RAIN (Records/Archives In the News) is a daily compilation of news stories from around the world.

SOURCECORP(R) to Provide Paper-to-Digital Conversion of County ...
mysan.de (Pressemitteilung) - Heidelberg,Germany
... In the course of this contract SOURCECORP will digitally capture, index
and perform quality assurance checks on over 4 million county records.
...
<http://www.mysan.de/international/article20362.html>

PROBE continues into missing items at new county attorney's ...
Odessa American - Odessa,TX,USA
... Linch said she did not know if any county records had been removed
from the computers or filing cabinets or if any actual wrongdoing had
occurred. ...
<http://www.oaoa.com/news/nw010505d.htm>

ORBECK'S love of area history will live on
Odessa American - Odessa,TX,USA
By Julie Breaux. The work of the archivist and historian Betty Orbeck will
live on for years to come, peers of the late former Odessan say. Orbeck
died Dec. ...
<http://www.oaoa.com/news/nw010505f.htm>

LYNN Museum plans downtown move
The Daily Item of Lynn - Boston,MA,USA
... costs.". Diane Shephard, the museum's chief archivist, said the entire
library and archives are devoted to Lynn and the city's history. ...
<http://www.thedailyitemoflynn.com/news/view.bg?articleid=7996>

PLANS to store rare books
Belfast Telegraph (subscription) - Belfast,Northern Ireland,UK
... The collection requires major conservation work and indexing. "A recent
meeting of the Council Archivist, the Curator of the Heritage and Museum
Service and ...
<http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northwest_weekly/story.jsp?story=598045>

CLEANED-OUT office irks Fiala as she goes to work
Press & Sun-Bulletin - Binghamton,NY,USA
... New York's Freedom of Information Law allows the public to view several
types of files including government documents, records, and financial
statements. ...
<http://www.pressconnects.com/today/news/stories/ne010505s139880.shtml>

FOI opens up intelligence files
ZDNet.co.uk - UK
... some are also available through the records centre's Web ... the FoI
information online are files on security arrangements in the Channel Tunnel,
documents on the ...
<http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/0,39020645,39183109,00.htm>

DUTCHESS clerk cleans up land records logjam, finds checks
Mid-Hudson News - Newburgh,NY,USA
What were in them were land records -- mortgage filings ... as much as
$350,000 in checks with those documents. ... ordered was the securing
of those files and she ...
<http://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/DC_clerk_landrec-05Jan04.htm>

EVERYONE should follow state open records law
Jackson Sun - Jackson,TN,USA
Davidson County Chancellor Claudia Bonnyman made a terrible decison last
week when she ruled that the state's Open Records law doesn't apply to
members of the ...
<http://miva.jacksonsun.com/miva/cgi-bin/miva?OPINION/opinion_story.mv+link=200501056823832>

PUBLIC information specialist joins POA staff
Benton County Daily Record - Bentonville,AR,USA
... His desk is shoehorned into the corner. DeBrock's next task was to
wrap his arms around an FOIA request that had been pending for weeks.
...
<http://nwanews.com/story.php?paper=bcdr&section=News&storyid=15931>

A Rising Tide of Protest
Fort Worth Weekly - Fort Worth,TX,USA
... speaker is an angry Joe Ross, acting superintendent of Fort Worth schools,
erupting after his staff found about 1,000 pages of public documents concerning
a ...
<http://www.fwweekly.com/issues/2005-01-05/metropolis.asp>

ORIGIN of Tawanka's name questioned
The Easterner - Cheney,WA,USA
... University Archivist Charles Mutschler researched the history of the
Tawanka name ... According the EWU campus archives, "Unfortunately, there
is no evidence to ...
<http://www.easterneronline.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/01/04/41db7a0b08389>

A million reasons to love the recorder's office
Youngstown Vindicator - Youngstown,OH,USA
... The reduction in recording instruments such as liens, powers of attorney
and deeds in 2004 ... law, a $4 fee is included in the cost of recording
documents at the ...
<http://www.vindy.com/basic/news/282992231066215.php>

THE Difference Between Spyware And Viruses
InternetWeek.com - USA
... denial of service attacks; in fact, given their potential for destruction,
we're ... and hijack browsers, but also tries to worm onto other systems
through email. ...
<http://www.internetweek.com/allStories/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=56900544>

