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Society acquires historic china set, business records
MaineToday.com - Portland,ME,USA
AUGUSTA -- When luncheon or holiday tea is served at the Kennebec
Historical
Society, diners may sit down to service on delicate china plates and
teacups
<http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/news/local/2648081.shtml>
How to remove personal files before you ditch your old PC
CNET.com.au - Australia
... thousands of active credit card numbers, along with pharmaceutical
records, legal correspondence ... If you defragment your drive and
delete
all of the files at a ...
<http://cnet.com.au/desktops/pcs/0,39029439,40062001,00.htm>
Computer backup keeps college's student records safe
The Tennessean - Nashville,TN,USA
... administrative building April 7 did not take with it any student
records,
college officials said yesterday. All academic and financial aid files
are kept on ...
<http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060418/NEWS04/604
180350>
Archives Pledges to End Secret Agreements
Washington Post - United States
... a 1995 executive order requiring declassification of many historical
records at least 25 ... would include more detailed notices in the
Archives
files to indicate ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/17/AR200604
1701295.html>
CU records need care
The Daily Star - Bangladesh
... now posted at the higher education section with the records, he had
to take care of, are lying at the storeroom in a mess of thousands of
other files, said the ...
< http://www.thedailystar.net/2006/04/19/d604193503121.htm>
Proposals abound to house papers
Allentown Morning Call - Allentown,PA,USA
... less than a year but has plenty of room for the county's archives,
which include historical documents as well as older deeds, tax records
and court documents. ...
<http://www.mcall.com/news/local/easton/all-b1_3archivesapr18,0,7069027.s
tory?coll=all-newslocaleaston-hed>
Germany Will Open Records on Holocaust Victims
New York Times - United States
WASHINGTON, April 18 — Germany agreed today to allow access to a vast
trove of information on what happened to more than 17 million people who
were executed ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/18/world/18cnd-holocaust.html>
IT departments in California preparing for next quake
Infoworld - Netherlands
... who could load the Bank of Italy's gold in his horse cart and later
use it to start the Bank of America. ... "It didn't make sense to have
tapes that couldn't get ...
<http://www.infoworld.nl/idgns/bericht.phtml?id=002570DE00740E18002571530
0765448>
National Archives Pact Let CIA Withdraw Public Documents
New York Times - United States
... the right thing, no more secret agreements to classify open files,"
said Mr ... M. Aid, a Washington historian who discovered in December
that documents he obtained ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/18/washington/18archives.html>
The Andonian 'Documents' Attributed to Talat Pasha Are Forgeries!
Journal of Turkish Weekly - Ankara,Turkey
... Did Naim Bey, the hero of the "documents", exist? Search of the
Prime
Minister’s Archives in Istanbul, among the Yrade-i Seniye (order) files
and the ...
<http://www.turkishweekly.net/articles.php?id=112>
FBI wants dead reporter's files
United Press International - USA
WASHINGTON, April 18 (UPI) -- A fight is brewing over the FBI's demands
to see the unpublished papers of one of Washington's most fearsome
investigative
<http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20060418-030336-43
75r>
SEC Watchdog's Data Request
Wall Street Journal - USA
... and Dynegy Inc. The court said the SEC couldn't claim a FOIA
exemption
for companies under investigation without a thorough review. ...
<http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB114531514265428078-6v9_14aScu0e6O
U9sUWCxiS8dtY_20060518.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top>
Fletcher says he's given up e-mail
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville,KY,USA
... he had owned. Fletcher's administration had denied an open-records
request by The Courier-Journal seeking the e-mails. He said he ...
<http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060418/NEWS0
104/604180363/1008/NEWS01>
New CDs, DVDs Could Last 300 Years
BetaNews - USA
... Kodak and KMP say the discs would be especially useful in the
archival
market, such as storing business, military, government and financial
data,
as well as ...
