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 -- Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA Richmond, Va [log in to unmask]