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RAIN 8/28: Copyright Office search engine, privacy and records pr eservation



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Washington Post 8/27/01
Copyright office modernizes its search system
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/169451.html

by Susan M. Menke
Government Computer News
The Copyright Office this week replaced its old Telnet search system with
Web-based searching for copyright information about books, music recordings,
movies, software and other works.


Siliconvalley.com 8/27/01
Cyberquirks: your privacy is at stake
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/opinion/svguest/ta082701.htm

by Travis Armstrong
If you access e-mail and the Web through a cable TV connection, you have
more protections against the government's prying eyes than the rest of us.
That doesn't make sense. There's no reason why the 5 million customers of
cable-based Internet service providers should get special privacy rights.



Duluth News-Tribune 8/27/01
Open records law faces challenges
http://web.duluthnews.com/content/duluth/2001/08/27/local/du_OPEN0827.htm

by Sarah Wyatt
Associated Press
MADISON -- Wisconsin's open records law was once considered among the most
progressive in the country, giving the media and citizens unfettered access
to most public documents.
But a series of state Supreme Court decisions has produced such confusion
about the release of documents that newspapers and broadcasters have
reported difficulties obtaining everything from police reports to death
certificates.



Evansville Courier-Press 8/27/01
Effort under way to link criminal record lists
http://www.courierpress.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi?/200108/27+criminal082701_lates
tnews.html+20010827+latestnews

AP
INDIANAPOLIS - In an attempt to improve a criminal record-keeping system
that one prosecutor said "stinks," prosecutors and the state police are
working together to link their records and improve public safety.
Kevin Sifferlen, deputy director of the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute,
said the effort involves linking a statewide computer system used by county
prosecutors with the Indiana State Police criminal history database.



Florida Times Union 8/27/01
Book takes in-depth look at 'The Great Fire of 1901'
http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/082701/dsf_7036976.html

by Judy Wells
It took three hours to incinerate 466 acres of downtown Jacksonville that
Friday afternoon, another five hours before the fire was contained and under
control.
It took historian Wayne Wood and the late Florida Times-Union columnist Bill
Foley more than a year to turn the saga into the 232-page The Great Fire of
1901, which will make its debut tomorrow at a Jacksonville Historical
Society book signing.



Casper Tribune 8/27/01
Hacker worm infiltrates Legislature's Web site
http://www.trib.com/HOMENEWS/HEAD/27LegislatureHacked.html

AP
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - A type of hacker virus called a defacement worm
penetrated the Legislature's Web site but caused no serious damage.
The worm was first spotted in the computer world in early May. It struck
thousands of Web sites worldwide and turned up at the Legislature's site in
June, according to Nichole Dillon, information technology specialist for the
Legislature Service Office.



Baltimore Business Journal 8/27/01
Hopkins sued for $12M
http://baltimore.bcentral.com/baltimore/stories/2001/08/27/story1.html

by Scott Graham
A former patient of Johns Hopkins Hospital claims the medical institution
ruined his life by giving information about his psychiatric troubles to a
disgruntled former friend.
He is suing the Baltimore hospital for $12 million in a case that is
expected to go to trial Sept. 24 month and will be watched closely by the
health care industry.


InternetNews 8/27/01
When 'Pay as You Go' storage service pays off
http://www.internetnews.com/asp-news/article/0,,3411_873461,00.html

by Lynn Haber
The Storage Service Provider (SSP) market may be getting its share of bumps
and bruises, but the pay-as-you-go model is a good match for some
enterprises -- especially those pursuing new business opportunities and
needing to focus on core competencies while limiting capital spending.
A case in point is ChartOne Inc., an 18-year-old company that manages
patient charts for hospitals and healthcare facilities. The company has more
than 1,900 health information management specialists who work with more than
1,400 customers, handling 5 million patient charts annually. When the San
Jose, Calif., firm in April introduced its latest application, a virtual
file room called vChart, the company opted to partner with IBM for storage
services.



Irish Independent 8/27/01
Civil War papers may be salvaged
http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=9&si=501581&issue_id=
5155

by Aideen Sheehan
IMPORTANT documents damaged during the Civil War may finally be readable
with the setting up of a conservation unit at the National Archives.
There has been a commitment to recruit a properly trained conservator who
could set up the systems necessary to repair and preserve fire-damaged
documents, senior archivist Ken Hannigan said.



