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RAIN 6/27: Section 508, storage capacity and copyright



Boston Globe 6/25/01
Editorial: For the Records
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/175/editorials/For_the_records+.shtml

The BOSTON Public Library is eager to consolidate its hundreds of thousands
of books and documents now scattered in three remote storage locations in
Charlestown, Brighton, and Norwood. The crammed city archives in Hyde Park,
meanwhile, are desperate for space to house documents as rare as a 1777
letter from John Hancock and as voluminous as the minutes of City Council
hearings. The challenging reference question is whether the needs of both
the public library and the city archives can be met under one roof.


Chicago Tribune 6/25/01
Internet alters routine of library Night Owls
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/metro/northwest/article/0,2669,SAV-010625
0115,FF.html

by Sandra Del Re
Late-night Internet surfing is changing the way reference librarians do
business.
But library officials say that doesn't mean after-hours reference services
such as Night Owl, an Arlington Heights-based program, will become obsolete.



Civic.com 6/25/01
County takes storage lead
http://www.civic.com/civic/articles/2001/0625/web-contra-06-25-01.asp

by Brian Robinson
Officials in Contra Costa, one of the largest counties in California, have
opted for a network-attached storage (NAS) solution to meet their records
management needs. They hope the effort will serve as an example that other
governments can follow to address a growing problem.


Federal Computer Week 6/25/01
Accessibility eludes agencies
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0625/news-508-06-25-01.asp

by William Matthews
The date for posting fully accessible federal Web sites arrived June 21, and
any expectation that agencies would be ready promptly vanished.
Accessibility tests conducted on more than 2,700 Web pages on several
federal sites revealed that hundreds still did not meet standards for making
Web sites accessible to people with disabilities.


Freedomforum.org 6/25/01
Iowa hires first public-records ombudsman
http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=14234

Associated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa - The state has hired its first ombudsman charged with
helping citizens get the public records the law says they should have.
"I think part of my role, initially, is going to be educating not only the
public but also people in government about what the law is," Robert Anderson
said.


Government Executive 6/25/01
Road to accessible technology just beginning managers say
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0601/062501508.htm

by Kellie Lunney and Jason Peckenbaugh
As of today, federal agencies are required by law to provide assistive
technology to employees with disabilities. But federal managers say the day
marks the beginning of efforts to improve technology accessibility, not the
end.


The Virginian Pilot 6/25/01
Chesapeake court clerk laments lack of room for records
http://www.pilotonline.com/news/nw0624fil.html

by Lou Misselhorn
CHESAPEAKE -- The city's four-floor courthouse, less than two years old, is
already running out of records space, Clerk of the Circuit Court Lillie M.
Hart said.
She has had to store 200 older files in the Juvenile & Domestic Relations
Court Building, because she needs space for newer ones, Hart said. The
nearby library is home for 127 boxes of court reporter notes.


Houston Chronicle 6/25/01
Losses at Med Center still being tallied
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/952375

Associated Press
Walls are caved in from the force of water. Computers and microscopes are
covered with mud. Wires dangle from the ceiling. The air smells musty.
In the basements of the famed Texas Medical Center, researchers are
scrambling to figure out what they lost and what they can salvage after
floods from the torrential rains of Tropical Storm Allison more than two
weeks ago destroyed or left in doubt years of study about cancer, AIDS,
childhood diseases, cardiovascular disease and gene therapy.


Network Computing 6/25/01
Keeping Data Private
http://www.networkcomputing.com/1213/1213ws1.html

by Sean Doherty
Before its demise last year, Toysmart.com made a standard promise to its
customers: The company's privacy statement assured customers that Toysmart
would never sell information registered at the site, including children's
names and birth dates. But in Chapter 11 proceedings, Toysmart.com declared
that its customer lists were business assets and therefore it was allowed to
sell the lists to a "qualified buyer" that would be a successor-in-interest
to the customer information. So much for privacy.



New Zealand Herald 6/26/01
Secure access with a beep
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=196812&thesection=technol
ogy&thesubsection=general

Reuters
NEW YORK - Want to access your medical records online without exposing them
to prying eyes? Just have your customised credit card say "Open sesame."
Hold the ComDot card, a new product from Tel Aviv-based ComSense
Technologies, up to your computer's microphone and squeeze the slight bump
in its centre. The card emits high-pitched noises similar to a fax machine
or dial-up modem.


Associated Press 6/25/01
Crime Stoppers program in Illinois community shuts down after tipster's
identity is revealed via subpoena
http://www.nj.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?a0710_BC_Cr
imeStoppersStopped&&news&newsflash-national

by Kristina Buchthal
CHICAGO (AP) -- A defense attorney subpoenaed telephone company records to
acquire the identity of a Crime Stoppers tipster in what is believed to be
the first time in the organization's 26-year history that someone has
pierced the veil of anonymity protecting callers.


