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Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
related to records and archives management.
EDITORIAL: Troubled recorder returns to work
Las Vegas Review-Journal - Las Veagas,NV,USA
... She paid a $5,000 fine to the state Ethics Commission for planning
to profit from the sale of free public documents over the Internet. ...
<http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Mar-16-Thu-2006/news/6390521
.html>
Improved Efficiency of Records Management System Enhances Services ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
HARRISBURG, Pa., March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Governor Edward G. Rendell
said
today that the Department of State's new records management system and
online service ...
<http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/0
3-16-2006/0004321646&EDATE=>
Land records: e-governance at work, successfully
Financial Express - Bombay,India
... in Assam is particularly interesting. It is the first web-based land
records management system in India. Initiated in 2004 by the ...
<http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=120588>
New Home for Archives
Jewish Exponent - Philadelphia,PA,USA
... diary of an aging doctor from 1946, the Philadelphia Jewish Archives
Center celebrated ... relative humidity, and around 65 to 70 degrees,"
said archivist Don Davis ...
<http://www.jewishexponent.com/ViewArticle.asp?ArtID=2737>
Phishing scammers and data thieves prey on UK companies
Zone-H - USA
... The poor marks come as European parliaments deliberate over
implementation
of the EU Data Retention Directive, considered one of the most ambitious
data ...
<http://www.zone-h.org/en/news/read/id=205999/>
Falsifying logs earns probation
Patriot-News - Harrisburg,PA,USA
... Wolf reached a plea agreement after being indicted on charges that
he conspired to falsify logbooks, destroyed documents containing correct
information ...
<http://www.pennlive.com/business/patriotnews/index.ssf?/base/business/11
42504488220780.xml&coll=1>
Attics giving up their relics
MaineToday.com - Portland,ME,USA
... trunks and boxes held old postcards, photographs, family
genealogies,
deeds, coins, maps ... in particular, had gathered many historical items
and documents at her ...
<http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/coast/060316georgetown.shtml>
Rep. Molepske: Register of Deeds Privacy Act Signed Into Law
WisPolitics.com - Madison,WI,USA
... Assembly Bill 536, known as the Register of Deeds Privacy Act,
reduces
public access to Social Security numbers on documents filed with
Wisconsin?s
seventy ...
<http://www.wispolitics.com/index.iml?Article=57453>
Marriage records help trace paths of family romances
Green Bay Press Gazette - Green Bay,WI,USA
... The Brown County Register of Deeds is one of the oldest offices in
the state with marriage records dating to 1821. The office records
documents
including real ...
<http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060316/
GPG0101/603160529/1207/GPGnews>
Tape sale not BC ministry policy, says probe panel
itWorldCanada.com - Canada
... of 41 high-capacity tapes containing 77,000 personal medical files
at a ... "Tapes are typically destroyed by degassing, demagnetizing and
shredding them, which ...
<http://www.itworldcanada.com/a/News/641a0435-d77b-4be6-829f-b40a312fa523
.html>
employee fired in bonus scandal files appeal
abc13.com - Houston,TX,USA
By Miya Shay. (3/16/06 - KTRK/HOUSTON) - One of the four city employees
accused of getting improper bonuses appealed her termination ...
<http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=local&id=3998671>
New virus holds your documents hostage
Ars Technica - Boston,MA,USA
... horse encrypts a user's documents and then directs the victim to pay
US$300 into an e-gold account in return for the password that will
unlock
the files. ...
<http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060316-6397.html>
bush library update
MyWestTexas.com - Midland,TX,USA
By Ruth Campbell. Efforts to bring the George W. Bush Presidential
Library
to the West Texas have picked up some fundraising power in the form of
former US Rep. ...
<http://www.mywesttexas.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16314824&BRD=2288&PAG=46
1&dept_id=475621&rfi=6>
Lubbock Eliminated for the Presidential Library
KCBD-TV - Lubbock,TX,USA
... Texas Coalition Chairman David Miller believes a selections decision
to eliminate Lubbock for the location of the George W. Bush presidential
Library was about ...
<http://www.kcbd.com/Global/story.asp?S=4643454&nav=3w6y>
SMU, Baylor, University of Dallas in running for Bush library
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
The committee charged with selecting a site for the George W. Bush
Presidential
Library announced today that the project will not be built in West
Texas,
as ...
<http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/local/14116125.htm>
Analysis: Broad privacy law urged
United Press International - USA
WASHINGTON, March 16 (UPI) -- As plans for a national medical records
database
inches forward, any new federal privacy law must reach all data
handlers.
<http://www.upi.com/HealthBusiness/view.php?StoryID=20060316-051824-2378r
>
Who's keeping the records?
Lowell Sun - Lowell,MA,USA
... when there's a catastrophic event that leads to the destruction of
documents ... stricter regulations on documenting and archiving local
government records in the ...
<http://www.lowellsun.com/front/ci_3608949>
Beaverton workers begin scan of papers
OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA
... Part of the recent holdup has been Nike officials' attempts to
increase
the number of city employees whose computer records are searched, she
said. ...
<http://www.oregonlive.com/metrowest/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/metro_west
_news/1142490525248690.xml&coll=7>
Haaretz Daily, Thu, 16 Mar 2006 8:59 PM PST
Sharon's personal notes removed from Prime Minister's Office
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/695485.html
The personal notes written and received by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
during his five years in office have recently been transferred from the
Prime
Minister's Office to Sharon's home, Sycamore Ranch.
Great Falls Tribune, Fri, 17 Mar 2006 4:12 AM PST
Charlie Russell's guns surface
http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060317/NEWS
01/603170312/1002
To the astonishment of some experts, three of Charlie Russell's rifles
are in the hands of a private collector in Great Falls. "You're
kidding!"
exclaimed Russell expert Ginger Renner Thursday night. "That's
terrific!"
Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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