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Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
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Stiff fines for destroying documents
Legalbrief (subscription) - Durban,South Africa
The Age reports that the Crimes (Document Destruction) Bill 2006 makes
it an offence to destroy, or prevent from being tendered in evidence,
documents that are ...
<http://www.legalbrief.co.za/article.php?story=20060405083548519>
Tram time travellers go back to the future
Sheffield Today - England,UK
... The records have now been donated to Sheffield Archives and can be
accessed by researchers and historians. Sheffield archivist Bob Hale
said:
"The documents ...
<http://www.sheffieldtoday.net/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=58&ArticleID=1
421660>
Bancroft library receives SF Examiner's archives
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
... "It's a staggering rich collection," explained James Eason,
principal
archivist for the ... will be known as the Fang Family San Francisco
Examiner
Archives, was a ...
<http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/14264830.h
tm>
CU archives history
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA
... CU's archivist persuaded Kurdish owners of the documents - the
Kurdish
Democratic Party and rival Patriotic Union of Kurdistan - to store them
in CU's growing ...
<http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_45967
92,00.html>
Deleting May Be Easy, but Your Hard Drive Still Tells All
New York Times - United States
... been changed and by whom. His client got his money. Digital storage
of information has become ubiquitous. In 2003, the School of ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/05/technology/techspecial4/05forensic.htm
l?ex=1144382400&en=30ad5d2b99273b5d&ei=5087>
Feds fail to protect privacy rights, auditors report
CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
The Government Accountability Office reviewed federal use of
"information
resellers" such as ChoicePoint and LexisNexis and found that 91 percent
of spending ...
<http://news.com.com/2061-10796_3-6058031.html>
Agencies Not Protecting Privacy Rights, GAO Says
Washington Post - United States
... The 83-page report, the subject of a congressional hearing
yesterday,
was spurred in part by massive security breaches reported last year by
ChoicePoint Inc. ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/04/AR200604
0401727.html>
Wellcome Trust fuelled bid to save British science treasure
Nature.com (subscription) - London,England,UK
... to 1682, and feature many personal comments from Hooke, former
secretary
of the society and one of its most influential scientists. The
manuscript
was found in ...
<http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060403/full/440725b.html>
County to review data storage to safeguard against ID theft
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
By Leslie Wolf Branscomb. Those are just some of the hundreds of
thousands
of records maintained by the county, all containing private information
about people. ...
<http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20060405-9999-1m5idtheft.html>
The Arkivists
LA Weekly - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... it was drool time for any salt-worthy jazz archivist - like
discovering
... Its 102,839 square feet of humming, temperature-controlled archive
space is where the ...
<http://www.laweekly.com/books/13054/the-arkivists/>
Pacific bases to begin transition to electronic medical records ...
Stars and Stripes - Washington,D.C.,USA
... tri-service medical system, meaning that Camp Zama, Yokota Air Base,
Camp Fuji and all the US Navy ships also will rely on Yokosuka to
maintain
medical records ...
<http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=36268>
Privacy left off the prescription for medical records to go online
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... Put a database in front of them that allows them to check the
medical
records and home address of everyone they've known (and people they
don't
know) and some ...
<http://smh.com.au/news/opinion/privacy-left-off-the-prescription-for-med
ical-records-to-go-online/2006/04/05/1143916591660.html>
Patients' records posted on auction site
Salem News - MA, USA
DANVERS - For several days, the private medical records of mentally ill
patients were listed for sale on a popular Internet-based auction site,
posted among ...
<http://www.ecnnews.com/cgi-bin/05/snstory.pl?-sec-News+1k589g0+fn-daneba
y-20060405->
Smithsonian deal with Showtime draws fire
Ars Technica - Boston,MA,USA
... This includes the National Air and Space Museum Film Archive and
Human
Studies Film Archives, along extensive collections of photographs and
music. ...
<http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060404-6523.html>
Mo. archives wins federal grant
St. Louis Business Journal - St. Louis,MO,USA
The State Archives is a division of Secretary of State Robin Carnahan's
office. Carnahan announced the grant Tuesday. The funds ...
<http://stlouis.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stories/2006/04/03/daily32.html?j
st=b_ln_hl>
Exel sues former employees, accuses competitor of stealing trade ...
Memphis Business Journal - Memphis,TN,USA
... Exel Transportation Services Inc., which is suing a competitor
staffed
by several former Exel executives who Exel says allegedly stole trade
secrets from their ...
<http://memphis.bizjournals.com/memphis/stories/2006/04/03/daily22.html?j
st=b_ln_hl>
Lockheed suit: Orlando unit's secrets stolen
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA
has sued three former employees, a key competitor and a subcontractor,
accusing them of conspiring to steal trade secrets involving a lucrative
simulation ...
<http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/orl-lockheed0506apr05,0,4596716.
story?coll=orl-business-headlines>
For the record
Computerworld Singapore - Singapore
... This may serve to fuel the trend towards e-mail retention and
protection,
he says. "It is after all, the most voluminous correspondence document
type in any ...
<http://computerworld.com.sg/ShowPage.aspx?pagetype=2&articleid=3686&pubi
d=3&issueid=87>
PR Web, Wed, 05 Apr 2006 0:41 AM PDT
Ancestor-Friendly Spacesaving Solutions Just in Time for Spring
Cleaning
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/4/prweb367150.htm
When families are tidying up their residences this year, they can save
storage space and those precious family heirlooms by uploading and/or
donating
the contents of old, all-but-forgotten photo boxes at Dead Fred
Genealogy
Photo Archive. Photo sharing on DeadFred.com has already resulted in
close to
700 reported photo reunions to date. [PRWEB Apr 5, 2006]
Mortuary gives way to county records
News-Leader.com - Springfield,MO,USA
A 77-year-old Springfield funeral home is set to become a morgue for
county
documents. Thieme-Shadel Funeral Service announced Tuesday ...
<http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060405/BUSINESS/
604050328/1092>
Graduate fellows research opens archival collections
UNM Today - Albuquerque,NM,USA
Four graduate fellows funded by the Center for Regional Studies will
give
short presentations about their projects working with archival
collections
at the ...
<http://www.unm.edu/~market/cgi-bin/archives/001158.html>
Historical society lands artifact collection
Camp Verde Bugle - Camp Verde,AZ,USA
... Last week, the Camp Verde Historical Society became the benefactor
of Clifton's searches, his family's treasure trove and a professional
excavation of the well ...
<http://campverdebugle.1upsoftware.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=
1&ArticleID=17615&TM=25960.61>
Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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