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San Jose Mercury News 10/28/01
Public data gets pulled off Web
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/depth/web102801.htm

by Steve Johnson, John Woolfolk and Mary Anne Ostrom
Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a wide range of governmental bodies=20
have removed significant amounts of potentially sensitive information from=20
the Web, marking an abrupt departure from years of effort to make public dat=
a=20
available to anyone with a computer.=20
Advocates of government openness warn that a dangerous cloud of secrecy is=20
beginning to threaten efforts to allow Americans to monitor their government=
.=20
But state and federal officials, fearing terrorist groups might use such dat=
a=20
to devise more devastating attacks, have deleted records on everything from=20
airport-security violations and contaminated well water to the storage of=20
hazardous chemicals and air-quality problems.=20



The Financial Express 10/28/01
State of the art library for Planning Commission
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe20011028/top5.html

by Sangeeta Singh
Politicians and bureaucrats who are always running against time will have no=
=20
more grudges as far as reference books, data and government records are=20
concerned. For their main source of reference, the Planning Commission=20
Library, is sporting a whole new look. Not only has the library been reset=20
and a staircase built within to connect the ground and first floors, it is=20
also going to be fully automated soon.
The automation is being done on a turnkey basis by the Ghaziabad based=20
Institute of Management Technology (IMT). One of the country's top 10=20
management institutes, IMT boasts of one of the few libraries that uses=20
bar-code (automated operation) technology in its lending and time-recording=20
operations and is on its way to complete digitisation.



Salt Lake Tribune 10/28/01
LDS Historian was faithful, mentor to many
http://www.sltrib.com/10282001/utah/143899.htm

by Will Langley
The good Lord never made a more charming or lovable man than the late Utah=20
historian Leon=C2ard Arrington, whose papers currently are the object of a t=
ug=20
of war between Utah State University and The Church of Jesus Christ of=20
Latter-day Saints.=20
It was impossible to talk to this humble but charismatic dynamo without=20
falling under his spell. Born in 1917, Arrington grew up on a chicken farm=20
near Twin Falls, Idaho. Throughout his distinguished career, he somehow=20
always maintained the innocence of a farm boy.=20
He wasn't trained in history but received a doctorate in economics from the=20
University of North Carolina.=20



Salt Lake Tribune 10/28/01
Control of LDS history at heart of USU flap
http://www.sltrib.com/10282001/utah/143903.htm

by Peggy Fletcher Stack and Kirsten Stewart
Tucked away in a corner of Utah State University's Merrill Library, in a=20
locked room, are 658 boxes of papers, books and other artifacts on steel=20
shelves -- all items donated to the library by famed Mormon historian Leonar=
d=20
Arrington.=20
They are letters, diaries and meeting minutes of LDS Church leaders, lauded=20
by some scholars as one of the most important public collections of early=20
pioneer and Utah history. Described as a crown jewel of the library, the=20
archive opened with a flourish Oct. 11.=20
Four days later, emissaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day=20
Saints descended on the library, intensely poring over the voluminous pages.=
=20
They took copious notes and then insisted USU relinquish 126 boxes of=20
material the church contends it rightfully owns.=20



The Sunday Times 10/28/01
Whitehall papers lost in pub
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/Sunday-Times/stinwenws01027.html?

by David Leppard
THE Home Office has asked the Metropolitan police to investigate the=20
embarrassing loss of 300 pages of confidential documents by an official in a=
=20
Westminster pub, writes David Leppard.=20


New York Times 10/28/01
Government clamps down on agency Web sites
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/28/national/28INFO.html

by Robin Toner
Washington, Oct. 27 -- In the weeks since the terrorist attacks, government=20
officials have been removing information from their agencies' Web sites on=20
the Internet: the location and operating status of nuclear power plants, map=
s=20
of the nation's transportation infrastructure and an array of other data=20
suddenly deemed too sensitive for general consumption.
Their actions have touched off a difficult and growing debate about the=20
balance between the public's right to know and the nation's heightened=20
security needs in an era of terrorism.
Critics say the government is overreacting, restricting information=20
needlessly and even removing information that would improve, not jeopardize,=
=20
the public's safety, like details on environmental hazards that might be=20
useful to local citizens.=20



New York Times 10/28/01
Safety Issues: a new interest in security in office buildings
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/28/realestate/28COMM.html

by John Holusha
Security has zoomed to the top of tenants' concerns in the wake of the World=
=20
Trade Center attack, according to real estate executives, who report that=20
some standard clauses in leases relating to interruptions of business are=20
also being re- examined.
No one is suggesting that there is anything a landlord can do to prevent=20
suicide attacks by aircraft, but there is a heightened interest in how peopl=
e=20
and packages come into buildings and how both are screened.



