Cornell houses records of prominent gay rights group
By: Emily King June 02, 2004
A quarter-of-a-century ago it began as a small group. Now, more than
560,000 members later, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is the
largest national lobbying group working for gay, lesbian, bisexual and
transgender civil rights.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=11838238&BRD=1395&PAG=461&dept_id=216620&rfi=6



Jerusalem Post
Jun. 2, 2004 22:18
Red Cross to open vast WW2 archive
By ETGAR LEFKOVITS
The International Tracing Service, which stores
information about inmates of Nazi concentration camps,
will open its vast archives to researchers by next year, a
senior official of the International Committee of the Red
Cross said Wednesday.
The decision to open the files of the Red Cross-run
service was made during the committee's annual meeting,
held this week in Jerusalem, after years of debate, ICRC
director for international law Francois Bugnion said.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1086152909466&p=1006688055060

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Wall Street Journal
California Adopts Rules to Rein In Wireless World
By JESSE DRUCKER
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
June 1, 2004; Page D2
A sweeping new set of telephone consumer protections
approved in California last week is the most significant of
several attempts by states to rein in the relatively unregulated
world of wireless and other new telecommunications services.
On Thursday the California Public Utilities Commission voted
3-2 to adopt a "telecommunications bill of rights," requiring
telephone companies to comply with a number of new
consumer protections. The rules came after more than four
years of debate and lobbying, and lay out regulations covering
everything from how long a trial period for a cellphone
customer should be, to requiring clear language in bills.
http://online.wsj.com/article_print/0,,SB108604079562125127,00.html

Voices
Gunn Scholar's Year-Long Work Celebrates the
National Pastime
By: John Addyman June 02, 2004
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1380&dept_id=157533&newsid=11833072&PAG=461&rfi=9 (


The Australian
Mystery scroll the rights stuff or clever fake?
By Steve Barrett
June 03, 2004
"WOW!" That was the enthusiastic reaction of US consul-general Eileen Malloy when what was purported to be a copy of one of America's most sacred political documents - the Bill of Rights - was presented to her in Sydney yesterday.
The unlikely holder of the torn and stained artefact, which - if genuine - is more than 215 years old and considered priceless, is high-profile barrister John Bryson.
Mr Bryson says he was given the parched scroll by some friends he visited in Portland, Maine, who were cleaning out their late father's attic. Yesterday, Mr Bryson gave Mrs Malloy the find, which he believes may be one of the five missing parchments the US Congress sent to the 13 states for ratification in 1789.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,9729695%255E2702,00.html (



Slate
E-mail Confidential
Who's afraid of Time Inc.'s legal disclaimer?
By Jack Shafer
Posted Tuesday, June 1, 2004, at 3:42 PM PT
The other day, a Time Inc. journalist of my acquaintance sent me an e-mail from his corporate e-mail account. I read it quickly and was about to hit the delete icon when I spotted this extraordinary 114-word "disclaimer" sloshing around at the bottom. It read:
http://slate.msn.com/id/2101561/



St. Petersburg Times
Bush culls presidential memos for
campaign tips
A strategist combs through the troves of memos and
personal papers to pick out what worked and what didn't for
Republican incumbents in elections of the past.
By BILL ADAIR, Times Staff Writer
Published June 2, 2004
ARLINGTON, Va. - Two years ago, White House political czar Karl Rove sent Matthew Dowd on a secret mission.
Dowd, a top Republican strategist, was sent to the libraries for presidents Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and George Bush to study old memos, polling reports and organizational charts. His goal: to help the Bush-Cheney campaign learn the lessons of the past.
As he sifted through the boxes and file folders, Dowd found a rich history of modern campaigns - evidence of shrewd planning, personal squabbles and a few missed opportunities.
http://www.sptimes.com/2004/06/02/Worldandnation/Bush_culls_presidenti.shtml (



Roane County News
County records burden building
By ANNE PICKERING/Roane Newspapers
An attic on the third floor of the courthouse is so jammed with records that a records management consultant recommended that the county find out the load capacity of the floor.
An architect from Knoxville looked at the courthouse plans and said the third floor was designed to hold 50 pounds per square foot of people, but what that meant for the records problem was still unclear.
http://www.roanecounty.com/articles/2004/05/31/news/news02.txt (



WATE
June 1, 2004
By TEARSA SMITH
6 News Reporter
ROANE COUNTY (WATE) -- The top floor of the Roane
County Courthouse is weighed down with public records
dating back to the 1800's. But the load may be too much
for the storage rooms to bear.
If you want to find out who didn't pay their Roane County
property taxes in 1876, the records are still in the
courthouse, along with hundreds of thousands more.
Roane County archivist Robert Bailey said the warm,
dusty attic contains countless information on old murder
cases, arrest reports and even school vendor files. The
boxes span more than 200 years.
http://www.wate.com/Global/story.asp?S=1909654



St. Cloud Times News
2 June, 2004
Sex offenders' files clog state agencies
David Unze
Staff Writer
The stacks of documents are feet tall and climb the walls of a makeshift "war room" at the state Attorney General's Office.
They contain details about the lives, crimes and psychological assessments of the state's
most dangerous sex offenders. It's inside the war room that much of the work is done to keep those offenders off the streets.
http://miva.sctimes.com/miva/cgi-bin/miva?CMN/Local/read.mv+20040602041844+1+



