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Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
related to records and archives management.
Family keeps Guthrie's memory alive
The Journal News.com - Westchester,NY,USA
... touch with archivist Jorge Arevalo, who undertook a three-year
project
to catalogue and protect the collection. In September, the Woody Guthrie
Archives will ...
<http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060702/LIFEST
YLE01/607020303/1031>
Pike’s papers get mountain of security
Colorado Springs Gazette - Colorado Springs,CO,USA
... Officials at the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum are thrilled to be
getting the documents on loan from the National Archives this month, but
they’ve learned ...
<http://www.gazette.com/display.php?id=1318913&secid=1>
National Archives Battles Humidity to Preserve Pages
WTOP - Washington,D.C.,USA
WASHINGTON -- Normally filled with tourists, the rotunda of the National
Archives now has new visitors -- three massive dehumidifiers to combat
the effects of ...
<http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=25&sid=835925>
RFID comes of age
WFAA (subscription) - Dallas,TX,USA
... The excited 'beep, beep, beep' signals that the misplaced files have
been ... & Gebhardt law firm, while passing his RFID wand past 2-foot
stacks of legal records. ...
<http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/070302dnbizRFID.1b6f09
a9.html>
Secretary charges $383,788, has no receipts
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
... On May 10, The News filed a request under the state's public records
law to ... "Several documents were found missing and noticeably several
other files had been ...
<http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/education/stories/070206d
nmetorapello.1b6a1ef.html>
Center houses more than just a museum
The Jackson Citizen-Patriot - Jackson,MI,USA
... about. The State Archives of Michigan also sits on the second floor,
crammed with more than 100 million records dating back to 1797. ...
<http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/jacitpat/index.ssf?/base/entertainmen
t-1/1151748362102530.xml&coll=3>
Records for the future
The National - Port Moresby,Papua New Guinea
... internet. The whole nature of archival information has changed.
Records
are very much more accessible than they once were. There ...
<http://www.thenational.com.pg/070306/editorial1.htm>
Special flag donated to state archives
SitNews - Ketchikan,AK,USA
... the State Board of Education & Early Development. The department
oversees
the Alaska State Archives, which will house the flag.
<http://www.sitnews.us/0706news/070106/070106_special_flag.html>
Paducahan's archives trace space exploration: Air Force Museum ...
TMCnet (press release) - USA
(Paducah Sun, The (KY) (KRT) Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) Jul.
2--Paducah
native CA Rawlings hasn't been to space and back, but he's been close.
...
<http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-paducahans-archives-trace-space-explorati
on-air-force-museum-/2006/07/02/1702635.htm>
Recognized as born, at last
Sun.Star - Philippines
... However, it wasn’t as simple as leafing through old files and you
... It was at a time when legal documents were not that ... It’s not
easy keeping records and all ...
<http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/ceb/2006/07/03/life/recognized.as.born.
at.last.html>
Vatican to Open Pre-World War II Archives
Deutsche Welle - Germany
... open its central files, known as the Secret Archives, as well as
files
of its ... of the archives can already be consulted by researchers but
the documents to be ...
<http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2076095,00.html>
Spain to recover civil war files
Guardian Unlimited - UK
... Historians are especially interested in documents from Russia, which
include files on the International Brigades and a plan for Soviet aid
to the Second ...
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1811153,00.html>
Seagate Introduces Fast, Centralised Storage
IRISHDEV.com - Dublin,Ireland
... backs up business files, accounting records, photos, music ...
music,
photo, movie, Web, software or documents folders. Users simply drag and
drop files into their ...
<http://www.irishdev.com/NewsArticle.aspx?id=3039>
Documents, access and costs
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
... companies that allowed wide-open access to their records, which did
contain many court records but not ours. Several hundred thousand files
were improperly ...
<http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/opinion/14947047.htm>
HOOKING UP COUNTY
The Jersey Journal - Jersey City,NJ,USA
... Using more than $1 million in PARIS cash it got last fiscal year to
start the program, Hudson County hired archivist Bor-sheng Tsai, of
Flushing,
NY, at $55,000 ...
<http://www.nj.com/news/jjournal/index.ssf?/base/news-1/1151907073147570.
xml&coll=3>
Copper Country History Explored at Michigan Tech
WLUC-TV - Negaunee,MI,USA
... projects been mainly the migration of ethnic groups from Europe to
come in this area and work in the copper mines," said Michigan Tech
archivist
Eric Nordberg. ...
