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RAIN 7/10: Digital Preservation, records destruction, mouse pad i nventor



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ABCNews 7/9/01
Fading Bits of History
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/preservation010708.html

by Michael S. James
Every October, a centuries-old Buddhist sect in Kyoto, Japan, prays for our
culture - hoping in a special "information service" that today's history and
records will be open to future generations, and not fade away like the
ghosts of so many failed dot-coms. 

ABCNews 7/10/01
Recording History
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/preservation_efforts010710.
html

by Michael S. James
Not too long ago, America's culture was recorded mainly on paper, vinyl and
film, and deposited at the Library of Congress and the U.S. Copyright
Office. 


ABCNews 7/10/01
Glimpses through Time
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/preservation_whysave010709.
html

by Michael S. James
Walt Whitman wrote poems for his masterwork, Leaves of Grass, on scraps of
paper picked up off the floor of the printing office where he worked. 


ABCNews 7/9/01
Dearly Departed
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/preservation_efailure010708
.html

by Michael S. James
Enter www.petstore.com, www.etoys.com or www.den.net into your Web browser
and you will see little trace of the sites that originally did brisk
business or garnered considerable hype while operating on the World Wide
Web. 
Their dying gasps, though, are saved at the Museum of E-Failure. 


BBC News 7/9/01
Dickens letter fetches £5,000
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/arts/newsid_1430000/1430862.s
tm

A letter written by author Charles Dickens has fetched £5,000 at auction. 
The letter was one of 14 by the author found in Tavistock, Devon, at the
home of a woman directly descended from a governess who ran a hostel for
prostitutes and vagabonds founded by Dickens. 



Birmingham Business Journal 7/6/01
Destroying the paper trail
http://birmingham.bcentral.com/birmingham/stories/2001/07/09/smallb1.html

by Gilbert Nicholson
With an eye for an underserved business niche and a little help from Ollie
North, John Dunn has become one of Birmingham's few, established paper
shredders. 
It's more than just shredding paper. Dunn Business Services, started in
1985, sells the peace of mind and security that come from knowing
confidential records and documents are destroyed. 
"There are people who go Dumpster digging," quips Dunn, 62. 


Buffalo Business First 7/9/01
Looks good on paper...
http://buffalo.bcentral.com/buffalo/stories/2001/07/09/focus1.html

by Tracey Drury
A big part of what Graphicon Services Inc. does is create custom software,
including programs that help companies manage paperwork and data. 
But David Becker, Graphicon's president, is the first to admit his desk is
littered with papers. 
"Personally, I like reading something off a piece of paper if it has any
length to it," he said. "Not everyone is like that." 



Sacramento Bee 7/9/01
Energy probe relies on history
http://www.capitolalert.com/news/capalert01_20010709.html

by Emily Bazar
Bee Capitol Bureau
Reports of the day called it one of the most tense and trying legislative
sessions to date. 
On March 14, 1929, the state Senate found 10 executives from California
cement companies in contempt and voted to send them to jail. 



Connecticut Post 7/9/01
Mum's the word at City Hall
http://www.connpost.com/S-ASP-Bin/ReformatSQLIndex.ASP?puid=6773&spuid=6773&;
Indx=964950&Article=ON&id=66859496&ro=0

by Bill Cummings
BRIDGEPORT -- As FBI agents circle the city in their widening investigation
into municipal corruption, city officials are no longer answering tough
questions. 
The new say nothing policy on the investigation was put in writing June 22
when City Attorney Mark Anastasi sent a memo to all department heads
advising them not to answer verbal questions and to direct all inquiries to
city attorneys. 



Denver Business Journal 7/9/01
Local man tells of creating first mouse pad
http://denver.bcentral.com/denver/stories/2001/07/09/newscolumn1.html

by Lyn Berry
Mouse pads are practically an art form nowadays. 
Made from rubber, plastic, even glass, these little low-tech wonders come in
every imaginable shape, size and color, providing the computer mouse with a
skating rink that expresses its owner's personality. 
However, Evan Morris, the self-proclaimed creator of the mouse pad, said its
humble beginnings were purely utilitarian -- the office furniture
businessman was just trying to make his workspace a little more habitable
for the Macintosh mouse that accompanied the new computer he bought in March
1984. 



