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St. Louis Post-Dispatch 01/14/01
Effort to preserve court records of Dred Scott case moves to the Web
http://www.postnet.com/postnet/stories.nsf/News/BF274C2C570B96A4862569D4003751

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by Peter Shinkle
Dred Scott's unsuccessful challenge of Missouri slavery law, which helped
push the nation toward Civil War, is one of the state's most important
historical episodes.
Now, the Missouri State Archives has worked with St. Louis Circuit Court and
Washington University to put 170 pages of the original Dred Scott documents
on a Web site maintained by the university at www.
library.wustl.edu/vlib/dredscott.
State officials will formally announce the new site Monday -- Martin Luther
King Jr. Day -- because the holiday is often a time for reflection on the
African-American struggle for freedom, said Ken Winn, the state archivist.



Mobile Register 01/14/01
Public officials prefer to keep private schedules under wraps
http://www.al.com/news/mobile/?Jan2001/14-a414100a.html

by Sean Reilly
Washington Bureau
Gov. Don Siegelman's day usually starts like this: He rises early, drops off
his two children at school, then heads for his office in the state Capitol in
downtown Montgomery.
Finding out exactly what the governor does next is more of a mystery.
Like previous Alabama chief executives, he claims the right to keep big
swaths of his official schedule secret. While news conferences and speeches
are publicized, his office regularly slams the door on information about
activities it deems private.
The identities of those meeting with Siegelman are usually not disclosed, and
sometimes there is little or no advance notice of his trips, even when they
occur at taxpayer expense.




The Australian 01/15/01
Private firms suffer from IT cock-up
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/common/story_page/0,4511,1610968%255E2702,00.h

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by Ian Henderson and Selina Mitchell
Plans for private firms to take over a huge range of government services are
under a cloud following last week's damning review into the implementation of
IT outsourcing.
The Humphry report, released on Friday, forced the Howard Government to
abandon the centralised control of its $5 billion project to contract out all
federal computer needs.



Omaha World-Herald 01/14/01
Patient Privacy already priority, NU says
http://new.omaha.com/index.atp?u_div=3&u_hdg=0&u_sid=57209

by Jeremy Olson
The University of Nebraska Medical Center is at the forefront nationally in
computerizing medical records, which also puts it at the forefront of the
controversy over patient privacy.
The NU Medical Center has developed one computer system for the storage of
patient records used for both clinical care and research. In a presentation
Friday to the NU Board of Regents, Dr. John Windle, director of health
informatics, said the Medical Center is one of perhaps only two in the nation
with such a unified record system.



Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 01/14/01
Proposed bill would grant adoptees access to records
http://www.ardemgaz.com/Sun/ark/A1yxgr-adoptwk14.html

by Chris Osher
If a bill introduced in the Legislature becomes law, children who were
adopted in Arkansas would have access to their birth certificates, regardless
of whether their birth parents want to remain anonymous.
Likening the status of adoptees to that of the enslaved, Rep. Sandra Rodgers,
D-Hope, sees the legislation as championing the underdog.
"They didn't choose to be put up for adoption," Rodgers said. "They have a
right to know who they are."
Rodgers offered the proposal in the 1999 legislative session. It failed to
pass, but she believes she will have better luck this year.




Jacksonville Time-Union 01/14/01
Selecting a college president privately
http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/011401/met_5124489.html


by Joe Humphrey
Bright skies and sunny weather have attracted countless new employees to the
Sunshine State, but a different kind of "sunshine" hurts Florida's ability to
recruit new university presidents, a state task force has concluded.
The task force recommended last week that lawmakers allow searches for
university presidents to be exempt from the state's "government in the
sunshine" laws, among the most open access laws in the country.
Florida's sunshine laws provide open access to many meetings and most
documents of state government. Exemptions must be approved by law- makers.



Washington Post 01/13/01
The Old-fangles search engine
In a digital age, do libraries still count?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55132-2001Jan12.html

by Linton Weeks
Here we are, a-muddle in the middle of the Information Rage. At our very
fingertips, we've got access to more than 3 billion Internet sites teeming
and streaming with info on everything from aardvarks to zymurgy. We don't
need no stinking libraries.
Or do we?
Good question. Whom do we ask? AltaVista? Google? Ask Jeeves.com? Nahhh.
Let's ask a librarian.
Now'd be a good time. Some 10,000 are descending on the Washington Convention
Center for the midwinter meeting of the American Library Association. For
this weekend, at least, we are home to the World's Largest Help Desk.



The Frontier Post 01/14/01
Maintenance of record under GATT code opposed
http://frontierpost.com.pk/business.asp?id=1&date1=1/14/2001

Zubair Motiwala, President, Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry, has
stressed the need for reducing the period of maintaining record from 5 years
to maximum 1 year for the purpose of audit, under the Importers (Maintenance
of) Accounts Rules 2000, framed to implement the GATT Code of Valuation.
This, he said, in a meeting with Controller of Customs Valuation, Mahboub
Saqib Khan, who visited the Chamber on last Thursday to discuss the problems,
emanating from the new system of valuation.
The KCCI Chief explained that the maintenance of records of such a long
period was obviously difficult and would perpetuate an element of
uncertainty.


Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Richmond, Va
pakurilecz@aol.com

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