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I had been trying to connect that (or something like it) to libraries in the 2000s. Victim Services Directory Had a lot of success with it too. It is far from re-inventing the wheel. And you are probably missing a lot of stuff just using Google. People are the major sources for aid much of the time.

And there are people -- I know some of them-- who do not use the Internet all that much.

Go to a large public law library and see what that law library might have for survivors/victims of crimes which you cannot find readily through a Google Search. I as a librarian do not see Google as being an adequate replacement for someone who knows the community and the people in it who can help a survivor/victim of crime. This will be different in the Villages from Topeka, Kansas to Gainesville, FL to Bushnell, FL to Ocala to St. Paul, MN to Juneau, Alaska.

Crime victims and survivors also readily change with technology as do what is available to them. Facebook and other social media, for instance, offer new ways of helping survivors/victims of crimes. But also create methods that criminals can make new victims/survivors.

For instance, I have had harassers and stalkers on TOTV who make me have to come with new ways of getting through this kind of contemptible behavior. There are even now laws against cyber harassers and stalkers. I had stalkers/harassers when I was on Findlaw from 2002 through around 2006 as well as tried and succeeded with holding these people accountable in some way or changing the way Findlaw operated.

I also believe in libraries as social hubs for communities. There having an active role in helping survivors/victims of crimes may make more people report certain kinds of often under-reported crimes and also de-stigmatize mental illness which is also a contributing factor in the creation and the targets of crimes as well. Those seen as different-- like incessantly calling someone a wackadoodle on community message boards-- are more likely than not to be victims/survivors of crimes. I have been involved with many different crimes as a survivor/victim or even as a student lawyer for defendants in these cases. And I did see what the survivor/victim was going through in these.

What is in your library? Remember that people who have not reported crimes yet do not get the help of the government. They get this help after they have reported it or have been forced to report it through various situations like a trip to the Emergency Ward and a nurse or doctor asking questions.

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What difference does it make...and why do you care?


At least we have people like Taltarzac...who are willing to try and help others.


Being constantly personally attacked for doing so, speaks volumes of the attacker...NOT Talt. :ohdear:

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What difference does it make...and why do you care?


At least we have people like Taltarzac...who are willing to try and help others.


Being constantly personally attacked for doing so, speaks volumes of the attacker...NOT Talt. :ohdear:


Some, like you and your ilk...are beyond help of course. :D

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What percentage of 'crime victims' actually use the resources of a library?

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What difference does it make...and why do you care?


At least we have people like Taltarzac...who are willing to try and help others.


Being constantly personally attacked for doing something so helpful to others, speaks volumes of the attacker...NOT Talt. :ohdear:


Some, like you and your ilk...are beyond help of course. :D

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If you have ever had dealings with bureaucrats you will know that they always do not work in your interest but often in their own or maybe just to get a paycheck while looking to do their jobs. I had many encounters like that over the past 26.25 years. And that goes for bureaucrats from local doctors, social workers, librarians, psychiatrists and the like to people at the highest levels of government who sometimes work more for their party and their own interests than those of survivors/victims of crimes especially true if these people are not huge donors to the political parties involved.

And lawyers often do not work in your interest but in the interest of how much a case can get or not get. I contacted many lawyers for instance who would not take various cases I had because of $$$$$ or the matter was just too big to do anything about. You cannot fight City Hall but you sure can make a lot of money if you know the players in City Hall and socialize and golf with them.

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5459 views now of my 224 613 Project thread. These conventions of the American Library Association ALA Upcoming Annual Conferences & Midwinter Meetings | Conferences & Events and the American Association of Law Libraries are coming up. Annual Meeting and Conference

I hope some people can see why arming survivors/victims of crimes with timely and relevant information about their rights and the services available to them are critical.

And probably the people most in the know about what is really out there for survivors/victims of crimes would be lawyers and law professors who practice and/or investigate/research in these areas. They overlap a lot of areas of law.
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And do not just assume that what you get when you Google is the most current and relevant information.

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We will count on you for the most accurate and up-to-date information.

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Who was it that said something like, " I give respect to the opinion of a person that has had a working career, raised successful children, owned homes , etc etc "


Hmmm. 26,000 posts of worthlessness

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I had sent a few e-mails about my experiences with the legal system to the Sumter County Clerk of Court when I was Summoned for Jury Duty back in April of 2014 and showed up for Jury Duty around May 19, 2014.

The Judge dismissed us as the defendant had been talked into accepting a guilty plea and saving according to this Judge a 16 week trial. I probably would have been booted as soon as I started talking about ,y experiences with law librarians and it is very hard for me not to get emotional when telling these facts.

In 2009, at the Federal Court in Ocala for Jury Duty, the Judge has challenged me because he seemed to think I was not giving the truth and everything but the truth in my responses to questions. How can anyone put a lifetime of experiences into a pithy sentence?

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5500 views now as of 6/09/2017 Friday as 7:28 AM EST. This is about my 224 613 Project which I started about January 1991 while still working at the University of Minnesota Law Library one of the biggest in the country and even the world back in 1991. And that had the Law Librarian of Congress, M. Kathleen Price, as its previous Law Library Director and me who had recently finished cataloging all the computer files on WESTLAW for what was supposed to be a very important development for accessing legal computer files from libraries. This was through knowledge of what was available on WESTLAW as described in cataloging files I had written using guidelines set out by a group of law librarians from around the United States.

Talked a lot about this too with my Villages' circle of friends in May of 2014 because I was worried about how to handle questions that might be asked me from the lawyers, judges and the like and I did not want to just start talking about this often traumatic experiences of mine to a room full of strangers who could not just hit some buttons on a computer and look at something else if they did not want to hear what I had to say or read what I had written.

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