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Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Thu, 13 Oct 2005 0:15 AM PDT
Things past
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/12887397.htm
From a 443-year-old Latin copy of "Diogenis," to a seven-year-old
Columbus State University catalog, the CSU Archives is displaying the
marvelous and
the mundane this month.
South Bend Tribune, Wed, 12 Oct 2005 7:28 AM PDT
Studebakers on the move
http://www.southbendtribune.com/stories/2005/10/12/local.20051012-sbt-LOC
L-A1-Studebakers.sto
Museum collection bound for new home on Chapin Street. SOUTH BEND --
The sound is like a bad cough, deep and rattling, as the 1950
Studebaker Champion
sputters toward life.
AUSDOC exit for ABN AMRO Capital
AltAssets - USA
AUSDOC Information Management provides offsite records storage, records
management, document destruction and data protection services to
Australian
customers ...
<http://www.altassets.com/news/arc/2005/nz7575.php>
NATIONAL Security Watch: Stricter limits on Pentagon records?
U.S. News & World Report - USA
... Freedom of Information Act any of the agency's operational files
dealing
with ... be used to prohibit the release of government records
documenting
interrogation ...
<http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/051012/12natsec.htm>
WISDOM helps in organising teacher files
VNUNet.com - Haarlem,Netherlands
... for schools, the body responsible for teacher training, is using a
document and records management system ... The agency hopes to save time
in searching for files. ...
<http://www.vnunet.com/computing/news/2143796/wisdom-helps-organising-tea
cher>
MAYOR'S Records
WICZ - Binghampton,NY,USA
In a proposal put before the council, Massar said the move would help
maintain
paper and electronic records and ease ... We've got 12 years of files
and documents ...
<http://www.wicz.com/news/news.asp?m=v&a=6955>
GAY Men Have Little Recourse If Gay Chat Mayor's Emails Made ...
365Gay.com - USA
... Attorney Milt Rowland said the city would release three CDs
containing
files copied from West's computer disc in response to a May
public-records
request from ...
<http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/10/101305spokane.htm>
SPY files shed light on past
Prague Post - Czech Republic
... Files that the StB, the former Czechoslovak secret police, kept on
its ... povstání metro stop, is different because it makes public
documents
mostly about the ...
< http://www.praguepost.com/P03/2005/Art/1013/news4.php>
UNEARTHED documents shed new light on Missouri history
Belleville News-Democrat - Belleville,IL,USA
... "These case files provide new insights into that great heritage.".
The documents, long believed to have been destroyed, were written before
St. ...
<http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/local/12893891.htm>
ST. Charles judge finds historical treasures
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - St. Louis,MO,USA
... all. "When we go through these, discoveries are going to be made for
the next several years," said Ken Winn, a state archivist. ...
<http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stcharles/story/3C7C2A
D3197933438625709900639ADB?OpenDocument>
ACLU, state aim to protect files
Honolulu Advertiser - Honolulu,HI,USA
... Civil Liberties Union and the state will try to reach an agreement
to ensure the preservation of Hawai'i Youth Correctional Facility
documents
that might be ...
<http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051013/NE
WS20/510130357/1170/NEWS>
'CHILDREN'S Blizzard' author to speak Tuesday in Pierre
Aberdeen American News - Aberdeen,SD,USA
... State archivist Chelle Somsen added, "Archival Institutions collect,
organize, preserve, and make available records that document the history
of the state of ...
<http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aberdeennews/news/12890593.htm>
EU justice ministers agree compromise on data retention
EUobserver.com - Brussels,Belgium
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - EU justice ministers have backed down on a
council
proposal on data retention and instead decided to seek the help of the
commission ...
<http://euobserver.com/9/20083>
DATA retention compromise mooted by EU Ministers
Out-Law.com - London,England,UK
European Justice Ministers yesterday agreed not to immediately force
through
plans for an EU-wide data retention scheme, but opted to negotiate with
the ...
<http://www.out-law.com/page-6224>
TECH executives push for digital medical records
USA Today - USA
When Edward Zander, CEO of Motorola, moved to Chicago from the West
Coast
recently, he found that his medical records were not as easy to move as
just about ...
