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Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories 
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New York Times 3/19/06
How Pop Sounded Before It Popped
By JODY ROSEN
FOR a couple of months now my iPod has been stuck on Stella Mayhew's 
"I'm Looking for Something to Eat." It's a lurching little waltz-time 
pop tune, drawled over brass-band accompaniment. The lyric is 
hilarious, the lament of a gal on a diet who can't stop eating, and it 
climaxes with a glutton's soul cry: "I want some radishes and olives, 
speckled trout and cantaloupe and cauliflower/ Some mutton broth and 
deviled crabs and clams and Irish stew." I can't get it out of my head 
- so far, it's my favorite record of 2006.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/19/arts/music/19rose.html>

New York Times 3/19/06
The Theater of the Street, the Subject of the Photograph
By PHILIP GEFTER
IN 1999 Philip-Lorca diCorcia set up his camera on a tripod in Times 
Square, attached strobe lights to scaffolding across the street and, in 
the time-honored tradition of street photography, took a random series 
of pictures of strangers passing under his lights. The project 
continued for two years, culminating in an exhibition of photographs 
called "Heads" at Pace/MacGill Gallery in Chelsea. "Mr. diCorcia's 
pictures remind us, among other things, that we are each our own little 
universe of secrets, and vulnerable," Michael Kimmelman wrote, 
reviewing the show in The New York Times. "Good art makes you see the 
world differently, at least for a while, and after seeing Mr. 
diCorcia's new 'Heads,' for the next few hours you won't pass another 
person on the street in the same absent way." But not everyone was 
impressed.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/19/arts/design/19phot.html>

Information Week
The High Cost Of Data Loss
Sensitive personal data has been misplaced, lost, printed on mailing 
labels, posted online, and just left around for anyone to see. The 
situation has become untenable. Here's the ugly truth about how it 
keeps happening, who's been affected, and what's being done about it.
<http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=1837003
67>

Information Week
Securing A Solution To Data Theft
<http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2006/03/securing_a_sol
u.html>


Computerworld 3/17/06
IT managers see portable storage device security risk
How much damage can an iPod or memory stick do? Plenty, say analysts
<http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/storage/story/0,10801,109680
,00.html?>

Wall Street Journal 3/21/06
Court Decides
For Quattrone,
Reversing Verdict
U.S. Panel Cites Judge's Errors,
Including Faulty Jury Instructions;
Prosecutors 'Considering Options'
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB114288329963803188.html?>

Ex-Pan worker 'told to wipe computer'
Australian - Australia
... But Mr Selim's lawyer, Paul Byrne, SC, pointed out that computer 
records
tendered to the court from some of the seized machines from Pan show 
that
work was ...
<http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,18551517%2
55E29277,00.html>

City Hall hiring on FBI's radar in '97
Chicago Tribune - United States
... He believes the old computer records may contain the same 
information
that the government seized from Sorich's portable laptop computer only
last year-a 1997 ...
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-060320hiring,1,3043277.stor
y?coll=chi-news-hed>

Managing the Data Archives Manager
Enterprise Systems - USA
... They refocused and re-honed their marketing spinto tout themselves
as the purveyor of "trusted Information Lifecycle Management" instead
of backup/restore ...
<http://www.esj.com/storage/article.aspx?EditorialsID=1652>

Government e-mail: How private?
Tallahassee Democrat - Tallahassee,FL,USA
... And if one gets through, there's always the delete button.". ... 
information,
wasting staff time and causing major delays in access to public records,
Petersen warns ...
<http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060321/CAPITOLNE
WS/603210320/1010/NEWS01>

Looking Back : Japanese history on the Internet
INQ7.net - Philippines
... What I found astounding is the fact that the Japanese National 
Archives
houses a collection of over 1.1 million books and approximately 550,000
Japanese ...
<http://news.inq7.net/opinion/index.php?index=2&story_id=70166&col=80>

The Greatest Blunder
National Review Online - New York,NY,USA
... trove taken from Hitler's regime; many of the rest of the millions
of pages of documents can be found in Record Group 242 at the National
Archives building in ...
<http://www.nationalreview.com/robbins/robbins200603210802.asp>

New Trial for CSFB's Quattrone
Red Herring - CA,USA
... The government has also maintained that Mr. Quattrone's note "that
if a lawsuit is instituted, our normal document retention policy is 
suspended
and any ...
<http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=16200&hed=New+Trial+for+CSFB%E2
%80%99s+Quattrone&sector=Capital&subsector=PublicMarkets>

Roscoe archivist honored for work with history
Beloit Daily News - Beloit,WI,USA
By Hillary Wundrow. ROSCOE - It's no surprise a descendent of the 
Mayflower
won the Community Service Award from the Northern Winnebago County 
Rotary.
<http://www.beloitdailynews.com/articles/2006/03/20/news/news06.txt>

