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RAIN 7/06: Lincoln Flag, too much email, digitized records



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Chiefland Citizen 7/5/01
Old County documents to be protected
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2036670&BRD=1990&PAG=461&dept_id=1
91369&rfi=6

by Mike Bowdoin
The Levy County Board of County Commissioners promised on July 3 to include
a request by historian Toni Collins to provide funding for work being done
by the clerk's office to preserve Levy County's oldest historical documents.
The commissioners agreed to include the financing needed in the county's
2001-2002 budget and indicated they thought the project was a good idea.


CIO Magazine 7/1/01
Tales from the Trenches
http://www.cio.com/archive/070101/insights.html

by John Care
AFTER A FEW MONTHS in my new position as director of software development at
a midlevel ERP applications company, an amazing thing happened to me. I had
run through all the classic management techniques of holding staff meetings
and one-on-ones with my managers, maintaining an open-door policy and so on.
I was comfortably ensconced in my cushy corner office, and my only major
concern at the moment was the CEO's total lack of technical knowledge. Then
good fortune smiled on me, and the lights went out.



Federal Computer Week 7/4/01
Veterans records backlog mounts
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0702/web-record-07-04-01.asp

by William Matthews
Requests for veterans records pour in to the National Personnel Records
Center at a rate of 6,000 a day. But the records center, a massive warehouse
in St. Louis, is ill-equipped to handle the demand.
In an age when agencies such as the Internal Revenue Service and the Social
Security Administration are able to share electronic records almost
instantly, the National Personnel Records Center still operates much as it
did when it opened in 1955.


The Australian 7/6/01
Seized HIH documents off-limits for now
http://finance.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,2277042%255E462,00.html

by Monica Videnieks and Andrew White
THE Australian Securities and Investment Commission has agreed not to
inspect documents it seized during raids on the homes and offices of HIH
Insurance directors, executives and their associates.


Bucks County Courier Times 7/5/01
Newspaper that delivered news of Independence sold
http://www.phillyburbs.com/couriertimes/news/news/906369.htm

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - The newspaper that told South Carolinians about the
Declaration of Independence in 1776 has been sold to a foundation.
The Aug. 2-14, 1776, edition of the South-Carolina and American General
Gazette carried news of the Declaration's public proclamation in Charleston
and printed its entire contents. It was the only newspaper in the state to
print the full text of the document soon after its July 4 signing.


New York Times 7/5/01
Letter to the Editor: Archivist Par Excellence
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/05/opinion/L05KOCH.html?searchpv=nytToday

To the Editor:
Your July 2 front-page article about New York City's Municipal Archives
didn't mention Eugene Bockman.


New York Times 7/5/01
Connecticut takes action against rental-car tracker
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/05/technology/05GEE3.html

by Catherine Greenman
For now at least, it looks as if only the highway patrol can enforce
speeding violations. The Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection has
filed a complaint against a New Haven car rental agency that used Global
Positioning System equipment to track speeding customers.



New York Times 7/5/01
Digital recorder can blend MP3s with the Office memos
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/05/technology/05GEE2.html

by Ian Austen
The two latest digital recorders from Olympus are intended for very
different users. The $349 DM-1 allows users to listen to MP3 or Windows
Media Audio music files when they are not busy dictating memos to the head
office. The DW- 90 is a bare-bones business model that sells for just $129.


New York Times 7/5/01
Found in clutter, a relic of Lincoln's death
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/05/nyregion/05FLAG.html

by Paul Zielbauer
Hartford, July 3 -- It was there, neatly folded in a glass- topped black
box, on a steel shelf in the poorly lighted back corner of the Connecticut
Historical Society's cluttered storage area, obscured by other Civil War
relics and about 76 years of dust.


New York Times 7/5/01
You've got maelstrom: dealing with too much e-mail
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/05/technology/05MAIL.html

by Robert Strauss
Jed Horovitz considers himself a fairly spare and organized person. At Video
Pipeline, the New Jersey-based video promotion company of which he is
president, he keeps a clean desktop, both real and virtual.
"I couldn't work with clutter on my desk," he said. "And on my computer, I
have only five icons, where my employees have like 50. I'm no pack rat, here
or at home."


