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Washington Technology - Washington,DC,USA
... applications and formats. Common standards for e-records storage and
archiving are just beginning to have an impact. The largest ...
<http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/21_04/cover-stories/28057-1.htm
l>

HERB Weisbaum: What You Should Know About Online Photo Storage
KOMO - Seattle,WA,USA
... pictures. Have you signed up with one of those free digital storage
sites yet? They ... money. Remember, digital storage isn't cheap. Some
<http://www.komo1000news.com/consumertip/story.asp?ID=42085>

WORLD War 1 Prisoner Records
50 Connect - UK
... execution, a recently completed cataloguing project of Prisoner of
War files at The ... Examples of documents within file FO 383/15 include
the following records. ...
<http://www.50connect.co.uk/50c/gene.asp?article=13369>

METRO e-mail backup policy raises questions
Nashville City Paper - Nashville,TN,USA
... The Tennessee Public Records law requires public records, including
"electronic data processing files," be retained for a specified amount
of time. ...
<http://www.nashvillecitypaper.com/index.cfm?section_id=9&screen=news&new
s_id=48108>

PREPARING for Electronic Medical Records
abc11tv.com - Raleigh-Durham-Fayetteville,NC,USA
(02/27/06 - SAUGERTIES, NY) - Some day, paper records will disappear ...
X-ray report on another patient -- tasks that used to require phone 
calls
or paper files. ...
< http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=central&id=3944104>

HISTORY'S future
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
... But he spoke mostly of the Electronic Records Archives project, 
which
would preserve and make accessible millions of documents from the 
digital
era -- e-mails ...
<http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/13972839.htm>


DELOITTE loses McAfee employee data
ComputerWeekly.com - UK
... The data loss is the latest to hit corporate America, including big
losses at Bank of America twice, and credit rating company ChoicePoint.
<http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2006/02/27/214415/DeloittelosesMc
Afeeemployeedata.htm>

LAPTOPS Stolen From E&Y Auditors
BankNet 360 - New York,NY,USA
... This theft follows the loss of a laptop by another Ernst & Young 
employee,
who had his laptop stolen from his car. The laptop had ...
<http://www.banknet360.com/news/NewsAbstract.do?na_id=2073>

IDIOT Watch II: Ernst & Young Data Breach
Security Pronews - Lexington,KY,USA
... Another big four member, Ernst & Young, announced they lost 
information
too. And remarkably, an employee's laptop was stolen from their 
automobile.
<http://www.securitypronews.com/insiderreports/insider/spn-49-20060227Idi
otWatchIIErnstYoungDataBreach.html>

PLANNED digital archive would help preserve modern annals
Bradenton Herald - FL, United States
FORT WORTH, Texas -- In his first visit to Fort Worth since becoming 
archivist
of the United States last year, Allen Weinstein, the keeper of the 
nation's
<http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/nation/13973481.htm>

LADY & the Tramp Celebrates it's 50th Anniversary
Movie Web - USA
... The second group are the Archivists, a digital archivist and a hands
on one; they store ... The archive rooms hold all the art from the over
70 year history of the ...
<http://www.movieweb.com/dvd/news/37/11237.php>

Wall Street Journal 2/6/2006
The downside of online photo-storage
Determined to make money, Web sites quietly place requirements on users
<http://www.baltimoresun.com/technology/bal-photos0206,1,4638117.story?tr
ack=rss>


FINLAND: Internet data retention to start in 2009?
eFinland - Finland
Helsinki, 27 February, 2006 -- Finland intends to postpone the entry 
into
force of mandatory telecom data retention in the case of the Internet
for as long as ...
<http://e.finland.fi/netcomm/news/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=48305>

OZARK Profile : Archivist finds space for records dating back to ...
Northwest Arkansas Times - Fayetteville,AR,USA
... That's the situation Tony Wappel faces as Washington County 
archivist
and records manager. Wappel runs the Washington County Archives Office
with two other ...
<http://nwanews.com/nwat/News/37934/>

PAPER piles are not a storage solution
Washington Technology - Washington,DC,USA
... the need for every agency to save copies of everything lies with 
open
standards, so that no matter what system you're using to store 
e-records,
it can ...
<http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/21_04/editors-notes/28063-1.htm
l>

UK. Waterways archives opened up to worldwide audience
BYM News (press release) - Gibraltar,Spain
But on 16 February The Waterways Trust launched a new website which has
transformed access to the archives, opening up the history of Britain's
waterways to ...
<http://www.bymnews.com/new/content/view/25398/82/>

CLASSIFYING Toothpaste
Washington Post - United States
... The National Archives, the keeper of these records, announced last
week that its Information Security Oversight Office has launched an 
audit
of the ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/26/AR200602
2601087.html>

DRIVE killers
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA
... Whatever you do, the common practice of dragging files into the 
desktop
recycling bin ... Prices can vary from $10 at LifeSpan for a hard drive
shredding to as ...
<http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/tech/article/0,2777,DRMN_23910_449
8778,00.html>


PAPER shreds going to waste
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... The rule specifies disposal as burning, shredding or pulverizing 
paper
documents. Improper disposal could result in fines of up to $2,500 per
violation. ...
<http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0227ShreddedPape
r0227.html>

RECORDS Access Bill On Hold
KUTV - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
... Under HB12, citizen e-mail or other correspondence would become a 
protected
record that would be available only under an approved records request
or if one of ...
<http://kutv.com/local/local_story_058173457.html>

SAVING HISTORY FROM THE GRAVE
Isle of Wight County Press - Newport,England,UK
... He took a part-time job in the county records office and went on to
work full-time in the archive world before becoming curator of 
Carisbrooke
Castle Museum. ...
<http://www.iwcp.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=1252&ArticleID=1367398
>

CITY keeps many records private
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
... government attorney, said Rep. Toby Nixon, R-Kirkland, who 
frequently
pushes in support of open-records law. Perry acknowledged that ...
<http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/260967_records27.html>

Star-Gazette, Mon, 27 Feb 2006 0:44 AM PST
Cornell's calls of the wild
http://www.stargazettenews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060227/NEWS01

09/602270317
Sounds stored at university library have been used in Hollywood. ITHACA
Twitters, trills and croaks: These are the specialties of Cornell 
University's
Macaulay Library.



Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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