THIS is the hour of the clever nerd
The Times - UK
Using the new Freedom of Information Act I intend to wrench open filing
cabinets that have been locked for decades, expose the briefing notes
we were never ...
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1062-1425937,00.html>

ITBusiness.ca, Wed, 05 Jan 2005 12:05 PM PST
Manufacturer opts for electronic archiving http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&lid=1&sid=57739&adBanner=Storage
12/22/2004 10:19:05 AM - Federal White Cement documents used to be a car ride away. Now employees no longer have to leave their desks. Retrieving documents used to be a lengthy process for Federal White Cement employees.

HISTORIC Treasure Availed to Namibia
AllAfrica.com - Africa
... of important historical records by a member of the former anti-apartheid
solidarity organisation in London to AACRLS at the national archives in
Windhoek. ...
<http://allafrica.com/stories/200501050379.html>

ADOBE Policy Server sets PDF access rights
PDFzone.com - USA
... Or document managers can set a general expiration policy so that every
new document will expire eight years after it was created for record retention
purposes. ...
<http://www.pdfzone.com/news/2065-PDFzone_news.html>

INTERNET search can yield military medals, records
Colts Neck News Transcript - Colts Neck,NJ,USA
... The National Archives and Records Administration is the repository
of millions of military personnel, health and medical records of discharged
and deceased ...
<http://newstranscript.gmnews.com/news/2005/0104/Front_Page/024.html>

Wall Street Journal
Time Capsule May Give
Insights Into the Past --
If Only It Can Be Found
January 5, 2005; Page B1
With the passing of another year, only 6,108 years remain until our
descendants can open the time capsule known as the Crypt of
Civilization.
<http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB110488467282717060,00.html?>

Wall Street Journal
After the Tsunami,
Keys to Recovery Lie
In Vanished Papers
With Crucial Files Destroyed,
Finding Deposits, Proving
Identity Loom as Ordeals
By ERIC BELLMAN
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
January 5, 2005; Page A1
HIKKADUWA, Sri Lanka -- As hundreds of people jostle for bags of rice, temporary shelter and
donated clothes outside a government office here, K. Ramachandra has a special mission -- drying
documents. Many, many documents.
Tsunami waves swept through the Hikkaduwa Divisional Secretariat Office on Dec. 26, leaving the
city's most important papers under water for days.
Mr. Ramachandra, a government clerk, is desperately trying to resuscitate them. He's got the paper trail
of many lives spread around the office, and ceiling fans are on full blast. Business permits, marriage
certificates, car registrations and birth certificates -- they all spill from the office and into the blazing sun.

<http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB110487876922816907,00.html?>

Wall Street Journal
'A Heritage That Remains
In Grave Danger'
By AZIZ HAMEED
January 5, 2005; Page D10
BAGHDAD -- Since the spring of 2003, when front pages all over
the world were filled with alarming images of the looting of the Iraq
National Museum, in Baghdad, relatively little has been heard about
the aftermath of that event, although a limited number of items
have, in fact, been recovered, leaving some 10,000 to 14,000 objects
missing.
<<http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB110488368367617035,00.html?>>

WIRED
Golden State of Privacy
By Ryan Singel
Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,66165,00.html
02:00 AM Jan. 04, 2005 PT
Californians entered the new year with the assurance their cell phone numbers cannot be automatically added to the 411 database, the ability to sue spammers and the comfort of knowing rental car companies cannot track their travels, thanks to a spate of privacy-enhancing laws that went into effect Jan. 1.

New York Times 12/30/04
Scanning In Your Memories? Go to the Source
By IVAN BERGER
THE best pictures I've shot on film over the years are now as easy to crop, color-correct, enhance,
print, e-mail to friends, post at Web sites and show on my TV as my more recent digital photos.
That's because they now are digital: I've been scanning them into my computer.
It is time-consuming, and the best equipment is not cheap, but the results have more detail and more
nuanced color than if I had shot them digitally. My scanner has brought out color and detail in slides so
overexposed that they barely show an image to the eye, and restored some color to slides that had faded
until only the magenta tones were visible.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/30/technology/circuits/30basi.html?>



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