<http://www.betanews.com/article/New_CDs_DVDs_Could_Last_300_Years/114537
8116>
Filmmakers, historians object to limits on Smithsonian archives
CBC Manitoba - Winnipeg,Manitoba,Canada
... find access to Smithsonian materials denied. The Smithsonian is a
treasure
trove of archival footage. The deal is "anti-competitive ...
<http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2006/04/18/smithsonian-deal.html>
Smithsonian-Showtime Deal Draws Fire
ABC News - USA
... The liberal research organization also has filed a Freedom of
Information
Act request for more details on the Smithsonian's financial arrangement
with Showtime ...
<http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=1855843>
National Archives outs secret agreements
United Press International - USA
... National Archives head John Carlin said he was "shocked" to learn of
the secret agreements, Weinstein told The New York Times that Assistant
Archivist Michael ...
<http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060418-041829-1014r>
EMC shoulders storage management burden
VNUNet.com - Haarlem,Netherlands
... with products designed to help customers control and expand complex
storage solutions required to support information lifecycle management
(ILM) strategies. ...
<http://www.vnunet.com/networkitweek/news/2154183/emc-shoulders-storage>
Theft of trade secrets results in prison, fine for Lawrenceburg ...
Kentucky.com - Lexington,KY,USA
... man was sentenced to four years in prison today for stealing trade
secrets from the ... The maximum penalty for trade-secret theft is five
years in prison, a ...
<http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/14370940.htm>
Holocaust archives unlocked
Australian - Sydney,Australia
The archives, boxed away in a former Nazi SS barracks in the German town
of Bad Arolsen, contain information on 17.5 million concentration camp
prisoners ...
<http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,18866667%2
55E2702,00.html>
Vanishing archives
International Herald Tribune - France
Documents wind up missing from public archives for many reasons.
Sometimes
they're shelved or labeled incorrectly, or lost, and sometimes they're
even stolen. ...
<http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/04/19/opinion/edsecret.php>
eWeek, Sun, 16 Apr 2006 6:43 PM PDT
Stitching Up Health Records: Privacy Compliance Lags
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1949646,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K000
0>
Twenty percent of health care companies are unable or unwilling to
implement federal privacy requirements, because the rules are vague and
the
technology is spotty. Meanwhile, another compliance deadline looms.
Whiz News Southeastern Ohio, Mon, 17 Apr 2006 2:13 PM PDT
Records Commission Keeps County Organized
http://www.whiznews.com/article.php?articleId=14608
Some people may find it difficult to keep themselves organized, but
imagine keeping thousands of files on hand for all of the county’s
offices.
That’s exactly what the Muskingum County Records Commi...
The San Luis Obispo Tribune, Tue, 18 Apr 2006 1:23 PM PDT
Boxes of personal records found in Grover Beach alley
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/news/14370960.htm?source=r
ss&channel=sanluisobispo_news
Three storage boxes full of private medical records were found in an
alley in Grover Beach. Police found the boxes April 3 behind the
business
complexes in the 1400 and 1500 blocks of West Grand Avenue.
BBC News, Mon, 17 Apr 2006 10:52 AM PDT
War relic restoration on display
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/europe/guernsey/4916586.stm
Work to restore a vital historic document from Guernsey's occupation
goes on show at the Priaulx library.
Broadcast Newsroom, Mon, 17 Apr 2006 11:42 AM PDT
Fujifilm, TelevisionWeek Lead Discussion on TV Preservation at NAB 2006
http://www.broadcastnewsroom.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=39349
Millions of aging television videotapes stored in libraries and vaults
around the country are in increasing danger of being lost forever. Fuji
Photo
Film U.S.A. Inc. and TelevisionWeek will present a forum next week at
the
National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show in Las Vegas that will
address
how companies can identify, preserve and monetize these priceless
entertainment and
news archives.
AP via Yahoo! News, Mon, 17 Apr 2006 7:16 AM PDT
Washington Letter Returned to Mass.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060417/ap_on_re_us/washington_letter_2
A letter signed by Gen. George Washington is back in the hands of state
archivists, 60 years after it was stolen from the Massachusetts State
House.
Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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