East Bay Business Times 7/9/01
Company hard-hatted about technology
http://eastbay.bcentral.com/eastbay/stories/2001/07/09/story3.html

by Katherine Conrad
Opening a technology center in Fremont to allow American Reprographics Co.
to design software programs for the construction trade is just one more step
Suri Suriyakumar and Mohan Chandramohan are taking to push the hard-hat
industry into the technology age. 
The $800 billion construction industry has been slow to embrace computers
and the Internet. But technology can be hard to resist when it's designed to
help with one of the more onerous tasks on a job site: storing and accessing
construction documents. 


News & Record 7/9/01
Find your roots online at RCC
http://www.news-record.com/news/local/rock/longlost09rk.htm

by Leslie Brown
Tracing your family history is never easy. 
Just ask Charlotte Cate and Tasha Dove, and they'll tell you that it also
can be pretty daunting and dusty. 
That's because all too often the bits of truth they need to decipher the
past are found written on yellowing paper or buried within the pages of
large, infrequently used books of old records. 


The Virginian-Pilot 7/7/01
Marine museum threw out documents, ex-official says
http://www.pilotonline.com/news/nw0707paul.html

by Jason Skog
VIRGINIA BEACH -- Virginia Marine Science Museum officials threw out
thousands of records in the days following a March court order to turn over
to an animal rights group any documents relating to a proposed $55 million
expansion, according to a former museum official. 
Paul J. Seigel, who resigned June 29 as the museum's director of
development, also said a museum public relations official was ordered by her
boss to remove records from the museum. 
In a lengthy interview, Seigel also contradicted claims by museum officials
that they had no prior knowledge of undercover police surveillance of a
community group that opposed the museum expansion. 



The Ann Arbor News 7/6/01
Humane Society gets state reprimand
http://aa.mlive.com/news/index.ssf?/news/stories/20010706a755amc1humane06.fr
m

by David Wahlberg
The Humane Society of Huron Valley has been reprimanded by the state for
poor record keeping related to a controlled substance used to euthanize
animals. 
The Michigan Department of Consumer and Industry Services has issued a cease
and desist order to the Humane Society, following an audit that found 52
milliliters of sodium pentobarbital were unaccounted for. 



National Post 7/9/01
Government secrecy to be examined
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/national/story.html?f=/stories/20010709/613
937.html

by Ian Jack
OTTAWA - A parliamentary committee examining Canada's Access to Information
Act will hold a rare summer meeting to hear bureaucrats justify why they
keep government documents from the public.
The all-party committee, chaired by John Bryden, the Liberal MP for
Ancaster-Dundas-Flamborough, will meet Aug. 27 to Aug. 29 in Ottawa and
intends to call witnesses to explain how the government's entrenched system
of secrecy works and why documents should be kept confidential.



The Valley News 7/7/01
Oswego County prepares to take inventory of infrastructure
http://www.valleynewsonline.com/news/2001/0707/Front_Page/026.html

by Carol Thompson
Although it is a large and difficult undertaking, the Oswego County must
take inventory of all of its highways, bridges, and other infrastructure to
comply with the recent mandate from the Government Accounting Standards
Board.
In 1999, this board adopted its most sweeping change in financial reporting
for state and local governments. 



Business Journal of Phoenix 7/9/01
Consider the source before passing along virus scare
http://phoenix.bcentral.com/phoenix/stories/2001/07/09/smallb5.html

by Brad Patten
I received this virus warning from a customer the other day: 
"If you receive an e-mail titled "It Takes Guts to Say `Jesus', DO NOT OPEN
IT. It will erase everything on your hard drive. This information was
announced April 21 by IBM stating that this is a very dangerous virus, much
worse than "Melissa," and that there is NO remedy for it this time. 



The Morning Call 7/9/01
Preserving the past on paper
http://www.mcall.com/html/business/news/b_pg007_bizb7_preservation.htm

by Gregory Karp
As more of the words we read exist only as electrons zipping around in our
computers, there's a business near Bethlehem whose goal in large part is to
preserve ink on paper. 
Preservation Resources on South Commerce Way in Hanover Township,
Northampton County, does that by capturing documents -- often yellowed and
brittle -- on microfilm. 



Roanoke Times 7/9/01
Book sheds light on hidden history
Danville genealogist finds 1800s Pittsylvania County register of free blacks
http://www.roanoke.com/roatimes/news/story114581.html

by Taylor Loyal
CHATHAM - One day early in 1995, genealogist Mary Leigh Boisseau was poring
over records at the Pittsylvania Court House when she happened to notice a
stack of dusty old books sitting on a window ledge. 
Working from the top down, she found a few common law books that recorded
contracts and debts, then a marriage bond book that dated back to the late
1800s. At the bottom, a leather-bound ledger about the size of a photo album
waited for Boisseau. With a paper towel she wiped away decades of
accumulated dust and found Pittsylvania County's "Register of Free Negroes."




