Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories 
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MUSTY documents reflect days of Boone and Clark
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - St. Louis,MO,USA
... "When we go through these, discoveries are going to be made for the
next several years," said Kenneth Winn, the state archivist of Missouri.
...
<http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stcharles/story/AA60CB
1FD29A26C28625709A001323BA?OpenDocument>

SALE Moves $6,318,720 Worth of American History
Maine Antique Digest - Waldoboro,ME,USA
... Karl Niederer, the state archivist who attended the sale, said that
acting Governor Richard Codey had authorized him to spend up to $1 
million
from a little ...
<http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/articles/oct05/snider1005.htm>

THE Exeter Bastard Files: To ease tax burden, Exeter once carted ...
North Kingstown Standard Times - North Kingstown,RI,USA
... The RIHS acquired the files and other information such as town 
meeting
minutes, treasurer bills, Justice Court papers, highway records and town
council/probate ...
<http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15373426&BRD=1715&PAG=461&dept
_id=73974&rfi=6>

DATA retention compromise mooted by EU Ministers
Register - London,England,UK
European Justice Ministers have agreed not to immediately force through
plans for an EU-wide data retention scheme, but opted to negotiate with
the European ...
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/14/outlaw_data_retention/>

NEW Law May Not Go Far Enough In Preventing ID Theft
WRAL.com - Raleigh,NC,USA
... of Deeds office," Craig Olive, of the Johnston County Register of 
Deeds,
said ... the removal of important numbers, such as Social Security 
numbers,
from documents. ...
<http://www.wral.com/news/5096996/detail.html>

STUMBO'S office: Fletcher, agencies broke records act
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville,KY,USA
... Ernie Fletcher and state agencies violated the Kentucky Open Records
Act by refusing to disclose billing details from lawyers hired to 
compile
subpoenaed ...
<http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051014/NEWS0
104/510140437/1008/NEWS01>

INFORMATION Empowerment
KanglaOnline - India
... In recent times, in many Western democracies that give its citizens
the right to information, unclassified public documents and deals made
by the government ...
<http://www.kanglaonline.com/index.php?template=headline&newsid=1098&type
id=0>

Anniston Star, Thu, 13 Oct 2005 10:45 PM PDT
An honor well deserved
http://www.annistonstar.com/opinion/2005/as-editorials-1014-editorial-5j1

3q3335.htm
Saturday the Alabama Department of Archives and History opened its new
WestWing. And the Board of Trustees announced that the wing would be 
named
for the Archives director, Dr. Ed Bridges.

IDG.se, Fri, 14 Oct 2005 7:18 AM PDT
Cleaning out the attic http://www.idg.se/ArticlePages/idgnet.asp?id=9295
Matt Decker, an IT manager at the National Nuclear Security
Administration, knew he couldn't continually add expensive high-end 
storage arrays to keep
up with the agency's 40 percent annual data growth rate. And manually 
deleting
recycle bins and temp files wasn't freeing up enough space.

CRM Knowledge Base, Fri, 14 Oct 2005 9:09 AM PDT
Spotlight on Technology : The Search Is Over ; Firm Lets You 'Google'
Corporate
Files http://crm.ittoolbox.com/news/dispnews.asp?i=134741&t=99
Imagine if you could Google your company's computer records. OK, so
it's not sky diving.

FILENET Capture Addresses Compliance Demands
EContent (press release) - Wilton,CT,USA
... This integration is designed to enable organizations to enforce 
records
management and compliance policies at the technology layer, helping to
eliminate user ...
<http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=1439

WHO Owns Content?
Line 56 News - USA
... an IT view of ECM might be divided into Web content management, 
digital
asset management, digital rights management, document management, and
records management ...
<http://www.line56.com/articles/default.asp?ArticleID=6985>


SECURING Data-In-Motion
Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal - Fairfield,NJ,USA
... communications are secure between multiple networking technologies
and operating system platforms for its proprietary patient records 
management
application. ...
<http://www.s-ox.com/news/detail.cfm?articleID=1149>

THE Pardon of Robert E. Lee
Newhouse News Service (NNS) - USA
... Inspired by the Civil War centennial, an archivist named Elmer O. 
Parker
... a cardboard box among State Department files in the National 
Archives
-- under "Virginia ...
<http://www.newhousenews.com/archive/Rios101405.html>

RICH history drives Latino dig
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - Rochester,NY,USA
... 33 surveys have been completed and sent to the New York State 
Archives
to be ... maps, posters, a lot of CDs," said Leatrice Kemp, RMSC 
librarian
and archivist. ...
<http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051014/
NEWS01/510140394/1002/NEWS>

FREEDOM of information coming
Cayman Net News - grand cayman,Cayman Islands
Legislation for the long awaited freedom of information act has recently
been proposed, and the Leader of Government, Business Hon Kurt Tibbetts
has announced ...
<http://caymannetnews.com/2005/10/945/information.shtml>

BUREAUCRATS work hard to hide facts
Sydney Morning Herald (subscription) - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
The first thought of Government officials when it came to the Freedom of
Information Act was how to find a way to stop information getting out,
the NSW ...
<http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/bureaucrats-work-hard-to-hide-facts/
2005/10/14/1128796712408.html>

National Theatre Document of the Week page this week looks at Peter 
Hall /
Ronnie Barker correspondence:
http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/documentoftheweek


Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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