New York Times 10/28/01
Free tales from Mr. Kafka's crypt, (and thousand of records, too)
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/28/nyregion/thecity/28BOOK.html

by Kelly Crow
Erica Beras nearly dismissed the e-mail message she got last weekend, about=20=
a=20
man who was giving away thousands of books at a Downtown Brooklyn storage=20
building. Such a giveaway seemed improbable to Ms. Beras, especially in a=20
city in which used- book stores are cherished and book peddlers paid well.
But curiosity nagged her, so last Sunday Ms. Beras, 21, and a few friends=20
dropped by American Self Storage on Tillary Street at the foot of the=20
Manhattan Bridge. At the end of a long blue hallway Room B025 was overflowin=
g=20
with people and pages. Visitors pored over volumes of 20th-century poetry,=20
folk music records, pictures of jazzmen and Bob Dylan concert posters.=20
Handwritten signs along the walls read: "Most things free. A few for 50 cent=
s=20
to $5. See me first."




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

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<BR>Lincoln Journal-Star 10/27/01
<BR>Cather family donates papers, photos to NU
<BR>http://www.journalstar.com/nebraska?story_id=3D4623&amp;past=3D
<BR>
<BR>AP
<BR>A collection of family papers said to have provided the context for some=
 of Willa Cather's novels, including "My Antonia," has been donated to the U=
niversity of Nebraska.=20
<BR>The collection of letters, diaries, photographs and manuscripts from Cat=
her's aunt and uncle, Frances and George Cather, was donated by the couple's=
 great-granddaughter, Mary Weddle.=20
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Tribune-Chronicle 10/27/01
<BR>Recorder's office makes online debut
<BR>http://www.tribune-chronicle.com/news/story/10272001_new05.asp
<BR>
<BR>by Bob Bromley
<BR>WARREN -- Looking up a deed or mortgage can now be done at home, as the=20=
Trumbull County Recorder's Office has gone online. The office's new Web page=
 debuted Monday.=20
<BR>Searchers can get basic information about any document dating back to 19=
85, and any document dating back to 1997 can be viewed and printed in its en=
tirety. The online users will need to sign in and give their password each t=
ime before searching for documents on the site.=20
<BR>''It is a wonderful site. We are very happy with it,'' said County Recor=
der Diana Marchese.=20
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Pioneer Press 10/27/01
<BR>"Runners' comb police data to find accident victims
<BR>http://www.pioneerplanet.com/news/mtc_docs/170135.htm
<BR>
<BR>by Rick Linsk
<BR>It's a Wednesday and dawn has just broken outside the St. Paul Police De=
partment. Three men mill about the lobby, waiting for the records department=
 to open.=20
<BR>At precisely 8 a.m., they board the elevator to the third floor and appr=
oach the records counter. One man slips a check under the glass partition an=
d a clerk hands over a batch of accident reports. The other two, working tog=
ether, pay in cash. One quickly flips through the crash reports, then they l=
eave. As they head out, another customer approaches the counter.=20
<BR>Known as "runners," they visit Twin Cities police stations daily to obta=
in the names and addresses of people involved in traffic accidents. They con=
tact victims in hopes of steering them to personal-injury lawyers and doctor=
s.=20
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>The Standard Examiner 10/27/01
<BR>Fate of church papers still unknown
<BR>http://www.standard.net/standard/news/news_story.html?sid=3D000110270021=
33091500+cat=3Dnews+template=3Dnews1.html
<BR>
<BR>by Bryce Petersen Jr.
<BR>LOGAN -- The fate of the Arrington papers, including those not currently=
 sequestered, is still in doubt.=20
<BR>The papers, donated to Utah State University by former Church of Jesus C=
hrist of Latter-day Saints archivist Leonard Arrington, detail the history o=
f the church. Church officials contend the documents belong to them and cont=
ain information of a "private and confessional nature."=20
<BR>A document released by the church and signed by Arrington, who has since=
 died, states that copies of "diaries, journals and documents filed in the C=
hurch Archives" would be returned to the Historical Department upon Arringto=
n"s retirement from Brigham Young University.=20
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>USU caught in paper chase
