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Computerworld 10/15/01
Drowing in e-mail?
http://www.computerworld.com/itresources/rcstory/0,,KEY77_STO64709,00.html

by Jennifer Disabatino
It's a back-end behemoth. Jokes, pictures, work documents, presentations and video clips. Companies are storing gigabyte upon gigabyte of items they don't need, and they haven't organized those they do so the end user can get at them.
"A lot of companies that didn't manage their data retention by policy at the onset find it a lot more difficult to manage their policies from a cost perspective. There were no bounds on their mailboxes, and it just grows exponentially," says Carl Jones, director of desktop and e-mail product management at The Boeing Co. in Chicago.



Computerworld 10/15/01
A Policy vacuum
http://www.computerworld.com/itresources/rcstory/0,4167,STO64708_KEY77,00.html

by Jennifer Disabatino
When it comes to e-mail, most companies turn a blind eye to the teetering stacks of messages their workers accumulate over weeks, months and even years.
A recent survey of corporations and their e-mail retention policies by Ferris Research in San Francisco revealed that users store huge volumes of data and that companies are soft on even the most egregious digital pack rats.



Computerworld 10/15/01
Managing the Data Pack Rats
http://www.computerworld.com/itresources/rcstory/1,4167,STO64713_KEY77,00.html

by Kevin Fogarty
Knowledge may be power, but it can also be like an unwanted houseguest, cluttering up your neatly designed data structures, gobbling up resources and slowing down every search - without ever being valuable enough to justify the coddling it requires.
Knowledge, or information at least, can be as much a liability as an asset when it's handled as haphazardly as it is by most U.S. companies. They collect every bit of data that seems attractive and then hang on to the resulting information mass forever for fear of deleting something that might eventually be important. That's one reason why IT staffs at large corporations are increasingly teaming up with records management specialists, who are experts in when to keep information and when to purge it.



Computerworld 10/11/01
Old-fashioned media have advantages for long-term storage
http://www.computerworld.com/itresources/rcstory/0,,KEY77_STO64684,00.html

by Kevin Fogarty
The decision on how long to keep a record and in what medium is one of the most significant information management challenges facing corporations today, according to Robert F. Williams, president of records management consultancy Cohasset Associates.
"The question is one of preserving digital information over time," he says. "I may have to have access to those records forever, but do I need them to be processable forever?"



CNET News.com 10/15/01
Getty Images moving files to one site
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-7532055.html?tag=cdshrt

by Greg Sandoval
Getty Images said Monday that it would place all of the images, photos and film clips it owns on one Web site, Gettyimages.com.


AP 10/15/01
Group asks France to clear Mata Hari
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011015/wl/france_mata_hari_1.html

PARIS (AP) - A Dutch group has asked France to rehabilitate the reputation of Mata Hari, saying the exotic dancer executed by a firing squad in 1917 as a German spy was framed.
Born Margaretha Geertruida Zelle in the Netherlands, she drew the attention of Paris with her dancing and love affairs.



Information Week 9/26/01
GE Medical to offer wireless data system to hospitals
http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20010926S0004

by Matthew G. Nelson
Paper charts on a clipboard have long been a staple for doctors, but some medical centers are aiming to replace them with wireless systems. GE Medical Systems Information Technologies, a unit of General Electric Co., is offering a way to do just that.



Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel 10/11/01
Aurora expands suit over zoning
http://www.jsonline.com/news/wauk/oct01/aurora11101001a.asp

by Lisa Sink
Waukesha - Aurora Health Care has expanded its lawsuit against the City of Oconomowoc by claiming that city officials violated the open meetings law in the months before they rezoned land to bar hospital construction plans.
Aurora also filed an open meetings complaint with District Attorney Paul Bucher.



ABCNews.com 10/15/01
Military secrets posted on Internet
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/abc/20011015/pl/wtc_011015_internetsecrets_1.html

by Josh Gerstein
Security details about President Bush have been available on the Internet.
Key details about secure bunkers used by President Bush and Vice President Cheney are available on the Internet, ABCNEWS has learned.
The locations and layout of presidential and military command centers - even information about their water supply - are accessible worldwide at the click of a mouse. Experts say some of the information should be classified.