Reuters 7/5/01
German minister calls for gag on Stasi files
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010705/wl/germany_stasi_dc_1.html

BERLIN (Reuters) - The German agency that administers East Germany's vast
secret police files must stop releasing documents on all prominent people
following a court ruling, Interior Minister Otto Schily said on Thursday.


Seattle Post-Intelligencer 7/5/01
Lilly reveals patients' identities
http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=
Lilly%20Privacy

by Charles Wilson
AP
INDIANAPOLIS -- New fears about the online security of private information
were stirred Thursday when Eli Lilly and Co. said it had inadvertently
released over the Internet the e-mail addresses of more than 600 people on
Prozac.


The Star Press 7/5/01
Historical county records to be available online
http://www.thestarpress.com/Local_News/0705genealogy.html

MUNCIE - Genealogists delving into the histories of Delaware County
ancestors soon will have electronic access to records previously available
only at Ball State University's Bracken Library.
Through an agreement between Ball State and the Muncie Public Library, the
records will be digitized and made available in the court-documents section
of the Muncie library's Web site at www.munpl.org, according to a release
from Ball State University Relations.


The Union Leader 7/5/01
Epping locates missing chapter of its history
http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_show.html?article=3734

by Jason Schreiber
EPPING - A chapter missing from Epping's town history books may soon return
home.
The first volume of the town's history has been packed away in the New
Hampshire Division of Records Management and Archives' office in Concord
since 1927, hidden from the many Epping history buffs. But Epping Historical
Society Curator Madelyn Williamson told selectmen recently this important
town record should be returned to its rightful owner: the town of Epping.


Toledo Blade 7/5/01
Attica gets good news, bad news in audit
Village books better, but still need work
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artikkel?Avis=TO&Dato=20010705&Kate
gori=NEWS17&Lopenr=107050026&Ref=AR

ATTICA, Ohio - Less than two years since former Clerk-Treasurer Linda Stoldt
was removed by a court order, Attica has made significant progress in
cleaning up its books, a state audit has found.


Townhall.com 7/5/01
Opinion: Playing Games at EPA
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/printmm20010705.shtml

Michelle Malkin
What doesn't Carol Browner want us to know about her zealously activist
reign at the Environmental Protection Agency?
Six months ago, on her last day in office, Bill Clinton's former eco-chief
oversaw the destruction of her computer files -- in clear violation of a
judge's order requiring the agency to preserve its records.



The News Tribune 7/5/01
Pierce County's historic documents moved for safety
http://www.tribnet.com/frame.asp?/news/top_stories/0705a13.html

by  Paula Lavigne Sullivan
Tightly curved cursive letters packed between thin blue lines hold the
history of Pierce County in minute detail.
Bound between frayed, stained covers that weigh more than watermelons are
thousands of pages of records dating to early 1800s, when properties carried
the address of Pierce County, W.T. -ÊWashington Territory.


Washington Times 7/5/01
Mormons publish 1880 census data
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20010705-425607.htm

by August Gribbin
A religious group has broken the seal of secrecy regarding U.S. census data,
but it's OK. The information is 121 years old.
The data come from the 1880 census courtesy of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints.



Washington Times 7/5/01
Words of freedom get last look
http://www.washtimes.com/metro/20010705-83957256.htm

by Ellen Sorokin
Jamie and Michael Mathison usually celebrate the Fourth of July with a
backyard barbecue or a pool party in their suburban Kansas neighborhood.
Good times, but not the stuff of scrapbook memories.
Yesterday, however, the couple stood in line on the steps of the National
Archives to see the original Charters of Freedom.



WCBS880 7/5/01
Librarian unearths flag linked to Lincoln
http://wcbs880.com/topstories/StoryFolder/story_675716672_html

AP
A librarian searching a historical society's cluttered storage area stumbled
upon a flag that was in Abraham Lincoln's theater box on the night of his
assassination.
Three years of research by Civil War experts have verified the importance of
the flag found at the Connecticut Historical Society, society spokesman
Aaron Wartner said Thursday.



Wired 7/5/01
>From the bizarre SMS (short text message service)
files
http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,44966,00.html

A double murder trial in Norway took an interesting turn last week when a
wireless specialist testified that a text message sent from the suspect's
cell phone could not have been sent from the crime scene.




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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