Oregon Legal Research Blog…can help me locate information on the following scenario. I borrow a book from a library (public or school) which was published before 1923 and is therefore in the public…
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Banned Books Week: a “Kafka Comes to America” Book Talk
Banned Book Week event: Café Banned, at the Multnomah County Library, features a talk by the Oregon Public Defender, Steve Wax, who will talk about his book, Kafka Comes…
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Book Binding in Oregon: The Monk Way
Libraries don’t bind their own books and journals anymore, at least most of us. (Some rare book libraries do – book conservation and preservation is super-specialized…
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The Secret Lives of Librarians: Author Interview: “This Book is Overdue,” by Marilyn Johnson
Salon has an excellent interview with Marilyn Johnson, author of: “This Book Is Overdue!”: Hot for librarian: The author of a new book talks about the secret lives of…
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(4) Places to Start Your Search for that Elusive Book Title
Libraries get a lot of those “I can’t remember that book (story, poem, etc.) title” types of questions, which we love because every good librarian loves a mystery that…
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DIY Book Indexing for Writers and The People Who Love Them
…you have someone who loves you and is willing to create an index for your book: Chronicle of Higher Education has a 3-part article about DIY book indexing:Part 1 Part…
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Open the Book, Hal
…haven’t laughed this much since I saw a Tofurky on the Thanksgiving dinner table. From and thanks to Ernie the Attorney for the link to “Introducing the Book.”…
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Authors and Lawyers and “Book” Contracts
Owning the copyright is not enough. You have to protect it. If you write books and publish them, in paper or online, through a publisher or by yourself, you…
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Oregon Revised Statutes Copyright Dispute: The Copyright Comic Book (and a few more side dishes)
…various blogs and news sites that are running stories about this dispute. 1) For fun, start with Bound by Law, the copyright comic book by Keith Aoki, James Boyle, and…
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Kevin Kelly, True Films e-book, and Cool Tools
Kevin Kelly is almost beyond classification, and librarians do love classifying the world, if only to make a little, albeit temporary (or virtual), sense out of all the…