RAIN 060903
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories 
related to records and archives management.

Big Easy caught on celluloid
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... You could imagine what it looked like a year ago," said volunteer 
Dwight
Swanson, an archivist at Appalshop, an arts and education center in 
Whitesburg,
Ky ...
<http://www.dailynews.com/santaclarita/ci_4280800>

Paper Chase
Baltimore Sun - United States
... announced last month that it had hired Brenda S. Banks, deputy 
director
of the Georgia Department of Archives and History, as the chief 
archivist
for the King ...
<http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/ideas/bal-id.king03sep03,0,7854
81.story>

Too much STUFF!
Chicago Tribune - United States
... "People have too much money, and they buy too many things," said Kay
Demrow, archivist of the Luther Valley Historical Society in Footville.
...
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0609030235sep03,1,868
016.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed>

Secrets stolen, fortunes lost for want of protection
Computerworld New Zealand - Auckland,New Zealand
... The other great misconception, held by many business leaders who do
acknowledge the danger to their trade secrets and other intellectual 
property,
is that the ...
<http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/0/0F0524DD61996522CC2571DC0014408C?O
penDocument>

Abuses enrich software firms
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
... These technologies include software and data storage solutions 
designed
to capture and preserve the electronic records and information exchanges
that form the ...
<http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,20346215%2
55E643,00.html>

Sanitary district officials at odds over computer
Green Bay Press Gazette - Green Bay,WI,USA
... The dispute over open records has polarized the district's three 
elected
commissioners — Scott Thompson, Steve Wirtz and Jason Horkman — who
represent ...
<http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060903/
GPG0101/609030632/1207/GPGnews>

No more blue bins forcounty prosecutor files
Rockford Register Star - Rockford,IL,USA
... Fortunately, Logli said, the files contained no original documents
and no evidence was lost. The files, which contained paperwork ...
<http://www.rrstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060903/NEWS0110/10903
0043/1004/NEWS>

Chicago Tribune, Sun, 03 Sep 2006 4:08 AM PDT
Feds seize records of Daley aide
http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/~r/chicagotribune/news/~3/18835629/chi-06
09030244sep03,1,867790.story
Jobs probe seeks files on Hispanic political group   Federal 
authorities investigating illegal hiring in Mayor Richard Daley's 
administration have subpoenaed documents from the mayor's former 
campaign manager relating to a Hispanic political group that has 
provided crucial campaign support to Daley and his allies.

The Idaho Statesman, Sun, 03 Sep 2006 1:06 AM PDT
Popkey: Kempthorne's move to D.C. sparks war over his records
http://www.idahostatesman.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060903/NEWS010
702/609030346
Hot tempers punctuate a summer of intrigue among archivists scrambling 
to locate, secure and house the records from Dirk Kempthorne's two 
terms as governor.

Neal Pease and Ewa Barczyktake 'Take Five'
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription) - Milwaukee,WI,USA
... Tim Cary, then archdiocesan archivist, initiated Polish 
correspondence
and had Marquette University ... we met with the researchers at the 
State
Archive in Wroclaw ...
<http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=490481>

City-owned art collections vast, varied and sometimes forgotten
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
... When Daniels and Boeddeker find a painting, they cut it from its 
frame,
store it between acid-free archival sheets and relocate it to the Arts
Commission ...
<http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/
northern_california/15433773.htm>

A new Archives site
Patriot-News - Harrisburg,PA,USA
... to allow consolidation of similar records and easier access by 
staffers
retrieving documents for researchers ... bound manuscripts and paper 
files,
more than ...
<http://www.pennlive.com/news/patriotnews/index.ssf?/base/columnists/1157
137811254930.xml&coll=1>


Hallas to study history of Acorn PhD
Drobe.co.uk - UK
... Manchester: birthplace of the Baby, the world's first stored-program
computer, home of the UK National Archive for the History of Computing,
and current ...
<http://www.drobe.co.uk/riscos/artifact1696.html>

'Adware' attack on privacy tool
BBC News - UK
... said at the time of its release: "Although it's possible to delete
history folders ... his blog Computer Zen, claims to have been able to
find records of websites ...
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5310114.stm>




Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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