The Age
Internal probe to track possible leak
By Andrea Petrie
June 3, 2004
Internal investigators will check police files, and computer records to see when a sensitive intelligence document was printed and find out if it was leaked by police.
Court documents will also be checked to find out if any had been subpoenaed or provided in prosecution material to defence lawyers during police corruption or gangland hearings as part of the investigation into how the highly sensitive report was released.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/06/02/1086058916998.html



BBC News
Explorers' archives opened to all Remarkable photographs, documents
and maps relating to some of Britain's greatest explorers are being released by the Royal Geographical Society.
It is a £7.1m venture that will give public access to the 174-year-old RGS archives for the very first time.
Some of the materials come from the pioneering expeditions undertaken by David Livingstone, Charles Darwin, Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3767851.stm



Negligent Record-Keeping Costing State
The Herald (Harare)
June 2, 2004
Posted to the web June 2, 2004
Sifelani Tsiko
Harare
Poor and negligent record-keeping by Government agencies is exposing the Government to major legal, financial and political risks as valuable documents disappear curtailing efforts to weed out corruption and mismanagement.
Archivists and information science experts say there are numerous cases of lost reports, missing files, missing tender or contract documents, mutilation or vandalism of essential records and defacing of books, journals and other publication in government departments and other public utilities.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200406020819.html (



The Manila Times
Thursday, June 03, 2004
Local telecoms need not bow to US jury, DOJ says
By Elaine Ruzul S. Ramos, Reporter
THE Department of Justice has given local carriers the go-signal to invoke the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) between the Philippines and the United States with regard to an antitrust probe pending before the grand jury of Hawaii.
In a two-page letter to National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) chief Ronald Olivar Solis, Acting Justice Secretary Merceditas Gutierrez said the RP-US MLAT is in full force and effect.
This means that local telcos cannot be forced to hand over documents because under the said treaty, such request must be coursed through the DOJ.
http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2004/jun/03/yehey/business/20040603bus1.html



The Business Ledger
E-mail Evidence Can Solidify Legal Cases
Lawyers are using traditional means of physical evidence less and
are instead looking to e-mail and digital documentation as a solid
way to make some cases.
For attorneys like Mark C. Metzger of the Lisle firm of Hinshaw &
Culbertson LLP, electronic documents are more often than not the
key pieces of evidence used in cases like sexual harassment, fraud
and information theft.
http://www.thebusinessledger.com/Articles.asp?artId=477&isuID=19



East Valley Tribune
A step on public records
Tribune Editorial
A new state law requiring state agencies to tell you why they’re not allowing you to see a taxpayer-funded public document isn't perfect but it's a step in the right direction.
Under the new law, if someone is denied his or her request to see or copy public records, most state agencies would have to provide a list of the records denied and an explanation of why they were denied. Presumably, such a list could be the basis for either an administrative or judicial appeal.
http://www.aztrib.com/index.php?sty=22466



Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Open records lawsuit settled in Beaver
Dam
Group opposing Wal-Mart project receives
documents
By DAN BENSON
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Posted: June 1, 2004
A Beaver Dam citizens group has settled an open records lawsuit filed against the city and its economic development representative over the annexation of land earmarked for a mammoth Wal-Mart distribution center.
Under the settlement, Citizens for Open Government has received about 1,000 pages of documents from Beaver Dam Area Development Corp., a private group that acts as an agent for the city.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/jun04/233692.asp



Business Wire
June 02, 2004 09:01 AM US Eastern Timezone
Archivas to Showcase ArC Software at Securities Industry Association Technology Management Conference
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CNSNews.com
Pitfalls Of Paperless Voting
By Jill S. Farrell
CNSNews.com Commentary
June 02, 2004
Good, fast, cheap -- pick two. When facing a problem, everyone would like to have all three. In real life you only get two.
A project done quickly can sometimes be done correctly the first time...but it will cost you. Start cutting corners and workmanship is generally out the proverbial window. Corrections, updates, retraining and a host of other expensive and time-consuming activities usually follow hard on the heels of a cheap, quick fix.
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=%5CCommentary%5Carchive%5C200406%5CCOM20040602c.html

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Computerworld
Trumping tape
Lucas Mearian, Computerworld, Framingham
02/06/2004 10:28:29
In the ongoing struggle to automate and speed data backups and restores, storage administrators are increasingly turning to Advanced Technology Attachment disk subsystems.
Now two vendors are pitching the idea of using specialized ATA disk backup appliances as an alternative to robotic tape autoloaders for handling large volumes of archival storage. Both are using specialized ATA disk array technology to lower the cost per gigabyte of disk-based storage and extend the life of backup disk drives, making them more attractive for archival and near-line storage.
http://www.computerworld.com.au/nindex.php/id;1454342766;fp;16;fpid;0



Wall St Journal 5/24/04
Keeping Your Memories Alive
By LEE GOMES
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
May 24, 2004; Page R13
People who still keep their photographs in cardboard boxes typically
don't have to worry about backing them up. Barring a fire, flood or other
disaster, those pictures are safe.
Alas, the story with digital pictures -- and all other sorts of digital
information -- isn't quite that simple. Our computers are increasingly
becoming repositories for sentimental items like photos and home
movies. Yet there is so much that is unknown or unreliable about
computer-data storage that it's distinctly possible that, if you don't take
special precautions, your memories of a lifetime won't be around even
five or 10 years from now.
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB108499947713516031,00.html?


Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Richmond, Va
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