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Ukraine spy agency opens secret archives on Soviet-era famines
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
... It was the first time any former Soviet republic had released to the
public archival information concerning the mass starvations, said Vasyl
Danielenko, an SBU ...
<http://news.monstersandcritics.com/europe/article_1191722.php/Ukraine_sp
y_agency_opens_secret_archives_on_Soviet-era_famines>

DHS launches project to digitize immigration records
GCN.com - Washington,DC,USA
... Datatrac said its work would include physical and electronic records
management, document scanning, metadata capture and creation of 
information
to integrate ...
<http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/41735-1.html>

Supercomputer Staff Help Nation's Archivists with Digital ...
YubaNet - Nevada City,CA,USA
In the Digital Age, there is an urgent need to preserve vital electronic
records to capture our nation's history, which can vanish in an instant
with the crash ...
<http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_40881.shtml>

Mellon settles with US over destroyed tax returns
Reuters - USA
... According to the settlement agreement, workers at Mellon's 
understaffed
Pittsburgh "lockbox" processing unit in April 2001 destroyed documents
after feeling ...
<http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=businessNews&storyID
=2006-08-18T152101Z_01_N18365207_RTRUKOC_0_US-FINANCIAL-MELLON-SETTLEMENT
.xml&archived=False>

Judge Finds That City of Detroit Intentionally Shredded Documents ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
... intentionally shredded many of these documents after the City 
received
the request. In the courtroom, in reference to the City's shredding 
campaign,
Chief ...
<http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060818/def016.html?.v=53>

Gearing Up for New Rules' EDD Nuances
Law.com (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... What is the schedule for complete and incremental backups? Do you 
offer
long-term storage for electronic-document retention? Are ...
<http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1155892474945
>
The tobacco conspiracy
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... incrimination. On the face of it, the questions about his company's
document retention policy weren't all that tricky. What was its purpose?
<http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/the-tobacco-conspiracy/2006/08/19/
1155408067963.html>

Trail Dust, 08/19/2006 - 17th-century records offer look into ...
Santa Fe New Mexican - Santa Fe,NM,USA
... other day, I ran across several documents that had been buried in my
files for many years. They were copies of 17th century New Mexico church
records found at ...
<http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/48091.html>

Personnel file practices under review
East Valley Tribune - Mesa,AZ,USA
... original file, potentially in violation of state law, public records
experts say ... policies on censoring certain portions of its personnel
files, specifically the ...
<http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/index.php?sty=72041>

Making sure steel heritage lives on
Times &amp; Star - Workington,Lake District,UK
... Ruth is busy wading through deeds and documents donated by Corus and
hopes to gain access to even more information after the closure.
<http://www.timesandstar.co.uk/news/viewarticle.aspx?id=402117>

Ukraine Opens Up Files On Stalin-Era Famines
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty - Prague,Czech Republic
... national intelligence agency, the SBU, today declassified 130 state
archive files on the ... is the first former Soviet country to open up
secret documents on the ...
<http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/08/9DA72B32-F86B-450D-B540-025
45B3AFC80.html>

The Archives Sleuth Had a Secret
Washington Post - United States
... Rona Lerner, now retired, said she learned of Aid's case more than
20 years ago while working in an NSA office that handled FOIA and 
classification
matters. ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/17/AR200608
1701352.html>>

Google's tracking records fueling privacy concerns
Taipei Times - Taiwan
... One answer is to delete the cookies that Google and other search 
engines
(which are mostly as bad, or worse) put on your hard drive, and do 
searches
via an ...
<http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2006/08/18/2003323680>

Retention Rules Set to Change
Byteandswitch.com - New York,NY,USA
... failing to produce records if the company made a "good faith" effort
to set a retention/deletion policy. This means a company can usually 
delete
data according ...
<http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=101745&WT.svl=news2_2>

QUATTRONE NEARS VICTORY
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
... mail endorsing a colleague's advice to ``clean up those files'' --
an action prosecutors later portrayed as an effort to obstruct justice
by destroying evidence ...
<http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/15312828.htm>

Beaverton slams Nike 'smoking gun' public records claim; asks ...
Beaverton Valley Times - Portland,Oregon,USA
... the city is asking to be declared the winner and that Nike bear all
costs associated with the city’s response to Nike’s extensive public
records request. ...
<http://www.beavertonvalleytimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=115593337432
987000>

The FBI's Upgrade That Wasn't
By Dan Eggen and Griff Witte
As far as Zalmai Azmi was concerned, the FBI's technological revolution 
was only weeks away. Even before the Sept. 11 attacks, the FBI had 
developed a plan, Trilogy, to address its chronic technology problems. 
The program was made up of three main components: a new computer 
network, thousands of......
<<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/17/AR20060
81701485.html?referrer=emailarticle>>

Ann Arbor News, Sun, 20 Aug 2006 3:30 AM PDT
Historical maps preserve past
http://www.mlive.com/news/aanews/index.ssf?/base/news-3/1156068683314220.
xml&coll=2
In the Fletcher-White Archives of the Ypsilanti Historical Museum, 
there's an original edition of Burch & Polk's 1873-1874 Ypsilanti City 
Directory.




Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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