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RAIN (Records/Archives In the News) is a daily compilation of news
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DISNEY to pay Hebrew University $2.66m for user rights to Baby ...
Globes Online - Israel
... Over the next five years, the university's name and the Einstein
Archives
website will appear on all packaging and advertisement of Baby Einstein
products. ...
<http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=893848&fid=942>

RUSSIA * JAPAN * PRISONERS OF WAR
RIA Novosti - Moscow,Russia
... 2005. RIA Novosti learnt this from Mr. Kirill Chernenkov, head of
the
international board at the Federal Archives Agency. He said ...
<http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?prd_id=160&msg_id=5461206&startrow=1&date=2005-03-14&do_alert=0>

NEW FACTA Regulations Hold Business Owners Responsible for ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... Vice President of DataGuard USA, a security and records destruction
firm based ... Hastert runs the ShredNations.com website that provides
shredding solutions to ...
<http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20050315005352&newsLang=en>

SELECT Committee endorses cover-up
Scoop.co.nz (press release) - New Zealand
... "Even the Chief Archivist will not be able to assess ... Under the
Bill, Ministers can keep deferring the release of material to the
Archives
indefinitely.". ...
<http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0503/S00311.htm>

SOME Qwest papers possibly shredded
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA
... The possible shredding of documents occurred at the time the
Securities
and Exchange Commission was issuing its first subpoenas to Qwest, in
February
or March ...
<http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/business/article/0,1299,DRMN_4_3622544,00.html>

HAVE You Heard About FACTA
I-Newswire.com  (press release) - USA
... Strip-cut shredders are still the preferred method of shredding, but
cross ... confetti-cut, shredders make it next to impossible to
reassemble
shredded documents. ...
< http://i-newswire.com/pr10321.html>


HOSPITALS and Doctors Lag Behind Information Age
LiveScience.com - New York,NY,USA
Fewer than a third of hospitals and only 17 percent of doctors' offices
check electronic records prior to treating patients or prescribing
medicine.
...
<http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/050315_medical_info.html>

RECORDS storage going digital
Appleton Post Crescent - Appleton,WI,USA
... Ken Frazier, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's
general
library system, supports the idea of converting to electronic records,
as long as they ...
<http://www.wisinfo.com/postcrescent/news/archive/local_20237210.shtml>

EXPERTS call for collection of lost historical data overseas
People's Daily Online - Beijing,China
Liu Guoneng, deputy director of the State Archive Bureau and member of
the CPPCC National Committee, said that there are many-faceted reasons
for the loss of ...
<http://english.people.com.cn/200503/14/eng20050314_176788.html>

TEST of state public records requests shows some doc
The News-Review - Roseburg,OR,USA
... Meyer said. Under Oregon's Public Records Law, an agency has the
right
to ask for a records request in writing. The information ...
<http://www.newsreview.info/article/20050314/NEWS/103140030>

NIXON Library Can't Be Trusted Not to Play With His Words
Los Angeles Times (subscription) - CA,USA
... pressure from the Nixon family, Congress and President Bush cleared
the way for the Nixon Library to become part of the official
presidential
library system. ...
<http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-greenberg15mar15,0,2296402.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions>

FIVE from Austin to help steer UT proposal for Bush library
Austin Business Journal - Austin,TX,USA
... were named Monday to an advisory panel organized by the University
of Texas System to spearhead work on a proposal for the presidential
library
of President ...
<http://austin.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2005/03/14/daily13.html?jst=b_ln_hl>

ARCHIVESONE enters new market with purchase of Florida company
Waterbury Republican American - Waterbury,CT,USA
Waterbury-based ArchivesOne Inc. has extended its reach deep into the
southern
part of the nation by acquiring a Florida-based records storage company.
...
<http://www.rep-am.com/story.php?id=18369>

MARYLAND Honors the Pioneering Women of American Broadcasting
Newswise (press release) - USA
"This is an aspect of women's history that isn't given enough attention
to," says Cary O'Dell, project archivist for the exhibit. ...
<http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/510472/>

E-MAILERS beware: 'Private' messages may be anything but
Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
... memory. The delete key means nothing when it comes to e-mail. In ...
person. It just creates these records that are remarkable. And ...
<http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/local/bal-te.to.email15mar15,0,6536609.story?coll=sfla-business-headlines>

SELECT Committee endorses cover-up
Scoop.co.nz (press release) - New Zealand
The Public Records Bill, reported back today from the Government
Administration
Committee, allows government heads to censor archival material, the
Green
Party ...
<http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0503/S00311.htm>

JUSTICES hear arguments on access to Dean papers
Barre Montpelier Times Argus - Barre,VT,USA
... for the Democratic presidential nomination and there was widespread
interest in the contents of the boxes, which were under the control of
the state archives. ...
<http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050315/NEWS/503150345/1002/NEWS01>

EDITORIAL: Depleting state history
Sacramento Bee - Sacramento,CA,USA
... and display of the historical documents of the state of California."
The commission oversaw the development of the new California State
Archives
Building and ...
<http://www.sacbee.com/content/opinion/story/12565852p-13420869c.html>

ACCESS to public records can sometimes cost thousands
Honolulu Advertiser - Honolulu,HI,USA
... cost $20,000 in computer programming fees to remove confidential
information
from the files. ... The cost issue is unresolved and the records have
not been released ...
<http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Mar/15/ln/ln02p.html>


LOOKING BACK: ERIKA MAILMAN Bosko sees positive in old negatives
Montclarion - Montclair,CA,USA
... "That's the high point," Bosko said. If the house was burning down,
he says, this would be what he'd save. Bosko prints from the glass
negatives
he purchases. ...
<http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/local/states/california/counties/alameda_county/cities_neighborhoods/montclair/11139722.htm>

New York Times
Can Papers End the Free Ride Online?
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/14/business/media/14paper.html?>

The Guardian
The scissor sister
After 55 years, 'human Google' Edda Tasiemka is selling her amazing
cuttings library and retiring - distressing news for at least one
customer
<http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1436300,00.html>

Wall Street Journal
Why a Life's Work
Is Taking Princeton
So Long to Document
Unfinished Jefferson Project
Is Now in Its 63rd Year;
Yale's Ben Franklin Slog
<http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB111085059678779477,00.html?>



Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Richmond, Va
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