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PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance, Thu, 10 Feb 2005 3:01 AM PST
Isilon Clustered Storage Provides Densho With Unmatched Ability to 
Collect,
Share and Preserve Digital History 
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050210/sfth033_1.html
Isilon Systems, the premier provider of intelligent clustered storage 
for
digital content, and Densho today announced that Densho has selected 
Isilon's
award-winning Isilon IQ clustered storage for capturing, preserving and
providing immediate access to visual histories of those affected by 
World War II
incarceration.


Galveston County Daily News, Tue, 08 Feb 2005 9:54 PM PST
Documents trace history of church, island 
http://www.galvnews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=e3dd8d120e093452
GALVESTON First Presbyterian Church of Galveston has been around since 
1840, and
much of the church s long history was documented by its members. That 
collection
of memorabilia has been turned over to the Rosenberg Library to be kept 
with
other Galveston artifacts.


Democracy Now!, Tue, 08 Feb 2005 7:06 AM PST
Copyright Issues Block Future Broadcast of Award-Winning Civil Rights
Documentary "Eyes on the Prize" 
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/08/1459207
"This is analogous to stopping the circulation of all the books about 
Martin
Luther King, stopping the circulation of all the books about Malcolm 
X," said
Lawrence Guyot, a prominent civil rights leader with the Mississippi 
Freedom
Democratic Party.


Pioneer Press, Thu, 10 Feb 2005 3:25 AM PST
California missions 
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/nation/10864127.htm
To visitors, Mission San Juan Bautista is a historical and 
architectural feast
for the eyes. For the mice who have been nibbling at its rich 
collection of
books, maps and paintings, it's more like a smorgasbord.


New York Times
Scientists at Xerox Research Center Europe are adding
document scanning to the cellphone's functions.
http://tech.nytimes.com/2005/02/10/technology/circuits/10next.html?8cir


HAS Shredding Documents Become A Necessity
KTRE - Lufkin,TX,USA
They call it "Mobile Document Destruction." A shredder on wheels, 
capable
of handling thousands of pounds worth of documents. Larry ...
<http://www.ktre.com/Global/story.asp?S=2926680&nav=2FH5WCCI>


TOBACCO body's 'trash tactics'
Age (subscription) - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... The document retention policy was primarily a document destruction
policy designed to make sure that potential guns were destroyed.". ...
<http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Tobacco-bodys-trash-tactics/2005/02/10/1107890345799.html>

ACCESS to public records in neighboring states similar
Kentucky Post - Covington,KY,USA
LOUISVILLE -- Public records audits done in Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio and
Tennessee during the past year showed similar results with two notable
exceptions ...
<http://www.kypost.com/2005/02/10/open-b02-10-2005.html>

ATTORNEY general visits to train city on public records law
Marietta Times - Marietta,OH,USA
Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro will visit Marietta next week to host 
the
last of a series of statewide forums on public records law, which state
legislators ...
<http://www.mariettatimes.com/news/story/0210202005_new05public.asp>

OPEN records audit results parallel those in neighboring states
Cincinnati Enquirer - Cincinnati,OH,USA
By Henry S. Ackerman. LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Public records audits done in 
Kentucky,
Indiana, Ohio and ... Statewide public records audits have been on the
rise. ...
<http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050210/NEWS0103/502080302/1077/NEWS01>


VICTORIA misleading British Columbians about protecting privacy ...
BCGEU - Canada
... when it claims the privacy of British Columbian's sensitive 
financial
information is protected in a controversial records management 
privatization
deal it ...<http://www.bcgeu.ca/2733>


VOTER logbooks out of whack
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Milwaukee,WI,USA
... those revealed when the newspaper compared the number of votes 
counted
in each ward to the number of people listed in the city's computer 
records
as having ...
<http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/feb05/300449.asp>

FREEDOM Now! Mississippi Freedom Movement Archives on the Web
Newswise (press release) - USA
Newswise -- In 1964, against a backdrop of racist violence and murder,
Brown University and Tougaloo College, of Jackson, Miss., forged an 
extraordinary
...<http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/509774/>

NATIONAL Archives Opens New Southeast Region Records Center ...
U.S. Newswire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
10 /US Newswire/ -- The National Archives and Records Administration 
(NARA)
will officially open its new, award-winning Southeast Region records 
center
...<http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=42944>

HOWARD Hughes FBI Files Published by PaperlessArchives.com
Emediawire (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
Howard Hughes FBI files available to the public. Paperless Archives has
announced the publishing of 2,285 pages of Howard Hughes FBI files. ...
<http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2005/2/emw207379.htm>

OFFICES asked for identification
Kentucky.com - Lexington,KY,USA
... Daugherty said. With Seaborne not available, Daugherty left a 
written
open-records request and headed home to Marion County. Within ...
<http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/special_packages/open_records_project/10861497.htm>

