RAIN 060118
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
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Kansas City Museum Obtains $65 Million Photography Collection
By Matt Sedensky, Associated Press Writer
KANSAS CITY, MO. (AP) - The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art has obtained
one of the country's largest collections of American photography, an
estimated $65
million treasure featuring works by more than 900 artists.
<http://www.antiquesandthearts.com/TT-2006-01-17-09-39-59p1>
The Indianapolis Star, Tue, 17 Jan 2006 0:33 AM PST
Bill would limit access to birth, death records
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060117/NEWS02/601170
446/1008
Birth and death records now open to the public would be closed under a
bill proposed in the Indiana House, pitting freedom of information
against
privacy concerns.
Kansas City Star, Tue, 17 Jan 2006 0:05 AM PST
Court, county at odds over electronic access
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/13641568.htm?source=r
ss&channel=kansascity_local
Johnson County's sheriff, prosecutor and county manager are bracing for
a showdown with the Kansas Supreme Court over free electronic access to
District Court records.
The Evening Telegraph, Mon, 16 Jan 2006 7:16 AM PST
Probe after patient records found on bus
http://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/output/2006/01/16/story7932255t0.shtm
NHS Tayside was today investigating the circumstances surrounding
patient details found on a Dundee bus, writes Marjory Inglis, medical
reporter.
Sunday Mail, Sat, 14 Jan 2006 9:39 PM PST
BLOOD FILES DESTROYED
http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16585828&method=full&siteid=
64736&headline=blood-files-destroyed--name_page.html
THOUSANDS of Scots with a killer virus are unaware they are living
under a death sentence -and risk infecting many others. They were given
blood
contaminated with hepatitis C in the 70s and 80s but their identities
are unknown
because records were destroyed.
ARCHIVISTS in plea for extra cash
Chester Evening Leader - Chester,Wales,UK
... community history in particular -- many of the country's 200-plus
archives
are struggling ... One of them is Cheshire Archivist Jonathan Pepler,
a member of the ...
<http://www.chestereveningleader.co.uk/ihome3/detail.asp?storyid=830&offi
ceid=15>
<http://www.chestereveningleader.co.uk/ihome3/detail.asp?storyid=346&cati
d=News&officeid=15>
ARCHIVES to record Aceh conflict
Jakarta Post - Jakarta,Indonesia
... National Archives Office is creating an oral history of the conflict
between the Indonesia government and the Free Aceh Movement (GAM). Chief
archivist Djoko ...
<http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailnational.asp?fileid=20060118.C04&ire
c=3>
GIULIANI'S Paper Trail
Village Voice - New York,NY,USA
... by what they find in the archives, not because of a nefarious plot
but because of the limitations of the FOI law. Besides, as one archivist
told me last month ...
<http://www.villagevoice.com /blogs/powerplays/archives/002338.php>
LINCOLN Papers project editors digitize college documents
Crawfordsville Journal Review - Crawfordsville,IN,USA
... Wabash College Archivist Beth Swift is not sure how the college
acquired
the two ... listed as a Wabash College student or graduate in the
archives
records, but a ...
<http://www.journalreview.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&Article
ID=20914&TM=81480.8>
FCC Launches Investigation into Theft of American Phone Records
LinuxElectrons - Cedar Park,TX,USA
... guarding their password and other personal information, and
shredding
invoices and ... to reports that private wireless and wireline phone
records,
including phone ...
<http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20060117221120711>
UNIVERSAL Exhumes `Deleted' European Records for Digital Sale
Bloomberg - USA
... Music companies routinely delete poor-selling albums and it would be
unfeasible to revive them in physical form due to manufacturing costs
and limited retail ...
<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000085&sid=awRamYSuoPEo&refer=e
urope>
UNIVERSAL Music Opens Archives For Downloads
Business Online - London,UK
... of the Internet is increasingly seen as an opportunity for record
companies
to reissue specialist, vintage or hard-to-find music from their
archives,
as well ...
<http://www.thebusinessonline.com/DJStory.aspx?DJStoryID=20060118DN005920
>
ETHNIC cultural heritage threatened with extinction
Xinhua - China
... Yao Binglie, director of the Libo County Archive Bureau, said he
found
a few new characters in the books collected by two merchants at the
rural
fair in Libo. ...
<http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-01/18/content_4066957.htm>
MERCER Co. Man Pleads Guilty to Stealing Trade Secrets from ...
WTVQ - Lexington,KY,USA
A Kentucky man says he's guilty of stealing, and then selling, trade
secrets
from one company. Jonathan Sanders used to work at ...
<http://www.wtvq.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WTVQ/MGArticle/TVQ_BasicA
rticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1128769384638&path=>
MANATEE Electronic records OK'd
Bradenton Herald - FL, United States
The Florida Supreme Court has allowed Manatee County to become the first
county in Florida to accept electronic court records from attorneys
without
requiring ...
<http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/13649421.htm>
LAWMAKERS Delay Vote on Records Law
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
Faced with a row of newspaper editors opposed to changing Utah's public
records law to block access to government officials' email, state
lawmakers
put off ...
<http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_3412561>
ARCHIVIST keeps historical perspective
Grand Traverse Herald - Traverse City,MI,USA
By Carol South. The Grand Traverse Pioneer & Historical Society welcomed
Peg Siciliano this month as its new archivist. Siciliano ...
<http://www.gtherald.com/herald/2006/jan/18arch.htm>
UM collections librarian strikes archival gold
Bangor Daily News - Bangor,ME,USA
... Board and matching funds from the university, he was able to hire an
assistant to help with the search for those earliest records and other
archival material. ...
<http://www.bangornews.com/news/templates/?a=127283>
GET rid of the gobbledegook
ic NorthWales - North Wales,UK
... "The difference," noted Eleri Jones, of Cymraeg Clir, "is that many
public documents which are in Welsh are, themselves, translations. ...
<http://icnorthwales.icnetwork.co.uk/business/businessnews/tm_objectid=16
597796&method=full&siteid=50142&headline=get-rid-of-the-gobbledegook-name
_page.html>
DATA Storage Works Hard for Entertainment Venues
CTR - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... must be preserved for future planning and legal purposes, just like
paper records. ... Perhaps one of the pieces requiring the largest
amount
of data storage is a ...
<http://www.wwpi.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1022&Itemi
d=44>
FIRED Corning Inc. employee pleads guilty to selling glass secrets ...
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
... Corning learned about the theft when PicVue representatives visited
Saint ... that the French glass company recognized as containing
Corning's
trade secrets. ...
<http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--corning-theft01
17jan17,0,2398626.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork>
AROUND KENTUCKY
Kentucky.com - Lexington,KY,USA
... pleaded guilty yesterday in Rochester, NY, to stealing trade secrets
for making ... to a felony charge of conspiring to commit trade secret
theft, which carries a ...
<http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/local/13650449.htm>
DRAWING the line on data retention
Legalbrief (subscription) - Durban,South Africa
... Laws affecting data retention seem to multiply each year. E-mail
storage
alone is bringing some storage networks close to the breaking point. ...
<http://www.legalbrief.co.za/article.php?story=2006011809303034>
The Jakarta Post, Tue, 17 Jan 2006 7:25 PM PST
Archives to record Aceh conflict
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailnational.asp?fileid=20060118.C04&irec
=3
The National Archives Office is creating an oral history of the
conflict between
the Indonesia government and the Free Aceh Movement (GAM). Chief
archivist Djoko Utomo said Tuesday that interviews of the parties
involved in the
conflict started in December last year.
Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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