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GLBT Historical Society offers archival footage on YouTube
The Advocate - Los Angeles,CA,USA
The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society announced the
launch of its own YouTube channel Friday. The channel will ...
<http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid32743.asp>
Location means everything
London Free Press - Canada
... recover all relevant documents. Document-retention policies may or
may not exist with the lawyer's clients. These policies, if they ...
<http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/Business/Columnists/Millar_John/2006/06/20/1
642447.html>
Presidential Library gets key backing of Norwich leaders
Norwich Bulletin - Norwich,CT,USA
... Stanley then enlisted Brown, Woodward, Mohegan Archivist Faith
Davison,
former Dodd staffer and Norwich Community Development Commission
official
Stanley ...
<http://www.norwichbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060620/NEWS0
1/606200325/1002>
Historical society, city at odds over collection
Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
... Commissioner Beam Furr has said he wants the city to seek a grant to
hire a full-time archivist to combine both catalogs and present them on
the city's Web site ...
<http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-shistoricaljun20,0,44
66146.story?coll=sfla-news-broward>
Preserving Processes
IDM.net.au - Strawberry Hills,NSW,Australia
... an organisations ability to comply with laws such as data retention
while increasing the ... "One of the big motivators for organisations
to document process in ...
<http://www.idm.net.au/story.asp?id=7252>
The Smithsonian's Archives of American Gardens documents history
Delta Democrat Times - Greenville,MS,USA
... Other collections in the Archives include photographs, plans and
files
documenting the work of landscape architects Thomas W. Sears, Perry
Wheeler
and Robert M ...
<http://www.ddtonline.com/articles/2006/06/20/news/accent/accent1.txt>
Online access to court records proves popular
Indianapolis Star - United States
... There were 13,000 criminal and civil files -- confidential and
juvenile
matters are still ... The Web site notes that an official copy of the
court records, $1 per ...
<http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060620/LOCAL05/6062
00327/-1/ZONES04>
Study a tool to save Stafford history
The Free Lance-Star - Fredericksburg,VA,USA
... The study grew out of the destruction of a Union Army redoubt off
Brooke
... Eugene Scheel, the large earthwork wasn't mentioned in county
records
consulted by the ...
<http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2006/062006/06202006/200369>
Stoffa backs archives building proposal
The Express Times - Easton,PA,USA
... EASTON | Northampton County Executive John Stoffa said he supports
the idea of a new county-owned archives building rather than paying an
outside firm to ...
<http://www.nj.com/news/expresstimes/pa/index.ssf?/base/news-6/1150776724
127370.xml&coll=2>
Storyville in pictures
The Daily Advertiser - Lafayette,LA,USA
... The photos in the show were all made from glass negatives, Guidry
said.
He offers only one caution: "This show is for adults only. ...
<http://www.theadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060617/LIFESTY
LE/606170301/1024>
Computerworld Singapore, Tue, 20 Jun 2006 9:15 AM PDT
Enterprises take on the email challenge
http://www.computerworld.com.sg/ShowPage.aspx?pagetype=2&articleid=3829&p
ubid=3&tab=Home&issueid=92
As email evolves beyond its traditional role as a communication channel
to become a repository of business records, customer’s confidential
information, corporate documents, and business transactions,
enterprises are
beginning to have a better appreciation of the challenges involved in
managing email.
Records Management Across the Universe
Enterprise IT Planet - Darien,CT,USA
A number of market trends have made records management, retention
management,
e-discovery and litigation functions increasingly daunting and complex
for ...
<http://www.enterpriseitplanet.com/storage/features/article.php/3614661>
Mayor, 'Clarion-Ledger' sign suit settlement
Jackson Clarion Ledger - Jackson,MS,USA
... Frank Melton and The Clarion-Ledger today signed an agreement ending
the newspaper’s lawsuit against the mayor over unfilled requests for
public documents. ...
