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Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories 
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Supreme Court rules against City of Akron records' destruction
Akron Beacon Journal - Akron,OH,USA
COLUMBUS, Ohio - The city of Akron could be forced to pay $860,000 for
destroying records that documented how much time off two secretaries 
earned,
a divided ...
<http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/news/state/14143881.htm>

Glass negatives become treasure
Belleville News-Democrat - Belleville,IL,USA
... "They really look as if you could know them," Schlesinger said of 
the
people in the 169 photographs she developed from long-dusted-over glass
negatives. ...
<http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/local/14141308.htm>

University of Mississippi Selects Mobius
B-EYE-Network - Boulder,CO,USA
Mobius Management Systems, a provider of solutions for integrated 
content
and records management, recently announced that the University of 
Mississippi
has ...
<http://www.b-eye-network.com/view/2583?jsessionid=8c59fd160c6945aaede5f0
7027247540>

Messaging Architects, Nexsan Combine Email Archiving and Secure ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... The integrated solution manages the entire lifecycle of an email 
from
creation to destruction. Assureon is designed to grow as storage needs
growth. ...
<http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/0
3-20-2006/0004323418&EDATE=>

Blancco ? Stealth Cleaner Locks Up Data on Retired PCs for Good
Market Wire (press release) - USA
... proved to be the global specialist in the field of professional data
destruction and computer ... Tel: +1 678 576 8140 Fax: +1 678 560 8764
Email: Email Contact Mrs ...
<http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=113757>

Don?t Let Memories Fade
IT Backbones (press release) - Emborough,Somerset,UK
... VCD players and transforms analogue recordings into digital and then
records them onto ... Arrange, sequence and add/delete video clips on
a storyboard, use a wide ...
<http://www.mothballit.com/pr/5939>

First Amendment advocates alarmed by e-mail bill
Tallahassee.com - Tallahassee,FL,USA
... that would carve an exemption to the Florida Constitution that 
guarantees
access to public records. ... And if one gets through, there's always
the delete button.".
<http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060320/BREAKINGN
EWS/603200335>

FBI's Charlotte office takes lead on IP theft cases
Charlotte Business Journal - Charlotte,NC,USA
... "If they can cut corners on R&D through stealing trade secrets, 
they'll
... says FBI agents are actively investigating local cases of 
intellectual
property theft. ...
<http://charlotte.bizjournals.com/charlotte/stories/2006/03/20/focus3.htm
l>

GM Must Face Retrial on Claim of Trade Secrets Theft (Update1)
Bloomberg - USA
... GM will have to defend against the claims a second time in a case 
asserting
hundreds of millions of dollars in damages for the alleged theft of 
trade
secrets. ...
<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=as3OadWPCNqI&refer=u
s>

Agency bringing order to old records
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (subscription) - Little Rock,AR,USA
... cabinets. Records Manager Wanda Watson said little attention was 
paid
to how the papers in the archives were stored originally. ...
<http://www.ardemgaz.com/ShowStoryTemplate.asp?Path=ArDemocrat/2006/03/20
&ID=Ar00704&Section=Arkansas>

Leaks of Patient Information to the Media: Can the Press be ...
Mondaq News Alerts - London,UK
A patient?s right to confidentiality of his medical records is well 
known.
It is equally well known that journalists will invariably ...
<http://www.mondaq.com/i_article.asp_Q_articleid_E_38478>

Udall: Save medical records
Los Alamos Monitor - Los Alamos,NM,USA
After a tour of several Los Alamos facilities jammed with filthy and 
decaying
medical records slated for destruction, Rep. Tom Udall ...
<http://www.lamonitor.com/articles/2006/03/20/headline_news/news02.txt>

A battle brews between blue-laser optical disk and tape
Techworld.com - London,UK
... transfer rate of 72Mbit/s, making the discs suitable for video 
recording
as well as data storage and file ... "If you want to go to individual
records for restores ...
<http://www.techworld.com/storage/features/index.cfm?FeatureID=2349>

Congress may gut identity-theft laws
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
... The law helped publicize data breaches at ChoicePoint and dozens of
other firms and put millions of Americans on notice that they were at
risk of identity theft ...
<http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/opinion/14141719.htm>

Always and forever in deed
Fort Wayne News Sentinel - Fort Wayne,IN,USA
... two-page letter, walked into the McHenry County, Ill., recorder of
deeds office and ... Sprinkled among the millions of documents are bits
of love, fear, apology ...
<http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/living/14142068.htm>

XML In Government: Promise And Politics
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
... and applications that read it, are far more likely to be available
in 300 years when our great-grandchildren want to read the electronic
records we create today ...
<http://www.informationweek.com/software/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=1837
00357>

Appeals Court Overturns Quattrone's Conviction
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... federal investigations into alleged kickbacks from initial public 
offerings
by urging staff members through e-mails to purge documents from their
files. ...
<http://www.latimes.com/business/la-032006quattrone_lat,0,3919582.story?c
oll=la-home-headlines>

Computer files likely Exhibit A
Newark Star Ledger - NJ, USA
... a crime scene. And in civil lawsuits, it often meant an 
incriminating
memo buried in a warehouse of paper documents. Then came the ...
<http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-5/1142836334123280.xm
l&coll=1>

Group collecting architectural archives
The Republic.com (subscription) - Columbus,IN,USA
... Hired by Columbus Indiana Architectural Archives with a donation 
from
Columbus Area Visitors Center, Cook is a full-time archive worker at 
Indiana
University. ...
<http://www.therepublic.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=111&Article
ID=95185&TM=23992>


Meet the Asbo ancestors
BBC News - UK
... And if that Asbo-like verdict sounds familiar, it's because one of
the oldest charities in the UK has been delving into its archives to 
discover
how society ...
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4824808.stm>

U of I document repairers tackle toll of Katrina
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
... University of Iowa's library preservation department is helping put
back what 12 feet of hurricane-fed water stole from a presidential 
library
in Mississippi ...
<http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060320/NEWS08/
603200332/1001>

Wired News, Sun, 19 Mar 2006 11:06 PM PST
Archaic Sounds Reach Modern Ears
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70378-0.html?tw=rss.technology
 From ragtime tunes to historic speeches, vintage cylinder recordings
come back to life, thanks to a nifty device and a California library's 
impressive
campaign to digitize. By Rachel Metz.

DataStorage-DataStorageConnection, Mon, 20 Mar 2006 1:53 PM PST
CA Delivers Enterprise Message Management And Compliance Support For
Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g
http://www.datastorageconnection.com/content/news/article.asp?docid=7efb1

d81-f148-4c5d-8048-40d1312a8b98&atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a
CA today announced the integration of CA Message Manager e-mail archive
and management solution (formerly Assentor Enterprise) with Oracle
Collaboration Suite 10g integrated collaborative environment.




Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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