RAIN 061209
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories 
related to records and archives management.

Technology reveals hidden Adam drawings
By Auslan Cramb, Scotland Correspondent
Last Updated: 1:57am GMT 08/12/2006
Drawings by the renowned architect Robert Adam, who designed some of 
the most impressive buildings of the Georgian era, have been uncovered 
for the first time in 170 years.
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/12/08/nadam08.
xml>

Restoring the public's records
Pascagoula Mississippi Press - Pascagoula,MS,USA
... is vulnerable. The ability to duplicate and move computer records 
out
of the way of a Katrina is an important consideration. The ...
<http://www.gulflive.com/opinion/mississippipress/index.ssf?/base/opinion
/1165663025246250.xml>

Good deeds go online
NewsOK.com (subscription) - Oklahoma City,OK,USA
... noting that the county is being careful to keep personal data such 
as
social security numbers off the Internet, even though it appears on some
public documents ...
<http://www.newsok.com/article/2983284>

Gallery plan a potential 'disaster'
Ottawa Citizen (subscription) - Ontario, Canada
... The National Archives, as it used to be called, was transporting its
art and artifacts a few kilometres from its Wellington Street 
headquarters
in Ottawa to a ...
<http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/arts/story.html?id=0d2096b0-613
4-4c1c-a4a9-df72a77e5d86>

Ever-growing archives need space
Central Maine Morning Sentinel - Augusta,ME,USA
... thousands more that tell what life was like in the last 400 years --
are housed in secure, humidity- and temperature-controlled areas inside 
the
state archives ...
<http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/news/local/3400814.html>

8.7 million documents in county clerk files available on Internet
NewsOK.com (subscription) - Oklahoma City,OK,USA
... Almost all of some 8.7 million documents — 17 million pages — are
online, from mortgage documents, mineral deeds, liens and other legal
"papers,” from ...
<http://www.newsok.com/article/2983284/?template=business/main>

Time to turn around your file management
Daily Nation (subscription) - Nairobi,Kenya
... carry out disaster record and data recovery in Kenya. Most firms 
have
always bundled files and crucial documents on their shelves. ...
<http://www.nationmedia.com/dailynation/nmgcontententry.asp?category_id=3
&newsid=87300>

New York Times, Sat, 02 Dec 2006 4:28 PM PST
To Meet Modern Needs, States Put Birth Records on Computers
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/03/us/03birth.html
The need to wait weeks to obtain a copy of a birth certificate may soon 
change as states convert their birth records to electronic databases.

The Star-Ledger, Sat, 02 Dec 2006 11:47 PM PST
Just for the record
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/essex/index.ssf?/base/news-3/11651314971756

30.xml&coll=1
Thomas Edison's will is on the second shelf, in the sixth stack, on the 
first floor of the Essex County surrogate's vault at the Hall of 
Records in Newark, filed inside a thick canvas-bound ledger between the 
wills of Lizzie Griffin and Frank Crane, a dentist from Montclair.

Saipan Tribune, Fri, 08 Dec 2006 6:02 AM PST
ConCon documents available in digital format
http://www.saipantribune.com/newsstory.aspx?cat=1&newsID=63767
Important historical documents associated with the CNMI Constitution 
are now available in fully searchable digital format thanks to a 
recently completed project funded by the NMI Council for the Humanities.

City cavalcade
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville,KY,USA
... supported chamber of commerce, in partnership with Butler Books and 
the
University of Louisville archives. Such talented people as
archivist/councilman Tom ...
<http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061209/FEATU
RES06/612090326>

Honest, this is Abe long before beard
Chicago Tribune - United States
... Now that the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum had
established itself and was close to greeting its millionth guest, the 
state
was ready to make ...
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0612090075dec09,1,185
5637.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed>


Hard to fault Barbie maker's Bratz suit
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
... employer's trade secrets on the job. It's easy to see how Mattel 
feels
about these things. It not only has sued Bryant and MGA for trade secret
theft but also ...
<http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061209/BUSINES
S03/612090325/-1/ENT05>

Out-of-date records mar ability to track pistol owners
The Journal News.com - Westchester,NY,USA
... The site goes on to say that "documents are filed by county and 
type of
... state police records officer, replied in writing that "a search of 
our
files failed to ...
<http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061210/NEWS01
/612100348/1023/NEWS07

Counties put court data online
Jackson Clarion Ledger - Jackson,MS,USA
... online access for viewing the status of Chancery Court cases, but a
person can't read the actual documents. There is no cost to the public 
to
view the files. ...
<http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061210/NEWS/61
2100380/1001/NEWS>




Peter Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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