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FORMER UN Official's Shredding Probed
FOX News - USA
... report says Riza didn't tell the IIC that he approved the
destruction
of three ... He thought the files in question were simply copies of
records
already stored in ...
<http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,151937,00.html>
NAROOMA hosts National Archives
Narooma News - Narooma,New South Wales,Australia
... State Records Senior Archivist Lindsay Allen and National Archives
Assistant Director Fiona Burn will talk about the records each
institution
holds and what ...
<http://narooma.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=news&subclass=local&category=general%20news&story_id=382084&y=2005&m=3>
STATE'S paper past has a new, drier home
Press-Enterprise (subscription) - Riverside,CA,USA
... Mead Valley formally became home to the National Archives and
Records
Administration's ... accountable to the people," said Tom Mills,
assistant
archivist with the ...
<http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_S_archives30.588f6.html>
RELIEF From Paper: Form I-9 for Employment Eligibility Is Going ...
Local Tech Wire - Fort Mill,SC,USA
... form and that access to such records (including electronic ... and
may not require different documents from different ... internal audits
of I-9 files and verification ...
<http://www.localtechwire.com/article.cfm?u=10983>
CENTER creates archiving model
FCW.com - USA
A New York-based technology research center has developed an approach
and
methodology designed to help state and territorial archivists and
librarians
preserve ...
<http://www.fcw.com/article88434-03-30-05-Web>
SMITHSONIAN to cut staff of art archives at Huntington Library
Monterey County Herald - Monterey,CA,USA
The plan will eliminate two staff researchers, but the archival material
will remain at the Huntington Library in San Marino and accessible to
the public. ...
<http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/11268648.htm>
GOVERNMENT Survey: How Long Do You Want Digital Storage Media to ...
Flatscreens.biz - Chicago,IL,USA
... GIPWoG is working with NIST to establish a long-term, or archival,
standard measurement for recordable CD and DVD media. This measurement
...
<http://www.flatscreens.biz/200503/government_survey_how_long_do_you_want_digital_storage_media_to_last.php>
RETENTION Management Solution from trusted Edge & Compliance ...
Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal - Fairfield,NJ,USA
... And finally, they will establish a defensible audit trail for both
their policies of electronic document retention as well as disposal,"
said Michael Beck ...
<http://www.s-ox.com/News/detail.cfm?ArticleID=722>
UN papers shredded
Australian - Australia
... documents ... relating to the oil-for-food program". Mr Riza claimed
duplicates of the destroyed documents were held elsewhere. Paul ...
<http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12707391%255E601,00.html>
Should optical discs last forever?
By Paul Festa
http://news.com.com/Should+optical+discs+last+forever/2100-1041_3-5645832.html
Would you like your digital-storage media to last 20 years, 25 years,
30 years, 35 years or 40 years?
If you're an organization or government agency, the U.S. government and
an optical-disc industry group would like you to answer that question
in a quick survey.
FAMILY tree couple lead fioght to save WW 1 archives
North Devon Gazette & Advertiser - Barnstaple,England,UK
A BARNSTAPLE couple are calling on local people to support a campaign to
ensure memories of World War 1 heroes are preserved. Ann ...
<http://www.northdevongazette.co.uk/northdevongazette/news/story.aspx?brand=NDGOnline&category=news&tBrand=devon24&tCategory=newsndga&itemid=DEED30%20Mar%202005%2010%3A35%3A17%3A080>
STUFFIT Shrinks JPEG Photos up to 30% With No Quality Loss in New ...
Information Week - USA
StuffIt Deluxe 9 includes ZipFolders, exclusive patented technology that
allows users' computers to open zip archives as if they were regular
Windows
folders. ...
<http://www.informationweek.com/showPressRelease.jhtml?prID=X308384>
'THE scope of this is enormous'
Press-Enterprise (subscription) - Riverside,CA,USA
... credit reporting agency Equifax, has 17 billion records in its
database.
This month, another data broker, LexisNexis, announced that the personal
files of as ...