<http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060620/NEWS/60
620013>
Residents say mayor dumped records
St. Petersburg Times - St. Petersburg,FL,USA
By ELENA LESLEY. YANKEETOWN - Residents who said they saw the mayor
tossing
out public documents decided to go Dumpster diving outside Town Hall
Sunday
evening. ...
<http://www.sptimes.com/2006/06/20/Citrus/Residents_say_mayor_d.shtml>
Tech Heavyweights Join Effort For Federal Privacy Law
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
... Other major incidents involving the loss of personal information
have
involved Bank of America and information gatherers ChoicePoint Inc. and
LexisNexis. ...
<http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=18950101
0>
Personal info found on used PC
The Morning Journal - Lorain,OH,USA
... JFS, sent two employees to the Clarksfield Township home to delete
the sensitive ... day-care information entered in the JFS computer are
upset records have been ...
<http://www.morningjournal.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16811377&BRD=1699&PAG
=461&dept_id=46371&rfi=6>
Land Registry puts mortgage deeds online
Silicon.com - UK
... registered leases and mortgages will be scanned into the register,
adding around 10,000 documents daily to the existing database of more
than 12 million deeds. ...
<http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39159709,00.htm>
Protecting our privacy
Belleville News-Democrat - Belleville,IL,USA
... a team from the state auditor general's office recently found
sensitive
payroll records in a Dumpster that should have been sent off for
shredding.
<http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/editorial/14858854.htm>
Your access to county records could change
Marion Chronicle Tribune - Marion,IN,USA
The way Grant County residents can gain online access to public
documents
from the recorder's office could change in the near future if recorder
Dixie Fischer ...
<http://www.chronicle-tribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060621/NEW
S01/606210301/1002>
QUINN’S REVENGE
WeeklyDig.com - USA
... By using ODF standards to create all its public documents, the state
would be free to stop paying Microsoft’s hefty licensing fees without
losing access to ...
<http://www.weeklydig.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/article.view/issueID/5461f
599-4327-4ef8-9df3-a7aed9312a07/articleID/52ac5c49-7f28-46be-bce1-f287508
35a0a/nodeID/4b1339d1-be3a-44a2-be8b-1484963a003a>
BBC News, Mon, 19 Jun 2006 7:41 AM PDT
Scott's will to be put on display
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/scotland/south_of_scotland/5095260.st
m
A draft of Sir Walter Scott's last will and testament is to go on
display to the public for the first time in 174 years.
Sydney Morning Herald, Mon, 19 Jun 2006 9:34 AM PDT
Digital watermark rolls out
<<http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/digital-watermark-rolls-out/2006/06/19/1
150569266663.html>>
Marketers and the anti-piracy brigade are salivating over the potential
of a new worldwide standard for tagging audio-visual content. –
CentralOhio.com, Tue, 20 Jun 2006 3:07 AM PDT
Council reviews records protocol
<<http://www.centralohio.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/B8/20060620/NEWS0
1/606200303/1002&template=B8>>
City Council discussed how long records should be retained, announced
committee meetings and a new committee assignment at Monday's review
session.
Computerworld Singapore, Tue, 20 Jun 2006 9:15 AM PDT
URA pilots e-filing system that “learns” from human decision-making
<<http://www.computerworld.com.sg/ShowPage.aspx?pagetype=2&articleid=3837
&pubid=3&tab=Home&issueid=92>>
The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) will be piloting an automatic
electronic filing system that can mimic human decision-making and
behaviour and
uses artificial intelligence (AI) to manage electronic documents.
Government Computer News, Tue, 20 Jun 2006 12:21 PM PDT
The case for enterprise rights management
http://www.gcn.com/blogs/tech/41105.html
Richard Clarke, former special advisor to the President for cyber
security, sounds as if he feels sorry for the Veterans Affairs
Department
employee who lost records for 26 million individuals when he took the
data home,
only to have his laptop stolen.
Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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