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New York Times, Mon, 30 May 2005 6:40 PM PDT
'Kodak, Don't Take My Kodachrome'
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/31/movies/31koda.html
Paul Simon sang about it. Film students shot on it. Now, advocates are
signing up to save Kodachrome, or at least its Super 8 motion-picture 
version,
a 1965 technology that the Eastman Kodak Company would very much like 
to do
without.

The Charleston Gazette, Mon, 30 May 2005 10:07 PM PDT
On the records http://www.wvgazette.com/section/Today/2005053012
The Wise papers just came over. Four years of accumulated records have
arrived from the administration of Gov. Bob Wise, who left office in 
January.
Compact discs and hard drives arrived from Wise s office as well, said 
Fred
Armstrong, the State Archives director.

SIDEBAR: Know the Rules and Regulations of the E-records Game
ComputerWorld - USA
MAY 30, 2005 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Electronic records are legal evidence of
business transactions. Legal adversaries, regulatory inspectors ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/legalissues/story/0,10801,102044,00.html>

SIDEBAR: Six Tips for Handling e-Records
ComputerWorld - USA
MAY 30, 2005 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Jane Connerton, corporate records manager
at Proctor & Gamble, recently oversaw the establishment of e-records 
guidelines
and is 
<http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/legalissues/story/0,10801,102039,00.html>

RECORD Risks
ComputerWorld - USA
... Despite renewed attention to e-records management, however, many 
organizations
still lack automated systems to efficiently process all e-records 
requested
...<http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/legalissues/story/0,10801,102035,00.html>


MCKESSON'S E-Health Gambit
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
... from more automation is Concord Hospital, a 295-bed, $450 
million-a-year
facility in Concord, NH Concord expects to complete an E-records project
with McKesson ...
<http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=163701619&tid=5979>

SURVEY tests openness of district courts' files
Patriot-News - Harrisburg,PA,USA
... Newly elected district judges are told in training that their entire
files are public records, and that they must provide photocopies, said
Bob Hessler of the ...
<http://www.pennlive.com/news/patriotnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1117531213129000.xml&coll=1>

GOING Digital
Government Technology - Folsom,CA,USA
... done, he had compiled and sent out about 10 different paper case 
files
on the ... audio tapes and video tapes of witnesses and suspects, to 
phone
records and any ...
<http://www.govtech.net/magazine/story.php?id=94102>

WORLD turning to software VA shuns
St. Petersburg Times - St. Petersburg,FL,USA
... showed that nearly five of six doctors run their offices on 
handwritten
notes and paper files. When patients go from doctor to doctor, paper 
records
often get ...
<http://www.sptimes.com/2005/05/31/Worldandnation/World_turning_to_soft.shtml>

SECURITY and privacy take center stage
Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
... the backup tapes with the names and Social Security numbers of 
600,000
current and former employees lost after the tapes were misplaced by Iron
Mountain Inc. ...
<http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/local/sfl-zprivacy31may31,0,2512512.story?coll=sfla-business-headlines>

ANDERSEN conviction overturned
CNN - USA
... The company defended its document retention policy as necessary 
financial
housekeeping, and denied shredding files to block a future 
investigation.
<http://money.cnn.com/2005/05/31/news/midcaps/scandal_andersen_scotus/>

PRIVACY alert: every patient on database
Sydney Morning Herald (subscription) - New South Wales,Australia
The medical records of every person in NSW will be held on a central 
electronic
database - and patients will no longer have the right to choose whether
this ...
<http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Privacy-alert-every-patient-on-database/2005/05/31/1117305622687.html>

TECHNOLOGY subject to public-records laws
San Bernardino Sun - San Bernardino,CA,USA
By Megan Blaney, Staff Writer. The laws governing public records and 
public
meetings also include BlackBerry messages and phone calls. ...
<http://www.sbsun.com/Stories/0,1413,208~12588~2895978,00.html>

SORRY, can't give you those public records
Globe and Mail - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Canada's information culture is truly backward. A team of 89 reporters
from 45 newspapers blitzed federal and local government offices ...
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050531/ESECRECY31/TPComment/Editorials>

SECRET world of industrial espionage
BBC News - UK
... Lockheed Martin said Boeing had acquired thousands of confidential
documents relating to its bid for a $2bn (£1.1bn) military rocket 
programme
in 1998. ...
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4595745.stm>

ISRAELI police uncover Trojan industrial spy ring
ComputerWorld - USA
... The program appears to have been effective at stealing confidential
documents from targeted companies, as well as monitoring activity on 
infected
machines. ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,102141,00.html>

