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VOICES in Vital America records part of pro-, anti-war material ...
Amarillo Globe News - Amarillo,TX,United States
... The new materials will join other Vietnam Center records avaliable
to the public, and many documents ... We have documents, moving images,
audio files, a lot ...
<http://www.amarillo.com/stories/101004/new_wall.shtml>


CITY makes Freedom of Information requests routine
Springfield State Journal Register - Springfield,IL,USA
... to file written requests for documents maintained by ... Most records
are considered public, although the ... exemptions, such as personnel
files, anything revealing ...
<http://www.sj-r.com/sections/news/stories/37344.asp>


THE Medicis and the Jewish question
Jerusalem Post - Jerusalem,Israel
... "The Medici archivists from 1569-1743 were the first in all of Europe
to preserve every incoming correspondence and to make a copy of every
outgoing document. ...
<http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1097383706719&p=1008596975996>


DEATH knell for Gozo's past?
Valletta Times - Valletta,Malta
... However, this Act to regulate the National Archives, and to make provisions
for the appointment of the National Archivist and other dispositions ancillary
...
<http://www.timesofmalta.com/core/article.php?id=166595>


LINCOLN Library out of the cellar
Chicago Tribune (subscription) - Chicago,IL,USA
... "The old library was, in more ways than one, underground," said Richard
Norton Smith, director of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and
Museum. ...
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0410100377oct10,1,1527742.story?coll=chi-news-hed>


WINNERS & losers: County budget takes away, gives back
The Coloradoan - Fort Collins,CO,USA
... Departments also might have trouble finding space to store paper documents
if they ... Carol Shaffer, an imaging technician, because records such
as deeds and maps ...
<http://www.coloradoan.com/news/stories/20041011/news/1394724.html>


ARCHIVE Awareness Week 2004
di-ve.com - Malta
by di-ve.com. The National Archives of Malta is organising the second Archive
Awareness Week. The activities under the theme "Preserving ...
<http://www.di-ve.com/dive/portal/portal.jhtml?id=155003&pid=null>


THE BBC has failed to deliver on its promise to put its archive ...
Independent - London,England,UK
... One archivist familiar with the BBC's material says: "The copyright
problems are ... first the bulk of the material will consist of wildlife
archives because that ...
<http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/media/story.jsp?story=570890>


TNT Archive Services Opening £11m Flagship Archive Facility
Managing Information - UK
... of Defence to store and manage millions of government files. ... will
eventually house 13 million documents for the ... Laid end-to-end these
records would stretch 226 ...
<http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=3177>


HOW key Microsoft legal emails 'autodestruct'
The Register - London,England,UK
... So in the normal course of events documents would be destroyed swiftly,
documents would be saved only by a document retention notice, and if document
retention ...
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/11/ms_legal_mail_autodestruct/>


IF we keep our e-mail longer than 30 days, it starts to smell
Good Morning Silicon Valley - San Jose,CA,USA
... In a September 27 brief Burst's attorneys describe a Microsoft document
retention policy they claim was engineered specifically to guarantee the
destruction of ...
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/gmsv/9892415.htm>


STATE'S digital archive opens
Everett Herald - Everett,WA,USA
... Volunteers have transcribed nearly 1 million scanned images of historic
files over the past two years, State Archivist Jerry Handfield said. ...
<http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/04/10/11/bus_archive001.cfm>


IEE Preserves A Slice Of Electricity History
Managing Information - UK
... 16 May 1836. "I am very pleased that this letter will now be available
to the public", says Anne Locker, IEE Archivist. "It is an ...
<http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=3175>



Network World Fusion, Mon, 11 Oct 2004 8:50 AM PDT
Snip it with Net Snippets http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/101104gearhead.html
Like all longtime professional users of the Web, we have been struggling to organize all the material we find online. Every excursion onto the Web leads us to yet more interesting stuff we want to keep for later perusal.


RESEARCHERS keeping digital history alive
Urbana/Champaign News-Gazette - Champaign/Urbana,IL,USA
... National Archives and Records Administration to investigate preservation
and access mechanisms for federal, presidential and congressional electronic
records. ...
<http://www.news-gazette.com/story.cfm?Number=16901>


Associated Press
Tobacco Lawyer Denies Knowing of Documents
Monday October 4, 5:12 pm ET
By Nancy Zuckerbrod, Associated Press Writer
Tobacco Lawyer Denies Firsthand Knowledge of Document Destruction
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A longtime lawyer for major cigarette manufacturers said Monday
government lawyers got it wrong when they speculated he would testify he knew firsthand that
the industry had destroyed documents.
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/041004/tobacco_trial_2.html


GCN
Built-in protection
09/27/04
By Richard W. Walker,
GCN Staff
Security and privacy are an outgrowth of
robust management
If you’ve already got comprehensive security and
privacy practices in place at your agency, you’re
ahead of the game in electronic-records
management.
http://www.gcn.com/23_29/mgmt_edition/27375-1.html


GCN
Points of order
09/27/04
By Richard W. Walker,
GCN Staff
Quicksilver records program sets standards for
agencies to follow
Agencies struggling to manage their electronic
records are getting some direction from the EGovernment
Electronic Records Management
initiative.
http://www.gcn.com/23_29/mgmt_edition/27379-1.html


GCN
Formatting the future
09/27/04
By Joab Jackson,
GCN Staff
To keep documents accessible, agencies face
critical choices on software and hardware
Five years ago, U.S. Courts started putting in
place an electronic docket-filing system. It would
contain records to be kept—and accessed—for
decades, if not indefinitely, and that forced project
managers to make some tough decisions on
electronic formats.
http://www.gcn.com/23_29/mgmt_edition/27374-1.html


GCN
Records management takes a few lessons from
supercomputing
http://www.gcn.com/23_29/mgmt_edition/27380-1.html


GCN
Records are records, no matter what the format
http://www.gcn.com/23_29/mgmt_edition/27377-1.html


United States: New California Direct Marketing Disclosure Statute Will Impact Companies
Inside and Outside of California
27 September 2004
Article by Christine E. Lyon, B. Scott Silverman and Anna Gorodetsky
http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=28643&email_access=on (


United States: SB-1: The California Financial Information Privacy Act—Interim and
Permanent Compliance Considerations
27 September 2004
Article by Leonard A. Bernstein
http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=28639&email_access=on


United States: Proposed Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to Address
Electronic Documents and Discovery and Other E-Discovery Developments in 2004
01 October 2004
http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=28745&email_access=on


United States: Preserving, Protecting and Producing Electronic Data
30 September 2004
Article by Roxane Sokolove Marenberg, Adrianne C. Mazura and Dov M. Grunschlag
http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=28675&email_access=on


Turkey: Electronic Signatures Finally Gain Legal Recognition
01 October 2004
Article by Ruba Unkan
http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=27481&email_access=on


GCN
Data management’s misconceptions
http://www.gcn.com/23_29/interview/27383-1.htm


GCN
NARA prepares for a new era in records management
09/27/04
By Jason Miller,
GCN Staff
The numbers are enormous—1 billion military
personnel files and 600 million Census Bureau
records, to name just two examples. Federal
agencies are producing millions of records each
year and are struggling to manage them.
http://www.gcn.com/23_29/mgmt_edition/27378-1.html



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Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Richmond, Va
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