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All That Giltters Is Not Gold

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When was the last time you cracked open and read a "real" book?   No, not those electronic abominations.  I mean an actual book with paper and ink and everything.  The way the media plays it, you'd think no one ever reads books any more.    In fact, I was talking with a librarian who works at a  a law school the other day.  He informed me that they don't teach students how to use print resources anymore. WHAT?!  Don't teach print?  Apparently, law schools have scads of money to spend and can, apparently, afford most everything the online world has to offer. It's no wonder, then, that I regularly have new (and some seasoned) attorneys come to me and stand with awe and amazement at the wonder that are the print books on our shelves that no one had ever told them about. The masalah is that not everything is online.  Yeah, yeah - I know that's a shocker for some people.  Even if you have gobs of money to buy the mos...

Watch Out, Lara Croft!

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Have you ever been sitting in your cubicle and thought that there has to be more to life than just sitting here in my cubicle?  H ave you ever wondered how Indiana Jones or Lara Croft got their start as archaeologists (or tomb raiders, as the case may be)?  Have you ever thought that you were meant for more that doing whatever you are doing right now?!? So, picture it.  You’re helping your dog dig in the backyard looking for a bone when you come across a 14-foot long thigh bone of the dreaded Cratarackatus from the late Crustacean Period .  How do you preserve your find?  More to the point, how do cash in with your find and protect yourself at the same time?   Well, you are in luck, my friend.  See, not 10 minutes ago I was lost in the jungles of our federal collection and just when I was about to shoot up a flare for help, I came across our copy of Archaeology, Relics, and the Law .   The thing is, this is not jus...