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New Orleans Times-Picayune, Mon, 14 May 2007 11:44 PM PDT
Preserving paper trails
http://www.nola.com/living/t-p/index.ssf?/base/living-8/117921057163560.xml&coll=1
Leaving the city just days after Katrina, City Park archivist Sally
Reeves
detoured from her evacuation route to attend a meeting of the Southern
Garden
History Society in Old Salem, N.C. She was asked to give a brief
history of City
Park.
D-Lib Magazine, Tue, 15 May 2007 1:23 PM PDT
Creating the Next Generation of Archival Finding Aids
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may07/yakel/05yakel.html
Since the advent of the Internet, access to information about primary
sources
has improved.
Deseret Morning News, Wed, 16 May 2007 11:13 PM PDT
80 billion family files to go online
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660221331,00.html
In what officials say will be a quantum leap forward in providing
family history
information online, the LDS Church has announced a plan designed to
eventually
help provide access to as many as 80 billion family records on the Web,
in
addition to the tens of billions of records it is currently indexing
out of its
own Granite Vault microfilm archives.
The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, Thu, 17 May 2007 1:53 PM PDT
Survivors blast Holocaust Museum over archive access restrictions
http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=17676
The International Tracing Service's Bad Arolsen archive. Photo courtesy
Edwin
Black Holocaust survivors are venting their anger at the United States
Holocaust
Memorial Museum in Washington over its decision not to allow immediate
electronic access to the long-secret records of the International
Tracing
Service at Bad Arolsen, Germany.
The Morganton News Herald, Fri, 18 May 2007 5:25 AM PDT
Burke County sets public records policy
http://www.morganton.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=MNH%2FMGArticle%2FMNH_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173351247894&path=!news
MORGANTON - For the first time, the county has a public records policy
on the
books. The policy makes it clear that all county documents, photos,
videos,
maps, computer files and e-mails are available to the public.
The Morganton News Herald, Fri, 18 May 2007 5:25 AM PDT
Burke County Public Record Policy
http://www.morganton.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=MNH%2FMGArticle%2FMNH_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173351248057&path=!news
Whereas, Burke County employees shall strive to be prompt and
transparent when
any citizen makes a verbal or written request for public records, we
also must
commit to protecting the community by ensuring that confidentiality
laws are not
violated.
The Salt Lake Tribune, Sat, 19 May 2007 11:36 AM PDT
Online genealogy just got easier
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_5934059?source=rss
For the first time ever, the LDS Church is joining forces with various
archives,
libraries and family-history Web sites in an effort to open a floodgate
of free
records and images onto the Internet.
The News Journal, Sat, 19 May 2007 0:48 AM PDT
Two Sussex towns in spat over records fees
http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070519/NEWS/705190371
When the town of Greenwood formally requested documents from the town
of
Bridgeville, which handles its sewer service, it got a surprising
response.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Sat, 19 May 2007 9:36 PM PDT
The man who saved Coke
http://www.ajc.com/services/content/living/stories/2007/05/20/0520lvcoke.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=11
Phil Mooney's office was a virtual museum when he started 30 years ago
as
archivist for the Coca-Cola Co. So many people tramped through to look
at the
vintage bottles, trays and calendars that he had it all removed so he
could get
some work done. "I said that if a museum was important, my office
wasn't the
place for it," he remembers. "We needed a real museum." He got his
wish. Twice.
Buckingham Today, Mon, 21 May 2007 2:11 AM PDT
Dark Archivist website launched
http://www.buckinghamtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?sectionid=716&articleid=2884905
SCROLLS discovered in a Bicester attic form part of a new website
dedicated to
Oxfordshire's past. (5/17/2007 10:10:32 AM)
Peter Kurilecz
Richmond, VA
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