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Washington Post
Library of Congress Official Mary Wolfskill Dies at 58
By Joe Holley
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, June 1, 2005; Page B06
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/31/AR2005053101551.html>

HRC may acquire more Watergate documents
Daily Texan - Austin,TX,USA
... will release the papers now, [but] our contract says we won't get
the
papers until the source dies," said Stephen Mielke, the HRC's Watergate
papers archivist. ...
<http://www.dailytexanonline.com/news/2005/06/02/TopStories/Hrc-May.Acquire.More.Watergate.Documents-955254.shtml>

BANCROFT Library Closes for Seismic Update
Daily Californian - Berkeley,CA,USA
... The facility is already home to nearly 4.5 million documents from
the
California State Library and UC campuses located in northern California.
...<http://www.dailycal.org/article.php?id=18793>

ACCESS to records easier, for better or worse
Daytona Beach News-Journal - Daytona,FL,USA
... in courthouse file rooms, putting records on the Internet would
suddenly
make documents more accessible ... and researchers who regularly pull
files in clerks ...
<http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/Technology/03TechEAST0TECH2060205.htm>

SEEKING Relief From Information Overload
Insurance Networking News - New York,NY,USA
... the industry moves away from paper documents, insurers are ... At
Shelter
Insurance, image files also are creating ... period of five years (seven
for audit records). ...
<http://www.insurancenetworking.com/protected/article.cfm?articleId=3319&pb=ros>


STATE closes in on closing open records
Henderson Daily Dispatch - Henderson,NC,USA
Those who would like to close you, the public, out of records now
considered
public won several small but important victories in the North Carolina
General ...
<http://www.hendersondispatch.com/articles/2005/06/02/news/opinion/opin01.txt>

FUNDS to preserve war artifacts, including George Washington's ...
WAVY-TV - Portsmouth,VA,USA
... The state archives in Albany is displaying a few of the items for
the
media this afternoon to publicize the conservation work needed for New
York's vast ...
<http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=3423665>

Portsmouth Herald, Thu, 02 Jun 2005 7:45 AM PDT
Digital estate planning
http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/06022005/biz_nati/45523.htm
SAN JOSE, Calif. - When we die, we leave many things behind. These
days, that includes a digital life. There are private online journals,
e-mail
missives to long-ago loves and important financial documents - not to
mention
records of instant-message chats and Web surfing habits.

Belfast Telegraph, Thu, 02 Jun 2005 7:58 AM PDT
Keyboard cops
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/features/story.jsp?story=643536
Forget leaving fingerprints at the scene of the crime. Computer
forensic analysts - the detectives of the digital world - are in big
demand.
Electronic evidence is proving critical in solving crimes, with the
proliferation
of computers, PDAs, mobile phones and even iPods.

TECH Roundup: Compliance archiving
Search Storage - USA
... ensure every employee in a company gets and acts on a stop
destruction
message quickly ... and EMC/Legato (Email Xtender), adding that many of
the e-mail archiving ...
<http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid5_gci1094309,00.html>

NEW law aims to protect employees' personal data
Birmingham News - Birmingham,AL,USA
... after the US Supreme Court overturned the conviction of accounting
firm Arthur Andersen, which was indicted after officials destroyed
documents
pertaining to ...
<http://www.al.com/business/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/business/1117704025122600.xml&coll=2>

New York Times
Loosing Google's Lock on the Past
By STEPHANIE ROSENBLOOM
IN the winter of 1996, back when I was a brunette who wore sensible
shoes, a photographer snapped my picture during a rehearsal for a
college musical. The production mattered; eating and sleeping did not.
The resulting portrait showed a pasty, gaunt girl being swallowed by a
XXX-large T-shirt.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/02/fashion/thursdaystyles/02GOOGLE.html?8hpib>

Wall Street Journal 5/24/05
Who's Helping
Victims of Data Theft?
We Test Company Responses
To Major Recent Breaches;
Time Warner's $130 Offer
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB111689762225841361-search.html?KEYWORDS=laptop&COLLECTION=wsjie/archive>

A Gold Mine Of Naturalization Records In New England
ILW.com - New York,NY,USA
... branch later wrote in a memo, "In accordance with the usual
procedure,
arrangements were made for the ?witnessed' destruction of these records;
and they ...
<http://www.ilw.com/lawyers/articles/2005,0603-hickey.shtm>

LOST page of history
Kolkata Newsline - New Delhi,India
... However, many of these valuable records are either missing or on the
brink of destruction,'' adds Palit. Many other academics echo his
sentiments.
...<http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=132163>

RULE Requires Destruction of Consumer Data
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA
... An entire industry has mushroomed during the past decade because of
the ability of companies to gather and make sense of public records,
criminal
histories and ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/01/AR2005060101940.html>


EXCLUSIVE Thomas Merton Archives Now Available to the Public
Newswise (press release) - USA
A professor of American literature at TWU and a Merton expert, Szabo has
studied exclusive archives and published numerous papers on the
forward-thinking
...<http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/512263/>

COLLECTOR'S Trove of Podcasts
Wired News - USA
... Sally Thomas, a digital librarian and associate director of the
University
of California History Digital Archives, which is dedicated to preserving
historical ...
<http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,67689,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_3>

BR company new chief of security for many
2theadvocate.com - Baton Rouge,LA,USA
... Time Warner Inc. failed to encrypt backup tapes of vital information
of 600,000 current and former employees that were lost last month by a
storage company. ...
<http://www.2theadvocate.com/stories/060205/bus_biz001.shtml>

FILING of deeds mortgages can be done online
Independent - Holmdel - Holmdel,NJ,USA
FREEHOLD -- Monmouth County has taken the lead role in the electronic
recording
of deeds, mortgages and other real estate documents and is ready to make
a ...
<http://independent.gmnews.com/news/2005/0602/Front_Page/024.html>

MAN at the heart of nation's history records
East African Standard - Nairobi,Kenya
... At some point, the files get full and are closed. ... "It is at this
point that we come in and assess the value of the records," he says. ...
<http://www.eastandard.net/mags/schoolcareer/articles.php?articleid=21845>

MICROSOFT To Make Office Files More Internet-Friendly
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
... some previous versions of Office--including the newest versions in
use today--read Office 12 files, and another to turn large batches of
documents into the ...
<http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=163702927>


NEW law kicks shredding into high gear
Nashville City Paper - Nashville,TN,USA
... To ensure security and client oversight, Shred-It destroys the
documents
at the client's location. All-American will start on-site shredding in
July.
<http://www.nashvillecitypaper.com/index.cfm?section_id=10&screen=news&news_id=41885>

PRIVACY becomes policy for businesses
Albany Times Union - Albany,NY,USA
... "We're scanning things into the computer and shredding the paper
documents
right away," said Joel DeNooyer, president of DeNooyer Chevrolet on Wolf
Road in ...
<http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=366276&category=BUSINESS&BCCode=HOME&newsdate=6/2/2005>

ISRAELI Companies Suspected of Spying
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... Some versions of the spy software tempted victims into installing it
by posing as a package of confidential documents delivered via e-mail.
...
<http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-israel-high-tech-hijinks,1,6791957.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines>

FIRM told to return mammograms, other records
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
A diagnostic imaging company out of business for two months must reopen
its doors Monday so that patients can retrieve thousands of medical
records,
a state ...
<http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05154/515195.stm>

MISSING Data
GovExec.com - USA
... of America misplaced government charge-card account information for
about 1.2 million government workers, including several members of
Congress.
Those tapes ...
<http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0605/060305lb.htm>


Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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