Kent County Daily Times 8/27/01
KCWA price for info vexes T. Jones
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2273149&BRD=1718&PAG=461&dept_id=7
4409&rfi=6

by Tracy Scudder
ARCTIC -- Private Investigator Thomas K. Jones received a bill for $91.20 to
find out the Kent County Water Authority does not have a written policy
allowing KCWA employees to purchase company vehicles.
Jones requested five different pieces of information from the KCWA on Aug. 7
regarding the water authority's policy to sell vehicles to employees, the
minutes from the meeting where the sales were approved, and public records
for certain cars that were sold.
"The specific records that I requested were not given or not properly
given," said Jones."I received a lot of fluff.They sent 58 pages of garbage
and charged me $91.20 for 5 1/2 hours of work for search and retrieval."



KGW.COM 8/27/01
Marijuana patients challenge state access to records
http://www.kgw.com/kgwnews/oregonwash_story.html?StoryID=25552

by Mahealani Richardson and Doug Irving
The state has asked 800 medical-marijuana users to turn over their personal
medical records, a request that protestors branded as outrageous today.
One doctor - Phillip Leveque - signed off on the medical-marijuana
applications of all 800 patients. The state wants to make sure the
doctor-patient relationship is legitimate.



Newszap 8/27/01
Delaware regiment honored
http://www.newszap.com/display/inn_delmarva/news04.txt

by Tom Eldred
BROOKLYN, N.Y. - "I never thought I would be standing in the middle of a
cemetery in Brooklyn, N.Y., representing the state of Delaware,'' state
archivist Tim Slavin said. "It was a great day to be a Delawarean.''
Indeed, Mr. Slavin and scores of Delaware people traveled to Brooklyn Sunday
for the dedication of a special monument commemorating the role of
Delaware's Continental Regiment during the Battle of Brooklyn on Aug. 27,
1776.
The ceremony took place in Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery.



New York Times 8/27/01
Seller of Online currency may have been victim of fraud
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/27/technology/ebusiness/27ECOMMERCE.html?sear
chpv=nytToday

by Bob Tedeschi
Flooz.com, a purveyor of online currency used as electronic gift
certificates, officially ceased operations over the weekend, according to
its chief executive, Robert Levitan. It fell victim to a softening economy
and a sour investment atmosphere. But Internet fraud may have sped its
demise, a person close to the company said.
The company, this person said, had unknowingly sold $300,000 of its
currency, known as flooz, over the last three months to a ring of credit
card thieves in Russia and the Philippines, before being alerted by the
F.B.I. (A spokesman for the F.B.I., citing the bureau's policy, declined to
say whether it was investigating.)



New York Times 8/27/01
The CompuDevil will get you!
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-FEA-Hobbies-CompuBug-The-Rules
.html?searchpv=aponline

AP
There are two cardinal rules in personal computing, and the CompuDevil
inflicts horrible punishment if they're broken.
Rule 1: If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Rule 2: If you ignore Rule 1, back up all your data.



The Providence Journal 8/27/01
A treasure trove of memorabilia in Barton farmhouse attic
http://www.projo.com/cgi-bin/story.pl/westbay/06063281.htm

WARWICK -- When the city agreed to buy Barton Farm last spring, it knew it
was getting 67 acres and a 220-year-old farmhouse.
Two weeks ago it found out it was also getting an interesting cache of old
documents, family portraits and antique furniture that had been stored in
the farmhouse attic for more than 60 years.


The Washington Times 8/24/01
Righs panel said to withhold documents
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20010824-68933513.htm

by Steve Miller
A congressman accused the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights of withholding
documents from a House subcommittee seeking information about the
commission's report on Florida's voting problems in last year's election.
In a letter Wednesday to the commission Chairwoman Mary Frances Berry, Rep.
Steve Chabot, Ohio Republican, accused Miss Berry of "a deliberate attempt
to conceal from the subcommittee evidence that the commission spent" money
on a private public relations firm in excess of the budgeted amount.



Rocky Mountain News 8/27/01
Internet's dot-naming system about to get some suffix help
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/technology/article/0,1299,DRMN_49_8104
58,00.html

by Anick Jesdanun
Associated Press
As the Internet expands, plans to add new features and languages to Web site
addresses are stretching the domain name system beyond its original
capabilities.
Over the next few months, seven new Internet suffixes, with names like
".info" and ".pro," will be added to the current roster that includes ".com"
and ".org."



