Oregon Legal Research BlogThe American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) awarded their 2017 Public Access to Government Information (PAGI) Award to Laura Orr, the former Washington County Law Librarian (2002-2015). AALL Press…
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Where Do You Find Great Legal Research Advice?
When you need legal research advice, turn to the legal research experts, professional law librarians, most of whom are able to share their expertise freely, or low-costly (so to…
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Can Someone Use My Picture Without My Permission?
Can Someone Use My Picture Without My Permission? Public law librarians hear this question quite frequently and while we don’t really want to make our responses more complicated than…
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Model U.S. Law Firm Copyright Policy (AALL, 2016)
The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) has updated its: Model Law Firm Copyright Policy Excerpt: “[AALL’s Model Law Firm Copyright Policy is merely a model of a copyright…
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It Takes More Than a Dumpster to Build a Digital Law Library
“It Takes More Than a Dumpster to Build A Digital Law Library: 12 Critical Components For Digital Law Library Transformation.” from Dewey B Strategic, 12/10/14 “.… For the past…
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Law Librarianship is Not About Books or Coffee Machines
Espresso Machines are Lousy Substitutes for Law Library Leadership ( 3 Geeks and a Law Blog 4/22/16 blog post) : “…. Law Librarianship is not about the number of books…
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Cite-Checking: A Thousand Points of Citator-Speak
I recently asked law librarians for alternate, non-proprietary, ways of saying “Shepard’s” or “KeyCite” (or Shepardizing or KeyCiting). Below you’ll find a short list and a long list of…
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Animal Law: Thou Shall Not Covet Exotic Pets in Oregon (and beyond)
…a reason cats and dogs are the most common pets, Hartline says: Over centuries of breeding, “the ones that weren’t good with humans didn’t make it through the gene pool.”…
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Landlord-Tenant Law Guide (from the Law Library of Congress)
Just because landlord-tenant law is state-specific and local law for most of us mere mortals doesn’t mean there aren’t some excellent treatises and resources on the subject for those…
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Research Foreign and International Law Like a Pro
If you’re not an expert researcher or if you don’t have access to a large law library with professional foreign and international law librarians, the key to productive legal…