Associated Press 6/25/01
E-filing of court documents sparks intense competition among new start-ups
http://www.nj.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?o0003_BC_OR
--CyberCourt&&news&newsflash-financial

by Jody Ronick
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) -- Inspiration struck Shogan Naidoo when he was working at
a Portland-based Internet start-up and finishing his law degree at the
University of Oregon.
Instructed to prepare group presentations in a class on law and technology,
Naidoo teamed up with Kenji Sugahara. Their topic: the electronic filing of
legal documents.


Bloomberg.com 6/25/01
U.S. Supreme Court rejects NRA appeal over gun-purchase records
http://quote.bloomberg.com/fgcgi.cgi?T=uspolitics_news.ht&s=AOzdIDhX2VS5TLiB
T

by Laurie Asseo
Washington, June 25 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Supreme Court turned down an
appeal by the National Rifle Association, which challenged the federal
government's practice of keeping temporary records on people who buy
handguns under the Brady law.
The justices, without comment, today rejected the NRA's argument that the
record-keeping on instant background checks amounts to an unlawful national
gun-ownership registry. The national instant background check system was
begun in 1998 under the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act.


PRNewswire 6/25/01
Former Fitchburg Museum volunteer charged with stealing and selling
historical documents, reports U.S. Attorney
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/06-25
-2001/0001521106&EDATE=

WORCESTER, Mass., June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- A former volunteer at the
Fitchburg Historical Society Museum was charged in a criminal complaint
unsealed today with stealing and later selling various historical documents
from the museum.


Federal Computer Week 6/25/01
Road maps to the future
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0625/tec-maps-06-25-01.asp

by Greg Langlois
Maps can be a big help when you're trying to get from one place to another.
For Transportation Department officials and members of Congress, maps are
also useful in decision- making. At their request, the department's Bureau
of Transportation Statistics (BTS) has embarked on a project to enable users
to create customized maps online.


PRNewswire 6/25/01
Documentum and ViaFone form strategic alliance to deliver mobile content
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/06-25
-2001/0001520476&EDATE=

BRISBANE, Calif., June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- ViaFone, a leading provider of
mobile enterprise software, today announced a strategic partnership with
Documentum (Nasdaq: DCTM), the leading enterprise content management
provider, to provide an integrated mobile content and content management
solution for Global 2000 organizations.


Philadelphia Inquirer 6/25/01
Univac pioneers view 50 amazing years
http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2001/06/25/business/UNIVAC25.htm

by Wendy Tanaka
Before semiconductors and hard drives, there were vacuum tubes and metal
tape - the technology inside the world's first commercial computer, Univac,
invented at the University of Pennsylvania a half-century ago.


UPI 6/25/01
Lawyers turning more to Web evidence
http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=197066

BOSTON, June 25 (UPI) -- A growing number of lawyers are using Internet Web
sites rather than live witnesses to prove their cases in court, a newspaper
for lawyers reported Monday. "First, Websites are cheaper, faster and more
reliable than live witnesses," said Tom Harrison, publisher of Lawyers
Weekly USA. "Rather than paying an expert witness $200 an hour to testify,
you can prove a fact in five minutes for free" using Web sites, he said.


Wired 6/25/01
Disabled Access Now, more or less
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,44724,00.html

by Jeffrey Benner
New standards requiring the federal government to make its websites
accessible to the disabled will be enforced beginning Monday, regulations
that have been hailed by politicians, corporations and advocates for the
disabled.


Washington Post 6/25/01
An open door to the e-mailroom
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7642-2001Jun15.html

by Robert O'Harrow Jr
The e-mail system at one of the nation's leading money managers operated on
the Internet for months with little security, giving outsiders access to
messages containing confidential financial data, passwords and employees'
personal information.


CNET News 6/20/01
Rental-car firm exceeding the privacy limit?
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-6333149.html

by Robert Lemos
In a case that could help set the bar for the amount of privacy drivers of
rental cars can expect, a Connecticut man is suing a local rental company,
Acme Rent-a-Car, after it used GPS (Global Positioning System) technology to
track him and then fined him $450 for speeding three times.


CNET News 6/20/01
NSI customers report privacy breach
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6335782.html

by Robert Lemos
Customers of domain name registrar Network Solutions complained this week
that private e-mail sent to the company's support department was being
forwarded to others who had sent in requests for help.
One e-mail seen by CNET News.com included an attachment that contained more
than 200 private messages.


Boston Globe 6/26/01
Ex-editor charged with theft
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/177/metro/Ex_editor_charged_with_theft+.sh
tml

by Shelley Murphy
A former newspaper editor was charged yesterday with stealing historical
documents, some signed by Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson, and Civil
War-era valuables from a Fitchburg museum and selling them to collectors.


York Daily Record 6/26/01
City releases more documents from 1960s
http://www.ydr.com/projects/riot/1riot2.shtml

by Jim Lynch
Riot-era records released by the City of York this week shed light on a
mayor and police department faced with several politically sensitive issues
through the 1960s.