San Francisco Business Times 8/27/01
Warp-speed escrows slam on the brakes
http://sanfrancisco.bcentral.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2001/08/27/focus2.html

by Steve Ginsberg
The Bay Area's sizzling housing market has cooled, and so has the white-hot
pace of escrow closings.
New technology and last year's frenzied market began to reduce the usual 30-
to 60-day windows for escrow closings to one week or less -- a risky,
perhaps borderline crazy, move.



The Brownsville Herald 8/27/01
State cracking down on notary fraud
http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/sections/archive/topstoryjmp/8-27-01/News3.
htm

by Juan Ozuna
The Monitor
EDINBURG - Notaries public who misrepresent themselves now can be prosecuted
under an amendment to Texas law in the last legislative session, state
officials announced Wednesday.
Secretary of State Henry Cuellar, whose office regulates the actions of
notaries public, announced the approval of House Bill 3134, which tightens
restrictions on notaries.
"What we want to do is educate people on the rights and the responsibilities
of a notary public," Cuellar said.


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St. Louis Post-Dispatch 8/27/01
Veterans in search of records may soon find that 'hurry up and wait' is
thing of past
<http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/News/DA47C66ED3F18DDF8625
6AB50004F03B?OpenDocument&Headline=Veterans%20in%20search%20of%20records%20m
ay%20soon%20find%20that%20%93hurry%20up%20and%20wait%94%20is%20thing%20of%20
past%20>

by Harry Levins
At the National Personnel Records Center in Overland, director Ron Hindman
says he's turning a paper battleship around - but slowly, which is the way
battleships turn.
Hindman's operation houses the personnel records of America's military
veterans since 1899. When veterans or their families need copies of those
records - for housing loans, say, or for burial benefits - they write to
Overland.




The Chippewa Herald 8/27/01
Wisconsin's open records law leaves much open to interpretation
http://www.chippewa.com/display/inn_news/news2.txt

AP
MADISON (AP) -- Wisconsin's open records law was once considered among the
most progressive in the country, giving the media and citizens unfettered
access to most public documents.
But a series of state Supreme Court decisions has produced such confusion
about the release of documents that newspapers and broadcasters have
reported difficulties obtaining everything from police reports to death
certificates.



The Tullahoma News 8/25/01
Efforts to preserve precious records praised, honored on national level
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2270725&BRD=1614&PAG=461&dept_id=1
61052&rfi=6

by Brian Justice
FRANKLIN COUNTY - Jeanne Bigger and the county's Project Preservation
program volunteers received a special delivery item Thursday, personally
from Rep. Van Hilleary.
They were presented with a National Association of Counties' 2001 Acts of
Caring plaque for their efforts to preserve precious county records dating
back to 1811.
On April 26, 22 years after Mrs. Bigger, Archives and Project Preservation
director, had sparked a drive to preserve the records, she and her
assistants were recognized at the national level in Washington, D.C.



WIRED 8/27/01
Scarfo: Feds plead for secrecy
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46329,00.html

by Declan McCullagh
Federal prosecutors have asked a judge to drape a curtain of secrecy around
a case involving electronic surveillance of an alleged mobster.
Its classified eavesdropping technology is so sensitive, the U.S. government
claims, that "national security" will be at risk if details are revealed to
the public or defense attorneys for Nicodemo S. Scarfo, the alleged
mastermind of a loan shark operation in New Jersey.



The Robesonian 8/27/01
Project designed to ensure accuracy of county records
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2274629&BRD=1120&PAG=461&dept_id=8
8752&rfi=6

by Geoff Fox
LUMBERTON - It's revaluation time again.
The intensive effort - meant to determine fair market value of the county's
75,000 residential, commercial and industrial properties - began in earnest
several months ago and is close to entering its second phase.
"Revaluation does two things," said Jack Williford, the county's interim tax
administrator. "It finds market value and creates equity, equal treatment
between classes of property and even within a class of property.


Business Courier 8/24/01
Digital images take paper out of paperwork
http://cincinnati.bcentral.com/cincinnati/stories/2001/08/27/focus2.html

by Anne Gonzales
Customers of Sacramento's SAFE Credit Union no longer have to hunt through a
shoebox to see their canceled checks. The institution is the first in the
Sacramento area to let customers see them through digital imaging, a faster
and more efficient way to store and view checks.
This process, as it's adopted by others, could prove to be a convenience for
the customer -- but the real winner might be the banks and credit unions.
Digital imaging lays the foundation for what could be a terrific savings for
financial institutions if their handling of checks ever goes paperless.







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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