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RAIN 09/08: Potpourri



Asbury Park Press 9/7/00
Open records bill faces new hurdle
http://www.injersey.com/news/app/story/0,2110,301302,00.html

By Lilo H. Stainton
Gannett State Bureau
TRENTON -- A proposed law designed to protect crime victims and witnesses
from potentially harmful public access to information about them is running
smack into another bill in the state Legislature that aims to give the
public and press greater access to public records.
Advocates of the open records bill contend the other measure isn't needed,
since there are adequate safeguards built into the bill they support.

International Herald Tribune 9/8/00
Ice records of fur traders show earth is warming
http://www.iht.com/IHT/TODAY/FRI/IN/warm.2.html

Reuters
Washington -- River captains and fur traders long dead, 15th-century
Japanese priests and records kept by Swiss believers who carried a statue of
the Madonna across a frozen lake confirm that global warming is real,
scientists said Thursday.
An international team of researchers pieced together records kept from as
far back as 1443 to show that temperatures are not only rising - they are
changing the ice patterns of lakes and rivers in the Northern Hemisphere.


Standard-Examiner 9/7/00
Family-history fans flock to gathering in genealogy mecca
http://www1.standard.net/stories/local/09-2000/FTP0178@local@07mecca@Ogden.a
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By Preston Truman
SALT LAKE CITY -- As genealogy lovers gather in downtown Salt Lake City,
figuring out which of the sessions to attend will probably be the largest
problem they experience.
The 20th annual Federation of Genealogical Societies event, "A World of
Records -- Rediscovering Old Millennial Sources with New Millennial
Techniques," continues through Saturday at the Salt Palace Convention
Center.
The conference provides visitors with the opportunity to take full advantage
of the wealth of knowledge and vast genealogical records of the LDS Family
History Library.


The Hindu 9/7/00
Need to computerise land records stressed
http://www.indiaserver.com/thehindu/2000/09/07/stories/0407405d.htm

Staff Reporter
PONDICHERRY, SEPT. 6. Mr. V. K. Subbu Raju Chairman and Managing Director of
the Tamilnadu Civil Supplies Corporation, stressed the need for
computerisation of land and survey records.
Addressing the fourteenth foundation day of Vision Labs here recently, he
said there should be development of software in this regard. Paying rich
tributes to the services of Vision Lab in this field, Mr. Subbu Raju said
the task of issuing documents relating to land records to farmers and others
would become easy once computerisation was done. He also felt that
corruption could be reduced in a big way through this.



Salt Lake Tribune 9/7/00
Church records sought for polygamist rape trial
http://www.sltrib.com/09072000/utah/19889.htm

By Greg Burton
It's a rape case without a witness or physical evidence save the birth
record of a child born to polygamist Thomas Arthur Green and then
14-year-old Linda Kunz.
Green and Kunz aren't talking. Kunz's mother, one of Green's former wives,
can't be found. And Juab County prosecutor David Leavitt apparently has
scant evidence of where Green and Kunz first had sex -- a critical element
to win a conviction.


Arizona Republic 9/7/00
Prisoners' records on Web
http://www.azcentral.com/news/0907conweb07.html

By Mike McCloy
Got a boyfriend with both a bad attitude and a tattoo?
Now you can click onto the Internet and find out whether he also happens to
possess yet another interesting credential: a prison record.



http://www.bibim.com/anc/nw20000907/48.html

Connecticut University, ANC join to catalog apartheid's paper trail

The African National Congress is giving thousands of boxes of documents,
including some of Nelson Mandela's anguished personal letters, to the
University of Connecticut.
South African officials said the archive launched Wednesday will remind the
world how decades of brutal white rule were overcome.


St. Louis Post-Dispatch 9/7/00
UCLA acquires papers of internationally renowned library preservationist
Susan Garretson Swartzburg
http://www.stlnet.com/postnet/News/wires.nsf/StateRegion/345D071C7CABDE64862
5695300055666?OpenDocument

Ascribe News
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 6 (AScribe News) -- The UCLA Graduate School of Education
& Information Studies and the UCLA Library recently completed the
acquisition of the Susan Garretson Swartzburg Papers. The collection,
composed of Swartzburg's preservation library, includes a book collection,
professional papers, audiotapes, brochures and photographs. It is currently
the largest comprehensive compilation of library and archival preservation
information available for public access.





Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Manager, Records Management Group
Woodside Summit Group Inc
Midlothian, Virginia
Office: 804-744-1247 x23
Fax: 804-744-4997
mailto:peter.kurilecz@woodsidesummitgroup.com

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