<http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2005-10-12-digital-medical-
records_x.htm>
MANAGEMENT of records more important than ever
Tallahassee.com - Tallahassee,FL,USA
... "Records management is kind of like an elevator," said Debbie
Gearhart,
director of records management services for the state of Michigan and
a 30-year ...
<http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/business/12888528.htm>
BRAMBLES throws out waste
Sydney Morning Herald (subscription) - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... poorly performing European waste assets, Brambles' chief executive,
David Turner, also announced the $260 million purchase of records
management
company Ausdoc ...
<http://www.smh.com.au/news/business/brambles-throws-out-waste/2005/10/13
/1128796650260.html>
ARCHIVE office open for business
Today's Sunbeam - Salem,NJ,USA
... The Salem County Office of Archives and Records Management opened in
Salem Wednesday under the direction of deputy clerk of the freeholder
board Curtis Harker. ...
<
http://www.nj.com/news/sunbeam/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1129191660307350.xm
l&coll=9>
THE Future of E-Mail Archiving
TechNewsWorld - Sherman Oaks,CA,USA
... information as it is archived, filtering out irrelevant information
and selectively retaining based upon business policies and records
management
needs," Mehta ...
<http://www.technewsworld.com/story/F8RI0lXvaFCCXv/The-Future-of-E-Mail-A
rchiving.xhtml>
WEST tries to block release of computer files
EastOregonian.info (subscription) - OR,USA
... The files allegedly contain photos of young gay men and also
sexually
explicit ... "Because the documents at issue constitute public records
that are not ...
<
http://www.eastoregonian.info/main.asp?SectionID=13&SubSectionID=206&Arti
cleID=44666&TM=76474.87>
DOJING FOIA
Project on Government Oversight - Washington,DC,USA
... maven Michael Ravnitzky noticed that the Department of Justice (DOJ)
website redesign has at least one major flaw: there is no link to FOIA
information from ...
<http://pogoblog.typepad.com/pogo/2005/10/dojing_foia.html>
DATA Warehousing and the Near-Line Era
B-EYE-Network - Boulder,CO,USA
... This wave of processing is called the "near-line" or "archival"
wave.
... This is the benefit of near-line or archival storage. ...
<http://www.b-eye-network.com/view/1755?jsessionid=6e7add37b115219c64886c
17f5173420>
SMOKING E-Mails
Forbes - USA
... any e-mail deletion was done before the IRS had issued it summonses
or investor lawsuits had been filed and was "consistent with" its
document-retention
policy ...
<http://www.forbes.com/home/free_forbes/2005/1003/058a.html>
FINALISTS cut to 4 in bid for presidential library
Houston Chronicle - United States
DALLAS -- The list of finalists to build the George W. Bush Presidential
Library has been limited to four: Southern Methodist University, the
University
of ...
<http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3394905>
St. Cloud Times, Wed, 12 Oct 2005 11:18 PM PDT
History within reach
http://miva.sctimes.com/miva/cgi-bin/miva?Web/page.mv+1+local+432035
ore than 5,000 images of pre-1909 Minnesota are now available to the
public in an online collection called "Minnesota Reflections."
THINGS past
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer - Columbus,GA,USA
... Now, the archives cover about 5,000 square feet -- nearly half the
third floor -- and ... we're growing," said Reagan Grimsley, who has
been
the archivist for four ...
<http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/local/12887397.ht
m>
OVER 100 Old Masters downgraded
Art Newspaper - UK
... The archives of correspondence, photographs, and institutional
records
are being sorted by archivist Katy Rawdon-Faucett, who says the material
was in complete ...
<http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article01.asp?id=34>
ISO approves PDF for document archives
Control Engineering - Oak Brook,IL,USA
... than generic PDF 1.4 files, and should allow information to be
retained
longer as PDF," says Susan Sullivan of the US National Archives and
Records
...
<http://www.manufacturing.net/ctl/article/CA6267549?spacedesc=industryUpd
ates
Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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