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Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories 
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New York Times, Fri, 09 Jun 2006 10:31 PM PDT
Leslie Hansen Kopp, 53, Archivist Who Focused on Preserving Dance, Is
Dead
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/10/arts/10kopp.html
Leslie Hansen Kopp helped found Preserve Inc., an organization that
taught performing arts organizations and interested people how to 
create and
maintain archives.

Reuters via Yahoo! News, Fri, 09 Jun 2006 12:17 PM PDT
JFK's personal archives to go online
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060609/wr_nm/life_kennedy_archives_dc_2
President John F. Kennedy's personal archives will go online under an
ambitious government project that will make it the first full 
presidential
collection to be made accessible to Web surfers around the globe.

Agency loses voter records
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA
... The missing records were first revealed May 31 on the Web blog 
heartbrokentiger.com
... who runs the site, said Friday that rumors about the missing files
had been ...
<http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/elections/article/0,2808,DRMN_2473
6_4765094,00.html>

Letters: Clerk diligently keeps Outagamie's records
Appleton Post Crescent - WI, USA
... This office strives to provide past and present information and 
records
in the most accessible format to all individuals. My office files and
protects ...
<http://www.postcrescent.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060610/APC0601/
606100577/1036>

Records case has moment in court
Albany Times Union - Albany,NY,USA
TROY -- Charges were filed Friday against two former North Greenbush 
officials
who removed boxes of legal files from Town Hall, but were adjourned in
...
<http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=490327&category=RENSS
ELAER&BCCode=HOME&newsdate=6/10/2006>

Another federal breach exposes employee records
GovExec.com - USA
... that it suffered a security breach from a hacker in September that
compromised 1,500 personnel records. ... "It's unbelievable [that] 1,500
personnel files can be ...
<http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0606/060906tdpm1.htm>
King's archives belong in a safe, public place
The Republican - Springfield,MA,USA
... The King family has tried for years to sell King's archives to a 
university
or library, but the price for papers, appraised at $30 million by 
Sotheby's
in the ...
<http://www.masslive.com/editorials/republican/index.ssf?/base/news-0/114
992543549000.xml&coll=1>

Group wants black history museum here
Frederick News Post (subscription) - Frederick,MD,USA
... Mr. Haley, director of the study of slavery in Maryland at the 
Maryland
State Archives, is the nephew of Alex Haley, the author of "Roots." He
also serves as ...
<http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?storyid=49682
>

Interior Wins Right to Suppress Records
Forbes - USA
... document destruction. Balaran's reports to the judge, including 
observations
from personal visits, found the department had destroyed Indian records,
sometimes ...
<http://www.forbes.com/technology/feeds/ap/2006/06/09/ap2806439.html>

Federal court suppresses reports alleging US Interior destroyed ...
JURIST - USA
... to suppress three documents which contained information that the US
Department of the Interior [official website] allegedly destroyed 
documents
related to a ...
<http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2006/06/federal-court-suppresses-r
eports.php>

Eye on identity theft
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA
... The Federal Trade Commission recently also fined ChoicePoint, an 
Atlanta-based
data broker, $10 million for selling sensitive records on 145,000 
consumers
to ...
<http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/other_business/article/0,2777,DRMN
_23916_4765123,00.html>

Posting of records divides probate race
Myrtle Beach Sun News - Myrtle Beach,SC,USA
... back to 1997 scanned to protect them, and eventually make them 
available
on the Internet, "so people can have easier access to the public 
records."
She said ...
<http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/14786812.htm>


The Palm Beach Post, Sat, 10 Jun 2006 9:22 PM PDT
Data backup on front burner for storms
<<http://www.palmbeachpost.com/business/content/business/epaper/2006/06/1
1/
a1f_DataBackup_0611.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=6>>
Computer manager Gabriel Romero has been on the road to disaster
recovery for too long.


Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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