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From “Legisprudence” to “I Have to Move My Car”
I like looking at new law book catalogs, especially those with the scholarly books I don’t get to see or read much anymore. Some people dream of bigger houses,…
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A Beer for a Cigarette: When is a Bargain Good Value?
…“… I’m reading a new book I downloaded on my Kindle and I noticed an underlined passage. It is surely a mistake, I think. This is a new book….
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New Book: Interpreting Oregon Law, 2009 edition
The Oregon State Bar has released their Interpreting Oregon Law, 2009 edition, a welcome addition to any Oregon lawyer or law library collection. You can find an order…
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Exotic Pets in Oregon and Beyond. Book: “Forbidden Creatures”
While on a rare, and all too brief, break from work, I caught, so to speak, a wonderful, and not a little bit terrifying, interview on Fresh Air…
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The Other $100 Laptop: What a Reader-Commuter Really Needs
Even as a librarian, as a bibliophile, a book-in-the-trunk (in every nook and cranny) sort of person, a web surfer, as a cereal-box reader since childhood (and you know…
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What do I do with these law books I need to get rid of?
We routinely get calls from attorneys who are looking to get rid of law books. They may be retiring or downsizing. The answer has evolved, but it is generally…
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How Long Should You Quarantine Library Books (vis a vis Covid-19)?
…included the following items, which were provided by Columbus Metropolitan Library: (1) Hardback book cover (buckram cloth) (2) Softback book cover (3) Plain paper pages inside a closed…
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A Reading List for People Planning to “Occupy” Public Property
…Read a Book, Read the Law: The history of protest goes back to the beginning of human time (check out the Flintstones if you doubt me). So, if you plan…
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Lawyers, Judges, eBooks, and Privacy: Tortoise or Hare, Legislation or “Free” Market?
In the race to eBook-nirvana, should lawyers and judges stop long enough to read the privacy fine print in their eBook contracts? (You can be sure law librarians…