The Telegraph
Bid to save pieces of history
(Filed: 29/03/2004)
Will Bennett examines the history and importance of
Poole Pottery
Poole Pottery's extravagant, colourful designs have been
loved by collectors and shoppers looking for attractive
pieces for their homes for more than 80 years and have
become an important part of the history of 20th-century
British ceramics.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=%2Farts%2F2004%2F03%2F29%2Fbawb29.xml (



Controls tighten on outgoing
mail
05 April 2004
Millions of letters and parcels sent from New Zealand are being X-rayed as
borders are tightened in the wake of terrorist attacks.
Customs and Aviation Security officers monitor the post for explosives, drugs,
flammables, flora, fauna and other prohibited items.
Customs traditionally kept watch for contraband arriving in New Zealand by mail,
but started to screen the outward-bound post as part of its response to international
security concerns.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2865642a11,00.html (



news.com.au
Canberra fails e-security test: parliamentary report
Karen Dearne
April 6, 2004
THE Federal Government has "comprehensively failed" on e-security,
according to a damning parliamentary report that calls for urgent action
in response to its exposure of "ignorance and neglect".
The Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit uncovered serious
breaches, including the theft of IT equipment from an Australian
Customs facility in Sydney, Telstra back-up tapes apparently dumped
as rubbish, and the loss of more than 1000 laptops from government
departments in the past five years.
http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,9198104%255E15319,00.html



Cape Business News
DLK to get Parliament's records in
order
Cape Town-based black owned DLK Business and Technology Solutions is on track
to develop a records management file plan for Parliament before the end of May.
This filing system will, for the first time, align the national legislature’s records filing
system with the National Archives Act.
It will also facilitate the process of identifying which documents – dating back to 1910
– can be destroyed in terms of the Act.
http://www.cbn.co.za/issue/420401.htm



Parliament Archives Get an Overhaul
ITWeb (Johannesburg)
April 5, 2004
Posted to the web April 5, 2004
Paul Vecchiatto
Cape Town
DLK Business and Technology Solutions is developing a records management plan for Parliament that will bring the legislative arm of government in line with the National Archives Act.
DLK says the system is due to be implemented by the end of May. Besides storage of documents dating back to 1910, the system will also allow for the identification of documents that can be destroyed in terms of the Act.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200404050884.html (



e-consultancy
Devon County Council Advances Customer Service with New
Electronic Document & Records Management Software
Release Date: 5 April 2004
Authority also to save time and space with TRIM
Context from TOWER Software
Following the success of a small-scale pilot scheme,
Devon County Council has ordered an electronic
document and records management solution from TOWER
Software. The TRIM Context system will initially be
rolled out to 70 users across four of the authority's
directorates: resources; environmental services;
education, arts and libraries; and social services.
Over the next 12 months, TRIM Context will undergo
further testing, including integration with the
authority's line-of-business applications and web
content management applications.
http://www.e-consultancy.com/newsfeatures/155168/devon-county-council-advances-customer-service-with-new-electronic-document-records-management-software.html



Centrelink’s Winning Plan
David Braue, CIO, Sydney
02/04/2004 11:32:10
When a fire destroyed the local office of Centrelink in Warrnambool,
Victoria, the government agency’s smooth recovery turned a potential
disaster into a textbook example of the value of business continuity
planning.
Planning for a disaster is one thing, but putting that plan into practice is
something most IT executives never want to have to do. For massive
Commonwealth agency Centrelink, business continuity planning (BCP)
efforts came good in the days after October 6, 2002, when fire savaged
a row of shops in Warrnambool, Victoria that contained, amongst other
things, the local offices of Centrelink and the Department of Human
Services.
http://www.cio.com.au/nindex.php?id=897368162&fp=4&fpid=21



The Times
The National Archives' invaluable
holdings
The National Archives at Rabat and Mdina have now been providing
administrators and research workers from a variety of fields with the primary
sources they need to support plans and policies or write their books and
papers. It is hard to believe that until not so long ago all these sources were
spread over many departments and other public bodies and, moreover, that
there was no legislation enjoining the preservation and classification of these
hundreds of thousands of documents.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/core2/article.php?id=150958



Business Report
Metrofile upgrades document processing
April 6, 2004
By Margie Inggs
Durban - Metrofile, the only remaining trading operation of MGX, is forging ahead with growth despite
being yoked to MGX, its debt-ridden parent.
The company has invested R3.5 million in an upgraded digital conversion, storage and retrieval
processing centre in Empangeni, near Richards Bay.
The facility caters for the full life cycle of document and records management, from paper records to
digital assets for corporate clients, banks and the local regional council.
http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=&fArticleId=393724 (



The Independent
Becks, texts and a
message for us all
There are few hiding
places today for those
who break their
marriage vows, or even
the law. Charles Arthur
looks at how
technology can catch
you out. Then again, it
might save your life
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/story.jsp?story=508876 (1



Unfinished Kipling tale gets told
From correspondents in London
April 8, 2004
AN unfinished children's tale by British author Rudyard Kipling, dug
up after decades in an English school, has been published for the first
time, a charity organisation dedicated to the author said today.
Scylla and Charybdis, part of Kipling's Stalky and Co saga about boys
at a boarding school, sees Stalky and his friends catch a colonel
cheating at golf.
The manuscript was discovered by an archivist at a school built on the
same site as the author's own childhood school in Windsor, west of
London.
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,9225130%255E1702,00.html (



BBC News
'Lost' Kipling story is published
A recently-discovered story by Rudyard
Kipling has been published for the first
time.
The tale, part of the Stalky & Co saga, is
called Scylla and Charybdis, and sees
Stalky and his friends catch a colonel
cheating on the golf course.
The manuscript was uncovered by an
archivist at the Haileybury and Imperial
Service College in Windsor, the successor
to Kipling's old school.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3607463.stm



Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Richmond, Va
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