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RedNova, Tue, 30 Jan 2007 5:13 AM PST
Maryland Green Party Fights Subpoena of Lawyer's Personnel File
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/819720/maryland_green_party_fights_s
ubpoena_of_lawyers_personnel_file/index.html?source=r_science
By Barbara Grzincic Backed by a host of civil rights groups, the
Maryland Green Party is fighting a subpoena of a lawyer's personnel
records and files on his employer's computer.
AP via Yahoo! News, Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:41 AM PST
U.S. court to rule on WWII insurance
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070130/ap_on_re_eu/holocaust_insurance_1
The Nazis were about to arrest his family in 1944, and Alex Moskovic
remembers his father burying family documents in a 3-foot-deep hole
under the shed behind their home in Czechoslovakia.
Kingston Daily Freeman, Fri, 02 Feb 2007 9:53 AM PST
Documents missing from office of Ulster environmental agency
http://www.zwire.com/site/index.cfm?BRD=1769&dept_id=74958&newsid=1779853
4&PAG=461&rfi=9
STONE RIDGE - Ulster County Legislature Chairman David Donaldson said
records for about 20 years worth of work by the county's Environmental
Management and Water Quality Management Agency are missing, a potential
hurdle for tracking grant money as the county seeks to reorganize the
agency.
BizJournals, Fri, 02 Feb 2007 11:02 AM PST
Coke secretary found guilty in trade secrets case
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2007/01/29/daily44.html?from_r
ss=1
A federal grand jury in Atlanta has found Coca-Cola executive assistant
Joya Williams was guilty of conspiring to steal Coke trade secrets to
sell them to Pepsi.
Waynesboro Record Herald, Sat, 03 Feb 2007 5:44 AM PST
Washington Twp. looks to computerize records
http://www.therecordherald.com/articles/2007/02/03/local_news/news02.txt
WAYNESBORO The average person might have one or two filing cabinets in
his or her office at work.
1010 WINS New York, Fri, 02 Feb 2007 7:51 PM PST
Soc. Sec. No.'s Listed on NY State Dept Web Site
http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=311509
The New York Department of State on Friday froze portions of a Web site
listing commercial records that identity thieves could have used to
access the Social Security Numbers of some New Yorkers - including
billionaire mogul Donald Trump.
Daily Nebraskan, Sun, 28 Jan 2007 9:15 PM PST
New letters expand UNL archives on Cather
<http://media.www.dailynebraskan.com/media/storage/paper857/news/2007/01/
29/News/New-Letters.Expand.Unl.Archives.On.Cather-2681903.shtml?sourcedom
ain=www.dailynebraskan.com&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com>
Former Pulitzer Prize winner and University of Nebraska-Lincoln
graduate Willa Cather's influence continues to spread throughout the
campus. Just ask those who received the largest collection of
Cather's letters ever donated to UNL - more than 350 letters - which
contain a significant amount of her personal correspondence and triples
the number of Cather's letters archived by UNL Libraries.
The Mac Weekly, Sun, 28 Jan 2007 9:13 PM PST
Recording oral history
http://www.themacweekly.com/articles/20070126/news/10976
The newest generation of Macalester students rarely has the opportunity
to become acquainted with the college’s heavy weights of days gone by.
Recently retired faculty and staff witnessed an era of change, a period
in which Macalester became the college it is today.
AP via Yahoo! News, Tue, 30 Jan 2007 1:33 PM PST
Congress scrutinizes Los Alamos security
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070130/ap_on_go_co/congress_nuclear_security
_2
Lawmakers threatened Tuesday to strip the Los Alamos National
Laboratory of classified operations or even shut it down after a decade
of security lapses.
Lexington Herald-Leader, Wed, 31 Jan 2007 0:17 AM PST
Web of history
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/16577234.htm?source=rss&channel
=kentucky_news
What do Tubby Smith, Eugene Jones and Nellie Conley have in common?
Besides being some of the most famous Americans of their times, the
three are among hundreds of names listed on the University of
Kentucky's Notable Kentucky African Americans Web site, a resource for
people looking for information about notable black Kentuckians.