<http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_D_feinstein30.f412.html>
TITLE searchers at odds over records office space
The Express Times - Easton,PA,USA
... Besides work to rearrange the county's real estate records, O'Hare
and other searchers have been working to clear the files of records of
mortgages paid in ...
<http://www.nj.com/news/expresstimes/pa/index.ssf?/base/news-15/1112177152154290.xml>
BID date set for probate office
Scottsboro Daily Sentinel - Scottsboro,AL,USA
... According to Hambrick, all probate records, with the exception of
hunting
and fishing licenses, will be preserved on digital files and may be
accessed
by ...
<http://www.thedailysentinel.com/story.lasso?ewcd=635c82203d3de1d8>
ITALY Approaches Bulgaria over Pope Shooting Files
Sofia News Agency - Bulgaria
... I believe Bulgaria sent a positive signal about presenting the
documents
it has from Stasi file. We have information that the Stasi files about
the shooting ...
<http://www.novinite.com/newsletter/print.php?id=46129>
ARE identities safer on laptops than central databases?
SearchSecurity.com - Needham,MA,USA
... controversial, given this week's news that a laptop storing nearly
100,000 Social Security numbers was stolen from the University of
California
at Berkeley. ...
<http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1074072,00.html>
The Deal, Wed, 30 Mar 2005 2:05 AM PST
Carlyle to auction document manager
http://www.thedeal.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=hpa&c=TDDArticle&cid=1112030828311&p=M4YD5AR1
Relizon Co. , a leading company in the precarious and fast-changing
market for business forms and so-called document management for
corporations, is
on the block, sources said.
InternetRetailer.com, Wed, 30 Mar 2005 1:37 PM PST
With inbound e-mail surging, Timberland cuts the cost of responding
http://www.internetretailer.com/dailyNews.asp?id=14535
As e-mail into its customer service department has mushroomed to 65,000
in 2004, The Timberland Co.’s Timberland.com has implemented an e-mail
management system to cut operating costs while expediting the handling
of more customer inquiries, Bill Bragger, global consumer service
manager, tells
InternetRetailer.com.
BROCKTON, Newburyport land $50M e-records grant
Boston Business Journal - Boston,MA,USA
The communities of Brockton, Newburyport and North Adams will to take
part
in a $50 million high-tech pilot program that could lead to the
statewide
use of ...
<http://boston.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2005/03/28/daily31.html?jst=b_ln_hl>
WHAT Risks Does Freedom Of Information Pose For The Private Sector
Mondaq News Alerts - World
After much eager anticipation the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the
"Act") came fully into force on 1 January 2005 permitting anyone to make
a request to a ...
<http://www.mondaq.com/i_article.asp_Q_articleid_E_31707>
DENIAL of free access to records inexcusable
Oregon Daily Emerald - Erb Memorial Union,OR,USA
... security. Words such as risk, danger and protection are splashed
into
the reasoning for dismissed Freedom of Information Act requests. ...
<http://www.dailyemerald.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/03/30/424a74dc4c02d>
BROCKTON a test site for virtual medical records
Brockton Enterprise - Brockton,MA,USA
... While there is a national push toward the use of electronic medical
records, most records are still kept on paper, filed in cabinets and
retrievable
by other ...
<http://enterprise.southofboston.com/articles/2005/03/30/news/news/news07.txt>
PATIENTS Must Have More Control Over Their Medical Records ...
Liberal Democrats - London,UK
"Confidentiality is a key concern for both frontline staff and patients.
Patients must have much more control over their health, including ...
<http://www.libdems.org.uk/story.html?id=8441&navPage=news.html>
Q&A: NHS privacy fears
BBC News - E,UK
Concerns have been raised over the privacy of patients' medical records,
which are to be stored on a new NHS computer database. ...
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4392859.stm>
FCW
E-records research in jeopardy
Archivists campaign to keep money flowing to
NARA's grant program.
<http://www.fcw.com/article88412-03-28-05-Print>
Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Richmond, Va
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