LOCAL Archivist Inaugural Winner of Mayor's Award
Halifax Live - Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada
(Monday, May 30, 2005) --A Halifax resident is the inaugural winner of
the first Mayor's Award for Outstanding Contribution by an Individual
to a Museum or ...
<http://www.halifaxlive.com/artman/publish/award_300505_1230.shtml>


HISTORY Room looks for help
Kalamazoo Gazette - Kalamazoo,MI,USA
... and housed elsewhere in the archives -- is a favorite example of her
Catholic order's heritage, said Sister Marilyn Sullivan, curator and 
archivist
of the 
...<http://www.mlive.com/news/kzgazette/index.ssf?/base/news-13/111755281950660.xml>

ON the records
Charleston Gazette - Charleston,WV,USA
... Mr. Miller was to take the negative. In 1911, the state adjutant 
general
sent over Civil War records to Virgil Lewis, the first state archivist.
...<http://wvgazette.com/section/Today/2005053012>

SHOW Clio the Money!
Inside Higher Ed - Washington,DC,USA
... in Washington by the National Coalition on History, representing the
interests of more than 70 professional organizations for historians and
archivists. ...
<http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2005/05/31/mclemee>

ANDERSEN Conviction Overturned by US Supreme Court (Update4)
Bloomberg - USA
... Andersen said firm officials, including in-house attorney Nancy 
Temple,
merely reminded employees of its longstanding ``document-retention 
policy.''
That ...
<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=aOsZeaWyib78&refer=top_world_news>

GOVERNMENT'S openness on information: Ombudsman makes final report
PublicTechnology.net - UK
... for it. From January 2005 the Freedom of Information Act 2000 came
fully into force superseding the non-statutory Code. The report ...
<http://www.publictechnology.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2983>

OFFICIALS seek better notice on data theft
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA
... Bank of America alerted customers about the missing data tapes even
though it said law enforcement determined that the data likely had been
lost, not stolen or ...
<http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2005/05/31/officials_seek_better_notice_on_data_theft>


STOLEN computer contains credit card data for 80,000 US government ...
Finextra - UK
... Furthermore, in December last year Bank of America "lost" computer
tapes containing charge card account information for 1.2 million 
government
card holders ...
<http://www.finextra.com/fullstory.asp?id=13748>

SUPREME Court Unanimously Overturns Andersen Conviction
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... were deleted. The document shredding ended on Nov. 9, when the SEC
formally requested Andersen's records related to Enron. In March ...
<http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-053105scotus_lat,0,5154732.story?coll=la-home-headlines>

NEW disposal rule for consumer data kick in
SC Magazine - London,UK
... of reasonable measures, including implementing burning, pulverizing
or shredding policies to ... The definition also applies to compilations
of consumer records.
<http://www.scmagazine.com/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=newsDetails&newsUID=4ef7018e-198c-4170-9dcd-bfe3bda211a2&newsType=News>

Washington Post, Tue, 31 May 2005 4:54 AM PDT
Imaging Technology Makes Ancient Text Readable
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/29/AR2005052900811.html?nav=rss_technology
Two thousand years ago, Oxyrhynchus, "city of the sharp-nosed fish,"
was a provincial capital in central Egypt populated by the well-educated
descendants of Greek settlers. It had an 11,000-seat theater, a 
religious cult
dedicated to the city's namesake -- and a municipal dump on the 
outskirts of...

Deutsche Welle, Mon, 30 May 2005 11:15 PM PDT
Files Could Shed New Light on East German Spies
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,915181,00.html
Just a number and a card -- the highly sensitive Rosewood files on
former East German spies have arrived in Germany from the U.S. The CIA 
recently
handed over sensitive files that name thousands of former East German 
secret
service agents to Germany.

COURIER archives online
Catholic Courier - Rochester,NY,USA
By Rob Cullivan/Catholic Courier. If you're interested in past articles
from the Catholic Courier, you now can find many of them ...
<http://www.catholiccourier.com/tmp1.cfm?nid=78&articleid=65499>

CALLAHAN donates papers for research
Kentucky Post - Covington,KY,USA
... House of Representatives, including nine as majority caucus chair,
will donate his career papers to the school's Schlachter Family 
Archives,
making them ...
<http://news.kypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050531/NEWS02/505310363/1014>

LIBRARY opens archive doors
Pioneer Times - Wayne,NJ,USA
... been an archivist for WPU for 16 years, as well as special 
collections
librarian to the Cheng Library and a member of the University Archives
Committee, which ...
<http://www.pioneertimeswpu.com/news/2005/05/17/CampusNews/Library.Opens.Archive.Doors-951040.shtml>




Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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