San Francisco Chronicle 7/9/01
The boss may be spying 
Net use easy to monitor
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/07/09
/BU144746.DTL&type=tech

by Carrie Kirby
Big Brother -- or at least the boss -- is watching more than a third of
American workers who use the Internet on the job, according to a study to be
released today by the Privacy Foundation. 



Fort Worth Star-Telegram 7/9/01
E-mail ruling puts city, state at odds
Arlington Council is told that notes on private accounts can be public
documents
http://web.star-telegram.com/content/fortworth/2001/07/09/topstory/fw010108-
0709-XA001-1.htm

by J. Taylor Rushing
ARLINGTON - The city is squaring off against the state in a 6-month-old
dispute over whether council members' private e-mail should be open to the
public. 
The attorney general's office has issued a letter ruling that says
Councilwoman Julia Burgen's e-mails related to city business that have been
sent and received on her home computer are public documents. 



Foster's Online 7/9/01
Supreme Court adopts temporary confidentiality rules
http://198.181.156.134/news2001c/july/09/nh0709b.htm

AP
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - The state Supreme Court has adopted a temporary rule on
confidentiality of its records in response to criticism of its once-secret
docket.
The rule, adopted June 27 and effective July 1, details which of its records
are public and which are confidential. It also outlines procedures to open
or seal records at the high court.
The court said last year it would adopt new rules dealing with
confidentiality at the court. At the time, the court was responding to
public concerns about the secret portion of its docket known as Special
Matters Confidential.



The Sunday Times 7/8/01
Stalin drew cartoons of his victims' fate
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/Sunday-Times/stifgnrus02002.html?

by Mark Franchetti, Moscow
NEWLY discovered cartoons and doodles believed to have been drawn by Joseph
Stalin could provide an unusual insight into the mind of one of the 20th
century's most ruthless dictators. 



Toledo Blade 7/9/01
Editorial: A little archival magic
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Site=TO&Date=20010709&Categ
ory=OPINION02&ArtNo=107090026&Ref=AR

One of the most personally stirring activities for any visitor to
Washington, D.C., is a stop at the National Archives to look at this
nation's founding documents - the Declaration of Independence, the
Constitution, and the first 10 amendments to the Constitution, known as the
Bill of Rights.



Washington Post 7/9/01
Teaches mull paper-swapping
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/states/ok/A32661-2001Jul8.html

by Greg Toppo
AP Education writer
LOS ANGELES -- When Alicia Bata needs quick results from a quiz in her
Spanish class, she has her students pass their work to classmates and then
goes over the answers with them. In a few minutes, she knows who understood
the lesson and who did not.
"They are paying a lot more attention when they are correcting each others'
(papers) in the classroom together than if I were," said Bata, who teaches
in Cavalier, N.D.



New York Times 7/9/01
Slavery Scam targets black elderly
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Social-Security-Hoax.html?search
pv=aponline

AP
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Social Security officials Monday warned senior citizens
of hoaxes that promise slave reparations or additional benefit payments in
exchange for their Social Security numbers and other personal information.
There's no federal law promising black seniors slavery reparations in
exchange for personal information, said the agency that distributes the
federal retirement benefit.



New York Times 7/9/01
So is it or isn't it a museum? Only the Web suffix knows
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/09/arts/09ARTS.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Matthew Mirapaul
This is a tale about what it means to be a museum in the age of cyberspace.
The Tigertail Virtual Museum is a Web site containing 5,000 famous works of
art that Robert Uzgalis, the museum's director, has "virtually restored."
The works now look as he imagines they did at the time of their creation.
Using software to alter images he has pulled from the Internet, Mr. Uzgalis
intensifies colors on faded paintings and replaces body parts on chipped
statues. He has even straightened the Leaning Tower of Pisa. "Some of the
restorations are outrageous," he admitted.



New York Times 7/9/01
Britain plans world's biggest gene database
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/health/health-genes.html?searchpv=reuters

Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - British scientists are tiptoeing through an ethical
minefield as they prepare to build the world's biggest genetic database.
The study, which will contain DNA samples from 500,000 adults, is a unique
opportunity to examine the genetic factors which underpin a host of diseases
from asthma to Alzheimer's.







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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