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Purdue Exponent, Sun, 12 Jun 2005 2:53 PM PDT
Artifacts are part of Purdue's history
<<http://www.purdueexponent.org/interface/bebop/showstory.php?date 
05/06/12&sectionÊmpus&storyid=specialcollections>>
John Purdue's death mask and Amelia Earhart's Abercrombie clothes are
just a small part of Purdue history. They are in Purdue's library. "We 
have a
large variety of things," said Sammie Morris, special collections 
archivist
for Purdue.

LAPTOP stolen; state fears ID theft
Sacramento Bee (subscription) - Sacramento,CA,USA
... Department of Health Services officials said they began sending 
letters
to the Medi-Cal beneficiaries this week after the laptop was stolen 
April
15 from the ...
<http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/12968265p-13815437c.html>

STOLEN laptop's software may have caught thief
Toledo Blade - Toledo,OH,USA
... Tina Thompson, a district sales coordinator for AFLAC, said she 
found
her first-floor office had been broken into and her company laptop 
stolen
when she ...
<http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050514/NEWS03/505140408/-1/NEWS>

SEAGATE Adds Encryption To Laptop Drive
CXOToday.com - Mumbai,India
... with sensitive personal and business information continue to rise,
with companies incurring millions of dollars of losses in lost or stolen
trade secrets and ...
<http://www.cxotoday.com/cxo/jsp/article.jsp?article_idC27&cat_id‘0>

KOMANDO: There are many ways to keep your laptop from straying ...
Shreveport Times - Shreveport,LA,USA
... It sells for $55. You also need tools to help recover a stolen 
laptop.
... If the laptop is stolen, the company helps police locate it. ...
<http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050613/NEWS05/506130306/1064>


CANTON to ask state police to probe theft of laptop
Peoria Journal Star - Peoria,IL,USA
... According to police reports, Bohler reported the laptop stolen on 
July
7 of last year. Bohler told police the computer had been ...
<http://www.pjstar.com/stories/060805/REG_B6L4LDRF.033.shtml>

DOCTORS examine merits of electronic records
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA
By ANNE BELLI. Relaxing by the pool two weekends ago, Dr. Frank Smart 
decided
to check in on a patient who had received a heart transplant four days
earlier. ...
<http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3222455>

IRON Mountain Establishes Digital Business Unit Upon Completion of ...
PR Newswire (press release) - USA
... The e-records management solutions include Digital Archives, an 
outsourced
electronic records management service for secure, legally compliant and
cost ...
<http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT9&STORY=/www/story/06-13-2005/0003867994&EDATE=>

DISASTER recovery options for legal firm file servers
ZDNet UK - UK
... Document retention and protection is now a vital part of the 
regulatory
requirements governing publicly traded companies. There's ...
<http://insight.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/servers/0,39020445,39203518,00.htm>

13.06.2005 / The City of Villach counts on electronic record ...
SAP INFO - Mannheim,Germany
... To simplify, accelerate, and make these administrative processes 
more
economical, the city of Villach implemented the records management 
capability
of SAP for ...
<http://www.sapinfo.net/public/en/index.php4/article/Article-2993642a843f88682f/en>

IRON Mountain Launches Compliant Records Management Program
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
Rising records storage costs, expanding e-discovery risks and expenses,
and escalating compliance pressures make Compliant Records Management
programs high ...
<http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050613/nem021.html?.v>


COMPANY seeks relief from records request
South Bend Tribune - South Bend,IN,USA
By MATTHEW S. GALBRAITH. SOUTH BEND -- Howmet Corp. is crying foul over
a federal subpoena that seeks extensive records in connection ...
<http://www.southbendtribune.com/stories/2005/06/13/local.20050613-sbt-MICH-B3-Company_seeks_relief.sto>

HISTORIAN Outflanks Archives Swindler
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA
... Gettysburg historian Wayne E. Motts will be honored at the National
Archives for alerting authorities to a stolen 1861 military letter he
spotted on eBay. 
...<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/12/AR2005061201248.html>

UNITED archives' future up in air
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
... United's archives, housed in a temperature-controlled vault in the
basement of the airline's headquarters in Elk Grove Township, Ill., 
contain
documents and ...
<http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_2798433>

LOCAL businessman turns to technology to create paperless office
Great Falls Tribune - Great Falls,MT,USA
... president of the Big Sky Chapter of the Association of Records 
Managers
and ... only 5 to 8 percent of organizations say they are digitally 
scanning
files, but the ...
<http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050613/BUSINESS/506130316/1046>

THE Changing World of Electronic Evidence
Boardmember.com - Brentwood,TN,USA
... way to send a company scrambling to retrieve backup e-mail files 
from
the ... If shredding documents and deleting e-mails seems far removed
from the boardroom, it ...
<http://www.boardmember.com/issues/archive.pl?article_id223>

PHOTOS depict life in Pa. logging town
Press & Sun-Bulletin - Binghamton,NY,USA
... the Barden family. Littell and Ostman also traveled to the 
Pennsylvania
State Archives and found similar photographs from Clarke.
<http://www.pressconnects.com/today/news/stories/ne061305s172230.shtml>


'LOST' time capsule now safely hidden away
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Seattle,WA,USA
... "Thanks to the hard work of the Washington State Archives and 
General
Administration, we are fulfilling our obligation to the people who will
live in this ...
<http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/228229_gcenter13.html>

DEAR Sir: Your Data Was Stolen
Wired News - USA
... in May picked up a box of tapes containing the information so it 
could
deliver them to credit-reporting bureau Experian. Bank of America, 
Wachovia,
Time Warner ...
<http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,67811,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_5>

DATA losses push businesses to encrypt backup tapes
USA Today - USA
... Bank of America is eliminating backup tapes where possible, and 
transitioning
to computer-to-computer data transfer, spokeswoman Betty Riess says. ...
<http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/management/2005-06-13-encrypt-usat_x.htm>

IDENTITY thefts often inside job
Greensboro News Record - Greensboro,NC,USA
... In another high-profile case, Bank of America and Wachovia notified
100,000 ... started notifying 3.9 million customers that computer tapes
containing information ...
<http://www.news-record.com/news/local/id_safety_061305.htm>

IRON Mountain Keeps Truckin'
Byteandswitch.com - New York,NY,USA
... and shredders). In fact, that's what got it into hot water a couple
months back, when tapes from Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX - message ...
<http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_idu609&WT.svl=news1_1>




Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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