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

NARA’s archives project needs more specifics, GAO says
GCN.com - Washington,DC,USA
... NARA must give Congress more details on its Electronic Records 
Archives
project, so ... Allen Weinstein, archivist of the United States, told
GAO that he agreed ...
<http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/41734-1.html>

Supercomputer Staff Help Nation’s Archivists with Digital ...
Newswise (press release) - USA
... Digital Library), and for state archives (eg the Persistent Archives
Testbed). ... Archivist Mark Conrad, chair of the NAGARA Committee on
Electronic Records and ...
<http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/522887/>

GAO calls for more detailed electronic records expenditure plan
GovExec.com - USA
The Government Accountability Office has given the National Archives and
Records ... GAO recommends that the US archivist ensure that future 
expenditure
plans ...
<http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0806/081806tdpm1.htm>

Houston Chronicle, Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:44 PM PDT
160 workers, 200 million pages
http://feeds.chron.com/~r/houstonchronicle/local-state/~3/14115825/412532
7.html
Let the record reflect that it's a big job. About 160 temporary 
employees are scanning 200 million pages of Harris County court 
documents dating to 1837 and filing them in an electronic database.

The New York Sun, Thu, 17 Aug 2006 11:23 PM PDT
Silicosis Judge Erupts in Fury In Case of the Missing X-Rays
http://www.nysun.com/article/38133
Evidence key to ongoing investigations of alleged fraud in 
silicosis-related litigation has gone missing from a repository in 
Texas, fueling a bitter row between a federal judge and the state's 
attorney general. Judge Janis
Jack excoriated the office of Texas's top lawman, Greg Abbott, for 
sending four armed agents to seize thousands of X-rays last month from 
a private company in Corpus Christi

Gunning For Security
CIO Asia - Singapore
... And while identity theft affects the average consumer, the 
compromise
of trade secrets (like plans, confidential notes, financial information,
customer lists ...
<http://cio-asia.com/ShowPage.aspx?pagetype=2&articleid=4028&pubid=5&issu
eid=98>

Apollo tapes' value is clear to pioneer
Huntsville Times - Huntsville,AL,USA
... The boxes had been sent to the National Archives in Suitland, Md.,
in the 1970s but were not there when officials went to look. ...
<http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/115580633816
7120.xml&coll=1>

End of the line for Moss Bay steelworks
The North West Enquirer - Manchester,UK
... National Archives awarded the office almost £19,000 to catalogue 
former
owner British Steel Corporation’s records of the Workington plant, along
with those ...
<http://www.nw-enquirer.co.uk/news/employment/end_of_the_line_for_moss_ba
y_steelworks_200608181387.html>

Houston, you have a problem
Guardian Unlimited - UK
... missing. They were originally stored at the Goddard Space Flight 
Centre
in Maryland, then moved to the US National Archives. In ...
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1851022,00.html>

Ethiopia holds national digital preservation workshop
UNESCO (Communiqués de presse) - Paris,France
... consultation workshop on Digital Materials Preservation in Addis 
Ababa
co-organized by UNESCO’s Addis Ababa Office and the National Archives
and Libraries of ...
<http://portal.unesco.org/ci/fr/ev.php-URL_ID=22682&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_S
ECTION=201.html>

Police to probe heritage items auction
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
... Arts and Culture minister Pallo Jordan said on Thursday that, 
through
their National Archives branch and in conjunction with the police, they
had "successfully ...
<http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=6&art_id=vn200608180240
27118C143270>

Prosecutors seeking to force Clark County recorder out of office
KESQ - Palm Desert,CA,USA
LAS VEGAS Clark County prosecutors are asking a judge to immediately 
remove
county Recorder Frances Deane from office for malfeasance. ...
<http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=5295979&nav=9qrx>

Attempts to sell public records foiled
The Mercury (subscription) - Durban,South Africa
CAPE TOWN: The government had thwarted an attempt to auction off two 
visitors'
books from the president's official residence, Mahlamba Ndlopfu, 
according
to ...
<http://www.themercury.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=3399244>

Delaware loses bid to shield public records from nonresidents
Penn Live - Harrisburg,PA,USA
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Delaware must open its public records to 
nonresidents,
a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday, siding with a New York City 
consumer
...
<http://www.pennlive.com/newsflash/pa/index.ssf?/base/news-41/11557580501
33420.xml&storylist=penn>




Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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