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Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management. SEC deepens probe of ChoicePoint, paper says Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscription) - GA,USA NEW YORK -- Federal regulators may have intensified their probe of ChoicePoint Inc. (CPS), the data broker under fire for disclosing ... <http://www.ajc.com/business/content/business/0805/10choicepoint.html> FADING fast Sydney Morning Herald (subscription) - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia ... converts proprietary formats (such as Microsoft word documents or image files) into accessible ... Paper records now occupying 50 kilometres of storage space in ... <http://www.smh.com.au/news/livewire/fading-fast/2005/08/09/1123353324048.html> CHRONICLING Columbia and loving it Baltimore Sun - United States ... She is a die-hard Columbian," said Robin Emrich, a professionally trained archivist hired in 1998 to help Kellner preserve and organize the archives' holdings. ... <http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/howard/bal-ho.kellner10aug10,1,5312147.story?collºl-local-howard> COLLECTION chronicles US history of death penalty Capital News 9 - Albany,NY,USA ... Most of the documents present arguments against the death penalty. But archivists said the goal is to present an objective history of this controversial issue. <http://www.capitalnews9.com/content/headlines/?ArID4107&SecID3> COMPUTER systems face biggest threat from disgruntled insiders Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA ... a programmer with administrator access to his company's payroll records could plant ... The logic bomb could be programmed to delete important files throughout the ... <http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/local/sfl-zcyber10aug10,0,7580531.story?coll=sfla-business-front> PRIVATE organizations not under Open Records Act Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscription) - GA,USA By AJ ROBINSON, SAM A. WILLIAMS. Georgia's Open Records Act applies to documents created by or on behalf of the government. Neither ... <http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/0805/10edequal.html> ISLANDS In The Stream: A Conversation with Phish Archivist Kevin ... jambands.com - New York,NY,USA ... There are legal issues that come up when releasing live shows and archival tasks like cataloging, preserving and releasing shows have also been part of the job ... <http://www.jambands.com/Features/content_2005_08_09.08.phtml> $6B of national treasures at risk: auditor Journal of Turkish Weekly - Ankara,Turkey ... the safety and accessibility of collections held at the National Museum of Australia, National Library of Australia, National Archives of Australia and ... <http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id416> VIGNETTE Records & Document Management Application Approved And ... Internet Ad Sales (press release) - Taeby,NA,Sweden today announced that Vignette® Records & Documents 7.0 has been approved by The National Archives (TNA) of the United Kingdom and certified by the US ... <http://www.internetadsales.com/modules/news/article.php ?storyid`24> THE Black Gay & Lesbian Archives: A History of a People Proud Parenting - USA ... BGLA), the largest collection of Black gay, lesbian, bisexual transgender, same-gender loving, queer, questioning and in the life cultural archives and has ... <http://www.proudparenting.com/page.cfm?sectionid&typeofsite=storydetail&IDf8&storyset=yes> BUILDING new museum, renovating old one goal Jackson Clarion Ledger - Jackson,MS,USA ... the need to do work on the Old Capitol and plans for the new museum are coming together at the same time," said Hank Holmes, Department of Archives and History ... <http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050810/FEAT05/508100329/1023> SHRED it or else: New laws require info destruction Sierra Sun (subscription) - Truckee,CA,USA ... Burning, pulverizing, or shredding of papers ... Contracting with a certified disposal company that disposes of business records is an acceptable means of complying ... <http://www.sierrasun.com/article/20050809/COMMUNITY/108090008> RECORDS request stalls over retrieval cost Anchorage Daily News - Anchorage,AK,USA ... Borough manager John Duffy said $5,000 is the most the borough has ever charged for a public records request, as far as he knows. ... <http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/6801947p-6691852c.html> JUDGE upholds order for Georgia to turn