RECORDS being shredded before Information Act
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK
... Some 10 weeks later, figures obtained from most Government departments
support the claims that the destruction of records has accelerated over
the past 18 ...
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/11/29/nshred29.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/11/29/ixnewstop.html>


SYSTEM that decides what goes in the bin
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK
... that a file could be embarrassing or damaging and selecting it for
destruction. ... any time before, record-keepers might feel tempted to
destroy records that are ...
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/11/29/nshred229.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/11/29/ixnewstop.html>


CLERK of Court Paper-to-Digital Litigation Project Begins
My Wise County - Virginia,USA
... Even these papers must be kept for several years before destruction
may happen. ... Records managers deem the conversion project a necessity
to long-term cost ...
<http://www.mywisecounty.com /listing/jump.cgi?ID=1440>


SNAPSHOTS capture city's changing face
Corpus Christi Caller Times - Corpus Christi,TX,USA
... "He photographed during a time of rapid growth in Corpus Christi,"
said Thomas Kreneck, special collections librarian and archivist for A&M
University-Corpus ...
<http://www.caller.com/ccct/local_news/article/0,1641,CCCT_811_3361322,00.html>


E-SLEUTHS dissect WestJet hard drives
The Globe and Mail (subscription) - Toronto,ON,Canada
... certain WestJet e-mail messages and electronic files. ... In court
documents, WestJet has distanced itself from Mr ... the examination must
focus on records that are ...
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20041129/RAIRCAN29/TPBusiness/Canadian>


WEB Won't Let Government Hide
Wired News - USA
... policy.". Aftergood uses FOIA requests only sparingly though, calling
them cumbersome, relying instead on contacts and tips. "Information ...
<http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,65800,00.html>


ACTIVISTS Crawl Through Web to Untangle US Secrecy
Inter Press Service (subscription) - World
... Secrecy. "They have made it far more difficult and time-consuming to
obtain documents under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). ...
<http://www.ipsnews.net/new_nota.asp?idnews=26467>


DIGGING deeper
The UCLA Daily Bruin - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... Laurel McPhee, the center's coordinator who supervises students and
trains them in archival methods, said she shares the excitement of her
students about the ...
<http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/articles.asp?id=31110>


WATCHING Big Brother
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK
... What they all, from the highest mandarin to the lowest school secretary,
must remember, is that the Act applies to all "public documents": that
is to say, to ...
<http://www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2004/11/29/dl2902.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2004/11/29/ixopinion.html>


SUPREME Court rules for open government
Mid Columbia Tri City Herald - Mid-Columbia,WA,USA
... electronically. Arguing against disclosing only an electronic record
essentially is arguing against easy access to public documents. ...
<http://www.tri-cityherald.com/tch/opinions/story/5852345p-5768200c.html>


LINCOLN'S cemetery to put historical records online
KWQC-TV - Davenport,IA,USA
... The Illinois State Library recently gave the cemetery a ten-thousand-dollar
grant for the effort, which could go online by next year. ...
<http://www.kwqc.com/Global/story.asp?S=2624382>


matter of record
Springfield State Journal Register - Springfield,IL,USA
Cemetery officials recently received a $10,000 grant from the Illinois
State Library to digitize and preserve the cemetery's earliest interment
records. ...
<http://www.sj-r.com/sections/news/stories/41365.asp>


REVISED Information Act Code 'Breaks Ministerial Pledges'
Scotland on Sunday - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
A new revised code of practice on the Freedom of Information Act issued
by the Department for Constitutional Affairs breaches two explicit commitments
given to ...
<http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3821009>


INCREASE in rate of record shredding before new Act
This is London - London,England,UK
... Act comes into force on 1 January - giving the public the right to
inspect records. Figures released by Whitehall departments suggest shredding
has accelerated ...
<http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/15001105?source=Evening%20Standard>


HISTORY to be proud of
The Free Lance-Star - Fredericksburg,VA,USA
... According to Howard University's online archives and other sources,
the ... on the university's military and abolitionist connection, Howard
Archivist Clifford L ...
<http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2004/112004/11292004/1575990>


Sun-Sentinel, Sat, 27 Nov 2004 0:11 AM PST
Clerk of court expands collection of online records: South Florida Sun-Sentinel http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-pcomputersx27nov27,0,2788577.story?coll=sfla-news-palm
It used to take Kelly Jones, a closing coordinator for Palm Beach Land Title Corp., days to research a property. Now she can do the job in about 20 minutes.





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