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

PRICE set for US seal of approval
OCRegister - Orange County,CA,USA
... to the federal government, and NARA would operate the archive in 
Yorba
... including staff and operation costs, said Sharon Fawcett, assistant
archivist for NARA. ...
<http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/homepage/abox/article_935709.php>

BILL would let people anonymously request records
Duluth News Tribune - Duluth,MN,USA
... disclosure," he said. "You can look at all sorts of public records
readily and you don't have to say who you are or disclose it.". The 
state
...
<http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/news/politics/13573906.
htm>

DOCUMENT Confusion
Bangor Daily News - Bangor,ME,USA
Their session can be short and simple. Documents created by, reviewed by
or commented upon by DEP employees are, with rare exceptions, public 
documents.
...
<http://www.bangornews.com/news/templates/?a=126438>

SALE of phone files targeted
Chicago Tribune - United States
Illinois officials say they want to stop companies from selling private
telephone records without the consent of consumers, and they want to 
know
how brokers ...
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/northwest/chi-0601070213jan07,1
,571438.story?coll=chi-newslocalnorthwest-hed>

Boston Globe, Sun, 08 Jan 2006 0:15 AM PST
Meeting was one for the archives
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2006/01/08/meeting_was_o

ne_for_the_archives?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Living+/+Arts+News
We spoke separately, by phone, with three people involved with ''The
Complete Library of Congress Recordings" of Jelly Roll Morton, 
including Yale
professor and Miles Davis biographer John Szwed, Rounder vice president 
Scott
Billington, and Anna Lomax Wood, the archivist's daughter. Excerpts 
from the
interviews follow:


Boston Globe, Sun, 08 Jan 2006 0:15 AM PST
Jelly Roll Morton shows a salty side
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2006/01/08/jelly_roll_mo

rton_shows_a_salty_side?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Living+/+Arts+News
Back in 1938, a worn-out, underappreciated and sickly jazz legend
showed up at the Library of Congress demanding an audience. Ferdinand 
''Jelly Roll"
Morton got that, and more, from Alan Lomax, a 23-year-old archivist who 
had no
money but plenty of time. Now, for the first time, the results of that
unexpected meeting can be heard in their entirety on ...

Salisbury Post, Sun, 08 Jan 2006 5:07 AM PST
Organizing history
http://www.salisburypost.com/lifestyle/285124406218795.php
Years ago, the University of Kentucky's basketball team won an
improbable game and claimed, in the morning papers, that it had done so 
in the largest
come-from-behind victory ever, making up 32 points in the second half.

Seattle Times, Sun, 08 Jan 2006 0:18 AM PST
And the beat goes out of warehouse
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002727127_brodeur08m1.ht

ml?syndication=rss
The movers arrived at 5 a.m. By 11 a.m., all that was left on the walls
were a map of South America and a collage of "lost dog" fliers. Plenty 
of
longtime tenants have...

ELECTRONIC Data Storage for Social Services
Black Enterprise - New York,NY,USA
... He said: "The transition from paper-based recording and physical 
case
files to fully electronic client records will revolutionise the service.
...
<http://www.blackenterprise.com/yb/ybopen.asp?section=ybng&story_id=87681
851&ID=blackenterprise>

WORKSHOP aims to teach how to preserve photos
Daily News - Galveston County - TX,USA
... McCulley, along with archivist Laura Finger of Galveston's Rosenberg
Library, will ... working at the Tennessee State Library and Archives
preservation laboratory ...
<http://galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=04b52d5e7c0e4e68>

SUPERVISORS blast report
Stockton Record - Stockton,CA,USA
... and other mental health officials should be reprimanded for exposing
the records. ... The company has since contracted with a shredding firm,
although its future ...
<http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060108/NEWS01/6010
80330/1001>

COUNTY to put land records on the Web
Attleboro Sun Chronicle - Attleboro,MA,USA
... state's first computer system giving online users access to all 
county
and municipal documents related to specific parcels of land, Register
of Deeds for the ...
<http://www.thesunchronicle.com/articles/2006/01/08/city/city4.txt>

PROFESSOR Sir Cyril Philips
Times Online - UK
... His skills as an archivist and creator of libraries helped him to 
assemble
probably the most comprehensive body of empirical research findings 
commissioned
and ...
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-1976366,00.html>

1 stolen wallet, $412,000 in hole
Chicago Tribune - United States
... land records, interviews and internal loan company files, her ordeal
... trail from Ross' credit report through land records to title company
documents to a ...
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0601080284jan08,1,369
0656.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed>

DOCUMENT recovery' part of business recovery
Reno Gazette Journal - Reno,NV,USA
... of drying bills, invoices and records -- all part ... waters also 
claimed
boxes of files, which were ... three employees soaked the ruined 
documents,
safely separated ...
<http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060108/NEWS/601080375/1
002/NEWS>

IRS Said to Improperly Restrict Access
Washington Post - United States
... Since 1989, her FOIA requests have been submitted by the 
Transactional
Records Access Clearinghouse, a data-research organization at Syracuse
of which she is co ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/08/AR200601
0800621.html>

END run around the law
Ventura County Star (subscription) - Ventura county,CA,USA
... county Board of Supervisors approved by unanimous consent a new 
ordinance
that allows county agencies to charge fees for accessing public 
documents
beyond just ...
<http://www.venturacountystar.com/vcs/opinion_columnists/article/0,1375,V
CS_223_4371954,00.html>


HOSPITAL records gather dust
Times of India - India
SURAT: With computerisation still nowhere near completion, dust 
continues
to gather on thousands of medical records, stored for the past 15 years
or more, at ...
<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1363669.cms>

PATIENTS put at risk by NHS computer fault
Scotsman - United Kingdom
... four years before it was spotted. In some circumstances the missing
text re-attached itself to another patients' medical records. ...
<http://news.scotsman.com/health.cfm?id=32012006>

HEALTH care turning to electronic files
Columbia Daily Tribune - Columbia,MO,USA
... A few miles down the street, the push for electronic medical records
and other technological innovations has caught the attention of 
legislators
looking to ...
<http://www.columbiatribune.com/2006/Jan/20060108News003.asp>

HUNDREDS use new state law giving adoptees access to birth records
Foster's Daily Democrat - Dover,NH,USA
... she added, files only provided non-identifying information like the
age and occupation of parents. But she described even the indentifying
records as often ...
<http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060108/NEWS0202/1010
80027>

NEW Ombudsman in favour of more access to government documents
Malta Independent - St. Julians,Malta
... to government documents. He said: "In principle I cannot but agree.
I remember a time at the Law Courts where the law did not permit any 
government
files to ...
<http://217.145.4.56/ind/news.asp?newsitemid=26423>

GLIDE makes digital life a breeze
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville,KY,USA
... powerful, but easy-to-use tools, for saving and sharing all kinds of
digital files, including music, videos, photos, word processing 
documents
and PowerPoint ...
<http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060108/BUSIN
ESS/601080352/1003>




Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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