Guardian Unlimited, Sat, 03 Feb 2007 6:28 PM PST
Girls' schools reveal secret trove of historic papers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Education/schools/story/0,,2005560,00.html?gusr
c=rss&feed=11
Forgotten archives show how Edwardian girls were groomed in grammar and
housewifery.
The Observer, Sat, 03 Feb 2007 4:10 PM PST
Girls' schools reveal secret trove of historic papers
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2005538,00.html
Thousands of old photographs, exam papers, magazines and books
unearthed from the cellars of some of the country's leading girls'
schools have revealed a remarkable picture of school life in Victorian
and Edwardian Britain.
Historic Texas documents restored, brought to library
TCU Daily Skiff - Fort Worth,TX,USA
... 270 texas legation records from the first two years of the Texas
Republic, said Chris LaPlante, state archivist at the Texas State
Library and Archives. ...
<http://www.tcudailyskiff.com/news/2007/02/02/News/Historic.Texas.Documen
ts.Restored.Brought.To.Library-2693036.shtml>
Church receives ‘rare’ photo archives
Anglican Journal - Toronto,ON,Canada
An article in the September issue of the Anglican Journal which
reported that the archives is seeking residential schools records in
preparation for the ...
<http://www.anglicanjournal.com/issues/2007/133/jan/01/article/church-rec
eives-rare-photo-archives/>
The Dynamic Center: Learning to Listen to History
411mania.com - Sugar Land,TX,USA
He is the archivist at his monastery and is the preeminent scholar in
Black Catholic studies. His notoriety, skills as a historian and
experience as an...
<http://www.411mania.com/politics/columns/50355/The-Dynamic-Center:-Learn
ing-to-Listen-to-History.htm>
Records fail to keep up with seed imports
New Zealand Herald - Auckland,New Zealand
He said biosecurity computer records showed 30 corn consignments during
the past 12 months with incomplete records. In one case, a consignment
of seed corn ...
<http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10422046>
House raid yields Local 183 papers
Daily Commercial News - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Lawyers for Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA) are
in Barrie court today looking to get their hands on computer records
and Local 183 ...
<http://dcnonl.com/article/20070202200>
A much loved, maligned president retains respect over decades
Hyde Park Townsman - Hyde Park,NY,USA
Clark works firsthand with international scholars and high school
researchers, who tap FDR's presidential library. It is the oldest of
presidential ...
<http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1704&dept_id=71705&newsid=1778832
4&PAG=461&rfi=9>
Student Senate endorses quest for Bush Library
smudailycampus.com - Dallas,TX,USA
The past few weeks have sparked a great deal of debate nationwide
regarding the possibility of SMU hosting the George W. Bush
Presidential Library. ...
<http://www.smudailycampus.com/home/news/2007/01/31/News/Student.Senate.E
ndorses.Quest.For.Bush.Library-2687602.shtml>
New Ways to Archive Old Movies
Studio Daily - New York,NY,USA
Film May be the Best Way to Archive Film, But Does Digital Storage Have
Its Own Advantages? By Bryant Frazer. Judging from the program at the
Hollywood Post ...
<http://www.studiodaily.com/main/news/headlines/7662.html>
About that e-mail, never mind
St. Petersburg Times - St. Petersburg,FL,USA
Florida law requires those with custody of public records to deliver
them to their successors upon leaving office. E-mails related to
government business ...
<http://www.sptimes.com/2007/02/02/Hillsborough/About_that_e_mail__ne.sht
ml>
City moves toward Web-based documents
Daily News Tribune - Waltham,MA,USA
... with electronic document management software that might eventually
allow residents to search a raft of public documents from the comfort
of home. ...
<http://www.dailynewstribune.com/homepage/8998962929134993407>
Stolen Laptop Tattles, but Mine Doesn't
MIT Technology Review - Cambridge,MA,USA
When the police showed up at the apartment to apprehend the stolen
property, they found the drugs too. It's great to hear that the
laptop-recovery system ...
<http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/post.aspx?id=17514&author=garfinkel
>
District Attorney Could Complete Missing Files Investigation ...
