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BBC News, Wed, 09 Aug 2006 1:53 AM PDT
Steel town's past to be archived
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/england/cumbria/5258854.stm
A new project is to preserve the steelmaking heritage of Workington in 
Cumbria.

KVOA Tucson, Tue, 08 Aug 2006 4:50 PM PDT
New view of WWII Japanese relocation center uncovered at ASU
http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=5254464
The history of the U.S.' relocation centers, where more than 100,000 
people of Japanese ancestry were forced to live during World War II, 
has been documented in government reports, newspaper clippings and 
black-and-white photographs.

The portal's lapse tells a lot about the state of Web search ...
TIME - USA
... the company (which, like Time.com, is owned by Time Warner) released
information ... The breaches include lost bank backup tapes, hacking 
losses,
stolen laptops ...
<http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1224405,00.html>

Employees get the message: no private life on office chat
EastDay.com - Shanghai,China
... The head said his department monitored employees' MSN to prevent 
them
from revealing the company's confidential documents to outsiders. ...
<http://english.eastday.com/eastday/englishedition/features/userobject1ai
2241423.html>

ILLINOIS STYLE: Archivist facing daunting task at SIU-Carbondale
Belleville News-Democrat - Belleville,IL,USA
... from both the SIUC chancellor's office, which created the archivist
position as ... system of regional political history at SIUC, with the
archive collection as a ...
<http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/politics/15231376.htm>

Encryption: The Next Step in Protecting Information on Laptops
AACRAO Transcript - Washington,DC,USA
An information director’s nightmare: A laptop containing information
on 98,000 people was stolen from the Berkeley campus of the University
of California ...
<http://www.aacrao.org/transcript/index.cfm?fuseaction=show_view&doc_id=3
285>


Judge unseals 110 pages of governor's e-mails
Kentucky.com - Lexington,KY,USA
... In June 2005, a reporter for The Courier-Journal of Louisville filed
an open records request with the governor's office, seeking "any and all
e-mails" sent to ...
<http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/15232951.htm>

Opinion: Twelve questions to answer before buying email archiving
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
August 09, 2006 (Computerworld) -- Over the past few years, awareness of
the impact of long-term data retention on storage management has grown
dramatically ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&
taxonomyId=19&articleId=9002294>

Museums Establish Guidelines for Treatment of Sacred Objects
New York Times - United States
... group of archivists and librarians began working with a committee of
indigenous leaders to establish Protocols for Native American Archival
Materials, sweeping ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/10/arts/design/10sacr.html>

Fireproof Files
WTAP-TV - Parkersburg,WV,USA
... Local courthouse officials in other counties say most of their 
documents
not only are kept on tape and in computers, copies of those records are
kept in ...
<http://www.wtap.com/news/headlines/3536136.html>

Charleston City Paper, Wed, 09 Aug 2006 1:05 AM PDT
Charleston's little-visited Karpeles Manuscript Museum refuses to be 
ignored
http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid:16062
What does the humble son of a Minnesota bus driver do if he finds 
himself with more money than he knows what to do with?

Many records saved in courthouse fire
WAVY-TV - Portsmouth,VA,USA
... loss. Steiner says they were able to save three quarters of the 
county
records, although voter registration lists were destroyed. ...
<http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=5259602&nav=23ii>


Dead disks yield live information
Guardian Unlimited - UK
... was recovered as part of an investigation by BT and data destruction
specialists Life ... personal details such as his date of birth and 
credit
card records on the ...
<http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1840396,00.html>

A year after hurricanes, Southern dioceses still trying to recover
Catholic News Service - USA
... and school officials have been advised to take school records with
them ... Although Rita was overshadowed by Katrina, its destruction 
can't
be dismissed by local ...
<http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0604528.htm>

State records are being tossed
Jackson Clarion Ledger - Jackson,MS,USA
... disposal. And the State Records Committee's three members approved
getting rid of evidence of earlier-approved destruction of records. ...
<http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060809/OPINION
02/608090307/1009/OPINION>

Judge makes records available online to public
The Decatur Daily - Decatur,AL,USA
... If you need information from the office, you don't have to go there
to get it. Public records kept in that office are now online. ...
<http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/060809/records.shtml>

Court ruling: Officials' personal e-mails not public records
Tucson Citizen - Tucson,AZ,USA
Government officials' personal e-mails don't have to be disclosed under
Arizona's public records law even if kept on a taxpayer-supported 
computer,
a state ...
<http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/local/21980.php>

Grant County considers selling online access to public records
WISH - Indianapolis,IN,USA
MARION, Ind. Grant County commissioners are considering a plan to sell
online access to public records from the county recorder's office. ...
<http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5262742&nav=0Ra7>


Bank records stolen from state official's car
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - Minneapolis,MN,USA
Two boxes containing confidential bank records were stolen from a ... 
banks,
which is why the files were in ... It did not appear that the documents
were specifically ...
<http://www.startribune.com/535/story/605518.html>

Historic Morgan County Courthouse burns
Daily Mail - Charleston - Charleston,WV,USA
... including birth certificates dating back to the 1800s, marriage 
licenses,
deeds, county maps ... could not be saved, along with any other county
documents that it ...
<http://www.dailymail.com/news/News/2006080927/>

Government under fire over 'hidden documents'
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... "Unless this is resolved Victoria will be known as the secret state,
where access to public documents is restricted, a place where those who
speak out are ...
<http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/government-under-fire-over-hidden
-documents/2006/08/09/1154802966164.html>




Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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