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RAIN 03/04: Weekend Update Part 1 "Stack Rats"



Editor & Publisher Online 02/28/01
NY Post to put entire archives online
Microfilm to be digitized by Canadian Company
http://www.mediainfo.com/ephome/news/newshtm/stories/022801n8.htm

by Wayne Robins
Alexander Hamilton's editorials - online from the New York Post? The archives
of America's oldest continually-published daily are going online, and may be
accessible in time for the November bicentennial of the Federalists' paper,
founded in 1801.
"Our archives are really a treasure trove," said Post Editor Ken Chandler.
"Over the years we've kept them intact on microfilm, but obviously that's a
very cumbersome way to reach them."



Editor & Publisher Online 03/01/01
Mexican media asks for FOI law
President said to support Freedom of Information
http://www.mediainfo.com/ephome/news/newshtm/stories/030101n12.htm

Associated Press
MEXICO CITY - (AP) A group of leading Mexican news executives on Wednesday
asked President Vicente Fox to support a freedom of information law for the
country.
The proposal came as Fox met privately with the Mexican news executives and
directors of the Inter American Press Association. The executives said such a
law would break a secretive system that makes it difficult for citizens to
obtain much information that should be public.



Akron Beacon Journal 03/02/01
Richfield Twp. Clerk resigns
http://www.ohio.com/bj/news/docs/007903.htm

by Laura Haferd
RICHFIELD TWP.: Township clerk Betty Ann Hayes has resigned, and Trustee
Robert Luther contends she was harassed out of office.
Hayes, who has been Luther's ally in the separation dispute between the
village of Richfield and the rest of the township, says she is leaving office
at the end of this month.
She said she had little office space after the township administration was
reorganized last month.



Newszap 03/01/01
Archives building chimneys need to be dismantled in Dover, Delaware
http://www.newszap.com/archives/index.inn?loc=detail&doc=/2001/March/01-625-ne

ws02.txt

by Tom Eldred
Senior writer
DOVER - The eight massive chimneys atop the new $19 million Public Archives
building are not going to come tumbling and crashing down.
But they are coming down.
Completely, brick by brick.
Then they'll be rebuilt.
"As we were finishing construction last year we discovered we were getting
some moisture through the roof area,'' said Michael R. Bundek, deputy
director of the Division of Facilities Management for the state Department of
Administrative Services.




New York Times 03/02/01
Banker told to submit records
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/02/business/02BONY.html

by Bloomberg News
Afederal judge has ordered the chairman of the Bank of New York Company,
Thomas A. Renyi, to surrender telephone records, tax returns and credit card
statements in a lawsuit by shareholders that accuses him and 18 other
officials of roles in a money laundering scheme.
Lawyers for Mr. Renyi and the bank argued at a hearing yesterday that lawyers
representing the plaintiffs were invading Mr. Renyi's privacy and would find
nothing to corroborate their claims. The bank also feared that witnesses who
said Mr. Renyi had plotted to launder money would use the records to
"construct perjured testimony and forged documents" to support their
accusations, his lawyer, Richard Klapper, said.




New York Times 03/03/01
Clinton Library to provide financial data
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/03/politics/03PARD.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Don Van Natta Jr and David Johnston
WASHINGTON, March 2 - Lawyers for Bill Clinton's presidential library agreed
today to show the leaders of a House panel the details of financial support
provided by more than 100 people who have given or promised to raise at least
$5,000 for the project.
Earlier this week the chairman and the ranking Democratic member of the
panel, the House Government Reform Committee, were permitted, along with a
few aides, to review the names of 146 such people and corporations on the
donor list of the William J. Clinton Presidential Foundation. But that list
did not specify the amounts given or pledged.




Newsfactor.com 03/02/01
Report: Huge profits in online content archives
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/7874.html

by Deborah Durham-Vichr
Newsfactor Network
A new report by Web media research giant Jupiter Media Metrix (Nasdaq: JMXI)
places staggering value on digital content delivered over the Internet. The
report points to the potential tripling of demand for archived online
content, and a market Jupiter says will be worth $2.2 billion dollars this
year.
While any five-year projection must be taken with a grain of salt, Jupiter is
also suggesting that the wealth of archived content on the Web could be worth
over $6 billion by 2006.
The gold mine of images, old news and information hoarded by content owners
are sought after every day by a variety of companies and consumers.



Fort Worth Star-Telegram 03/01/01
Medical records sold to solicitors, panel told
<http://www.star-telegram.com/news/doc/1047/1:STATE52/1:STATE520301101.html>

by John Moritz
Austin Bureau
AUSTIN -- When she applied for a personal health insurance policy, Catherine
Braun of Houston had no idea that her medical history would wind up in the
hands of telephone and mail solicitors.
"Who gave the [insurance] industry the right to take my information from over
the last 15 years ... and use it any way they like?" Braun, an independent
consultant, asked a Senate panel that was considering legislation to restrict
the disclosure of Texans' medical records.




The Sun-Herald 03/03/01
Getting the records straight
http://web.sunherald.com/content/biloxi/2001/03/03/local_news/3691813_03032001

.htm?template=aprint.htm

by Geoff Pender
A little more than five years ago, incoming Harrison County Chancery Clerk
John McAdams inherited a government records system that was almost in the
toilet, literally. Today, McAdams and Harrison County will receive an award
from the Mississippi Historical Society for having "an exemplary records
management program."
A little more than five years ago, incoming Harrison County Chancery Clerk
John McAdams inherited a government records system that was almost in the
toilet, literally. Today, McAdams and Harrison County will receive an award
from the Mississippi Historical Society for having "an exemplary records
management program."




Washington Post 02/26/01
The 'Stack Rat' and the Capital's new big guys
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54915-2001Feb25.html

by Phil McCombs
Who'd think that a guy like Mike Musick -- a low-key public servant who makes
his living combing the stacks of the National Archives for old records --
would be whisked to the White House for a cheerful, private lunch with the
Bushes and Cheneys in the opening days of the administration?
"I thought to myself, 'Here you are, toiling away in the bureaucracy for 32
years and suddenly you get the chance to meet these renowned figures,' " Mike
said with a chuckle. The invitation was the last thing the 56-year-old "stack
rat" -- as these dedicated archivists are sometimes called -- was expecting.




Washington Post 02/26/01
A longer look at war crimes
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54886-2001Feb25.html

by George Lardner Jr
The interagency working group (IWG) in charge of unearthing records involving
Nazi war crimes and criminals has a new lease on life, a broadened mandate to
cover the Japanese Imperial Government and a new chairman.
Steven Garfinkel, the longtime director of the government's Information
Security Oversight Office, has been named to head the group, which has
already overseen the declassification of almost 3 million pages involving the
Nazis and their allies in Europe during World War II. He succeeds Michael J.
Kurtz, who after more than two years on the job is returning to the National
Archives and Records Administration as assistant archivist for records
services.




Washington Post 03/04/01
Penny postcard trove shows a Washington long forgotten
Collector's scenes of the past delight museum audience
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19473-2001Mar3.html

by Linda Wheeler
The Washington postcard that Cora sent to Nellie Watkins wasn't about cherry
blossoms or climbing to the top of the Washington Monument. The message was
far more personal.
"Papa wants you to come home right away. There is nobody home to help Mama. I
am working in the canning factory and Anna is going to school. Come home
before Sunday."




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

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