Borneo Bulletin
Restoring national heritage
By James Kon
Brunei Darussalam National Archives will be able to preserve and restore many historical
photographs depicting the monumental moments in Brunei history by embarking on a National
Heritage Digitisation and Restoration project soon.
The project which aims to preserve, conserve, restore, reproduce and digitise the memorable
photographs is a joint venture between the National Archives and two partners, namely the
Memorable Impressions Sdn Bhd, a local partner and Juma Art, a Canadian company.
http://www.brunei-online.com/bb/tue/apr13h24.htm (
Tokyo General faked records over investment of 2.9 billion
yen
Yomiuri Shimbun
A major futures trading firm presented a foundation that guaranteed its investors'
assets with forged passbook records stating that it had entrusted about 2.9 billion
yen in investors' deposits to a bank, sources close to the company said
Wednesday.
Tokyo General, headquartered in Fukuoka, submitted the forged documents to
the Association of Compensation Funds for Consigned Liabilities in Commodity
Futures, Inc., which assumes liabilities the company cannot repay if it goes
bankrupt, the sources said.
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20040415wo22.htm (
14 April 2004
British Library In £10 Million Archives
Programme
The Lisbet Rausing Charitable Fund is joining with the British
Library to fund a £10 million programme to preserve the world's
endangered archives.
The Endangered Archives Programme is the largest of its kind ever
undertaken in the world and will be administered by the British
Library's archives team in conjunction with a panel of international
experts. The programme will be formally launched in the autumn
and the first grants are expected to be made next year. Initial funding will enable the
programme to run for about eight years, but it is hoped that this can be extended with
the help of other beneficiaries.
http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=2582
Antiques Trade Gazette
Christie's Sale of Poole Pottery Museum collection
The hangar saleroom at Christie’s South Kensington was full to
overflowing for the much-publicised sale of the Poole Pottery Museum
collection and archive on March 31. Enthusiasts for this distinctive
British pottery clamoured to buy a piece of its history. Bidders bought
all but six of the 290 lots for a hammer total of £212,700, comfortably
over the pre-sale predictions of in excess of £180,000.
http://www.antiquestradegazette.com/news/news_article_main.asp?id=4111&pt=nb&cp=1&keywords=&phrase=no
The Advertiser
State's founding charter brought back home
By TIM LLOYD
17apr04
A COUPLE of weeks ago, John Uhrig, a captain of industry, and
Mike Rann, Premier of South Australia, were like a couple of nervous
nellies at The Australian Ballet.
While Adelaide's Festival Theatre was full of the sounds of
Stravinsky and the choreography of George Balanchine, six-figure
sums were being bid in an auction room in Melbourne. The object of
the two men's excitement – and their money – was the original Deed
of Settlement of the South Australian Company.
http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,9297545%255E2682,00.html (
Peterborough Now
FILES: Fury over dumped medical records
TENANTS moving into flats in a former Peterborough care home were shocked to
find the private medical records of elderly residents.
The records, giving intimate details of patients' medical conditions and treatments,
were found in a metal filing cabinet left behind by the owners of the former care
home.
Today, Andrew Spencer, who moved into a flat in the former Four Seasons Lodge
home, near Peterborough District Hospital, said he was shocked when he opened
the cabinet and found the medical files.
http://www.peterboroughet.co.uk/ViewArticlemore2.aspx?SectionID=845&ArticleID=774528
netimperative
Government invests £1m in 'sound library'
London, April 16 2004, (netimperative)
by Gareth Vorster
Government body, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), has announced a £1m
project to digitise 12,000 items of sound recordings from the British Library's sound archive.
The archive will be made available to further and higher education institutions free of charge and will
include classical and popular music, broadcast radio, oral history, and field and location recordings of
traditional music, all amounting to nearly 4,000 hours of listening time.
http://www.netimperative.com/cmn/viewdoc.jsp?cat=all&docid=BEP1_News_0000064488 (
BBC News
'Lost' Valentino film discovered
A 1922 Rudolph Valentino
silent movie classic has been
found after being considered
lost for almost 75 years.
The Dutch national film archive
discovered the copy of melodrama
Beyond the Rocks in a private
collection left to the Filmmuseum.
The movie, also starring Gloria
Swanson, is in good condition
apart from about two damaged minutes.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/3635019.stm (1
Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Richmond, Va
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