<BR>http://www.sltrib.com/10272001/utah/utah.htm
<BR>
<BR>by Kirsten Stewart and Peggy Fletcher Stack
<BR>With pressure coming from all sides -- the LDS Church, state Board of Re=
gents, historians -- Utah State University said Friday that ownership of som=
e papers in the Leonard Arrington historical collection is far from resolved=
.=20
<BR>The LDS Church presented USU with two documents this week asserting its=20=
right to a significant portion of the collection; the disputed papers have b=
een temporarily closed to public access.=20
<BR>"I don't see the documents as a slam dunk," said Craig Simper, USU's leg=
al counsel. "We're looking very much forward to seeing the dust settle this=20=
weekend and to continuing discussions with the church."=20
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Deseret News 10/27/01
<BR>USU and church are at odds over historical papers
<BR>http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,335007879,00.html?
<BR>
<BR>by Carrie A. Moore
<BR>Part of a collection of papers donated by former LDS Church historian Le=
onard Arrington to Utah State University has been "temporarily sequestered"=20=
by officials at the school while questions of ownership and copyright are re=
solved with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
<BR>In a joint statement issued Wednesday, the two entities said the collect=
ion "includes some private and confidential materials that the church believ=
es are owned by the church or its affiliated entities and not by Arrington o=
r subject to his disposition."
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Star-Tribune 10/29/01
<BR>Anti-terror experts take hard look at steganography - hiding messages in=
 other messages
<BR>http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/787263.html
<BR>
<BR>by Chris Seper
<BR>Newhouse News Service
<BR>Secret Agent Jezzie Flannigan called it a cutting-edge method of passing=
 notes in class.
<BR>Of course, Jezzie -- and the scenario -- are fiction. "Agent Flannigan"=20=
was actually actress Monica Potter, who tries to solve a kidnapping in the r=
ecent thriller "Along Came a Spider."
<BR>In the movie, the FBI discovers that a girl has been e-mailing her class=
mates images with hidden messages. Not even the feds can break the code.
<BR>But now real-world events have pushed such steganography -- literally, h=
iding messages in other messages -- into the realm of real secret agents. Th=
e government thinks that Osama bin Laden's supporters might have sent coded=20=
images through cyberspace with secret marching orders connected to the Sept.=
 11 attacks.
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Daily Gazette 10/28/01
<BR>Archivist hopes to chronicle black history in Schenectady
<BR>http://www.dailygazette.com/local.shtml#story4A100002
<BR>
<BR>by Katy Moeller
<BR>SCHENECTADY - After six years on the job, Don Hulett is preparing to ret=
ire as caretaker of the historical materials stored neatly in the attic of C=
ity Hall.=20
<BR>The 60-year-old city archivist, who has been known to come to work as ea=
rly as 5:30 a.m. and stay late in the afternoon, has one more project he wan=
ts to get rolling before he leaves at the end of January.=20
<BR>Hulett hopes to fill what he believes is a glaring absence in the city a=
rchives, formally known as the Efner History Research Library.=20
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 10/28/01
<BR>In the Spotlight: Allegheny paper shredders
<BR>http://www.post-gazette.com/businessnews/20011028spot1028bnp5.asp
<BR>
<BR>by Patricia Sabatini
<BR>Seventy-three-year-old John Wagner has a thing for heavy equipment.=20
<BR>He and his wife, Barbara, like to "relax" by buzzing around on his-and-h=
er bulldozers, clearing acres of brush on farmland they own near Delmont, ou=
tside of Murrysville.
<BR>It's an unusual pastime, but one you might expect from a man who's made=20=
a living the last 30 years building multi-ton, industrial-size paper shredde=
rs.=20
<BR>These monster, conveyor-fed machines, which can easily chomp their way t=
hrough a catalog or hardback book up to about 4 inches thick, aren't anythin=
g like the wimpy fax machine-size shredders you might have at home.=20
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Pioneer Planet 10/26/01
<BR>Officer punished for data release
<BR>http://www.pioneerplanet.com/yhoo/mtc_docs/169675.htm
<BR>