over Klan records Access North Georgia - Gainesville,GA,USA ... been destroyed, the transcripts of the conversations still exist, and some were turned over to The Associated Press last week following an open records request ... <http://www.accessnorthga.com/news/ap_newfullstory.asp?IDc736> AGENCIES struggle to find optimum e-mail guidelines Anchorage Daily News - Anchorage,AK,USA ... Frank Murkowski, said the governor's office has received 82 public records request since 2003, some of which included e-mail records. ... <http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/6801947p-6691854c.html> QUORUM Court focuses on county records DeWitt Era-Enterprise - DeWitt,AR,USA By Erin Walton. At the Arkansas County Quorom Court meeting Tuesday, members continued their efforts in learning about how they can ... <http://www.dewitt-ee.com/articles/2005/08/10/news/news05.txt> COMPUTER source code loss: insurance coverage Mondaq News Alerts - World ... had not been corrupted, the Managing Director repaired and reloaded the laptop from the ... the source code and the paper copy of the code were stolen along with ... <http://www.mondaq.com/i_article.asp_Q_articleid_E_34244> MEMO warned of files chaos The Age (subscription) - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia ... was in chaos months before it mistakenly released hundreds of confidential police files. ... five weeks earlier, had no procedures to protect documents, no filing ... <http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/memo-warned-of-files-chaos/2005/08/10/1123353386878.html> COUNTY limits Web data search of real estate Allentown Morning Call - Allentown,PA,USA ... The county is among several across the nation, including Lehigh County, that are limiting how online public records can be searched. ... <http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-b1_3webaug10,0,5580875.story?coll=all-newslocal-hed> PROTECTING corporations from terror Bremerton Sun - WA, United States ... The market leader in protecting such information is the aptly named Iron Mountain. ... Iron Mountain moves these files to its secure warehouses and catalogs them. ... <http://www.thesunlink.com/bsun/bu_business/article/0,2403,BSUN_19060_3989142,00.html> Austin American-Statesman, Sun, 07 Aug 2005 10:10 PM PDT EDITORIAL http://www.statesman.com/opinion/content/editorial/stories/08/8weinstein_edit.html Allen Weinstein, 67, is a historian, author and university professor. Since ebruary, he has been the archivist of the United States, a presidential appointment that puts him in charge of the National Archives and Records Administration. Dallas Morning News, Sun, 07 Aug 2005 7:03 PM PDT Elvis? Not to suspicious minds http://www.dallasnews.com/perl/common/rssredir.pl?page=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/080805dnmetlosttapes.7f5ac82.html Elvis? Steve Lawrence pulled the fragile reel-to-reel tapes out of a duffel bag and reverently laid them on the table. Steve Lawrence owns old tapes from his uncle's recording studio and believes some are early, unreleased recordings of Elvis Presley. 'It's destiny, how this landed in my lap,' he said. WISinfo, Wed, 10 Aug 2005 2:22 AM PDT Job spotlight: Janice Krahn http://www.wisinfo.com/postcrescent/news/archive/biz_22127888.shtml What do you do? ?Many people equate archivist with librarians, living in long aisles of dusty books. This is far from the truth at the Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Corporate Archives. Capital News 9, Wed, 10 Aug 2005 7:48 AM PDT Collection chronicles U.S. history of death penalty http://www.capitalnews9.com/content/headlines/?ArID4107&SecID3 UAlbany is now the ultimate draw for anyone doing research on the death penalty. The school is now home to the only collection of documents that details the history of capital punishment in the United States. Poughkeepsie Journal, Tue, 09 Aug 2005 0:12 AM PDT Curator helps preserve local history http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050809/BUSINESS/508090318/1003/NEWS Trying to acquire a historically significant letter for sale on eBay or identifying and preserving paintings of the three matriarchs of the Suckley family are among the challenges Duane Watson faces as curator of collections for the Wilderstein Preservation in Rhinebeck. Pensacola News Journal Trial opens in sale of stolen artifacts <http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050811/NEWS01/508110330/1006#> http://shrinkster.com/7bv Peter A. Kurilecz Richmond, Va [log in to unmask]