RAIN 060808
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories 
related to records and archives management.

Russian police looks for missing safes
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/07/AR2006080
700139.html
...Russian criminal police are trying to track down two huge safes
containing classified documents that had been removed from its offices 
by
mistake as scrap metal...

Rare graphic designs, drawings stolen from state archives
RIA Novosti - Moscow,Russia
... said Tuesday an inventory had identified the theft of drawings and
graphic designs by a famous Soviet-era constructivist architect from 
state
archives in the ...
<http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060808/52384654.html>

Chernikhov drawings worth millions stolen from Russian state ...
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
MOSCOW (AP) - Drawings worth millions of dollars have been stolen from
a Russian state archive, officials said Tuesday, heightening concern 
about
the security ...
<http://www.canada.com/topics/entertainment/story.html?id=b6872d06-af71-4
74b-b9ed-615144f04a82&k=77212>

Kennedy history for sale
Boston Globe - United States
... As taxpayers, we are forced to pay the JFK Presidential Library to
house, file, and preserve the papers of Joseph P. Kennedy -- but we may
not see them, let ...
<http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/08
/08/kennedy_history_for_sale>

Project brings Indian history out of shadows
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
... The largest financial support for the project came from the National
Endowment for the Humanities ($294,000), the California State Library
($163,000) and the ...
<http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/
northern_california/15223478.htm>

Open records: Why we are suing the city
Jackson Clarion Ledger - Jackson,MS,USA
... Requester should submit a written request for public records, 
specifically
outlining the records that are being requested, and the desired format
(eg, paper or ...
<http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060808/OPINION
01/608080328/1008/OPINION>

Hebron triples cost of public records
Delmarva Daily Times - MD,USA
... of some Town Hall documents last week, a change that some opponents
of a proposed development said was done to dissuade them from poring 
over
public records. ...
<http://www.delmarvanow.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060808/NEWS01/60
8080303/1002>

Firms tightening laptop security
Kentucky.com - Lexington,KY,USA
... paying more attention to laptop security, worried about everything
from the loss of trade secrets to simply ... "It shouldn't be any less
than that."Laptop theft. ...
<http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/business/15222280.htm>




Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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