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Books and Crime: John Waters on Libraries and Librarians
“We need to make books cool again,” he said. “I had a plumber come into my house, and he said, ‘Did you read all these books? I hate…
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Free Law Books Online: Findlaw and Nolo
…the subject you are researching. In addition to checking your local libraries’ catalogs using keyword and subject searches, run a web search using the words free law books. You can…
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Equal Protection: Library Closures Found to be Unlawful (U.K.)
…in Gloucestershire and Somerset ,” Lizzy Davies, the Guardian.co.uk, 16 November 11 Excerpt: “… Campaigners attempting to stop the closure of their local libraries won a surprise victory in…
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Pro Se Litigant, Civil Gideon, and “It’s all Online” (so ask Siri to draft that eviction notice) News Round-up
…Library last week, to see how the legal system operates here and also to hear a talk from Public Defender Jeff Adachi…. Despite being used as an example of a…
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How to Find Legal Information and Lawyers in the United States
…reliable legal information, a law library is one good place to begin, online or on the phone or in person. I posted previously about other state’s law libraries: State and…
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“More Eager I am to Pay a Lawyer than a Crook”: Consumer Law – No Small Matter for Ordinary People
…public law librarian) knows, goes far beyond that. Ordinary people, the ones we in public (and public law) libraries see every day, just don’t know how to navigate the maze…
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Legal Research for the Intrepid but (honorably) Clueless
…research, many of which you can find at your local libraries, including books from Nolo Press and HALT, both of which have excellent legal research guides, online and in print….
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Get What You Paid For: “Free” Online Research Databases
…you a small fortune to subscribe to individually. For those of us who use the public libraries in Washington County or Multnomah County, remember that we have access to…
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Free Information is Better then Free Stuff
…have access to so much free information your head may explode. And if you live somewhere the libraries don’t offer these services, you can often buy into them for…