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MOTOR CITY JOURNAL: Museums embark on rocky journey
Detroit Free Press - United States
... Wayne. An Ohio native, Polacsek, 55, has a master's degree in
history
from Bowling Green State University and is trained as an archivist. ...
<http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060327/NEWS01/60327041
3>
Daily Illini
Personal information exposed
Department of Computer Science apologizes to students, alumni for
accidentally making Social Security numbers available on Web
<http://www.dailyillini.com/media/paper736/news/2006/03/27/News/Personal.
Information.Exposed-1717593.shtml?norewrite200603271036&sourcedomain=www.
dailyillini.com>
Historical society receives Civil War letters
Barre Montpelier Times Argus - Barre,VT,USA
A cache of letters penned during the Civil War by a young Castleton
soldier
has been presented to the Vermont Historical Society by a Rutland
family.
<http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060327/NEWS/60327
0323/1002>
Burlington's grand dame of history gives her last historical ...
BurlingtonFreePress.com - Burlington,VT,USA
... Carlisle didn't miss a beat during the Chittenden County Historical
Society presentation, but a collective sigh rippled through the crowd
when society ...
<http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060327/N
EWS02/603270302/1007&theme=>
County begins purging paper: Imaging process converts paper ...
West Central Tribune - Willmar,MN,USA
... Government documents, evaluation forms and even sticky notes with
hand-scrawled
... Shredding that first file was "scary," said Barb Hyland, office
support for ...
<http://www.wctrib.com/articles/index.cfm?id=5997§ion=homepage>
Another Laptop Gone
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
Fidelity Investments said last week that an employee's laptop stolen
during
an off-site business meeting contained the personal information--names,
addresses ...
<http://www.informationweek.com/security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=1837
02743>
DIY Data Recovery
ComputerWorld - USA
... recover specific files from backed-up data comes from careless users
who delete important files, regulators who demand quick access to
records,
and corporate ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/industrytopics/smallenterprise/story/0,1080
1,109849,00.html>
HIPAA info worth looking over to ensure privacy of medical records
Lufkin Daily News - Lufkin,TX,USA
... Doctors are chagrined that medical records belong to patients and
not
them. Health ... To request changes in your medical records. Providers
<http://www.lufkindailynews.com/featr/content/features/stories/2006/03/27
/20060327LDNhealth.html>
Is Your Data Encryption Really Secure
DailyIndia.com - Niskayuna,NY,USA
... This is typically saved in the c:\documents and settings\"profile
name"\local
settings ... document and need to undue your actions, one of these temp
files may be ...
<http://www.dailyindia.com/show/12138.php>
Court clerks ask for help in ensuring our privacy
Fort Pierce Tribune (subscription) - Fort Pierce,FL,USA
... With the goal of combating identity theft, the state has given court
... useful with numbers in digitized documents, not information like
trade
secrets often found ...
<http://www.tcpalm.com/tcp/local_news/article/0,2545,TCP_16736_4572731,00
.html>
Privacy concerns in Healthelink trial
Australian IT - Australia
... The largest and most ambitious Australian health e-records project,
Healthelink's success depends on patients and doctors trusting the
system,
seeing the ...
<http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,18623462%5E15441%5E%5Enb
v%5E15306-15319,00.html>
Looking forward, preserving the past
Iowa City Press Citizen - Iowa City,IA,USA
... volunteer project involves collaboration between the UI Library's
conservation
department, the Beauvoir Jefferson Davis Home and Presidential Library,
and the ...
<http://www.press-citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060327/NEWS01/
603270305/1079>
Fed Up With Tape, Hospital Sings Praises of Jukebox
ComputerWorld - USA
... bed hospital in Huntington, W.Va., first began using an optical
jukebox
from Melbourn, England-based Plasmon PLC to store medical records
storage
almost five ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/storage/story/0,10801,109913
,00.html>
City Hall probes own staff over fixing records
The Mindanao Daily Mirror - Davao City,Philippines
The City Legal Office has started investigating the falsification of
public
documents allegedly by employees of the Human Resource and Management
Office which ...
<http://bond.lanesystems.com/sitegen/article.asp?wid=125&cid=450&aid=3624
2>
The Biloxi Sun Herald, Sun, 26 Mar 2006 1:11 AM PST
Coast's rich history deepened by Katrina
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/local/14189602.htm?source=rss
&channel=sunherald_local
To Gary Frost, the stains and smudges left by Hurricane Katrina on the
pages of a Civil War letter have done what historians can only dream
of: Given
an old relic a new story to tell.
The politics of data security
CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
... states--more than 20 as of a year ago--have been considering data
breach
laws in response to a series of high-profile data mishaps by ChoicePoint
and other ...
<http://news.com.com/The+politics+of+data+security/2008-7348_3-6053898.ht
ml>
Bit by bit, UCA trove keeps state's past alive
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (subscription) - Little Rock,AR,USA
... Stored nearby at the University of Central Arkansas Archives is a
homesick
soldier's handwritten letter to his mother in Pine Bluff, dated the
day after ...
<http://www.ardemgaz.com/ShowStoryTemplate.asp?Path=ArDemocrat/2006/03/27
&ID=Ar00705&Section=Arkansas>
Collections in the archives
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (subscription) - Little Rock,AR,USA
Here are a few of the organizations and people whose collections are
stored
in the University of Central Arkansas Archives: Jimmy Driftwood,
songwriter
and ...
<http://www.ardemgaz.com/ShowStoryTemplate.asp?Path=ArDemocrat/2006/03/27
&ID=Ar00902&Section=Arkansas>
Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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