Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sat, 30 Oct 2004 9:29 PM PDT
After the flood, municipalities work to dry out, retrieve documents http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04305/403967.stm
Working out of a municipal garage, Millvale police Chief Dean Girty has been busy drying out three years of arrest records from the late 1990s -- manila folders that were soaked when 41/2 feet of water filled the police offices during the Sept. 17 flood.


Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, Sun, 31 Oct 2004 4:10 AM PST
IU archivists help save Liberian records http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/news/local/10063249.htm
BLOOMINGTON – When Verlon Stone and Elwood Dunn traveled to Liberia this summer to assess the condition of archival materials, they were alarmed but not surprised by what they found.


TimesLeader.com, Sun, 31 Oct 2004 12:27 PM PST
Flooding still felt in lost, damaged records http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/news/breaking_news/10064647.htm
MILLVALE, Pa. - Some hung them on clotheslines. Others are drying them out with space heaters. More still have hired professionals.


Billings Gazette, Sun, 31 Oct 2004 1:16 AM PDT
Pictures of the past: Old photos share tribe history http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?ts=1&display=rednews/2004/10/31/build/wyoming/30-pictures-of-the-past.inc
RIVERTON, Wyo. - Though the haunting black-and-white pictures of them dressed in full traditional regalia seem, to most, a reminder of a bygone era to Northern Arapaho tribal members, the images of the people, with surnames like Goes In Lodge, Shavehead, Monroe and Bell, are not nearly so far removed.


STOLEN Kenyan documents find huge market in Somalia
East African Standard - Nairobi,Kenya
... some of those who buy the documents are people ... through Kenyan authorities
but their files went missing ... the passports, they normally destroy
the records to avoid ...
<http://www.eastandard.net/hm_news/news.php?articleid=4669>


A Treasure in the Attic, Too Toxic to Touch
New York Times - New York,NY,USA
... The discovery at the building, now used as a courthouse, is the kind
that archivists dream of, with one exception: for years, a broken window
has encouraged ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/31/nyregion/thecity/31jail.html>


TALE of lost treasure that proves true
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
... deposited in the Royal Bank of Scotland. But the archivists in Scotland
have no record of the treasure. The author travels to Spain to ...
<http://washingtontimes.com/books/20041030-102528-5619r.htm>


DIGITIZING photos a plus for center
South Bend Tribune - South Bend,IN,USA
... guard against.". In fact, archivists wear special gloves to prevent
the photos and other documents from being damaged. However, a ...
<http://www.southbendtribune.com/stories/2004/10/31/living.20041031-sbt-MICH-F8-Digiti_ing_photos_a_.sto>





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