NCSA is losing its film archivist
Winston-Salem Journal - Winston-Salem,NC,USA
... of the school year. Film archivist Ray Regis will join the faculty
of the private school in Coral Gables, Fla. Miami plans to acquire ...
<http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ%2FMGArticle%2FW
SJ_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1137834842050&path=!localnews&s=103764550
9099>

IRS Proposal Would Allow The Sale Of Consumers' Tax Returns
OSPIRG (PressRelease) - Portland,OR,USA
... Consumers' personal information has become a billion dollar 
business,
with data brokers like Choicepoint and others collecting and selling 
consumers
<http://ospirg.org/OR.asp?id2=22947>


Software cleanses documents of unwanted data
NetworkWorld.com - Southborough,MA,USA
... specialist, the challenge is to make sure the documents that leave
... and metadata varieties, including tracked changes, comments, OLE 
files,
embedded objects and ...
<http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/032106-srs-document-detective.html
>

Hunt on for missing court files
Calcutta Telegraph - Calcutta,India
The detective department has launched an investigation into the alleged
theft of at least 100 files from the mandamus section, where documents
related to ...
<http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060322/asp/calcutta/story_5996315.asp>

Navigating the data minefield
Computer Partner - Netherlands
... It is useful to identify "hot documents" and disseminate them to 
team
members first, while organized batches of other potentially relevant 
files
are compiled ...
<http://www.computerpartner.nl/article.php?news=int&id=2832>

Archives Body to Log Kingdom's Cultural History
Arab News - Jeddah,Saudi Arabia
RIYADH, 21 March 2006 - The board of the King Abdul Aziz Foundation for
Research and Archives (KAFRA) agreed yesterday to propose to Custodian
of the Two ...
<http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1&section=0&article=79534&d=21&m=3&y=2006&
pix=kingdom.jpg&category=Kingdom>

Cameroon: South West : Workshop Harps on Access to Information
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Workshop participants want the functioning of different public archives
improved. To affect this, archives have to be re-organized and 
restructured.
<http://allafrica.com/stories/200603210445.html>

BUSHES' HOME TURF LOSES OUT IN BID TO HOST PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY
Amherst Times.com - Amherst,NY,USA
West Texas, where George W. and Laura Bush grew up and met, was dropped
 from consideration as a site for the George W. Bush Presidential 
Library.
<http://www.amhersttimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10
05&Itemid=27>


Optus in 'secret' PBL deal, court told
Australian - Australia
... Three months after Dr Switkowski received a facsimile inquiring 
about
the document's destruction, Seven sued Optus, PBL and US-based 
Cablevision
in the NSW ...
<http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,18555589%2
55E643,00.html>

After banker ruling, companies may find it easier to toss files
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
... He said when the companies learn of investigations they scramble to
catch up with their routine document destruction, raising suspicions 
they
are trying to ...
<http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--starbanker1stld
-w0321mar21,0,6585912.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork>

Justice Tripped
Forbes - USA
... out their files. It's the same reason the US Supreme Court last year
reversed the criminal conviction of Arthur Andersen for shredding 
documents
related to ...
<http://www.forbes.com/home/services/2006/03/21/appeal-quattrone-csfb_cz_
df_0321quattrone.html>

Quattrone gets new trial
Chicago Tribune - United States
... before a new judge on charges he urged fellow bankers to destroy 
records.
... Quattrone if it found that Quattrone "merely called for the 
destruction
of documents ...
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0603210275mar21,1,1968063.sto
ry?coll=chi-business-hed>

Enron documents shock ex-Andersen accountants
Reuters - USA
... to Andersen's demise when the once pre-eminent accounting firm was
convicted in 2002 of obstruction of justice for shredding Enron-related
documents as Enron ...
<http://today.reuters.com/investing/FinanceArticle.aspx?type=businessNews
&storyID=2006-03-21T001552Z_01_B690883_RTRUKOC_0_US-ENRON-TRIAL.xml>

Colonial charter may go on sale
Boston Globe - United States
... A year later, John Winthrop brought over the original copy, with the
seal of King Charles I. That one is stored in state archives in 
Dorchester
and is viewed ...
<http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/03/21/colonial_charter_ma
y_go_on_sale>

Backup and recovery: Solving the storage puzzle
Techworld.com - London,UK
By Iain Anderson, CIO Canada. Backup and archival storage continue to be
key issues for enterprises large and small, and the reasons for this are
fairly simple. ...
<http://www.techworld.com/storage/features/index.cfm?FeatureID=2352>




Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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