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SEC deepens probe of ChoicePoint, paper says
Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscription) - GA,USA
NEW YORK -- Federal regulators may have intensified their probe of
ChoicePoint
Inc. (CPS), the data broker under fire for disclosing ...
<http://www.ajc.com/business/content/business/0805/10choicepoint.html>
FADING fast
Sydney Morning Herald (subscription) - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... converts proprietary formats (such as Microsoft word documents or
image
files) into accessible ... Paper records now occupying 50 kilometres of
storage space in ...
<http://www.smh.com.au/news/livewire/fading-fast/2005/08/09/1123353324048.html>
CHRONICLING Columbia and loving it
Baltimore Sun - United States
... She is a die-hard Columbian," said Robin Emrich, a professionally
trained
archivist hired in 1998 to help Kellner preserve and organize the
archives'
holdings. ...
<http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/howard/bal-ho.kellner10aug10,1,5312147.story?collēl-local-howard>
COLLECTION chronicles US history of death penalty
Capital News 9 - Albany,NY,USA
... Most of the documents present arguments against the death penalty.
But archivists said the goal is to present an objective history of this
controversial issue.
<http://www.capitalnews9.com/content/headlines/?ArID4107&SecID3>
COMPUTER systems face biggest threat from disgruntled insiders
Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
... a programmer with administrator access to his company's payroll
records
could plant ... The logic bomb could be programmed to delete important
files throughout the ...
<http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/local/sfl-zcyber10aug10,0,7580531.story?coll=sfla-business-front>
PRIVATE organizations not under Open Records Act
Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscription) - GA,USA
By AJ ROBINSON, SAM A. WILLIAMS. Georgia's Open Records Act applies to
documents created by or on behalf of the government. Neither ...
<http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/0805/10edequal.html>
ISLANDS In The Stream: A Conversation with Phish Archivist Kevin ...
jambands.com - New York,NY,USA
... There are legal issues that come up when releasing live shows and
archival
tasks like cataloging, preserving and releasing shows have also been
part
of the job ...
<http://www.jambands.com/Features/content_2005_08_09.08.phtml>
$6B of national treasures at risk: auditor
Journal of Turkish Weekly - Ankara,Turkey
... the safety and accessibility of collections held at the National
Museum
of Australia, National Library of Australia, National Archives of
Australia
and ...
<http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id416>
VIGNETTE Records & Document Management Application Approved And ...
Internet Ad Sales (press release) - Taeby,NA,Sweden
today announced that VignetteŽ Records & Documents 7.0 has been approved
by The National Archives (TNA) of the United Kingdom and certified by
the US ...
<http://www.internetadsales.com/modules/news/article.php ?storyid`24>
THE Black Gay & Lesbian Archives: A History of a People
Proud Parenting - USA
... BGLA), the largest collection of Black gay, lesbian, bisexual
transgender,
same-gender loving, queer, questioning and in the life cultural archives
and has ...
<http://www.proudparenting.com/page.cfm?sectionid&typeofsite=storydetail&IDf8&storyset=yes>
BUILDING new museum, renovating old one goal
Jackson Clarion Ledger - Jackson,MS,USA
... the need to do work on the Old Capitol and plans for the new museum
are coming together at the same time," said Hank Holmes, Department of
Archives and History ...
<http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050810/FEAT05/508100329/1023>
SHRED it or else: New laws require info destruction
Sierra Sun (subscription) - Truckee,CA,USA
... Burning, pulverizing, or shredding of papers ... Contracting with a
certified disposal company that disposes of business records is an
acceptable
means of complying ...
<http://www.sierrasun.com/article/20050809/COMMUNITY/108090008>
RECORDS request stalls over retrieval cost
Anchorage Daily News - Anchorage,AK,USA
... Borough manager John Duffy said $5,000 is the most the borough has
ever charged for a public records request, as far as he knows. ...
<http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/6801947p-6691852c.html>
JUDGE upholds order for Georgia to turn over Klan records
Access North Georgia - Gainesville,GA,USA
... been destroyed, the transcripts of the conversations still exist,
and
some were turned over to The Associated Press last week following an
open
records request ...
