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Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories 
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ARCHIVIST Urges US to Reopen Classified Files
New York Times - United States
... numbers of documents are being classified, fewer historical ... is
no justification for keeping such papers secret. ... reviewing a 
selection
of documents presented by ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/03/politics/03archives.html?hp&ex=1141362
000&en=04496c2a369e1a84&ei=5094&partner=homepage>

ARCHIVES facility opens today, but something's missing
San Antonio Express (subscription) - San Antonio,TX,USA
... at the school's expense; that they would be classified, arranged and
... "They are extremely important papers and they ... are no plans to
return the documents to the ...
<http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA030306.01B.county_arc
hives.1c96858d.html>

YAHOO! wins restraining order aginst ex-workers over trade secrets
Forbes - USA
... workers 'to systematically and illicitly acquire and misappropriate
Yahoo!'s trade secrets and illegally raid Yahoo!'s employee base.'. ...
<http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/afx/2006/03/02/afx2567245.html>

MEDICAL records found in dustbin
Salford Advertiser - Salford,England,UK
A TOP doctor from Salford is being investigated after patients' private
medical documents were found in a dustbin outside a block of flats. ...
<http://www.salfordadvertiser.co.uk/news/s/210/210029_medical_records_fou
nd_in_dustbin.html>

RECORDS Removed From Town Hall Resident Files FOI Complaint
Voices - Woodbury,CT,USA
... by registrars on both occasions that the records were not on ... 
deputy,
Jill Karpovich, was keeping the documents at her ... to be accused of
handling the files for a ...
<http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16209996&BRD=1380&PAG=461&dept
_id=157533&rfi=6>

GUATEMALA to open police archive to probe abuses
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
... painstaking process of scanning the most important files. The 
documents
contain all the daily dealings of ... books with crumbling pages are 
records
of everything ...
<http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N026058.htm>

COLUMBUS: Lawsuit filed against state Web site
Middletown Journal - Middletown,OH,USA
... were posted, remove from the site files with the ... and remove the
numbers from the documents before re ... of personal data available on
public records posted on Web ...
<http://www.middletownjournal.com/news/content/news/stories/2006/03/03/MJ
030306blackwell.html>

THE space race
BurlingtonFreePress.com - Burlington,VT,USA
... Wilson has moved some files -- old grand lists, blueprints ... In 
Stowe,
Kaiser said the records escaped a third ... Now the documents are 
threatened
by a mysterious ...
<http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060303/N
EWS02/603030305/1007&theme=>

CHINA to compile archives documenting reforms
Times of India - India
... most prominent historians, archaeologists, geographers, sociologists
and economists and plans to build a computerised database of all the 
archival
documents. ...
<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1436444.cms>

AUTHORITIES: ID-theft ring mined county Web records
Cleveland Plain Dealer - Cleveland,OH,USA
... ability to surf the Web. Some 450,000 public documents containing 
Social
Security numbers are blocked. In addition, 320,000 traffic ...
<http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/114137919
957270.xml&coll=2>

CIOS could keep companies out of hot water in court
WTN News - Madison,WI,USA
... security and regulatory challenges far beyond passwords and 
firewalls
-- including insider theft, lost data, and poor document retention, said
panelists at ...
<http://wistechnology.com/article.php?id=2739>

Felix Lowe, Jason Burke in Paris and Barbara McMahon in Rome
 Sunday January 22, 2006
 The Observer
A series of legal actions has been launched by European governments to
regain priceless works of art which they claim have been illegally
smuggled to America to be sold off to wealthy collectors and museums.
<http://arts.guardian.co.uk/arttheft/story/0,,1700476,00.html>


RECORDS Removed From Town Hall Resident Files FOI Complaint
Voices - Woodbury,CT,USA
... that her deputy, Jill Karpovich, was keeping the documents at her 
residence
because she, Mrs. Crowe, did not want to be accused of handling the 
files
 for a ...
<http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16209996&BRD=1380&PAG=461&dept
_id=157533&rfi=6>

SPY Files Available At Public Library
cbs4denver.com - Denver,CO,USA
... spy files stored at the Denver Public Library are now open to the 
public.
People can make a request and within 30 days get free copies of 
documents
detailing ...
<http://cbs4denver.com/crime/local_story_062102200.html>

ENTERPRISE Data Management
Government Technology - Folsom,CA,USA
... Unnecessary data retention is an expense today's governments can't
afford, yet ineffective data management often forces agencies to store
information they don ...
<http://www.govtech.net/govcenter/solcenter/index.php?id=98560>

HISTORY gathers dust here
Hindu - Chennai,India
... Asked why few research scholars come here, Assistant Archivist, 
R.Ranjana
explains that it is because of ... She adds that the State Archives is
badly understaffed ...
<http://www.hindu.com/2006/03/03/stories/2006030316060200.htm>

FORGOTTEN vault found in English building basement
Wesleyan Argus - Middletown,CT,USA
... have a vault in the English Department," said University Archivist
and Head ... the smell transfer to everything else in the University 
Archives
and construction ...
<http://www.wesleyanargus.com/article.php?article_id=2939>

STUDENTS to document university's ?birthday'
Diamondback Online - College Park,MD,USA
... in the Student Union. Also, Anne Turkos, the university archivist,
has agreed to preserve the photos in the university archives. ...
<http://www.diamondbackonline.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/03/03/44082d7c
74fa7>


DON'T Let Thieves Steal Your Institution's Future
Inside INdiana Business (press release) - Indianapolis,IN,USA
... Monitor and restrict record storage areas to employees who need 
access
to them to do their jobs, and consider securing such areas during 
nonbusiness
hours. ...
<http://www.insideindianabusiness.com/contributors.asp?ID=636>

BBC'S wildlife archives released
BBC News - UK
... The scheme, which already released the BBC's news archives earlier
this year, allows the material to be used for non-profit 
programme-making
in the UK. ...
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4772212.stm>

HISTORICAL Society gets grant to protect old ads
Portsmouth Herald News - Portsmouth,NH,USA
By Associated Press. CONCORD - The New Hampshire Historical Society has
won a federal grant to protect some important pieces of state history.
<http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/03042006/news/90912.htm>




Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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