Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
related to records and archives management.

KATRINA boosts business for off-site data storage centers
Columbia Daily Tribune - Columbia,MO,USA
... increased interest in disaster recovery systems and off-site data 
storage
since Katrina ... complement a Lee's Summit facility that stores 
computer
records for 80 ...
<http://www.columbiatribune.com/2005/Nov/20051113News017.asp>

WAR: letters that spelt heartbreak
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
... lose their lives. The correspondence will be made available to the
public tomorrow by the National Archive at Kew. Ministry of Defence ...
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/11/13/nletter1
3.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/11/13/ixhome.html>

HISTORIANS saying hurray for written White House records
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
... Anything that shows up in written records can become a target for an
... Ronald Reagan's national security team imploded when its attempts
to delete e- mail files ...
<http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-opril134511101nov13,0,4043630.sto
ry?coll=ny-viewpoints-headlines>

STATE policy adds hourly fee to see Vilsack records
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
... unless it is discovered that we inadvertently left some confidential
records in a box.". Some boxes -- such as human services case files and
documents saved by ...
<http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051113/NEWS10/
511130338/1011>

The Des Moines Register, Sun, 13 Nov 2005 3:43 AM PST
State policy adds hourly fee to see Vilsack records
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051113/NEWS

10/511130338/1001/rss01
Iowans wanting to examine boxes of documents accumulated by Gov. Tom
Vilsack and his staff had better bring their checkbooks with them. 
Under a new
policy restricting access to Vilsack administration records in storage 
at the
state archives, the governor?s legal adviser must first screen the 
boxes to
see whether any of the documents are considered confidential, putting 
them
off-limits to public

BM, Sun team up to support OpenDocument
Computerworld New Zealand - Auckland,New Zealand
... because they claim, among other things, that OpenDocument is 
incompatible
with a computer program the state's disabled citizens use to access 
public
documents ...
<http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/0/F8CEFB8E254627DDCC2570B500770E7C?O
penDocument>

SCULPTOR'S paper will foil fakers
Sunday Business Post - Dublin,Ireland
... years ago. It can be used for various types of security documents,
including deeds, bonds, passports, legal files and drug labels. ...
<http://www.sbpost.ie/post/pages/p/story.aspx-qqqid=9650-qqqx=1.asp>

FREE those digital documents
Christian Science Monitor - Boston,MA,USA
... now (or the paying of royalties to read files). What happens if 
Office
goes obsolete and Microsoft no longer supports it? What happens to all
those documents? ...
<http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1114/p08s02-comv.html>

BET.com, Sat, 12 Nov 2005 8:35 PM PST
The Nation's Oldest Public University Visits Shameful Past
http://www.bet.com/News/UNC_slavery.htm?wbc_purpose=Basic&WBCMODE=Present

ationUnpublished&Referrer=%7B03CE5360-2620-42CB-AD7E-77E4249C5FB7%7D
Posted Nov. 11, 2005 â?" The 216-year-old University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, which takes pride in being the nation's oldest public 
university,
is now airing a shameful side of its past.

Hattiesburg American, Sun, 13 Nov 2005 3:11 AM PST
Gone with the wind
http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051113/NE

WS01/511130337/1002
As Hurricane Katrina approached, local historians were confident a
vault filled with precious pre-Civil War pictures, maps and documents 
cataloguing
the history of this Gulf Coast community would be safe.

Keep good records for when disaster strikes
America's record hurricane season likely destroyed the records and 
vital documents of many businesses. As demonstrated time and again just 
this fall, Banker's Boxes locked in an office closet were no match for 
tornadoes and wildfires.
<http://www.pizzamarketplace.com/news_story.htm?i=23850>



Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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