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NATIONAL history devoured by mould and bugs
Toronto Star - Canada
... A quarter of the archives in the study were deemed potentially 
vulnerable
to ... According to PJ Carefoot, an archivist at the Thomas Fisher, "the
priority in ...
<http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/A
rticle_Type1&c=Article&cid=1133823011169&call_pageid=968867495754&col=969
483191630>

DEAR friends, Having a great time in Richmond, Ind. Wish you were ...
Palladium-Item - Richmond,IN,USA
... King, the Morrisson-Reeves Library archivist, wrote the book this 
year
as the ... King relied on postcards she had collected for the library
archives, plus the ...
<http://www.pal-item.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051206/NEWS13/51206
0334/1007>

FORRESTER Evaluates Enterprise Content Management Suites
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... infrastructure. This vendor seeks to advance its ECM capabilities 
into
a broad information life-cycle management platform. -- IBM's ...
<http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news
_view&newsId=20051206005647&newsLang=en>

HACKERS Steal Sensitive Data using Digital Cameras
eBCVG - USA
... of digital camera. The digital camera device, just like iPod and 
Bluetooth,
is a simple digital storage devices. Hence, simply plugging ...
<http://www.ebcvg.com/articles.php?id=966>

EUROPE: EU wants data storage to fight terrorism
Asia Pacific Media Network - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... nation bloc. Some member states have no rules on data storage, while
Ireland, for example, requires records to be kept for 36 months. ...
<http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=34967>

BBC Motion Gallery Expands Historical Archives
World Screen News - New York,NY,USA
... 6: BBC Worldwide's footage sales arm, BBC Motion Gallery, has become
the global distributor for Nugus/Martin Productions' historical 
archives,
which cover ...
<http://www.worldscreen.com/newscurrent.php?filename=bbc1206.htm>

HALIFAX Explosion database being put on-line
Globe and Mail - Canada
The Nova Scotia Archives is launching the resource to mark the 
explosion's
88th anniversary today. Within days of the disaster, the ...
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20051206/
NATS06-2/TPNational/Canada>

YOU could help write the history of JPS
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
... Calls to the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, which has 
some
early city archives, and the Fort Worth Public Library have yet to 
produce
help. ...
<http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/13340025.htm>

INVESTIGATION underway into missing computer files in Derby
WTNH - New Haven,CT,USA
... Garofalo says it's standard procedure to delete files because the 
official
records are kept on paper but no one has a good explanation for why some
computer ...
<http://www.wtnh.com/Global/story.asp?S=4210803&nav=3YeX>

CASEY library's new records will attract researchers
Danville Advocate - Danville,KY,USA
... to books of vital statistics records from 1911-1969. The 
genealogical
section in the library contains books, documents and family history 
files
with thousands ...
<http://www.amnews.com/public_html/?module=displaystory&story_id=18030&fo
rmat=html>





Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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