<BR>by Lisa Donovan
<BR>An acting sergeant for the St. Paul Police Department was handed a 30-da=
y suspension and reassigned after sending confidential police and sheriff's=20=
documents to an imprisoned nephew.=20
<BR>St. Paul Police Chief William Finney suspended Benny L. Williams, despit=
e the police-civilian review panel's recommendation to fire the nine-year ve=
teran, according to police documents. In a disciplinary notice to Williams,=20=
the chief formalized the suspension and informed Williams he would be "retur=
ned to the position of Police Officer and assigned as a School Resource Offi=
cer in the Juvenile Unit."=20
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Orlando Sentinel 10/28/01
<BR>When Disney went to war
<BR>http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/orl-subizdisneywar28102801oct28.=
story?coll=3Dorl%2Dbusiness%2Dheadlines
<BR>
<BR>by Robert Johnson
<BR>War has always been hell, but at least American military insignia offere=
d some humor when Walt Disney's animators were in charge of the marketing ca=
mpaign.
<BR>From Donald Duck to Thumper, Disney characters went into battle on the s=
hirtsleeves and armaments of U.S. forces starting in World War II. Walt Disn=
ey organized a six-person design team that created insignia with humor and s=
tyle for more than 1,200 units.
<BR>"Disney helped the military maintain a balanced identity -- a sense of A=
merica's humanity in terrible times," says Robert Tieman, a Walt Disney Co.=20=
archivist in Burbank, Calif.
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>San Jose Mercury News 10/28/01
<BR>Public data gets pulled off Web
<BR>http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/depth/web102801.htm
<BR>
<BR>by Steve Johnson, John Woolfolk and Mary Anne Ostrom
<BR>Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a wide range of governmental bodie=
s have removed significant amounts of potentially sensitive information from=
 the Web, marking an abrupt departure from years of effort to make public da=
ta available to anyone with a computer.=20
<BR>Advocates of government openness warn that a dangerous cloud of secrecy=20=
is beginning to threaten efforts to allow Americans to monitor their governm=
ent. But state and federal officials, fearing terrorist groups might use suc=
h data to devise more devastating attacks, have deleted records on everythin=
g from airport-security violations and contaminated well water to the storag=
e of hazardous chemicals and air-quality problems.=20
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>The Financial Express 10/28/01
<BR>State of the art library for Planning Commission
<BR>http://www.financialexpress.com/fe20011028/top5.html
<BR>
<BR>by Sangeeta Singh
<BR>Politicians and bureaucrats who are always running against time will hav=
e no more grudges as far as reference books, data and government records are=
 concerned. For their main source of reference, the Planning Commission Libr=
ary, is sporting a whole new look. Not only has the library been reset and a=
 staircase built within to connect the ground and first floors, it is also g=
oing to be fully automated soon.
<BR>The automation is being done on a turnkey basis by the Ghaziabad based I=
nstitute of Management Technology (IMT). One of the country's top 10 managem=
ent institutes, IMT boasts of one of the few libraries that uses bar-code (a=
utomated operation) technology in its lending and time-recording operations=20=
and is on its way to complete digitisation.
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Salt Lake Tribune 10/28/01
<BR>LDS Historian was faithful, mentor to many
<BR>http://www.sltrib.com/10282001/utah/143899.htm
<BR>
<BR>by Will Langley
<BR>The good Lord never made a more charming or lovable man than the late Ut=
ah historian Leon=C2ard Arrington, whose papers currently are the object of=20=
a tug of war between Utah State University and The Church of Jesus Christ of=
 Latter-day Saints.=20
<BR>It was impossible to talk to this humble but charismatic dynamo without=20=
falling under his spell. Born in 1917, Arrington grew up on a chicken farm n=
ear Twin Falls, Idaho. Throughout his distinguished career, he somehow alway=
s maintained the innocence of a farm boy.=20
<BR>He wasn't trained in history but received a doctorate in economics from=20=
the University of North Carolina.=20
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Salt Lake Tribune 10/28/01
