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NC cities want to sue over public records requests
Winston-Salem Journal - Winston-Salem,NC,USA
RALEIGH, NC - North Carolina cities and other government agencies are
pursuing
the authority to sue citizens who ask to see public records. ...
<http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ%2FMGArticle%2FWSJ_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031781691610&path=!localnews&s=1037645509099>
DISPUTES on Archiving of Nixon Documents
Los Angeles Times (subscription) - CA,USA
When the archives tried to open some of Nixon's White House files in
1987,
the ... libraries." Perhaps not, as the archives opened many of the
documents
to the ...
<http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/letters/la-le-nixon20.1mar20,0,5808798.story?coll=la-news-comment-letters>
A magical history tour
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader - Wilkes Barre,PA,USA
... of deeds, controller's, treasurer's and prothonotary's offices still
use antique embossers to stamp their office names onto some formal
documents.
...
<http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/11184499.htm>
OFFICIALS fishing on the job?
Daily News - Galveston County - TX,USA
... the e-mail in The News' possession, there is at least one document
responsive to ... However, the agency's records retention schedule says
that general e-mails ...
<http://galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=dd0d7514207140ea>
GOLDWATER papers uncataloged 7 years after death
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... "Goldwater threw nothing away," said Linda A. Whitaker, the
archivist
and librarian who is picking through 60 years of material that fill 900
boxes. ...
<http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0320goldwater20.html>
SCRUBBING Your Hard Drive; Going Online to Complain
Washington Post - USA
... deleting a file does not destroy its data -- it only erases the
records
of its ... scrub out every trace of a file or folder; for example, Sure
Delete (www.wizard ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48975-2005Mar19.html>
BEFORE the Doors, Morrison acted at FSU
Orlando Sentinel (subscription) - Orlando,FL,USA
... the discovery. I like this story because it brings some attention to
archivists, the unsung heroes of historical scholarship. The ...
<http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orange/orl-ororflash20032005mar20,1,3325182.story?coll=orl-news-headlines-orange>
TO the Archives: The New Russian History Imperiled
LA Canyon News - Beverly Hills,CA,USA
It is because the Soviets were such good archivists that one of the most
exciting fields in history today is the "new" field of Soviet Studies.
...
<http://www.canyon-news.com/artman/publish/article_2635.php>
OLD records get new life
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader - Wilkes Barre,PA,USA
... county must buy electronic voting machines and store them in a
climate-controlled
space starting next year, space for older, historical county records
could
be ...
<http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/news/11184480.htm>
READING Old Handwriting
50 Connect - UK
Interest in the subject can be gauged by the popularity of The National
Archives' online censuses, which have received more than 100 million
searches
since ...
<http://50connect.co.uk/50c/gene.asp?article=12221>
MAYOR under fire over shredding
BBC News - E,UK
... admitted documents were shredded ahead of new disclosure rules under
the Freedom of Information Act. The mayor said many papers were "lost
during shredding ...
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/4365895.stm>
BOSS can check your e-mail, now or later
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... For example, Arthur Andersen LLP was convicted of obstruction of
justice
in 2001 for shredding Enron-related documents, including e-mails. ...
<http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/business/articles/0320email20.html>
FIXING the FBI
U.S. News & World Report - USA
... Mueller had invited reporters for a special demonstration of a
supposedly
revolutionary records-management software package called Virtual Case
File. ...
<http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/050328/28fbi.htm>
Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Richmond, Va
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