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PRESIDENTIAL library underlines Clinton's place in history books Sydney Morning Herald (subscription) - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia The Clinton Presidential Library, due to open today in Little Rock, Arkansas, is a cantilevered span of glass and steel that gives shape to the bridge Bill ... <http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Presidential-library-underlines-Clintons-place-in-history-books/2004/11/17/1100574540373.html> Wall Street Journal 11/17/04 Microsoft Conduct Is Challenged Again By JOHN R. WILKE Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL November 17, 2004; Page A3 As it pushes to settle other antitrust suits, Microsoft Corp. faces new, potentially damaging allegations about its business conduct in a patenttheft and monopolization case pending in a federal court in Baltimore. In a court filing unsealed late Monday, a small Silicon Valley software company called Burst.com Inc. alleges that Microsoft routinely destroyed much of its internal e-mail despite the many federal investigations and private suits it has faced in recent years, when it was often under court orders to preserve such communications. http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB110065100041976160,00.html? http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/Microsoft-Accused-of-Dumping-Key-E-Mail-38239.html New York Times 11/15/04 Fitting or Not, a Lincoln Tribute Moves Forward By STEPHEN KINZER Published: November 15, 2004 Correction Appended SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Nov. 10 - Perhaps no figure is more closely bound to the American consciousness with what Abraham Lincoln called "the mystic chords of memory" than Lincoln himself. Now, nearly a century and a half after his death, his hometown is honoring him with what promises to be a spectacular and perhaps controversial museum. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/15/national/15lincoln.html? Pacific Business News Floods wash away up to $20M in UH medical research By Kristen Sawada Pacific Business News (Honolulu) Updated: 7:00 p.m. ET Nov. 14, 2004 The University of Hawaii medical school could lose up to $20 million in research grants and contracts in the aftermath of the flash flood that wiped out the school's core operations. advertisement The central operation that provides basic administrative and fiscal services for all business -- including off-campus medical programs -- was destroyed, said Robert Nobriga, the medical school's chief financial officer. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6490702/ Wall Street Journal 11/17/04 Guarding Identities: Banks Fall Short Survey Finds Wide Gaps In Consumer Safeguards At Some Large Institutions By JENNIFER SARANOW Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL November 17, 2004; Page D2 A significant number of major U.S. banks aren't offering customers a full selection of tools to reduce identity theft, according to a new study. Identity theft -- where criminals use your personal information to open new accounts in your name, take out loans or arrange other kinds of fraud -- is a growing and expensive problem for consumers and banks alike. About 27 million Americans have been victims of identity theft since 1998, the Federal Trade Commission said last year. The fraud cost businesses $48 billion in 2002, and consumers, $5 billion. http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB110065160819376185,00.html? Darwin Shining the Light on Our Personal Information BY Dr. Larry Ponemon A new California law will make the popular practice of sharing and selling customer data more transparent. Starting in January, California residents will be able to contact their favorite retailer to find out the third parties the retailer has shared their information with during the past year. Informally called the “shine the light” law, SB 27 imposes specific disclosure and notice requirements on businesses that share customers’ personal information with others for marketing purposes. http://www.darwinmag.com/read/feature/column.html?ArticleID=1158&action=print ARAFAT MEDICAL RECORDS TO STAY PRIVATE Miami Herald (subscription) - Miami,FL,USA Yasser Arafat's French medical records won't be released to the Palestinian Authority, despite a plea from leaders including Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed ... <http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/10204594.htm> UK data protection laws branded 'chaotic' The Register - London,England,UK ... little will be done to improve the situation over the coming months with much of the Information Commissioner's time taken up by the Freedom of Information Act ... <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/17/data_protection_laws_chaotic/> SECRET police destroy documents B92 - Yugoslavia ... The centre has full documentation on document destruction which shows that documents relating to the period 1998 to 2000 were destroyed. ... <http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?