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OUR Views: Public records access may be enhanced
The Olympian - Olympia,WA,USA
... government records. When the voters adopted the state Public Records
Act in 1972, there were only 10 disclosure exemptions. During ...
<http://www.theolympian.com/home/news/20050207/opinion/83440.shtml>


'IF these walls could talk'
Sioux City Journal - Sioux City,IA,USA
... space were now exposed. Hidden on one of the floor joists were four
boxes containing about 70 glass negatives. In the early days ...
<http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2005/02/07/news/local/026d8b0de4fe8dd686256fa1001b1764.txt>

BOOK develops the history of photography in NC
Greensboro News Record - Greensboro,NC,USA
... The book includes essays by HG Jones, retired curator of the North
Carolina Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill, and state archivist Jesse
Lankford
Jr. ...
<http://www.news-record.com/news/local/jim020705.htm>


MUD-SLINGING politicians chastised over freedom of information
Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
... election. Lord Falconer urged political parties to "back off" and
stop
playing politics with the new Freedom of Information Act. ...
<http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=142902005>


DIRTY tricks turning voters off, sleaze watchdog warns
Independent - UK
Britain's chief sleaze-buster has warned the Government "to tell the
truth
as it is" and not withhold information under the Freedom of Information
Act. ...
<http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=608418>


ARCHIVIST'S road to happiness is a paper trail
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner - Fairbanks,AK,USA
... "Senators' offices produce a fantastic amount of paper," he said.
For
McCarthy, an archivist by training, that fact makes this place fertile
ground. ...
<http://www.news-miner.com/Stories/0,1413,113~7244~2697170,00.html>


A New Archivist
Washington Post (Subscription) - Washington,DC,USA
... less central than the homeland-security post -- has gotten less
attention
than it deserves: that of historian Allen Weinstein to be the archivist
of the United ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3596-2005Feb6.html>


ON Trail of 1906 Quake's Victims
Los Angeles Times (subscription) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... Hansen, the city's archivist emeritus and curator at the virtual
Museum
of the City of San Francisco, has reopened a window on this city's
history
that's not ...
<http://www.latimes.com/news/local/state/la-me-quake7feb07,1,4048443.story?coll=la-news-state>


WASTED Space
ITBusiness.ca - Canada
... All the documents needed were indexed and all the ... of all paper
-- not just financial records but any kind ... Until that day, however,
the physical files will be ...
<http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&lid=1&sid=58032&adBanner=Storage>


HOSPITALS go full-bore on IT upgrades
MSNBC - USA
... things were being Xeroxed and put in files and that ... it still
relies
primarily on paper documents and film ... Electronic records typically
are printed out and filed ...
<http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6926674/>


DIGGING out -- Dummermuth regrets calling firefighters inept
New Philadelphia Times Reporter - New Philadelphia,OH,USA
... cannot be replaced, but blueprints and files can be ... & Associates
are Dover city records, including maps and ... for drawings, which
included
city documents for the ...
<http://69.84.36.157/left.php?ID=38226&r=0>


E-MAIL author back on stand today in Neuheisel trial
Seattle Times - Seattle,WA,USA
... support for Richardson's memo and actions, but added that she "might
want to delete" his message because it could be subject to a
public-records
search. ...
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/sports/2002172723_neuheisel07.html>


SAFETY should trump illegal felons' privacy
Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscription) - Atlanta,GA,USA
... For three reasons, according to Rachal Madan, Office of Justice
Programs'
general counsel: the grants data are exempt from disclosure under the
FOIA because it ...
<http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/0205/07immigrant.html>


LAND records a rich source for researchers
Lebanon Daily News - Lebanon,PA,USA
... with the deeds found in each county's Recorder of Deeds office, not
nearly as many have used the documents housed at the Pennsylvania State
Archives that give ...
<http://www.ldnews.com/Stories/0,1413,139~10142~2697443,00.html>


LAWYER: Rambus Shredded Evidence
Los Angeles Times (subscription) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... documents to prove its case.". Companies are allowed to have
document
retention policies to control clutter. They aren't allowed ...
<http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-rambus7feb07,1,1563631.story?coll=la-headlines-business>


HEALTH files not in National Archives
IrishExaminer.com (subscription) - Ireland
THE Department of Health is failing to transfer many of its old files to
the National Archives despite having a legal obligation to do so. ...
<http://www.examiner.ie/pport/web/ireland/Full_Story/did-sg0-SffixED6osg0aewFBADppk.asp>


PAPERS sketch war hero's life
The Republican - Springfield,MA,USA
... The deeds are a combination of printed text and handwriting. All the
documents are in good condition, Bosse said, although one has split
along
the fold lines. ...
<http://www.masslive.com/hampfrank/republican/index.ssf?/base/news-9/110776601566000.xml>


Mit Technology Review
Keeping Tabs
By Ed Tenner Febuary 2005

How many college students today ever flip through trays of library
catalogue cards? Some of them may never have used an actual tabbed file.
But the tab as an information technology metaphor is everywhere in use.
And whether our tabs are cardboard extensions or digital projections,
they all date to an invention little more than a hundred years old. The
original tab signaled an information storage revolution and helped
enable everything from management consulting to electronic data
processing.
<<http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/02/issue/megascope.asp>>


Sunday Life, Mon, 07 Feb 2005 6:24 AM PST
Prison files destroyed
http://www.sundaylife.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=608652
THE Prison Service has denied that it has destroyed sensitive files
relating to sex-scandals at an Ulster jail. A significant quantity of
files were incinerated at Maghaberry, last Tuesday, by specialist staff
attached to the security information centre, based at the prison.


Greater Milwaukee Today, Mon, 07 Feb 2005 6:17 AM PST
Doctors in Oconomowoc using voice-activated equipment
http://www.gmtoday.com/news/local_stories/2005/February_05/02052005_01.asp
In the EndoSuite Operating Room, surgeons are able to operate
endoscopic cameras, which send the images directly to the monitor, just
by using their voice. They can also retrieve and display old records or
images and video recordings of past procedures, all through verbal
commands.



Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Richmond, Va
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