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California Aggie, Fri, 29 Oct 2004 10:16 AM PDT Special Collections prove to be special, indeed http://www.californiaaggie.com/article/?id=6021 Within the depths of Shields Library and behind a set of glass double doors, there exists a rich treasure trove of information. Just beyond the walls of the Blanchard Reading Room lies a vast collection of thousands of antiquarian and medieval books and invaluable manuscript materials. Enterprise Storage Forum, Fri, 29 Oct 2004 1:06 PM PDT Archiving as a Cure for Database Crashes http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/continuity/features/article.php/3429011 Letting a database grow without action can lead to disaster. Transactional performance can suffer to the point where people are screaming about access rates or their queries timing out. And if you do run out of disk space, your whole system could crash Beloit Daily News, Fri, 29 Oct 2004 11:43 PM PDT Beloit historical book receives Archives Award http://www.beloitdailynews.com/articles/2004/10/30/news/103004news03b.txt A book of pictures focused on community life in Beloit in the 1900s has won a special award in the 2004 Governor's Archives Awards program aimed at preserving recorded history in Wisconsin. The Charlotte Observer, Sat, 30 Oct 2004 0:38 AM PDT Bill of Rights fight pits buyer vs. feds http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/10053518.htm Appeals court hears pleas for document snatched from N.C. RICHMOND, Va. - A copy of the U.S. Bill of Rights disappeared more than a century ago after a soldier supposedly snatched it from the N.C. Capitol. People's Daily, Thu, 28 Oct 2004 5:48 PM PDT Source: China Daily http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200410/29/eng20041029_162029.html "It is the first time I have seen the golden lists of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) and many other precious archives which are on the world cultural heritage list, Simon F.K.CHU, government archivist of the Public Records Office of Hong Kong, said when he visited China's Most Valuable Archive Exhibition, which opened yesterday at the Millennium Art Museum. Press-Citizen, Fri, 29 Oct 2004 1:21 AM PDT Archives organize university history http://www.press-citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041029/NEWS01/410290320/1079 Stop. Don't throw away that memo from the department chairman. Don't discard the letter from the secretary to the president of the university. One day, those seemingly mundane correspondences might go into the archives and become part of the University of Iowa's history. Billings Gazette, Fri, 29 Oct 2004 0:04 AM PDT Historic audio to go on Net http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/10/29/build/wyoming/80-net-audio.inc LARAMIE - Old audio recordings, including witness accounts to the hanging of gunman Tom Horn and the 1892 Johnson County War, are being converted to digital files that can be heard over the Internet on home computers INTERVIEW: Rules spur content controls VNUNet.com - London,England,UK ... "But many IT leaders I meet say they don't know the difference between records management and content management.". Effectively, ECM ... <http://www.vnunet.com/analysis/1159041> RARE recording of NCCU founder's statewide radio address found Durham Herald Sun - Durham,NC,USA ... A search of campus archives yielded written transcripts, but no recordings. ... no rarity to hear him speak, said Brooklyn McMillon, a university archivist who was ... <http://www.herald-sun.com/durham/4-538208.html> FBI probing bomb threat at Bush presidential library Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA The FBI is investigating a bomb threat made regarding the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum at Texas A&M University, a college spokesman confirmed ... <http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2872416> DIGITAL ID: How are you managing? ZDNet.com - USA ... Lewis defines identity management as comprising "electronic records that represent network principals, including people, machines, devices, applications, and ... <http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5431008.html> SUE Johnston sparks a rush to the records Cumberland News - Carlisle,Cumbria,United Kingdom ... Susan Dench, the senior archivist at Carlisle Records Office and Chairman of the Cumbria Family History Society, said: "Programmes and information like this ... <http://www.cumberland-news.co.uk/news/viewarticle.aspx?id=149263> DELKIN releases eFilm Archival Gold "300-Year" CD-Rs engadget - USA Using no less than 24K gold, Delkin Devices have created the eFilm Archival Gold "300-Year" CD-R. As opposed to standard CD-Rs that can go bad within a few ... <http://www.engadget.com/entry/7817137582525560/> HAIR returned to ancestors after 150 years National Indigenous Times - Australia ... The locks were long held in the NSW State Archives and were recently found accompanied by a letter dated July 23, 1857 from the Commissioner of Crown Lands at ... <http://www.nit.com.au/News/story.aspx?id=3565> DATA Management: An Executive Briefing: DMReview.com - New York,NY,United States ... company may need to retrieve certain documents during an audit, has just set aside $2.5 million to fund your development of the document retention policies and ... <http://www.dmreview.com/article_sub.cfm?articleId=1012404> FORMER mayor donates archives to university Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA ... The archives span his six years as mayor and his time as an educator at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Portland State University and ... <http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2872265> £12M HOME FOR SCOTS ARCHIVES Glasgow Daily Record - Glasgow,Scotland,UK THE bill for building a new home for archives on Scotland's ancient monuments could be £12million, it was announced yesterday. ... <http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=14809358&method=full&siteid=894 88&headline=-pound-12m-home-for-scots-archives-name_page.html> DIGGING Out From Under Piles of Paper Banktech - USA ... Then files are encrypted and stored in our centralized ... customers with reserved mail, or documents that customers ... The software records who accesses the data and ... <http://www.banktech.com/story/featured/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=51201390> E-MAILS can come back to haunt you, experts say Annapolis Capital - Annapolis,MD,United States ... Plus, Ms. Harrison said the delete key is no guarantee an e-mail will vanish. ... "With compliance laws, with anything with records, you're dealing with sensitive ... <http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2004/10_30-11/TOP> FAITH matters Cincinnati Enquirer - Cincinnati,OH,USA ... Proffitt and Smith, archivists at the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, found the first book of minutes of the college's founders. ... <http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/10/30/loc_loc9vance.html> GREAT Depression Exhibit Brings McLean County Back 75 Years WHOI - Peoria,IL,USA ... Museum Librarian/Archivist Bill Steinbacher-Hand said, "We interviewed many of the people in McLean County who experienced the Depression first hand, so the ... <http://www.hoinews.com/news/headlines/1145526.html> 1898 Fredericksburg military roster restored The Free Lance-Star - Fredericksburg,VA,USA 1898 Fredericksburg military roster restored. State Archivist Conley L. Edwards III (right) inspects the Heritage Center's rare Spanish-American War roster. ... <http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2004/102004/10302004/1553098> RARE Vivaldi manuscript uncovered BBC News - London,England,UK ... Although discovered a while ago, the castle's archivist, David Smith, had to wait for the decision of Vivaldi academics as to their origin. .<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/gloucestershire/3968067.stm> OSCAR Wilde archival materials sell big at auction The Advocate - USA A handwritten chapter of Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, written by the author at the behest of his publishers and including the scandalous ... <http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?ID=14220&sd=10/30/04-11/01/04> BUSINESS Briefcase MaineToday.com - Portland,ME,United States ... Brad Manter of Scarborough has opened Without A Trace Document Destruction, a company that provides on-site destruction of clients' outdated files, financial ... <http://business.mainetoday.com/news/041030briefcase.shtml> EX-ERNST & Young partner takes plea Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA The US Attorney's Office in San Francisco said in a statement Friday that Trauger, 40, admitted that he altered and destroyed documents with the intention of ... <http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/2873739> ARTWORK found after 70 years Gainesville Daily Register - Gainesville,TX,USA ... Apparently, we'd been identified through national archives as having received a mural or sculpture that had been commissioned under the 1930s New Deal Arts ... <http://www.gainesvilleregister.com/articles/2004/10/29/news/news3.txt> Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA [log in to unmask] Richmond, Va