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SECURITY Breach At Atlanta Firm Affects Tri-staters
WCPO - Cincinnati,OH,USA
... Information Center. Johanna Staral had her personal information 
stolen
when thieves stole computer records from her bank. "I was ...
<http://www.wcpo.com/news/2005/local/02/21/choicepoint.html>


FEDS _ three from CIA _ examine late senator's papers
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
... 10 documents. She would not disclose the exact number of papers or
their subject matter, citing UW privacy policies. The papers, now 
considered
classified, are ...
<http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/aplocal_story.asp?category=6420&slug=WA%20Jackson%20Papers>

PRESSURES Archivists Face
Washington Post - USA
The Feb. 7 editorial "A New Archivist" overlooked the pressures someone
in this position may face. I once was an archivist responsible ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42684-2005Feb21.html>

CONFIDENTIAL clinic files dumped
BBC News - E,UK
... records were found dumped in Birmingham. The files, from the 
Whittall
Street Clinic, were found in a rubbish skip near the city centre 
building.
The documents ...
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_midlands/4288409.stm>

SCHOLAR opens British can of worms in Kenya
Independent Online - South Africa
... "But when I found the files and realised ... In fact, the records of
more than 800 capital cases ... for five shillings, readers can examine
the documents firsthand. ...
<http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=87&art_id=qw1109053621880B213>

JONATHAN Turley
USA Today - USA
... More than 75% of counties include Social Security numbers on public
documents, exposing as many as 94% of citizens to identity theft. ...
<http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/2005-02-21-identity-theft_x.htm>

GOLDSCHMIDT records are now available online
Katu.com - Portland,OR,USA
... "The State Archives is a public resource, and I am extremely proud
to provide free and easy public access to these records on the web.".
...
<http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=75161>

CANADIAN AV archives inducts Peterson, Follows, Frum
CBC Edmonton - Edmonton,Alberta,Canada
... Since its establishment in 2000, Masterworks has inducted 60 
Canadian
works into its archives, including sketch comedy show SCTV; Cré-Basile!,
Quebec's first ...
<http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2005/02/22/Arts/masterworks050222.html>

VENANGO County Archives Email
Byteandswitch.com - New York,NY,USA
"While archiving for storage purposes is the leading driver for 
deployment
of archiving solutions, regulatory compliance is the second most 
powerful
driver. ...
<http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=68533>

GIVE tapes to National Archives
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA
... is anything but a betrayal. But he should also arrange to turn the
tapes over to the National Archives. Some years from now, when ...
<http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/opinion/article/0,1299,DRMN_38_3565356,00.html>

NEW Book Aids Irish History Research
Scotsman - UK
Entitled Handbook and Select Calendar of Sources for Medieval Ireland in
the National Archives of the United Kingdom, the book is jointly edited
by Dr Brendan ...
<http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4163295>

GET a Grip on Your Data
SQL Server Magazine (subscription) - Loveland,CO,USA
... 7-year retention period that the government recommends for personal
records. After this archive period, I dispose of the registers via a 
document
shredder and ...
<http://www.windowsitpro.com/Windows/Article/ArticleID 
/45245/45245.html>


POLES nervous as their secret past becomes public
Financial Times - UK
... Until now the IPN had been methodical about releasing secret police
files, fearing that those that survived shredding in 1989 could be 
inaccurate.
...
<http://news.ft.com/cms/s/bb7087f8-8476-11d9-ad81-00000e2511c8.html>

RAMBUS Destroyed Evidence in Patent Suit, Lawyer Says (Update2)
Bloomberg - USA
... ``We are confident that the hearing will help to clarify and 
determine
the facts surrounding Rambus's document destruction, false statements
made under oath ...
<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000100&sid=ai8fBY.m0XYU&refer=germany>

KEEP fees for public records realistic
News-Herald.com - Willoughby,OH,USA
Put yourself in the position of Lake County Recorder Frank A. Suponcic.
It is your statutory duty to record and keep on file every ...
< 
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14006328&BRD=1698&PAG=461&dept_id=21846&rfi=6>

PRIVACY fleeting in Internet world
Mason City Globe Gazette - Mason City,IA,USA
... "How can a man be less than outraged by this destruction of his ...
easy to find as tapping a few buttons on a computer keyboard or browsing
through records at the ...
< 
http://www.globegazette.com/articles/2005/02/22/local/doc421accf10838a773283934.txt>

AT your service?
ComputerWeekly.com - UK
... "Electronic document and records management systems should play a 
central
role in the overall strategy," says a spokesman for Open Text, but adds,
"Open Text ...
<http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=136857&liArticleTypeID=20&liCategoryID=2&liChannelID=28&liFlavourID=1&sSearch=&nPage=1>

Chesterton Tribune, Mon, 21 Feb 2005 1:15 PM PST
Calumet Regional Archives a treasure trove of Region history
http://chestertontribune.com/Local%20History/calumet_regional_archives_a_trea.htm
Maps of the shore of Lake Michigan from the early 1800s, minutes of the 
Save the
Dunes Council from 1952-1966, Arthur Anderson photographs and original 
South
Shore posters are just a few of the things visitors can see at the 
Calumet
Regional Archives located at Indiana University Northwest in Gary.

ChoicePoint: Verdict still out
> Identity theft fallout may include litigation, access limits
<http://www.ajc.com/news/content/business/0205/20choicepoint.html>

New York Times 2/17/05
Bits of History (of Bits) on the Auction Block
By KATIE HAFNER
IN the spring of 1946, J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly sent out a 
business plan for a company that
would sell "electronic computors." In their eight-page proposal for 
financing, sent to a handful of
prospective backers, the two engineers predicted that the market for 
such a machine might consist of
scientific laboratories, universities and government agencies.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/17/technology/circuits/17bidd.html?>

Fight over 'forms' clouds future of Net applications
By Paul Festa, CNET News.com
<http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5581106.html>

U.S. Newswire via Yahoo! News, Tue, 22 Feb 2005 1:45 PM PST
Clinton Library Opens Presidential Papers for Research 
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usnw/20050222/pl_usnw/clinton_library_opens_presidential_papers_for_research135_xml
The William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum, 1200 President 
Clinton
Avenue, Little Rock, Ark., announced that it is making over 100,000 
pages of
Clinton presidential records available for research. They represent the 
first
public release of Clinton presidential records since the end of the 
Clinton
Administration. This opening is a collaborative effort between the 
National





Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Richmond, Va
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