North County Times 10/15/01
Nuclear Regulatory Commission censors its Web site
http://www.nctimes.com/news/2001/20011015/63836.html

by Phil Diehl
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced last week that as a result of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks it will no longer post on the Internet some of its information about nuclear power plants.
A commission spokesman said the removal of public information is a safeguard against terrorism, while a nuclear watchdog said the change is "alarming" and poses a new threat to the public as great as terrorism.



New York Times 10/15/01
How the Net is documenting a watershed moment
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/15/arts/15ARTS.html

by Matthew Mirapaul
As the nation's cultural institutions start to ponder what they will collect and preserve from the events of Sept. 11, the Internet is figuring largely in their strategies.
Information from the Internet is being continually collected in a major undertaking spearheaded by the Library of Congress. A new Internet site, September11.archive.org, went online on Thursday and already contains more than 500,000 Internet pages related to the terrorist attacks and the United States reprisals, ranging from daily news reports to personal memorials.



New York Times 10/15/01
U.S. businesses taking steps to protect company mail
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/15/business/15ROOM.html

by Jonathan D. Glover
News of possible terrorist attacks using one of the nation's oldest, least sophisticated means of communication - the United States mail - has prompted many companies to take a hard look at how they run their mailrooms, one of the most mundane business operations.



Poughkeepsie Journal 10/15/01
Historian spends 25 years chronicling Dutchess
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/today/community/stories/co101501s5.shtml

by Anthony Farmer
A unique combination of skill and experience led to Joyce Ghee becoming perhaps Dutchess County's most noted historian.
It's not something you will hear from Ghee herself.
Asked what keeps her going after a quarter century working to preserve and promote the history of the area, Ghee refers to her ''mentors'' from the past.



Richmond Times Dispatch 10/15/01
Cemeteries are hotbeds of genealogical research
http://www.timesdispatch.com/frontpage/MGBN0N3MTSC.html

by Gary Robertson
Dolores Valentine is a tall, proud woman and a Vietnam vet. She is not easily given to emotion.
But as she stood in front of her father's military headstone in Richmond's Oakwood Cemetery, her voice softened.
"I'm from a long line of military people," she said, looking at her father's grave. "He was a sergeant in World War II.



Times Union 10/08/01
Records at the click of a mouse
http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyKey=67270&BCCode=CONFI

Getting information out of government in New York can take time and money. But maybe not for long.
Since 1978, New Yorkers have obtained information from state and local governments under the Freedom of Information Law. It requires that records be made available, or denied, within five days. But officials often get around that by replying within five days that they need more time to respond. Then it can take weeks or months to find the records, review them and censor any confidential information.



AP 10/15/01
Justices refuse to block California officer's workplace speech case
http://www.nandotimes.com/nation/story/138222p-1397283c.html

by Gina Holland
WASHINGTON (October 15, 2001 3:25 p.m. EDT) - A California parole officer who criticized his predecessor's record-keeping may sue over his demotion. The Supreme Court on Monday refused without comment the state's request to block the trial.



AP 10/15/01
Justices won't consider companies' addition to discrimination lawsuit
http://www.nandotimes.com/business/story/137323p-1395176c.html

by Gina Holland
WASHINGTON (October 15, 2001 1:55 p.m. EDT) - Two companies will have to start keeping more employee records after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to consider Monday whether they were improperly added to a decades-old discrimination lawsuit.
The case would have tested how far courts can go in ensuring that orders - in this case for fair employment of black pipefitters - are being followed.



Salt Lake Tribune 10/15/01
For Oly Archiving, look to Calgary
http://www.sltrib.com/10152001/utah/140449.htm

by Lex Hemphill
Calgary, which probably offers the most applicable model to Salt Lake City for staging the Olympic Winter Games, also sets the standard for telling the story of a city's Olympics long after the Games are gone.
The host city of the 1988 Winter Games has "the most together archival program of anyone we talked to," said Roy Webb, archivist at the University of Utah's Marriott Library, which will be the steward of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee's records after SLOC closes up shop. He therefore has a keen interest in how other Olympic cities have preserved their records.



Washington Times 10/15/01
Activists fight for railroad building
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20011015-19997992.htm

by Hugh Aynesworth
LITTLE ROCK - Preservationists want the foundation spearheading the Clinton Presidential Library to restore a 102-year-old railroad building rather than allow the city to tear it down.
As things stand, when the city clears the land for the 27-acre park and library complex, it will demolish the Choctaw Freight Building, one of the few surviving brick stations left in Arkansas.


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