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RAIN 08/03: Lost and Found, and the wonders of the paperless offi ce



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Knoxville News-Sentinel 8/2/00
UT faculty leader: Records policy little changed
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/12650.shtml

by Jacques Billeaud
A new policy limiting access to student academic records at the University
of Tennessee isn't much different from the old rules, a faculty leader said
Tuesday.
Teachers have always believed student records ought to be confidential, said
Bob Glenn, president of UT's faculty senate.
But the policy change, made after the university apologized nearly two weeks
ago to former football player Spencer Riley for publicly releasing his
records, could pose two other problems for faculty, Glenn said.
First, it could open teachers and secretaries for academic departments to
liability if the information is misused, Glenn said.

What a wonderful story about the 'paperless office'
Biloxi Sun-Herald 8/2/00
Land records lose computer
http://www.sunherald.com/region/docs/records080200.htm

by Karen Nelson
Pascagoula -- The county's ill-fated, computerized land records system that
has never been fully operational now is not working at all.
It went down July 14, and Chancery Clerk Terry Miller's staff has been
working extra hard to compensate. The backup for the system is to have
Miller's clerks do everything manually - recording deeds and land records,
indexing, and writing up the bill. The system was designed to do that and
more, but that has never materialized.



El Paso Times 8/2/00
Tax records to be placed on Internet
Council Oks software buy
http://www.borderlandnews.com/stories/borderland/20000802-30717.shtml

by Tammy Fonce-Olivas
Homeowners will soon be able to access their property tax information on the
Internet.
The City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved the purchase of $18,000 in
software that will enable the city's Tax Department to post home and
business property tax information on the Internet.
"We hope to have it up and running in the next month," said Juan Sandoval,
the city's tax assessor-collector.
Sandoval said the system will eventually allow taxpayers to pay their taxes
online. That service, he said, might be available by January 2002.



New York Times 8/2/00
Finding buried treasure, Random House plans archive for literary legacies
http://www10.nytimes.com/library/arts/080200random-house.html

by Doreen Carvajal
When the nation's largest publisher, Random House, took up new temporary
quarters in Manhattan this summer, it suddenly became clear how random is
its system for preserving a rich literary legacy that embraces authors from
William Faulkner to Toni Morrison.
>From a secret closet behind the 11th-floor stairwell of Random House's
former offices on East 50th Street emerged a missing trove of more than 50
photographs and notes that had been the subject of an intensive executive
search.


Be sure to check out the links at the bottom of this next story's webpage
WorldNetDaily 8/2/00
All the President's Scandals
Lindsay 'out-and-out lied' about Project X
Clinton appointee testifies lawyer ordered her not to keep a record of
e-mail crisis
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_sperry_news/20000802_xnspy_lindsay_ou.s
html

by Paul Sperry
WASHINGTON -- Don't talk about it. Don't take any notes. Don't keep any
documents.
Those were the instructions the former head of White House computer
operations says she got from a top Clinton aide regarding the Project X
e-mail scandal.
In a June 1998 meeting, Kathleen Gallant says then-White House lawyer Mark
F. Lindsay warned her the discovery of a large gap in West Wing e-mail
records under subpoena was so "sensitive" that "we could keep no notes about
it."



Nando 8/2/00
For sale: Tornado-ravaged office tower in Fort Worth
http://www.nando.com/noframes/story/0,2107,500235020-500342981-501971419-0,0
0.html

by Stephen Hawkins
Associated Press
FORT WORTH, Texas (August 2, 2000 12:45 p.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com)
- The owner of a 35-story office tower that was hit when a tornado ravaged
downtown four months ago has abandoned plans to restore the building and is
putting the buildig up for sale.
Certified letters were sent to the Bank One Building's 65 tenants informing
them that their leases are ineffective immediately, Ron Cherry, managing
partner for Loutex Fort Worth, said Tuesday. Only three businesses - the
bank and two restaurants - had reopened in the ravaged tower.
The tornado churned through downtown Fort Worth on the evening of March 28,
shortly after many workers had left their offices. No one was killed
downtown, but there were five other deaths elsewhere and damage was
estimated to be at least $450 million.





Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Manager, Records Management
Woodside Summit Group, Inc
Richmond, Virginia
Tel: 804-744-1247 extension 23
Fax: 804-744-4947
mailto:peter.kurilecz@woodsidesummitgroup.com

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