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Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories 
related to records and archives management.

Bateman donates collection
Goldstream News Gazette - Langford,British Columbia,Canada
... The $10 million centre, to open in 2010, will also house an 
extensive
collection of archival material, including Bateman's sketchbooks and 
correspondence.
<http://www.goldstreamgazette.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=12&cat=23&i
d=674926&more=>

Mountain of records a click away
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin - Ontario,CA,USA
... and countless others with an undoubtedly higher degree of usefulness
-- can all be tracked down in an enormous collection of public documents
available on the ...
<http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_3969428>

County clerk's office will restore online database within 90 days
UT The Daily Texan - Austin,TX,USA
... It posts every record received, including deeds, marriage licenses,
warranties and ... was another key factor in DeBeauvoir's decision to
recall the documents. ...
<http://www.dailytexanonline.com/news/2006/06/23/StateLocal/County.Clerks
.Office.Will.Restore.Online.Database.Within.90.Days-2118277.shtml>

Euro Telcos Face Storage Avalanche
Byteandswitch.com - New York,NY,USA
A new European data retention directive designed to help law enforcement
agencies tackle terrorist threats is set to cost Europe's telecom 
operators
and ISPs a ...
<http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=97846&WT.svl=news1_1>

Sale of King's Papers May Violate Promise of Mrs. King, Aide Says
New York Sun - New York,NY,USA
Two prominent historians and a former archivist at the King Center in 
Atlanta
charge that the auctioning on June 30 of Martin Luther King Jr.'s papers
by ...
<http://www.nysun.com/article/34958>

Bank Deal Includes Archive of National History
NPR - USA
... men and women who shaped American history. Mary Beth Corrigan is the
PNC/Riggs Bank archivist. She's in charge of the collection ...
<http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5503791>

Early bike features paved way to innovation
Green Bay Press Gazette - Green Bay,WI,USA
... the spark plug meaning a more thorough combustion and more power. 
Bill
Jackson is senior archivist for Harley-Davidson Archives.
<http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060623/
GPG0101/606230526/1207/GPGnews>

Brewster Kahle's modest mission: Archiving everything
ZDNet - USA
... between The Andrews Sisters and The Roches. Kahle relishes his role
as Internet archivist. The staggering volume of material to ...
<http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6087167.html>

Files loaded with personal information found outside of former law ...
Tampa Bay&#39;s 10 - St. Petersburg,FL,USA
... Attorney Alan Rosenthal owns the documents and says disposing of 
them
was a mistake and the files were not meant to be trash. Alan ...
<http://www.tampabays10.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=34006>

Questions Arise Over Heritage Inventory
Guelph Tribune - Guelph,ON,Canada
... Council approved demolition, on a staff-recommended condition that
the house be photographed to Heritage Guelph's satisfaction for the city
archives. ...
<http://www.guelphtribune.ca/trib/news/news_609082.html>

Martin Luther King Archives on Sotheby's Auction Block
PBS - USA
... sisters and brothers. I have a dream today. JIM LEHRER: The auction
of Martin Luther King's archives will take place on June 30th.
<http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june06/king_06-22.html>


Museum to bear Fetterman's name
Pensacola News Journal - Pensacola,FL,USA
... museum.". Setting the museum as Florida's official maritime museum
could mean money as well as access to state archives and collections.
<http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060623/
NEWS01/606230325/1006>


New York Times
For Dealer, Stolen Maps Point Way to Jail
By ALISON LEIGH COWAN
NEW HAVEN, June 22 — A map dealer who specialized in finding elusive 
treasures for rich collectors admitted in federal court on Thursday to 
having stolen 97 antique maps worth more than $3 million from more than 
a half-dozen universities and libraries over the last seven and a half 
years.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/23/nyregion/23map.html?>

The Scotsman, Thu, 22 Jun 2006 4:49 PM PDT
Rare Nazi propaganda film found
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=917582006
A NAZI propaganda film showing dramatic footage of a Second World War
battle against British forces has been found.

Washington Post, Thu, 22 Jun 2006 3:14 AM PDT
Preserving One District's History
<<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/21/AR20060
62100796.html?nav=rss_metro/va>>

Beware the Bunny Man. Or so the suburban legend went in central Fairfax
County in the early 1970s. A frenzy of sightings described an 
ax-wielding man
in a rabbit suit who chopped at the roof of a house under construction, 
threw
a hammer through the windshield of a young couple's car parked on
Guinea...

Greensboro News-Record, Sat, 24 Jun 2006 0:08 AM PDT
UNCG puts civil rights oral histories on Internet
<<http://www.news-record.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060624/NEWSREC0
101/606230320>>
n The Web site has dozens of transcripts of describing the 1950s 
through the 1980s.

The Trenton Times, Fri, 23 Jun 2006 10:21 PM PDT
Files from 1800s turn up in rafters of courthouse
<<http://www.nj.com/news/times/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-5/1151125432
120750.xml&coll=5>>
TRENTON -- Fragile, handwritten records dating from the 1830s that
offer a glimpse into the past were found this week in a cranny at the 
old
Mercer County criminal courthouse.

Sydney Morning Herald, Wed, 21 Jun 2006 12:19 PM PDT
Digital watermark rolls out
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/06/19/1150569266663.html
Marketers and the anti-piracy brigade are salivating over the potential
of a new worldwide standard for tagging audio-visual content. –




Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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