<BR>Control of LDS history at heart of USU flap
<BR>http://www.sltrib.com/10282001/utah/143903.htm
<BR>
<BR>by Peggy Fletcher Stack and Kirsten Stewart
<BR>Tucked away in a corner of Utah State University's Merrill Library, in a=
 locked room, are 658 boxes of papers, books and other artifacts on steel sh=
elves -- all items donated to the library by famed Mormon historian Leonard=20=
Arrington.=20
<BR>They are letters, diaries and meeting minutes of LDS Church leaders, lau=
ded by some scholars as one of the most important public collections of earl=
y pioneer and Utah history. Described as a crown jewel of the library, the a=
rchive opened with a flourish Oct. 11.=20
<BR>Four days later, emissaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day=20=
Saints descended on the library, intensely poring over the voluminous pages.=
 They took copious notes and then insisted USU relinquish 126 boxes of mater=
ial the church contends it rightfully owns.=20
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>The Sunday Times 10/28/01
<BR>Whitehall papers lost in pub
<BR>http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/Sunday-Times/stinwenws01027.htm=
l?
<BR>
<BR>by David Leppard
<BR>THE Home Office has asked the Metropolitan police to investigate the emb=
arrassing loss of 300 pages of confidential documents by an official in a We=
stminster pub, writes David Leppard.=20
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>New York Times 10/28/01
<BR>Government clamps down on agency Web sites
<BR>http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/28/national/28INFO.html
<BR>
<BR>by Robin Toner
<BR>Washington, Oct. 27 -- In the weeks since the terrorist attacks, governm=
ent officials have been removing information from their agencies' Web sites=20=
on the Internet: the location and operating status of nuclear power plants,=20=
maps of the nation's transportation infrastructure and an array of other dat=
a suddenly deemed too sensitive for general consumption.
<BR>Their actions have touched off a difficult and growing debate about the=20=
balance between the public's right to know and the nation's heightened secur=
ity needs in an era of terrorism.
<BR>Critics say the government is overreacting, restricting information need=
lessly and even removing information that would improve, not jeopardize, the=
 public's safety, like details on environmental hazards that might be useful=
 to local citizens.=20
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>New York Times 10/28/01
<BR>Safety Issues: a new interest in security in office buildings
<BR>http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/28/realestate/28COMM.html
<BR>
<BR>by John Holusha
<BR>Security has zoomed to the top of tenants' concerns in the wake of the W=
orld Trade Center attack, according to real estate executives, who report th=
at some standard clauses in leases relating to interruptions of business are=
 also being re- examined.
<BR>No one is suggesting that there is anything a landlord can do to prevent=
 suicide attacks by aircraft, but there is a heightened interest in how peop=
le and packages come into buildings and how both are screened.
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>New York Times 10/28/01
<BR>Free tales from Mr. Kafka's crypt, (and thousand of records, too)
<BR>http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/28/nyregion/thecity/28BOOK.html
<BR>
<BR>by Kelly Crow
<BR>Erica Beras nearly dismissed the e-mail message she got last weekend, ab=
out a man who was giving away thousands of books at a Downtown Brooklyn stor=
age building. Such a giveaway seemed improbable to Ms. Beras, especially in=20=
a city in which used- book stores are cherished and book peddlers paid well.
<BR>But curiosity nagged her, so last Sunday Ms. Beras, 21, and a few friend=
s dropped by American Self Storage on Tillary Street at the foot of the Manh=
attan Bridge. At the end of a long blue hallway Room B025 was overflowing wi=
th people and pages. Visitors pored over volumes of 20th-century poetry, fol=
k music records, pictures of jazzmen and Bob Dylan concert posters. Handwrit=
ten signs along the walls read: "Most things free. A few for 50 cents to $5.=
 See me first."
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
<BR>pakurilecz@aol.com
<BR>Richmond, Va</FONT></HTML>

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