KFDM-TV News - Beaumont,Texas,USA
Maness must now decide if the elimination of those documents proves
that someone committed the crime of "tampering with a government
record." <http://www.kfdm.com/onset?id=18798&template=article.html>
Shredding a sensitive matter
London Free Press - London,Ontario,Canada
It's not for the organization to use the same blue recycling bin for
documents requiring shredding as the bin used for recycling, which sit
under desks or
<http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/Business/2007/02/01/3497614-sun.html>
Yale Daily News
Faculty object to searches
Univ. copies info from hard drives in response to grant accounting
investigation
<http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/19728>
ONLINE ARCHIVES BRING HISTORY TO LIFE
Montclarion - Montclair,CA,USA
The history room also contains old city directories, birth and death
certificates, Oakland public school archives, an extensive Jack London
collection and ...
<http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/local/states/california
/alameda_county/montclair/16605759.htm>
Governor's paper-trail plan gets mostly good reviews
Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Sarasota,FL,USA
Charlie Crist on Thursday moved to delete the controversial
touch-screen voting machines from Florida's political memory, as he
endorsed a $32.5 million ...
<http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070202/NEWS/70
2020364>
Records change jams up truckers
Central Penn Business Journal - Harrisburg,PA,USA
Companies often need those records to defend themselves against
lawsuits, such as after accidents. Companies will spend more money
backing up files that are ...
<http://www.centralpennbusiness.com/weekly_article.asp?aID=64907804.45244
47.772876.3107988.6931952.111&aID2=59443>
Digging deep to save our heritage
This Is Lancashire - Blackburn,England,UK
... Greater Manchester Authorities, considering the possibilities which
are emerging from the development of the Greater Manchester County
Records Office. ...
<http://www.thisislancashire.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.1165731.0.d
igging_deep_to_save_our_heritage.php>
Emerging issues in electronic record-keeping and discovery
NH Business Review (subscription) - Manchester,NH,USA
Developing and implementing a formal document retention policy to
formalize rules for saving and destroying documents, including
electronic documents. ...
<http://www.nh.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070202/BUSINESSREVIEW05/7
0131033/-1/BUSINESSREVIEW>
Bush Library will receive facelift
Texas A&M The Battalion - College Station,TX,USA
The George Bush Presidential Library Complex is a few months away from
getting a major facelift. "The Museum has a lot of outdated technology
and needs to ...
<http://www.thebatt.com/news/2007/02/02/News/Bush-Library.Will.Receive.Fa
celift-2693604.shtml>
Jury Convicts Ex-Coca-Cola Secretary
Forbes - NY,USA
The government said Williams stole confidential documents and samples
of products that hadn't been launched from The Coca-Cola Co. and gave
them to Ibrahim ...
<http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/02/02/ap3391250.html>
Sensitive data dumped at recycling center Indian Consulate tossed ...
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA
Alerted by The Chronicle to the presence of confidential documents in a
corner of the recycling yard -- many of the white boxes were clearly
marked "visa ...
<http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/02/02/MNGHNNTLI81.D
TL>
Duracell employee pleads guilty to stealing trade secrets
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA
"The theft of trade secrets is a serious crime that has the potential
to cause significant economic damage to the owners of trade secrets and
their ...
<http://www.boston.com/news/local/connecticut/articles/2007/02/02/duracel
l_employee_pleads_guilty_to_stealing_trade_secrets>
Public e-mail access examined
Hartselle Enquirer - Hartselle,AL,USA
Chairman John Glasscock suggested commissioners pass on any ideas they
may have on a public records access policy to Attorney Shinn.
<http://www.hartselleenquirer.com/articles/2007/02/02/news/news2.txt>
Will standard archival specifications be included in this new ...
Stabroek News - Georgetown,Guyana
It is distressing that these records remain threatened and at risk of
total destruction and loss. A classic example is the weather beaten
records,
<http://www.stabroeknews.com/index.pl/article_letters?id=56513166>
Intellectual Property: Patent or Padlock: Patents and Trade ...
Bio Pharm - Fords,NJ,USA
A typical life sciences company probably keeps more than two-thirds of
its proprietary information in the form of trade secrets.
...<http://www.biopharm-mag.com/biopharm/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=400
870>
Peter Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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