The Washington County Law Library is presenting two free Small Claims Court programs for the public: “All Rise! Taking Your Case to Oregon Small Claims Court” Monday, October 28,…
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“Free and Online” is not Quite the Same as “Equal Access to Justice”
Lewis & Clark Law School Library’s “Law in the News” roundup, brings us this story: “Law Libraries Struggle with More Patrons, Less Funding,” by Jose Pagliery, Daily Business Review,…
What is a “Floor Letter” and a “Note from Mother” (in the Oregon Legislature)?
The Oregon Legislative Library’s Reference Librarian* answers our ‘floor letter’ question. (The “Note from Mother” question is answered at the end of this blog post. Who said watching the…
Who’s Regulating the Regulators?
In my law library we not infrequently refer people to state (or federal) regulators, whether the question is about professional licensing, premises inspections, or other service within the purview…
Borrow a Drone From Your Library?
From InfoDocket: “U. of South Florida Libraries Will Begin Lending Drones For Aerial Photography This Fall” (I can only begin to imagine the terms of the loan and…
Law Library of Congress: Laws on Plant Patents and Propagation
Since Portland has also seen the peak of its cherry blossoms, we’re sharing the Law Library of Congress’s seasonal post “Stumpy’s Legacy: Laws on Plant Patents and Propagation.” “The…
Washington County Law LIbrary Website: New Links, Old LInks, Dead Links
If you run into broken links from this blog to documents on our website, the Washington County (Oregon) Law Library, we apologize. When websites are upgraded, when webpages are…
Washington County Law Librarians Set Hours in Beaverton and Tigard
In an effort to make law library services more widely available, a law librarian is now on duty to provide assistance on a walk-in basis at both the Beaverton…
Seven Law Librarians Serve Nine U.S. Supreme Court Justices
…the block, the U.S. Supreme Court Justices (with apologies to excellent law professors and lawyers everywhere), still have a law library and professional law librarians (plus support staff). U.S Supreme…
Speeding Up the Codification of Laws: You Say AI, I Say Thank you!
…by a nonprofit called the Open Law Library has turned a process that previously required several rounds of editing and the help of an outside entity — LexisNexis, in D.C.’s…
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