PRIVACY is priority with medical records clerks
San Luis Obispo Tribune - San Luis Obispo,CA,USA
The Morro Bay woman is a medical records technician at the Family and 
Industrial
Medical Center in San Luis Obispo. Before that, Grover ...
<http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/business/10864055.htm>

CHRONICLING 350 years of Jewish-American life
Cincinnati Post - OH,USA
... for Commemorating 350 Years of Jewish American History, whose member
organizations consist of the Library of Congress, the National Archives
and Records ...
<http://www.cincypost.com/2005/02/10/haven021005.html>

WORST CLASS EMAIL
Mirror.co.uk - UK
... highlighted the shock claim that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein could
deploy his weapons of mass destruction in 45 minutes. Campbell's email
ruined government ...
<http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/tm_objectid=15172582&method=full&siteid=50143&headline=worst-class-email-name_page.html>

MAJOR Urges Moratorium on Release of Government Papers
Scotsman - UK
... Labour has been accused of abusing the new Freedom of Information 
Act
to dig dirt on Tory leader Michael Howard's time in the Major 
government.
...<http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4114574>

DOUG Moe: Frenzied fight for Wright rarities
The Capital Times - Madison,WI,USA
HELMUT KNIES, acquisitions archivist at the Wisconsin Historical 
Society,
flew to Alabama on Wednesday to escort the rare photos of Frank Lloyd
Wright's ...
<http://www.madison.com/tct/news/stories/index.php?ntid=28026&ntpid=0>

MEASURE restricting open-records laws passes House
Savannah Morning News - Savannah,GA,USA
Stephens says the measure will protect the state's "economic playbook"
while the critics say the public would be left in the dark about 
construction
projects. ...
<http://www.savannahnow.com/stories/020905/2786574.shtml>

PIPE bursts in State Office Building
Juneau Empire - Juneau,AK,USA
A 2-inch-wide pipe burst in the ceiling over the Alaska State Library 
early
Wednesday, with water raining down on government books and documents.
...
<http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/021005/loc_20050210001.shtml>


NEW system upsets PG man
Monterey County Herald - Monterey,CA,USA
... For the past 15 years, Gary Baley has sold information gleaned from
scanning hundreds of deeds, liens and other documents filed daily with
the Recorder's ...
<http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/10863926.htm>

TOBACCO industry combed garbage
NEWS.com.au - Australia
... Mr Welch said the acquisition of documents from key opponents was 
the
flipside of the tobacco companies' "document retention" policy, which
involved the ...
<http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12214877-1242,00.html>

JOHANNES Scholtes, CEO of ZyLAB North America
Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal - Fairfield,NJ,USA
... solution, integrated with standard records management practices ...
through e-mail, paperwork and electronic files. ... associated with 
filing
documents and ultimately ...
<http://www.s-ox.com/resources/roundtable/2004.1/detail.cfm?RoundID=41.>

DISPUTED World War II Documents Sold
Maine Antique Digest - Waldoboro,ME,USA
World War II documents, including files from the ... Records from the 
estate
of the late Dr. Robert MW Kempner, an assistant prosecutor at a 
Nuremberg
...
<http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/articles/mar05/nazi0305.htm>

DENYING the public access to information a danger to democracy
New Utah - American Fork,UT,USA
... pay the $400,000 for the cost of searching its files. ... exempt 
massive
amounts of government records from public ... of thousands of pages of
documents about the ...
<http://www.newutah.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=47400&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0>

New York Times 2/10/05
In Computer Years, Apollo Replica's an Antique
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/10/technology/circuits/10apol.html


ITCI
The Good-Intention Gap: Records Management Realities
A “credibility gap” between the good intentions of organizations and 
what
employees actually do highlights critical flaws in 
information-management.
By Mathew Schwartz
Are regulated organizations effectively managing their records?
To answer this question, the Association for Information and Image 
Management
(AIIM International), based in Silver Springs, Md., asked another: What 
constitutes
effective information-management compliance?
<http://www.itcinstitute.com/display.aspx?ID=139>

PRESIDENTIAL Library For Buchanan May Be Created
WGAL Channel.com - Lancaster,PA,USA
The foundation has hired Patrick Clarke, the man who coordinated the 
creation
of Woodrow Wilson's presidential library in Virginia, to oversee the 
project.
...<http://www.thewgalchannel.com/family/4186586/detail.html>

UT Regents propose bid for Bush Library
Denton Record Chronicle (subscription) - Denton,TX,USA
The eyes of the University of Texas System are on getting the next 
presidential
library and archives, its board of regents announced Thursday. ...
<http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D885V6101.html>

ALL'S quiet in the library
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
Fewer visitors than expected have dropped by the much-ballyhooed, $165
million Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Ark., since its 
November
gala ...<http://washingtontimes.com/national/20050210-123413-3608r.htm>




Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Richmond, Va
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