<http://www.wluctv6.com/Global/story.asp?S=5106807&nav=81AX>
Michigan Tech’s Archives to go digital; state humanities grant ...
Daily Mining Gazette - Houghton,MI,USA
... archived system. “We’ve been feeling pressure for many years to
make the leap to digital,” said archivist Erik Nordberg. “We ...
<http://www.mininggazette.com/stories/articles.asp?articleID=2636>
County finds way to keep some records online
KOB-TV - Albuquerque,NM,USA
LAS CRUCES, NM (AP) - Dona Ana County plans to offer a new service that
will allow subscribers to access certain county records online. ...
<http://www.kobtv.com/index.cfm?viewer=storyviewer&id=26585&cat=NMTOPSTOR
IES>
SDSC to Preserve Critical Data for NARA
GRIDtoday - San Diego,CA,USA
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and the San
Diego
Supercomputer ... this shared commitment to NARA's mission," said the
Archivist of the ...
<http://www.gridtoday.com/grid/713140.html>
Dutchess County receives records management grant
Mid-Hudson News - Newburgh,NY,USA
Dutchess County Clerk Colette Lafuente says her office received an over
$117,000 Local Government Management Improvement Fund grant for the
development
of a ...
<http://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/DC_rec_mgmt_grant-03Jul06.htm>
Old BHS records to be destroyed
Benson News Sun - Benson,AZ,USA
In compliance with the Records Management Division of the State or
Arizona,
Benson school student records from 1999, with exception of immunization
records ...
<http://www.bensonnews-sun.com/articles/2006/07/03/news/news9.txt>
The Implementation of a Document and Records Management (DRM) ...
New Age Media Concepts (press release) - USA
DUBLIN, IRELAND, (NAMC) - Research and Markets has announced the
addition
of Document and Records Management (DRM) In The Public Sector to their
offering. ...
<http://press.namct.com/content/view/6549/129/>
Aust firm buys into local records management sector
Stuff.co.nz - Wellington,New Zealand
An Australian-owned company has bought out local document management
outfit
Total Records Management Ltd (TRM) for an undisclosed sum. ...
<http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3721218a13,00.html>
Open Document 'Violates State Law'
IDM.net.au - Strawberry Hills,NSW,Australia
... suit the commonwealth well. It may very well result in many
electronic
records being lost or destroyed". The first paragraph of ...
<http://www.idm.net.au/story.asp?id=7287>
Historian will push society's expansion
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
W. Eric Emerson, the new executive director of the Maryland Historical
Society, can sing along to the original, handwritten version if he
wants;
the manuscript ...
<http://washingtontimes.com/business/20060702-102207-7952r.htm>
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Sat, 01 Jul 2006 4:32 PM PDT
Half of money to cover King loan raised
http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/atlanta/stories/0702king.html?c
xtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13
Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin said about half of the money has been
raised to repay a $32 million loan that allowed a consortium to buy the
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s writings. In a frantic effort to buy the
handwritten papers and an extensive book collection, Franklin was able
to secure the needed amount in loan guarantees and cash pledges. "We
are confirming the pledges we have, and we are
Block Island Times, Sat, 01 Jul 2006 12:20 PM PDT
Intern Tucker Risom returns to help with archiving
http://www.blockislandtimes.com/news/2006/0701/News/056.html
Summer Intern Tucker Risom has returned to the Block Island Historical
Society for his second season. Tucker grew up in Ridgefield, Conn., and
has spent 12 summers on the island. He recently graduated from high
school and will attend Carleton College in Northfield, Minn., in
September. Tucker plans
BBC News, Mon, 03 Jul 2006 0:07 AM PDT
Records office to change its name
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/england/gloucestershire/5138710.stm
Gloucestershire's Record Office is to mark its 70th anniversary by
changing its name.
Technology News
Silicon Valley's Metro - San Jose,CA,USA
... universal library," democratically accessible by all and long the
dream
of techie futurists like Wired founder Kevin Kelley and digital
archivist
Rick Prelinger ...
<http://www.metroactive.com/metro/07.05.06/work-0627.html>
Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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