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Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
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Wall Street Journal
Still Stuck in Books After All These Years
By JOANNE KAUFMAN
February 23, 2007; Page W11
Tucked in a corner of my desk drawer is a three-by-four-inch black box
with a silver lid containing 100 yellowing dry-gummed bookplates. The
image on them -- an hourglass atop a pile of books -- is set against a
black background with a cream-colored border. Laurel leaves wrap around
a scroll that proclaims "Books Span the Ages." Underneath the book
stack is another scroll reading "From the Library of." My name, middle
initial included, is printed in Garamond italics below. It's the last
box of a set of three, a back-to-school present from my mother when I
was eight years old.
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117220539893617065-email.html>
University Archives Preserve a Rich History
Salve Regina University Mosaic Online (subscription) - Newport,RI,USA
When looking for a buried treasure, one might only have to look as far
as the Salve Regina University archives, located in Room 304 on the
third floor of ...
<http://www.srumosaic.com/home/news/2007/02/22/News/University.Archives.P
reserve.A.Rich.History-2737970.shtml>
St. Joseph couple inducted into the Black Archives Hall of Fame
KQTV - St. Joseph,MO,USA
They`re being inducted into the Black Archives Hall of Fame. "This
honor that we are receiving is great," WA said. "I can think of a
number of other people ...
<http://www.kq2.com/news/default.asp?mode=shownews&id=4866>
Personal data to be redacted
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
Public access to online real estate records and other documents filed
in county clerks' offices across Texas will be unavailable for several
months while
...<http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN
-records_23met.ART0.North.Edition1.212456e.html>
Agencies post business cases online
FCW.com - Falls Church,VA,USA
OMB and agencies have been reluctant to share business cases in the
past and would issue them only when someone filed a Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) ...<http://www.fcw.com/article97760-02-23-07-Web>
Social Security file turns up in mail
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription) - Milwaukee,WI,USA
Documents from the seven other files also were sent anonymously to the
agency's Milwaukee office in separate packages in early December. ...
<http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=569497>
Records of First World War soldiers go online
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK
Many of Britain's original First World War records were destroyed in
1940 by a German bomber. About 60 per cent of the documents relating to
five million ...
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/23/nwar23.x
ml>
Online war service record 'to provide missing link' for history of ...
Yorkshire Post Today - Leeds,Yorkshire,UK
Thousands of cultural moments caught on film will be available to view
free
when a new part of the British Film Institute's national archive is
open to
the ...
<http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleID=2071743&Secti
onID=55>
County clerk slapped by AG ruling
Rosenberg Herald Coaster - Rosenberg,TX,USA
Wilson in 2003 began the process of making all court files in her
office available for online viewing through the county's Web site.
...<http://www.herald-coaster.com/articles/2007/02/23/news/top_story/tops
tory.txt>
Exploring complaints that pre-date 311 by centuries
Downtown Express - USA
As Chin’s work on a series of court documents demonstrated, the records
sometimes contain more than just paper. In addition to case files and
Bertillon ...<http://www.downtownexpress.com
/de_198/exploringcomplaints.html>
Allard joins in fight for Clinton portrait
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
Allard, R-Colo., has written a letter to the national archivist asking
that the portrait be permanently loaned to the state. ...
<http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_5285628>
Wilson historian likes reality TV
Staunton News Leader - Staunton,VA,USA
Arthur Link moved to town from North Carolina in September for a job at
the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library. He had only visited the city
once but,...
<http://www.newsleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070223/NEWS01/702
230308/1002>
Keeping Air Force One shipshape at museum
Ventura County Star (subscription) - Ventura county,CA,USA
Air Force One is the shining gold, blue and white center of attention
at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, and the library
intends to keep ...
<http://www.venturacountystar.com/vcs/county_news/article/0,1375,VCS_226_
5372793,00.html>
ILM may only have a four-year lifecycle
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
How quickly storage vendors want to forget fighting over who actually
coined the phrase Information Lifecycle Management. Huh? Did we do
that? ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&
taxonomyName=storage&articleId=9011703&taxonomyId=19&intsrc=kc_feat>
Media hacks FHRC computer
Fiji Times - Suva,Fiji
News stories reported by these media organisations were from
confidential documents stored in the FHRC computer. The confidential
document was the<http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=57641>
From the western front to the world wide web
Guardian Unlimited - UK
The original records have been available at the National Archives and
sometimes in local record offices and regimental museums but have not
before been ...
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/Technology/news/story/0,,2019498,00.html>
World War 1 military records go online
Computeractive - London,UK
The Ancestry.co.uk website has teamed up with The National Archives to
put service and pension records of solidiers who served in the British
Army between ...
<http://www.computeractive.co.uk/computeractive/news/2184120/military-rec
ords-online>
Great War's front line goes online
Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
The National Archives, in partnership with the website ancestry.co.uk
has launched the first part of a process which will see more than 2.5
million records ...<http://heritage.scotsman.com/news.cfm?id=289262007>
Think Your Social Security Number Is Secure? Think Again
New York Times - New York,NY,USA
Four states, including New York, have removed links to images of public
documents containing Social Security numbers. Snohomish County, Wash.,
for example, ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/24/business/24money.html?ref=business>
Snohomish County limits online access to public records
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Seattle,WA,USA
County officials estimate 2.2 million public documents dating to 1997
are recorded and indexed on the county's Web site, including property
documents, ...
