TISCH, Thirteen to research storage of digital archives
Washington Square News - New York,NY,United States
by Ryan Hagen. The Tisch School of the Arts has joined Thirteen/WNET television
in a $3 million project that will set standards for ...
<http://www.nyunews.com/news/campus/8184.html>


FIRST step of Vigo County Courthouse's $8.5M renovation to begin ...
Terre Haute Tribune Star - Terre Haute,IN,USA
... Kimmel will oversee the moving of county records, installing computers
and scanning to copy records. ... to relocate the county records. ...
<http://www.tribstar.com/articles/2004/11/02/news/news06.txt>


METROFILE reduces risk with secure, confidential record ...
ITWeb - South Africa
... after four months. In August, Metrofile recorded a weight of 26.5 tons
of collected and destroyed documents. The company currently ...
<http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/enterprise/2004/0411020806.asp?A=DRE&S=Business%20recovery&O=FPIN>


TREASURING our cultural heritage
Scoop.co.nz (press release) - New Zealand
... Hon Marian Hobbs) of the Public Records Bill, which will repeal the
Archives Act 1957 ... by the Bill is an enhanced role for the Chief Archivist
in facilitating ...
<http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0411/S00060.htm>


AUDITOR Pleads on Document Cover-up
CFO.com Magazine - New York,NY,USA
... In fact, when Trauger was first charged about a year ago, his was one
of the first cases of document destruction brought under the Sarbanes-Oxley
Act. ...
<http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/3350713/c_3350738?f=home_todayinfinance>


FEDERAL case files go online
AL.com - Mobile,AL,USA
... to remote access to criminal documents," the new ... to the commercialization
of public records as a reason to restrict personal information from criminal
files. ...
<http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/1099390666228220.xml>


INDIANA Open Records Audit Finds Improvement but Still Trouble
OMB Watch - United States
... types of documents -- crime logs and incident reports, a list of public
employees' salaries, and court files of sex offenders. Under Indiana's
open records law ...
<http://www.ombwatch.org/article/articleview/2501/1/1?TopicID=1>


WIPED records leave tax shambles
This is London - London,England,UK
... the work carried out by the Inland Revenue on the deletion of taxpayers'
records. ... How an organisation can be so sloppy to accidentally delete
potentially large ...
<http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/business/articles/timid84181?source=&ct=5>


INTERNATIONAL Meeting on UNESCO's Slave Trade Archives Project
ONU (Communiqués de presse) - New York,NY,USA
Meeting of archivists from 11 countries to discuss perspectives for the
consolidation and extension of UNESCO's Slave Trade Archives Project,
an initiative ...
<http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=17440&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html>


CONGRESS urges action against identity theft
Foster's Daily Democrat - Dover,NH,United States
... "Perhaps the most important step we can take in preventing SSN misuse
is to limit the SSN's easy availability on public documents, and even
in electronic ...
<http://www.fosters.com/november_2004/11.02.04/news/bu_1102e.asp>


MAIN Line trial begins
Pascagoula Mississippi Press - Pascagoula,MS,USA
... failed to complete the county's records management project, attorneys
for the company said Monday. Jackson County is suing Main ...
<http://www.gulflive.com/news/mississippipress/index.ssf?/base/news/1099394169159450.xml>


Wired News, Tue, 02 Nov 2004 9:37 AM PST
Reports of Muddled E-Voting http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65571,00.html?tw=rss.TOP
Although the sky hasn't fallen, problems are already surfacing with electronic voting at polling places around the country. The real problem may come after the election, with legal challenges and charges of voter fraud.


Washington Square News, Mon, 01 Nov 2004 11:15 PM PST
Washington Square News http://www.washingtonsquarenews.com/news/campus/8182.html
The Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York has awarded the Downtown Collection of the Fales Library and Special Collections at Bobst Library the 2004 Award for Innovative Use of Archives, NYU announced last week.


GovExec.com, Tue, 02 Nov 2004 2:14 PM PST
DAILY BRIEFING http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1104/110204p1.htm
Future federal government policy for electronic records management may include a Federal Records Council that would support agencies' efforts to implement the 2002 E-Government Act.


Daily Bulletin, Tue, 02 Nov 2004 0:25 AM PST
Utility denies records access, claims security concerns http://www.dailybulletin.com/Stories/0,1413,203~21481~2506834,00.html
SAN ANTONIO HEIGHTS -- A man seeking information about a water-rate increase is taking the battle to the state attorney general after he was denieed information on security and privacy grounds.


Honolulu Advertiser
Librarians rush to salvage flood-damaged
items
Lynn Davis stood in a muddy field with a garden hose and gently washed down
a 200-year-old map of the Sandwich Islands.
Mabel Suzuki carefully rinsed off rare aerial
photographs of remote Micronesian islands and
hung them to dry on a piece of string, using
hastily purchased clothespins from Costco.
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2004/Nov/02/ln/ln29p.html

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2004/Nov/02/ln/ln25p.html

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2004/Nov/02/ln/floodgallery.html

Map
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/dailypix/2004/Nov/02/ln27map.gif


GOVERNMENT of Canada Introduces Legislation to Enable Access to ...
Industry Canada (press release) - Ottawa,Ontario,Canada
... to and including 1901 were not taken with a statutory guarantee of
confidentiality and were made available to the public through the National
Archives 92 years ...
<http://www.ic.gc.ca/cmb/welcomeic.nsf/0/85256a5d006b972085256f400061c5da?OpenDocument>


NZ should save all moving images
Scoop.co.nz (press release) - New Zealand
The former Director of the Moving Image and Sound Archives Division of
the National Archives of Canada, and author of the international audiovisual
archiving ...
< http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/CU0411/S00027.htm>





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Richmond, Va
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