Race for the Bush library
Texas universities vie for memorabilia, national recognition
06:50 PM CDT on Tuesday, July 6, 2004
By APRIL KINSER / DallasNews.com
President Bush may face an uncertain future in the White House, but one aspect of his presidency is
sure: It will be memorialized with an official library and museum.
The recognition that comes with housing a presidential library was evident in June, when tens of
thousands of people visited the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum to pay their final
respects and millions watched his funeral and related events on television. Several Texas university and
city officials said the spotlight on the Simi Valley, Calif., library has re-energized them about promoting
their potential sites.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/city/parkcities/stories/070704dnparlibrary.7c70e.html (
Journal-Advocate
Historian fills gaps in battle story
By BEATA MOSTAFAVI, Journal-Advocate Staff Writer
He could almost hear her calling out to him.
On that hot June day six years ago, something about the tiny, obscure,
plaque hidden by overgrown weeds bearing only the woman's last name
captivated Jeff Broome.
The historian was standing on the spot where a band of Native Americans
and American cavalry crossed paths in a bloody battle more than a century
ago. Atop a small rising slope, bordering marshland, a sea of grass and
crater-pink canyons, was the unmarked grave of 29-year-old Susanna
Alderice.
http://www.journal-advocate.com/Stories/0,1413,120~7824~2255954,00.html (
Los Angeles Times
Keeping things well preserved
Goddard came to Costa Mesa late but has been great as an archivist for the
Historical Society.
Jimmy Stroup, Special to the Daily Pilot
As a long-time volunteer for the Costa Mesa Historical
Society, Mary Ellen Goddard has become one of the
foremost experts on Newport-Mesa history ever to come
out of ... Iowa.
After moving to Costa Mesa in 1977, armed with a
degree in history and a fondness for finding and caring
for historical pieces, Goddard volunteered for the
historical society in her spare time, while her children
were in school.
"The reason I volunteer, or started to volunteer in the first
place, is because I have an interest in local history," she
said.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/pilot/features/la-dpt-goodcause07jul07,1,4506257.story?coll=la-tcn-pilot-features
Oceana’s Herald Journal
Museum registrar shares methods with local
historical society group
By Mary Sanford, Herald-Journal Editor July 07, 2004
MEARS - Artifacts are constantly being donated to the
Oceana County Historical and Genealogical Society (OCHGS)
and members want to make sure they can take care of the
pieces of history left in their care.
To help with that charge, several historical society members
spent a day last month with Becky Fitzgerald, registrar, with
the Muskegon County Museum.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=12249103&BRD=2051&PAG=461&dept_id=430588&rfi=6
Rocky Mountain News
Zappa archives come to light
By Jonathan Cohen, Billboard.Com
July 6, 2004
NEW YORK - The doors to Frank Zappa's vault will be blown wide
open via a new series of archival releases under the moniker Joe's
Corsage, a nod to both Zappa's 1979 album Joe's Garage and
Zappa archivist Joe Travers.
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/music/article/0,1299,DRMN_54_3014281,00.html (
CIO
COMPLIANCE
The Sarbox Conspiracy
Sarbanes-Oxley compliance efforts are eating up CIO time and budgets. Worse, CIOs are
being relegated to a purely tactical role. And that may be the CFO's plan.
BY CHRISTOPHER KOCH
When CIOs began installing ERP systems
in the '80s and '90s, they unwittingly
took something that used to belong to
CFOs: financial controls. The things that
accountants used to monitor
manually—such as making sure that two
signatures from the right people went on
every check, or reconciling purchase
orders against invoices—all became
automated inside ERP systems. The
meticulous audit trail that controllers and
accountants had established over
generations for demonstrating that
money was being handled properly (think
of black, leather-bound ledgers and long
ribbons of adding machine paper)
disappeared into those ERP systems
without a trace—or at least without being
properly documented, and certainly not
to the extent now required by the 2002
Sarbanes-Oxley Act, a.k.a. Sarbox.
http://www.cio.com/archive/070104/sarbox.html
Wall Street Journal
Forensic Evidence
Of the Holocaust
Must Be Preserved
By TIMOTHY RYBACK
July 7, 2004; Page D10
Last month, Jarek Mensfelt, spokesman for the Auschwitz memorial
site, announced plans to preserve the ruins of the gas chambers and
crematoria in the notorious death camp at Birkenau near the Polish
town of Oswiecim. "This is an attempt to keep it as it is now -- in ruins
-- but not let the ruins go," he said. "It was meant to be here forever as a
warning."
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB108914879023756502,00.html? (
HNS
Are You Prepared For Disaster? Is Your Data Really Protected?
by Ian Apps - Product Manager for EMEA at Plasmon Data - Wednesday, 7 July
2004.