<http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6420AP_WA_BRF_Snohomish_County_Recor
ds.html>
Judge issues injunction in corporate-theft case
Indianapolis Star - Indianapolis,IN,USA
Product Action International, based in Fishers, claims two former
employees -- Anthony Roark and Chan Chanthaphone -- leaked its trade
secrets to ...
<http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070223/BUSINESS/702
230425/1003/BUSINESS>
The Industrious Spies
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA
He stands accused of a unique variation on the old theme of industrial
espionage: he was employed by two firms - transferring trade secrets
from one ...
<http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=2108
3>
Los Angeles Times, Thu, 22 Feb 2007 7:41 PM PST
Lab's access to cyclist's tests could influence doping case
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-landis23feb23,1,1065788.story?track=rss
The French laboratory that produced incriminating doping results
against Tour de France champion Floyd Landis might have allowed
improper access to the American cyclist's urine samples, lab documents
show -- one of a number of errors that could jeopardize the anti-doping
case against Landis.
San Diego Union-Tribune, Fri, 23 Feb 2007 2:36 AM PST
Historic Del Mar house is looking for a home
http://www.uniontrib.com/news/northcounty/20070223-9999-1mi23house.html
DEL MAR, Feb. 23 (UNION-TRIBUNE): The Del Mar Historical Society is
looking for a few good archivists. The group is also looking for a
permanent home for the 1885 Alvarado House, the city's oldest home,
which was “temporarily” moved from its original site on 10th Street to
a corner of the Del Mar Fairgrounds in 1989.
The Record, Thu, 22 Feb 2007 3:08 AM PST
LBJ Library leads way to build Web site of presidential records
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AUSTIN, Texas -- On Aug. 4, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson had a busy
day juggling his civil rights initiative, a growing crisis in the Gulf
of Tonkin and the discovery of the bodies of three missing civil rights
workers in Mississippi.
European states want stricter rules on online anonymity
America's Network - USA
The Germans and Dutch are moving well ahead of a 2009 EU deadline to
implement its Data Retention directive, which calls for keeping names
and addresses of ...
<http://www.americasnetwork.com/americasnetwork/article/articleDetail.jsp
?id=406879>
Burial records yielding trough of information at Old City Cemetery
Lynchburg News and Advance - Lynchburg,VA,USA
The files include everything from photographs to newspaper articles to
e-mails from relatives. Compiling the various historical records has
cast light on ...
<http://www.newsadvance.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=LNA/MGArticle/LNA_
BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1149193367445&path=>
County clerks could face jail, fine in privacy breaches
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA
County clerks, much like librarians or archivists, are the repository
for many records the public files, said Elna Christopher, spokeswoman
for the Texas ...
<http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4578104.html>
Wall Street Journal
A Museum Blurs the Lines in Battle for Photos
To cope with spiraling prices, the Getty's curator coaxes others to
shop on his behalf
By JACOB HALE RUSSELL
February 24, 2007; Page P1
In 1984, Weston Naef helped lead the wealthy J. Paul Getty Museum in
Los Angeles on an unprecedented shopping spree. Under his guidance, the
museum bought up photographs by the crateful -- more than 15,000 in
all, including several major private collections -- spending about $20
million. Practically overnight, the Getty had one of the best
photography collections in the world. Museums around the country are
still catching up.
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117228500324118167-email.html>
Find out what your granddad did in the war
Norfolk Eastern Daily Press - Norfolk,England,UK
"What the National Archive and the Norfolk Record Office have been
doing over the past decade is making files available so that people
anywhere in the world ...
<http://new.edp24.co.uk/content/news/story.aspx?brand=EDPOnline&category=
News&tBrand=edponline&tCategory=news&itemid=NOED23%20Feb%202007%2021%3A09
%3A20%3A677>
Wolfgang's Vault sues labels, rock gods
MP3.com - USA
Sagan's Wolfgang's Vault Web site, which streams archived concert
recordings and sells a wide range of rock memorabilia collected by
legendary rock promoter ...<http://www.mp3.com/news/stories/8865.html>
A soldier's letter from the front
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
The Texas Land Office can take donations online, or people may purchase
prints of historical maps housed in the state archives.
...<http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/state/16775204.htm>
Duties of county, district clerks outlined
Cameron Herald - Cameron,TX,USA
The county clerk's office must maintain all county records in
conformance with the Local Government Records Act. The office must file
a copy of the proposed ...
<http://www.cameronherald.com/articles/2007/02/24/news/opinion/column01.t
xt>
History revisited
Malaysia Star - Petaling Jaya,Malaysia
... is a pictorial history of Singaporean families over the century and
includes artefacts like portraits on glass negatives and antique
cameras.
<http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2007/2/24/lifefocus/1670
9743&sec=lifefocus>
AG's privacy ruling puts onus on county clerks
San Antonio Express - San Antonio,TX,USA
County clerks, much like librarians or archivists, are the repository
for many records the public files, said Elna Christopher, spokeswoman
for the Texas ...
<http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA022407.05B.privacy_ru
ling.1032097.html>
Public Records No Longer Public In Fort Bend In Wake Of AG Opinion
FortBendNow - Richmond,TX,USA
The move, which effectively shuts down public access to most public
documents, is in the works at numerous other counties across the state
as well. ...
<http://www.fortbendnow.com/news/2606/public-records-no-longer-public-in-
fort-bend-in-wake-of-ag-opinion
Some Google deal records blocked
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA
County Attorney David Lackey said the dozen lawyers and local
government workers were relying on the NC Public Records law to guide
them. ...<http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/business/16773101.htm>
Peter Kurilecz
Richmond Va
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