JCHS receives records grant
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Jul 13, 2004, 09:26
Citizens researching women’s history in Jackson County will have quicker access to important records thanks
to a $15,6000 grant presented to the Jackson County Historical Society.
http://www.dispatchtribune.com/artman/publish/article_4819.shtml
Joint Archives, Van Raalte move in together
Tuesday, July 13, 2004
By Shandra Martinez
The Grand Rapids Press
HOLLAND -- The Joint Archives of Holland and A.C. Van Raalte Institute soon
will be housed under one roof.
By early October, the two Hope College programs are scheduled to move into
the Henri and Eleonore Theil Research Center, located at 9 E. 10th St.
Currently, the Joint Archives is located on the ground level of the Van Wylen
Library on College at 10th Street; the A.C. Van Raalte Institute is in the 100
East building on Eighth Street.
http://www.mlive.com/news/grpress/index.ssf?/base/news-4/1089730819129210.xml
Memphis Commercial Appeal
Bolton turns division into
addition
By Wayne Risher
Contact
July 13, 2004
Bolton High School's colorful past
comes to life in faded photos, ancient
documents and artifacts spanning three
centuries.
http://www.commercialappeal.com/mca/local_news/article/0,1426,MCA_437_3032230,00.html (
New Britain Herald
Almost no shelf space left for land records
By JC REINDL , Staff Writer 07/13/2004
PLAINVILLE --The town clerk’s office now holds a written record of
every town land transaction since 1869, but the shelves in the vault will
be entirely filled next year unless the filing system is overhauled.
This urgent forecast for the vault, incorporated in a recent report on the Municipal
Center’s remaining space, prompted Town Clerk Carol Skultety’s decision that the
best strategy for keeping 135 years of Plainville land records accessible to future
generations is to shrink the books.
http://www.newbritainherald.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=12317942&BRD=1641&PAG=461&dept_id=10110&rfi=6
Atlanta Journal Constitution
New computer system will speed handling of county records
By DOUG PAYNE
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 07/13/04
At present, new homeowners in Cherokee County can expect to wait six months to get a deed back from the office of
the county's court clerk.
But there's help on the way — and the process time will be cut to days or possibly even minutes.
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/cherokee/0704/13computers.html
Stars and Stripes
DOD will preserve veterans’ personnel files
By Lisa Burgess, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Wednesday, July 14, 2004
ARLINGTON, Va. — U.S. government officials have decided to preserve the
personnel files of every military member since 1885, and to allow public access
to such records 62 years after official discharge or separation.
An agreement designating these files as “permanent records” was signed
Thursday by Archivist of the United States John Carlin and David Chu,
undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness.
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=23261
Journal News
County veterans angered over director’s ouster/7-13
From the JournalNews
By Mary Lolli
HAMILTON — A group of angry veterans wants to know why Butler County
Veterans Service Director George Boettjer was recently relieved of his duties and
private military records were confiscated from his office.
But answers to their questions may not be readily forthcoming.
http://www.journal-news.com/news/newsfd/auto/feed/news/2004/07/13/1089693134.18121.9048.2053.html
noticias.info
Audio-visual Archive Preservation for the Eastern Caribbean
Some twenty archivists and broadcasters from the small island countries of the Eastern Caribbean, Belize
and Jamaica participated in a UNESCO supported workshop on audio-visual archive preservation for the
Eastern Caribbean last week at the Learning Resource Centre of the University of the West Indies, in
Barbados.
http://www.noticias.info/Asp/aspComunicados.asp?nid=28758&src=0 (
RFE/RFA
Iraq: Archives, Libraries Devastated By War, Looting
By Valentinas Mite
Employees of Iraq's National Library and Archives are struggling to overcome the destruction
wrought during the first weeks of the U.S.-led war. Many irreplaceable documents,
photographs, maps, and books -- some centuries old -- were either destroyed in the fighting or
were stolen in the rampant looting that followed. A vital part of Iraq's culture seems to have
disappeared forever.
Baghdad, 13 July 2004 (RFE/RL) -- Iraq's National Library and Archives once held records dating
back hundreds of years.
It held records from the Ottoman Empire, handwritten accounts of the Iran-Iraq war, and microfiche
copies of Arabic newspapers going back to the early 1900s.
But many of the records are now lost forever -- destroyed in the fires and looting that beset Baghdad
after coalition forces entered the Iraqi capital 15 months ago.
http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2004/07/e5d79a8f-ab28-4e6c-8d97-a21eff46215b.html (
Evening News
First rule of compliance: Be well prepared
BOARDROOM WITH A VIEW
Mark Keepax
INSTINCTIVELY, successful businesses will always want to put as much of their attention
as possible into providing excellent value and quality goods or services to their
customers. However, it is inevitable this noble goal will be subject to the other day-today
demands which, while necessary, can stretch limited resources. The maelstrom of
incoming legislation governing how businesses handle records and electronic data is one
such burden putting particular strain on Scottish businesses.
http://business.scotsman.com/management.cfm?id=801722004
Wall Street Journal
Spyware Is Easy to Get,
Difficult to Remove,
Increasingly Malicious
July 12, 2004; Page B1
Spyware was never a good thing, but lately it has gotten a whole lot
worse. For many people, it has become a bigger problem than spam, and
one more reason to regret being online.
Spyware is a broad and amorphous term that has come to include a very
wide variety of software that runs in connection with a Web browser.
Browser cookies, which are little records of your surfing activities, can
sometimes be considered spyware because some of them report data
about where you go online back to advertisers. Free downloading
programs like Grokster and Kazaa use a form of spyware -- though the
companies involved prefer the term "adware" -- that shows you, for
example, related ads when you search for something at a Web site.
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB108958290808760730-email,00.html
Sydney Morning Herald
Virtually opening the books
By Edmund Tadros
July 13, 2004
Next
When WH Smith came to sell most of its Asia-Pacific businesses, it
knew potential buyers would want to check the books.
Management identified about 1900 documents relevant to the running of
the three book-and-stationery chains up for grabs - Angus & Robertson
in Australia, Whitcoulls in New Zealand and WH Smith in Hong Kong.
Traditionally, a physical data room would allow potential buyers to carry
out their due diligence. But the trouble with physical data rooms is the
volume of electronic and physical documents means they are timeconsuming
to set up and run. In addition, too many interested bidding
groups might mean having to set up another data room.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/12/1089484296426.html?oneclick=true
Got Any Protection?
DVD Technology Update
By AVVMMP
Got Any Protection?
Protect your media—or, for extra revenue, your clients’ media—from peril
by Van Carlisle
Business-savvy producers are constantly looking for ways to increase revenue by offering a la carte production services, such
as sound-stage rentals, editing services and duplication services.
One especially lucrative extra service that you might not have considered, but customers increasingly need, is off-site, longterm
and archival storage of master and backup copies of tapes and discs. Think about it: If you were to invest thousands of
dollars to produce content, wouldn’t you want to ensure that a master copy is in a safe, accessible place in the event that
copies of the tapes or discs are destroyed?
http://www.avvideo.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=26733 (1
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Richmond, Va
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