&nav_category=&nav_id=30511&order=priority&style=headlines> DMN Historical Archives available online Dallas Morning News (subscription) - Dallas,TX,USA Belo Interactive, the Internet subsidiary of Belo Corp., announced Wednesday the launch of The Dallas Morning News Historical Archives, giving readers unique ... <http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/111704dnbusarchives.67a55a5e.html> LAUNCH Of £10 Million Archives Programme At British Library Managing Information - UK ... the international historical, conservation and diplomatic worlds gathered at the British Library to mark the launch of the Endangered Archives Programme - a ... <http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=3307> BRAZIL'S justice to open dictator diaries Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA 17 (UPI) -- Brazil's justice minister has promised to open the country's archives dating back to the days of the military dictatorship from 1964 to 1985. ... <http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20041117-094806-6515r.htm> TIME capsule captures court history Pasadena Citizen - Pasadena,TX,USA ... Sarah Jackson, Harris County archivist, explained concern that when the time capsule is opened in 2550 there might not be a way to read digital formatting. ... <http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=13370352&BRD=1574&PAG=461&dept_id=532238&rfi=6> A Tour of the New Clinton Presidential Library NPR (audio) - Washington,D.C.,USA Description: NPR's Alex Chadwick tours the new Clinton Presidential Library with presidential archivist David Alsobrook. The library ... <http://npr.streamsage.com/google/programlist/srfeature.php?wfid=4174758> PRIVACY: Just Press the Delete Key AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA ... Public records held at the county clerk's office or city hall have always been available for public scrutiny, but to access them you needed to turn up in ... <http://www.alternet.org/rights/20536/> BURST: Microsoft policy led to critical e-mails' destruction Seattle Post Intelligencer - Seattle,WA,USA ... In May 2000, Motz also ordered Microsoft to preserve all records that could be ... deletion policy by creating servers that forced workers to "auto-delete" e-mails ... <http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/aplocal_story.asp?category=6420&slug=Microsoft%20Burst> HOW can info. stay private? San Jose Business Journal - Charlotte,NC,USA ... and Hale CPA PC requested electronic filing of documents, said John ... "Our paper files are kept ... and obtaining client permission to release records, as determined ... <http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/moneycenter/story.html?id=3423> CITY Leaders Mount Attack on Open-Records Law KSL-TV - Salt Lake City,UT,USA ... If these proposals are adopted it would radically tip the balance in favor of secrecy," said media lawyer Jeff Hunt, who helped craft the open-records law that ... <http://tv.ksl.com/index.php?nid=5&sid=133509> NYPL gets record $25 million grant Crain's New York Business - New York,NY,USA ... It will also be used for projects including the cataloging of archival collections at the performing arts library; a large-scale deacidification project; the ... <http://www.crainsny.com/news.cms?id=9284> ARMENIANS In Ottoman Era Documents Turkish Press - Turkey ISTANBUL - The Turkish Directorate General of State Archives completed the first stage of its project compiling Ottoman era documents about relations of ... <http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?ID=33950> STURT diaries expected to fetch $2m ABC Online - Australia However State Library director Alan Smith, concedes the mooted price of around $2 million may be out of reach. Though their actual ... <http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200411/s1245331.htm> FOR success with ILM, secure the DLM first ComputerWorld - USA ... Because of regulatory and legal demands for document retention and discovery, companies can no longer afford to keep storing their data like an old-fashioned ... <http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/recovery/story/0,10801,97529,00.html> NASHOBA Valley Tech to destroy temporary records Chelmsford Independent - Concord,MA,USA ... others who attended the school but left before graduating, have the right to obtain their temporary records in whole or in part before the date of destruction. ... <http://www2.townonline.com/chelmsford/artsLifestyle/view.bg?articleid=127407> TRASH at your peril Legal Director - London,UK ... said they do not have such a system for holding non-electronic records in the ... a fair trial was not possible because of the company's destruction of documents ... <http://www.legaldirector.net/ViewItem.asp?id=22181> LOST Afghan artwork, artifacts from national museum identified Columbus Ledger-Enquirer - Columbus,GA,USA ... burned in fires that consumed its records. An estimated 70 percent of the museum's collection has probably been lost to looting or destruction, Hiebert said. ... <http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/world/10207705.htm> Effingham Daily News, Wed, 17 Nov 2004 12:39 PM PST County's history now accessible at library http://effinghamdailynews.townnews.com/articles/2004/11/17/news/news03.txt Genealogists from near and far who use Helen Matthes Library for research have a bit more to peruse, now that 44 reels of microfilm containing various county records have arrived at the Effingham library. -- Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA Richmond, Va [log in to unmask]