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Daily News Journal, Fri, 04 Nov 2005 4:13 AM PST
Archive building slated for start
http://www.dnj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051104/NEWS01/511040311/1
002
Rutherford County's new archives building, a permanent home for the
county's permanent records, can be built for the $1.4 million the County
Commission has allotted for it, and the project is expected to begin
soon.
OUTSOURCING of document storage a growing trend
Mining Weekly - Gardenview,Eastern Cape,South Africa
... "Semiactive records are best outsourced," states Mullon, adding that
the National Archives Act states that archival documents have to be
stored
in the ...
<http://www.miningweekly.co.za/min/news/features/?show=75901>
CHURCHILL County Museum & Archives: Our History
Reno Gazette Journal - Reno,NV,USA
... Fallon's old Safeway building, donated to the county by benefactors
Margaret and Alex Oser in 1967, opened its doors as the Churchill County
Museum & Archives. ...
<http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051104/FALLON/511040367
/1029>
CASE in Italy suggests MFA received stolen art
Boston Globe - United States
... by the Globe is included in court documents being used ... the piece
is 2,300 years old, MFA records have no ... of the seized photograph in
the court files, the MFA's ...
<http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/11/04/case_
in_italy_suggests_mfa_received_stolen_art>
PRIMERA announces archival appliance
eChannelLine - North York,Ontario,Canada
has announced its OptiVault Archival Appliance, an automated,
robotically-controlled
appliance that backs up and recovers email and other critical data onto
...
<http://www.integratedmar.com/ECLbriefs.cfm?item=BRI110305-5>
SUPREME Court backs Dean's sealing of gubernatorial papers
BurlingtonFreePress.com - Burlington,VT,USA
... to seal the documents, but the state Supreme Court ruled Friday that
they did have the authority to do so, citing a section of the state
Archives
Act that ...
<http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051104/N
EWS01/51104007>
2005: Challenges & Opportunities
San Francisco Examiner - San Francisco,CA,USA
... We discovered a real change in the trends around the use of paper.
Mainly what we discovered is that 97 percent of all information is in
digital storage now. ...
<http://www.sfexaminer.com/articles/2005/11/04/columnists/challenges_and_
opportunities/20051104_co02_challengesopps.txt>
MASS. Fights Microsoft on Document Format
Forbes - USA
... Massachusetts' shift to the so-called OpenDocument format seeks to
ensure the state's electronic records can easily be read, exchanged and
modified now and in ...
<http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2005/11/04/ap2319719.html>
DIGITALLY assured destruction
International Herald Tribune - France
... entire drives, while others can single out individual files or other
... They wipe away everything, including programs, documents and the
computer's
operating ...
<http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/11/04/business/ptdelete05.php>
ONLINE Conversion to OpenDocument
Technocrat.net - Boston,MA,USA
... web user interface documents or URL's will be submitted, as photos
are submitted to photo sharing services, and converted on the network
as .odf or .mp3 files, ...
<http://technocrat.net/article.pl?sid=05/11/04/0121230&mode=nocomment>
Hartford Courant, Fri, 04 Nov 2005 0:05 AM PST
A Trunkful Of History
http://www.courant.com/features/lifestyle/hc-bryant.artnov04,0,1638818.st
ory?&track=rss
Long Lost Papers Of A Foreign Correspondent Illuminate An Extraordinary
20th-Century Rebel
Kingston Daily Freeman, Fri, 04 Nov 2005 0:06 AM PST
Arrested clerk sues supervisor, Town Board
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id=74969&rfi=6
LIVINGSTON - The day after being arrested for allegedly altering town
records, Town Clerk Cynthia Hapeman on Thursday filed a lawsuit against
the
Livingston supervisor, the Town Board and town bookkeeper seeking the
return of
records she claims were removed from her office illegally.
DATA retention needs better safeguards, says Working Party
Out-Law.com - London,England,UK
... draft. Plans for an EU-wide scheme of data retention were first
mooted
by the UK, France, Ireland and Sweden in April 2004. They ...
<http://www.out-law.com/page-6304>
EU'S Big Brother plan
Radio Netherlands - Netherlands
... increase. Data retention of telecom data has already been proved to
help and now we want also data retention of Internet information.". ...
<http://www2.rnw.nl/rnw/en/features/amsterdamforum/041105af?view=Standard
>
MONORAIL drives need for access to records
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
To understand why access to public records matters, look to the 2002
election,
which gave Seattle that train wreck known as the Seattle Monorail
Project.
...<http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/247046_illegal04.html>
UNCOVERED: A French eyewitness account from Battle of Trafalgar
Independent - London,England,UK
... Alistair Hanson, a historian at the National Archive, said: "This
discovery
is of significance because it provides us with a rare French eyewitness
account of ...
<http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article324639.ece>
ASSURX launches corporate compliance system
in-PharmaTechnologist - Montpellier,France
... validation, audit trails, record retention, record copying, and
legacy
systems within manufacturing companies. An August 2005 FDA guidance
document
stated that ...
<http://www.in-pharmatechnologist.com/news/ng.asp?n=63547-assurx-catsweb-
compliance>
HOUSE panel backs data security plan
CNET News.com - United States
... as ensuring individuals can access and correct their personal
information,
would apply to "information brokers"--that is, companies like
ChoicePoint
that are ...
<http://news.com.com/2061-10796_3-5933216.html>
DATA-PROTECTION bill advances on party-line vote
Reuters - USA
... the end of the year. Lawmakers began discussing data security in
February,
when data broker ChoicePoint Inc. (CPS.N: Quote, Profile ...
<http://today.reuters.com/investing/financeArticle.aspx?type=bondsNews&st
oryID=URI:urn:newsml:reuters.com:20051103:MTFH08544_2005-11-03_22-30-21_N
03118488:1>
2 Historical Society trustees join director in resigning
Helena Independent Record - Helena,MT,USA
HELENA -- Two members of the Montana Historical Society board of
trustees
are quitting in the wake of Director Arnold Olsen's resignation during
a board's ...
<http://www.helenair.com/articles/2005/11/04/montana/a06110405_01.txt>
GET handle on records
Waldo Village Soup - ME,USA
... there. We suggest a committee of experienced researchers, well
schooled
in the requirements of the state archive, to assist them. ...
<http://www.villagesoup.com/guestcolumns/story.cfm?storyID=63076>
DATA Breach Bill Sparks Controversy
Enterprise Storage Forum - Darien,CT,USA
... In the wake of breaches at companies such as ChoicePoint and
LexisNexus
and lost data tapes by the likes of Bank of America, CitiFinancial and
Ameritrade ...
<http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/industrynews/article.php/3561716>
UNSECURED Wi-Fi would be outlawed by NY county
ZDNet - USA
... and in state legislatures that are being considered in the wake of
recent security problems involving Bank of America, payroll provider
PayMaxx
and Reed ...
<http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-5934194.html>
New York Times 11/04/05
Want That on Rye, or in Writing?
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/04/nyregion/04cookbook.html>
Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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