<http://www.accessnorthga.com/news/ap_newfullstory.asp?IDc736>
AGENCIES struggle to find optimum e-mail guidelines
Anchorage Daily News - Anchorage,AK,USA
... Frank Murkowski, said the governor's office has received 82 public
records request since 2003, some of which included e-mail records. ...
<http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/6801947p-6691854c.html>
QUORUM Court focuses on county records
DeWitt Era-Enterprise - DeWitt,AR,USA
By Erin Walton. At the Arkansas County Quorom Court meeting Tuesday,
members
continued their efforts in learning about how they can ...
<http://www.dewitt-ee.com/articles/2005/08/10/news/news05.txt>
COMPUTER source code loss: insurance coverage
Mondaq News Alerts - World
... had not been corrupted, the Managing Director repaired and reloaded
the laptop from the ... the source code and the paper copy of the code
were stolen along with ...
<http://www.mondaq.com/i_article.asp_Q_articleid_E_34244>
MEMO warned of files chaos
The Age (subscription) - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... was in chaos months before it mistakenly released hundreds of
confidential
police files. ... five weeks earlier, had no procedures to protect
documents,
no filing ...
<http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/memo-warned-of-files-chaos/2005/08/10/1123353386878.html>
COUNTY limits Web data search of real estate
Allentown Morning Call - Allentown,PA,USA
... The county is among several across the nation, including Lehigh
County,
that are limiting how online public records can be searched. ...
<http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-b1_3webaug10,0,5580875.story?coll=all-newslocal-hed>
PROTECTING corporations from terror
Bremerton Sun - WA, United States
... The market leader in protecting such information is the aptly named
Iron Mountain. ... Iron Mountain moves these files to its secure
warehouses
and catalogs them. ...
<http://www.thesunlink.com/bsun/bu_business/article/0,2403,BSUN_19060_3989142,00.html>
Austin American-Statesman, Sun, 07 Aug 2005 10:10 PM PDT
EDITORIAL
http://www.statesman.com/opinion/content/editorial/stories/08/8weinstein_edit.html
Allen Weinstein, 67, is a historian, author and university professor.
Since ebruary, he has been the archivist of the United States, a
presidential appointment that puts him in charge of the National
Archives and
Records Administration.
Dallas Morning News, Sun, 07 Aug 2005 7:03 PM PDT
Elvis? Not to suspicious minds
http://www.dallasnews.com/perl/common/rssredir.pl?page=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/080805dnmetlosttapes.7f5ac82.html
Elvis? Steve Lawrence pulled the fragile reel-to-reel tapes out of a
duffel bag and reverently laid them on the table. Steve Lawrence owns
old tapes from his uncle's recording studio and believes some are
early, unreleased
recordings of Elvis Presley. 'It's destiny, how this landed in my lap,'
he said.
WISinfo, Wed, 10 Aug 2005 2:22 AM PDT
Job spotlight: Janice Krahn
http://www.wisinfo.com/postcrescent/news/archive/biz_22127888.shtml
What do you do? ?Many people equate archivist with librarians, living
in long aisles of dusty books. This is far from the truth at the
Thrivent
Financial for Lutherans Corporate Archives.
Capital News 9, Wed, 10 Aug 2005 7:48 AM PDT
Collection chronicles U.S. history of death penalty
http://www.capitalnews9.com/content/headlines/?ArID4107&SecID3
UAlbany is now the ultimate draw for anyone doing research on the death
penalty. The school is now home to the only collection of documents
that details
the history of capital punishment in the United States.
Poughkeepsie Journal, Tue, 09 Aug 2005 0:12 AM PDT
Curator helps preserve local history
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050809/BUSINESS/508090318/1003/NEWS
Trying to acquire a historically significant letter for sale on eBay or
identifying and preserving paintings of the three matriarchs of the
Suckley family are among the challenges Duane Watson faces as curator of
collections for the Wilderstein Preservation in Rhinebeck.
Pensacola News Journal
Trial opens in sale of stolen artifacts
<http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050811/NEWS01/508110330/1006#>
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Richmond, Va
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