New York Times 
Once Again, Spitzer Follows E-Mail Trail
By ALEX BERENSON
Several years ago, the manager of a big insurance company received an odd request from a
counterpart at Marsh & McLennan Companies, the world's largest insurance broker.
The Marsh executive asked the insurance company in an e-mail message to send someone to a meeting
to pretend to make a bid for an insurance policy being sought by a customer - even though Marsh had
already decided to steer the business to another insurer that agreed to pay a kickback to Marsh.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/18/business/18insure.html?>


WORKING to rules
IT Week - Haarlem,Netherlands
... It requires medical and pharmaceutical records to be kept for specific
minimum periods. ... aim is to not store junk in the first place, and
to delete genuine data ...
<http://www.itweek.co.uk/features/1158805>


OPINION: Long Live Tape
ComputerWorld - USA
... That's because top management wants IT archivists to err on the side
of saving too much information rather than too little and to spend as
little as possible ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/hardware/story/0,10801,96691,00.html>


ARCHIVES Week celebrates historical letters
KOB-TV - Albuquerque,NM,USA
... State Historian Estevan Rael-Galvez says archivists preserve old letters
so that historians can read them in a different century and learn something.
...
<http://kobtv.com/index.cfm?viewer=storyviewer&id=14353&cat=HOME>


THE strange tale of the man who armed James Bond
The Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
... Academics and archivists hope the correspondence will not be broken
up but kept together and deposited in a library where scholars can use
it. ...
<http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1209632004>


TECHIES hamstrung by bosses on Freedom of Information
Silicon.com - UK
The hugely significant Freedom of Information Act will come into force
on 1 January of this year, requiring all government bodies to comply with
its terms - but ...
<http://management.silicon.com/government/0,39024677,39125060,00.htm>


GCN
10/11/04; Vol. 23 No. 30
Carlin goes the distance for NARA
By Edmund X. DeJesus
Special to GCN
Eight billion pieces of paper in three million cubic feet of storage. Four billion logical data records, along with 35 million still pictures, 18
million aerial photographs, 5 million maps and charts, 207,000 sound recordings and 93,000 motion picture films. Not to mention the
Declaration of Independence.
The responsibilities of the National Archives and Records Administration are daunting by any standard. In charge of managing the
essential documents that define America, the independent federal agency also responds to more than 13 million government and 2
million public requests for information annually.
http://www.gcn.com/23_30/news/27544-1.html


GCN
DHS system puts immigration data at users' fingertips
10/11/04
By Wilson P. Dizard III,
GCN Staff
Keeping track of more than 50 million paper files
documenting foreigners’ dealings with
immigration authorities would be a challenge
under the best of circumstances.
But when the files are spread across 92 offices
around the world, it becomes a truly daunting
task.
http://www.gcn.com/23_30/news/27523-1.html


GCN
Library of Congress takes distributed approach to archiving
10/11/04
By Joab Jackson,
GCN Staff
The Library of Congress has awarded about $15
million to eight teams to create an archive for
materials that start life digitally.
“Materials are increasingly being created in
digital form only,” librarian of Congress James
Billington said. “It becomes ever more critical to
save the important information they contain.”
http://www.gcn.com/23_30/news/27592-1.html



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Richmond, Va
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