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

County OKs study for
Roxboro Courier Times - Roxboro,NC,USA
... Register of Deeds Amanda Garrett has for years pleaded with 
commissioners
to provide her offices with additional space to accommodate important
county records. ...
<http://www.roxboro-courier.com/newsnowstories/ts031806-3.htm>

Records Management and Enterprise Content Management in Government ...
PublicTechnology.net - UK
This major conference and exhibition is sponsored by the National 
Archives
and organised by Cimtech Ltd (www.cimtech.co.uk). The ...
<http://www.publictechnology.net/index.php?module=PostCalendar&func=view&
Date=20060525&tplview=&viewtype=details&eid=113&print=>

Mystery follows duke's portrait to the Muscarelle Museum of Art
Richmond Times Dispatch - Richmond,VA,USA
... and intuition and a research campaign that included visits to 
archives
in Italy ... Mayer did not realize, De Groft said, is that a forgotten
archivist hundreds of ...
<http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%
2FRTD_BasicArticle&%09s=1045855936372&c=MGArticle&cid=1137834743901&path=
!flair!ae>

UT librarian was rare books scholar
Toledo Blade - Toledo,OH,USA
... of the Canaday Center and university archivist. Miss Emch helped 
design
the center, which holds rare books, manuscripts, and UT's archives, 
after
traveling to ...
<http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060319/NEWS13/603190
359>

'Orphans' find an enthusiastic family
The State - Columbia,SC,USA
... "Archives take on a parenting role," Becker said of orphan films.
... The symposium is not only an archivist's delight but also piques
public interest. ...
<http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/14125571.htm>

Katrina revealed need for digital health records
Allentown Morning Call - Allentown,PA,USA
... Thousands of medical records disappeared too, wiping out entire 
lifetimes
of doctor visits, tests, x-rays and prescriptions. If ...
<http://www.mcall.com/news/opinion/anotherview/all-a-a-amar19,0,1795082.c
olumn?coll=all-newsopinionanotherview-hed>

Prostitutes Concerned About Police Records
newswire.co.nz - Havelock Nth,Hawkes Bay,New Zealand
... Those files are no longer needed and, as required by law, will ...
The Prostitutes Collective's national coordinator, Catherine Healey, 
says
the records date back ...
<http://www.newswire.co.nz/main/viewstory.aspx?storyid=307856&catid=16>

Top secret files 'sent to Zimbabwe illegally'
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
... July 2004, the Department told Saha that eight of the 22 files 
requested
had ... October 2004, the Department told Saha that copies of the 
records
were available ...
<http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=139&art_id=vn2006031911
5302769C290582>

Rich calls for prostitute's register to be shredded
Stuff.co.nz - Wellington,New Zealand
National MP Katherine Rich is calling for Archives New Zealand not to 
preserve
registers of prostitutes. "The registers must be ...
<http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3609253a6160,00.html>

Missing Johnny Depp footage found
Newindpress (subscription) - Chennai,India
... Stone remembered additional footage he had shot. We finally found 
more
than 10 minutes of footage mislabelled in film archives.".
<http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IE420060319040133&Page=4&Tit
le=Features+-+People+%26+Lifestyle&Topic=0>

West Texas group out for Bush presidential library
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
A group led by Texas Tech has been eliminated today as a site for the 
George
W. Bush presidential library. Selection committee chairman ...
<http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8GCU9A06.html
>

Potential Bush library sites down to two
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
LUBBOCK, Texas -- Potential sites for the George W. Bush presidential 
library
were narrowed to three Thursday when the selection committee eliminated
a bid led ...
<http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1151AP_BRF_Bush_Library.html>

Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Sun, 19 Mar 2006 10:14 PM PST
Inside a cold, gray building, history and life abound
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/263627_karren20.html?source=rss
The National Archives and Records Administration office in Seattle
might be easy to dismiss as another federal warehouse. But for those 
interested in
original records about people and places in the Northwest, it can be a 
place of
discovery.

Washington Post, Sun, 19 Mar 2006 11:21 PM PST
Nixon Library Joins the Club
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/19/AR2006031

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The Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace, like the president it honors,
has always been outside the mainstream.


Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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