum for Selected United State Attorneys on Investigations and Prosecutions in States Authorizing the Medical Use of Marijuana, October 19th, 2009, posted by…
HIPAA and HITECH: Medical / Health Record Privacy Laws
…medical records are? Excerpt: “What’s the most sensitive privacy issue for you? Do you know who’s looking at your medical records? It is shocking. If you think HIPAA protects you,…
How to Evaluate Covid-19 Resources: the Good, Bad, Puzzling, Outdated, Rumor, Un/Official, and the Profiteering
…or add a Part 2. Some of these are specific to evaluating Covid-19 resources, others are resource evaluation guides for journalists and medical researchers – and students, generally. And some…
Medical Library Student Internship (Oregon) Opening
A lot of people still think the only prerequisites for working in a library are 1) “you like to read” and 2) the ability to stamp books with…
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