I couldn’t resist this: “That’s one big book: Book is 2-feet thick, has 10,119 pages,” by Stephanie Wise, Iowa City Press-Citizen, January 27, 2011 Excerpt: “The University of Iowa…
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Oregon 2013-14 Blue Book Cover Photo Contest
Jack Ohman wants to kickstart the Oregon Secretary of State’s Blue Book Cover Photo Contest (and don’t we all follow the journey of OR7, the wolf formerly known as…
Will Librarians Do Almost Anything for a Gold Book Cart?
From the July 13, 2009, ATC, NPR story, Librarians Go Wild for Gold Book Cart: ‘….Five teams of librarians — dressed in costumes ranging from Vikings to Elvis Presley…
Become self-employed with your e-book
…living publishing their own e-books: “Virtual book, real money: E-books don’t have the cachet of a New York Times best-seller, but how many writers will turn their noses up at…
Oregon General Assembly (Legislature) Special Sessions: a Brief Civics Lesson
…Legislature’s homepage. Historic Special Sessions (From the Secretary of State Blue Book (from 1860 to 1-2 years ago).) The Laws of Special Sessions and the Oregon Legislature, generally: Oregon Revised…
Christmas Trees (and Menorahs) Made from Books: Reuse, Re-purpose, Re-gift? (oy vey!)
These Christmas Book Trees (and other holiday book-based decorations) images were compiled by a law librarian at the Jameson Law Library, University of Montana Law School in Missoula: “Oh…
Book: Autobiography of an Execution
I heard a riveting interview with the author of “Autobiography of an execution,” by David R. Dow, and was moved to put the book on hold at my local…
Traffic” (by Tom Vanderbilt): An alternate title for the book might be “Idiots.”
Traffic, by Tom Vanderbilt: “…An alternate title for the book might be “Idiots” (from the NYT review of Traffic). See also this recent news story: Use turn signal? Why?:…
Book Review: Rule the Web (Boing Boing!)
LLRX has a book review by Julia Wotipka, of Mark Frauenfelder’s “Rule the Web .” Excerpt from Wotipka’s book review: “I consider myself a deep web research pro. I’ve…
Don’t Throw Out that “Old” Oregon Law Book! (Motor Vehicle, Criminal Law, and Probate Law Revisions)
If that dusty law book in your office hasn’t been scanned yet (assuming copyright allows you or another repository to do so), PLEASE Don’t Throw it Out! (If you…
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