Worcester Telegram & Gazette 6/26/01
Ex-historical society volunteer charged with theft
http://www.telegram.com/news/page_one/malcolm.html

by Mike Elfland
WORCESTER-- A former volunteer with the Fitchburg Historical Society has
been charged with stealing several documents from the society's Grove Street
headquarters.
Investigators from the FBI and Fitchburg police have been tracking the case
since July, when Historical Society officials realized that a $250,000
sword, presented to Fitchburg native Col. Edwin Upton by his regiment



Federal Computer Week 6/25/01
Giant NMCI records deal set
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0625/web-nmci-06-25-01.asp

by Bill Murray
Records management - long derided as a federal mandate without a budget -
received a huge boost June 22.
Electronic Data Systems Corp. officials were getting ready to sign a records
management subcontract with Australia-based Tower Software to add the
company's software to its $6.9 billion Navy Marine Corps Intranet
procurement.



Federal Computer Week 6/12/01
Pentagon inks paperless deals
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0611/web-dod-06-12-01.asp

by George I. Seffers
The Pentagon continues its march toward a paperless future with two
just-announced e-government deals.


Federal Computer Week 6/18/01
Security deadline looms
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0618/sec-feat1-06-18-01.asp

by Diane Frank
Three months and counting. That's how long federal agencies have to provide
the Office of Management and Budget, and thereby Congress, with a complete
assessment of their ability to secure their computer systems and services.
And that deadline has left agencies scrambling to find ways to squeeze in as
much work as they can, while hoping that legislators do not express their
displeasure over any shortcomings by denying future funding requests.



New York Times 6/26/01
Freelancers win in case of work kept in databases
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/26/technology/26BIZC.html

by Linda Greenhouse
Washington, June 25 -- The Supreme Court ruled today that a group of
newspaper and magazine publishers infringed the copyrights of freelance
contributors by making their articles accessible without permission in
electronic databases after publication.



New York Times 6/26/01
The Reaction: Publishers set to remove older articles from files
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/26/technology/26COPY.html

by David D. Kirkpatrick
Newspaper and magazine publishers, reacting to the Supreme Court's ruling
that freelance writers retain some rights to the electronic use of their
previously published work, began preparing yesterday to cull thousands of
articles from Lexis-Nexis and other online databases while positioning
themselves for the next round in the battle with writers' groups.


Pittsburgh Tribune-Review 6/26/01
Hearings this week aim to resolve stagnant debate over Frick archives
http://www.triblive.com/live/news/news_story.html?rkey=141559+sid=00f83c2597
31caa356b67f3b3086cb12+cat=news-pittsburgh+template=news1.html

by Bill Zlatos
Packed in boxes on the second floor of the Car and Carriage Museum in Point
Breeze are the Frick Archives, a motley collection of papers belonging to
industrialist Henry Clay Frick and his daughter, Helen.


Polk County Democrat 6/25/01
Copies of County public records are now C.O.D.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=1996833&BRD=1915&PAG=461&dept_id=1
36668&rfi=6

>From now on, people who make public records requests of Polk County
government will be asked to make payment C.O.D. for any copies they receive.
The policy was prepared by the county staff and adopted by the county
commission after a union which represents county employees failed to pick up
- or pay for - more than $4,000 worth of copies.


Dallas Morning News 6/26/01
Researchers try to rebound after floods
http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/403162_flood_26tex.AR.html

by Pam Easton
AP
HOUSTON - Walls are caved in from the force of water. Mud covers computers
and microscopes. Wires dangle from the ceiling. The air smells musty.
In the basements of the famed Texas Medical Center, researchers are
scrambling to figure out what they lost and what they can salvage after
floods from the torrential rains of Tropical Storm Allison more than two
weeks ago. Years of study about cancer, AIDS, childhood diseases,
cardiovascular disease and gene therapy was either destroyed or left in
doubt.


The Daily Californian 6/26/01
Editorial: Lawrence Lab must be more forthcoming
http://www.dailycal.org/article.asp?id=5702

The UC-managed Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory came under fire again
last week when plaintiffs in a 1998 discrimination lawsuit claimed officials
are withholding documents that could be crucial to the case.


Washington Post 6/26/01
Freelancers win fight over reuse of works
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42816-2001Jun25.html

by Christopher Stern
The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that some of the nation's largest
newspaper and magazine publishers broke copyright law when they failed to
secure freelance writers' permission to include their works in digital
databases.


Jerusalem Post 6/26/01
German newspaper to pay Schindler's widow for documents
http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/06/26/LatestNews/LatestNews.29153.html

AP
A court has ordered a newspaper to pay $11,000 to Oskar Schindler's widow
for publishing documents from the German businessman credited with saving
Jews during World War II, a court said today.





Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Manager, Records Management Group
Woodside Summit Group Inc
Midlothian, Virginia
Office: 804-744-1247 x23
Fax: 804-744-4947
mailto:peter.kurilecz@woodsidesummitgroup.com

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