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RAIN 04/10: No time for fancy title



Car in the shop and too much work to do. so here we go. All urls work

The Ottawa Citizen 4/9/00
Poor records threaten our national memory
Information may be lost to future generations, chief archivist worries
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/national/000409/3901355.html

by Kathryn May
Canada's national archivist is worried that rapidly changing technology and
poor record-keeping may rob Canadians of their past.
Ian Wilson says he has "serious concerns" about the integrity and
accessibility of the records governments are leaving today to explain Canada
to future generations.

Birmingham News 4/9/00
Business up in smoke? Don't delay back-up plan
http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/Apr2000/9-firetips.html

by Walter Bryant
Ten years of Beth Maynor Young's life were stored in the Southside office
building partially gutted by fire last week.
Ms. Young is a widely known photographer, specializing in views of the
Cahaba River and other wilderness scenes.


Birmingham News 4/9/00
Privacy law could doom firms
Info hard to replace
http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/Apr2000/9-e193603a.html

by Michael Brumas
WASHINGTON - A new law greatly restricting the sale of state motor vehicle
records, authored by Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., may force at least two
Alabama-based businesses to shut their doors, company officials said last
week.
"That's a definite threat. It's something that we've feared from the
beginning," said John McElrath, sales and marketing director for AutoCheck,
a Birmingham based company, with 16 employees, that provides vehicle history
reports to automobile auction houses and auto dealers.

Minnesota Daily 4/6/00
U. Minnesota library prepares to open doors
http://news.excite.com/news/uw/000406/university-70

by V. Paul Virtucio
(U-WIRE) MINNEAPOLIS -- It stands four stories above ground and 82 feet
below. Its "footprint" was carved into 40 feet of soil, 30 feet of limestone
and sandstone deposited for 400 million years.
The crown jewel of the University's library system, the Elmer L. Anderson
Library, is tucked into two caverns dug by a drill specially designed for
the project -- one of six inventions during its construction.
Eleven years in the making, the $46.5 million building opens this weekend,
making accessible historical treasurers from the University's collection,
and from private and public collections statewide, as well as from Wisconsin
and Illinois.

Boston Globe 4/9/00
History is Danvers archivist's hobby
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/100/north/History_is_Danvers_archivist_s_h
obby+.shtml

by Kerry Drohan
DANVERS - Traveling through time is Richard Trask's hobby. It's also his
job.
Trask is the town archivist, and a lieutenant in the Danvers Alarm List.
''History has been my vocation and my avocation almost since I got a real
job,'' he said. ''I live in a restored house, I am curator of the Rebecca
Nurse Homestead, and lots of my special projects involve some aspect of
history. After almost 30 years, I still enjoy coming to work as much as I
did the first day.''
Trask, 51, helped ''reactivate'' the Alarm List in its modern version in
1974 and is proud of its history in the Revolution.


Evansville Courier & Press 4/6/00
When are public records too public
http://www.courierpress.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi?200004/06+003i_business.html+20
000406

Associated Press
On the Internet, public records in the United States can sometimes be too
public, according to some participants at a conference on computer privacy
this week, even if the same documents have been available on paper for
decades.
True, anyone can now glean sensitive, personal information by visiting
government offices in any county or state, said Robert Ellis Smith,
publisher of the Privacy Journal newsletter. But in reality, he said, the
records ``just gather dust somewhere.''


Sydney Morning Herald 4/8/00
Mps fail to take time out for files
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0004/08/text/national14.html

by Lina Doherty
The State Government has spent $400,000 since last May providing privileged
documents to Upper House MPs, but few politicians have bothered to even look
at the papers.
The Treasurer, Mr Egan, told Parliament on Thursday that not one MP had
looked at 35 boxes of documents relating to the Walsh Bay development.

Washington Post 4/8/00
House Detective
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36923-2000Apr8.html

by Sandra Fleishman


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Woodside Summit Group, Inc
Richmond, Virginia
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Fax: 804-744-4947
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