Whether it be hurricane, flood, fire or simply a member of staff accidentally hitting
the delete key, your company’s data is constantly at risk from being permanently
wiped out. Companies need to ask themselves, ‘Do we have the strategy in
place to cope with a disaster?’ The need to store, back-up, archive and retrieve
both current and archived data is growing rapidly as companies get bigger and
investment in IT increases.
http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=708
FCW
Group suggests ways to promote records management
BY Sara Michael
July 6, 2004
Enhanced training programs will promote the integration of records management into
agencies' processes, according to a report on barriers to effective governmentwide
records management.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0705/web-records-07-06-04.asp (
Reality IT: The Harsh Reality of Disaster Recovery
Our Own Worst Enemy
When a trigger-happy CFO crashes the backup systems, one IT team learns some tough lessons about proper disaster-recovery
planning -- or lack thereof.
Jul 8, 2004 | By Hunter Metatek
The problem with disaster-recovery technology is that you need a real disaster to test
it fully and properly. Recently, one of our top executives here at ACME solved that
problem for us--he unintentionally created a real live disaster.
http://www.nwc.com/showitem.jhtml?docid=1513colrit
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Superior Court clerk faces, rebuts criticism
By BETH WARREN
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 07/07/04
Nearly three years ago, Lewis Pittman started drumming up support — and dollars
— for an attempt to pull off a political upset in Fulton County.
The Midtown resident is trying to oust Fulton County Superior Court Clerk Juanita
Hicks in the July 20 primary. Hicks, 55, has held the job for 16 years.
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/atlanta/0704/08judges.html
Tribune-Star
Plan to move documents from courthouse stalled
By Howard Greninger/Tribune-Star
July 7, 2004
A plan to remove more than 60 tons of paper documents from the fifth floor
of the Vigo County Courthouse remains on hold until county officials can find
a temporary storage area.
http://www.tribstar.com/articles/2004/07/07/news/news05.txt
Cincinnati Post
Court sanctions sought against city
Suit: Records were destroyed
By Kevin Osborne
Post staff reporter
A former investigator who is suing the city of Cincinnati is seeking court
sanctions, alleging recent depositions prove municipal officials destroyed
large portions of her case files that would prove her claims and might
implicate an ex-city manager or others.
http://www.cincypost.com/2004/07/07/omi070704.html
icCoventry
Past literally in hands of experts
Jul 7 2004
Archaeologists who have been digging up part of Coventry's past have
uncovered medieval treasures dating back to the 13th century.
The 25square metre excavation site, situated behind the Phoenix pub
(formerly the Sir Colin Campbell) in Whitefriars Street, city centre, will
have flats built on it soon.
http://iccoventry.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100localnews/tm_objectid=14401035&method=full&siteid=50003&headline=past-literally-in-hands-of-experts-name_page.html
http://snipurl.com/7lfj
United Kingdom: Freedom of Information - Will Public Authorities Be Able
to Copy Copyright Documents When Responding to Requests?
07 July 2004
Article by Richard Best, Ashurst*
The Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") was enacted in
November 2000. However, its most important provision - the
personal right of access to information held by public authorities -
does not come into force until January 2005. When that day
comes the current non-statutory rules on access to publicly held
information, contained in the Code of Practice on Access to
Government Information, will be replaced by a far-reaching and
comprehensive statutory regime. Information is defined broadly
("information recorded in any form") and requests may be made
to public authorities by individuals, companies and even those
living abroad. Companies dealing with or otherwise providing
information to public authorities may be affected by the changes
to the extent that:
http://www.mondaq.com/i_article.asp_Q_articleid_E_27151 (
Lansing State Journal
Published July 07, 2004
Libraries refuse request to release names of
patrons
http://www.lsj.com/news/local/040707_lawclerk_1b.html
WAVE3
Medical Records Found Outside Vacant Nursing Home
By David McArthur
(LOUISVILLE, Ky., July 6, 2004, 10 p.m.) -- Some called it a buffet
for identity thieves -- and the victims didn't even know they were on
the menu. WAVE News got a call Tuesday from upset residents in a
south Louisville neighborhood where confidential nursing home
records were blowing in the wind. As David McArthur reports, the buffet
is now closed, but how it happened is still unclear.
http://www.wave3.com/Global/story.asp?S=2004581&nav=0RZFOVWP
CIO
Operation Clean Data
Cleaning dirty data is not just a matter of mastering the technical challenges. It requires
making sure your staff is working closely with the business every step of the way.
http://www.cio.com/archive/070104/data.html?printversion=yes (
DARWIN
When Data Is More than Mission Critical
For the Make-A-Wish Foundation, it's nothing less than hopes and dreams.
http://www.darwinmag.com/read/060104/makeawish.html
Will data grow old gracefully?
New automated systems promise to help firms comply with data retention rules, but who will be responsible for
errors?
Having spent a few days recently with the storage folks at both EMC and HP, it seems we are set for
another sea change in the way we manage data storage systems. They pointed out that new corporate
governance laws mean directors of publicly traded firms might go to jail if their firms' break the rules.
http://www.vnunet.com/comment/1156485
Business Week
A Paperless Health-Care
System?
At some hospitals, like Evanston North in
Illinois, digital records are saving money and
possibly lives. It's the start of an IT boom
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jul2004/tc2004077_8164_tc_171.htm
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Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Richmond, Va
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