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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=3D20
have removed significant amounts of potentially sensitive information
from=3D20
the Web, marking an abrupt departure from years of effort to make public
dat=3D
a=3D20
available to anyone with a computer.=3D20
Advocates of government openness warn that a dangerous cloud of secrecy
is=3D20
beginning to threaten efforts to allow Americans to monitor their
government=3D
.=3D20
But state and federal officials, fearing terrorist groups might use such
dat=3D
a=3D20
to devise more devastating attacks, have deleted records on everything
from=3D20
airport-security violations and contaminated well water to the storage
of=3D20
hazardous chemicals and air-quality problems.=3D20



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=3D
=3D20
more grudges as far as reference books, data and government records
are=3D20
concerned. For their main source of reference, the Planning
Commission=3D20
Library, is sporting a whole new look. Not only has the library been
reset=3D20
and a staircase built within to connect the ground and first floors, it
is=3D20
also going to be fully automated soon.
The automation is being done on a turnkey basis by the Ghaziabad
based=3D20
Institute of Management Technology (IMT). One of the country's top =
10=3D20
management institutes, IMT boasts of one of the few libraries that
uses=3D20
bar-code (automated operation) technology in its lending and
time-recording=3D20
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=3D20
historian Leon=3DC2ard Arrington, whose papers currently are the object =
of
a t=3D
ug=3D20
of war between Utah State University and The Church of Jesus Christ
of=3D20
Latter-day Saints.=3D20
It was impossible to talk to this humble but charismatic dynamo
without=3D20
falling under his spell. Born in 1917, Arrington grew up on a chicken
farm=3D20
near Twin Falls, Idaho. Throughout his distinguished career, he
somehow=3D20
always maintained the innocence of a farm boy.=3D20
He wasn't trained in history but received a doctorate in economics from
the=3D20
University of North Carolina.=3D20



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=3D20
locked room, are 658 boxes of papers, books and other artifacts on
steel=3D20
shelves -- all items donated to the library by famed Mormon historian
Leonar=3D
d=3D20
Arrington.=3D20
They are letters, diaries and meeting minutes of LDS Church leaders,
lauded=3D20
by some scholars as one of the most important public collections of
early=3D20
pioneer and Utah history. Described as a crown jewel of the library,
the=3D20
archive opened with a flourish Oct. 11.=3D20
Four days later, emissaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day=3D20
Saints descended on the library, intensely poring over the voluminous
pages.=3D
=3D20
They took copious notes and then insisted USU relinquish 126 boxes =
of=3D20
material the church contends it rightfully owns.=3D20



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

by David Leppard
THE Home Office has asked the Metropolitan police to investigate =
the=3D20
embarrassing loss of 300 pages of confidential documents by an official
in a=3D
=3D20
Westminster pub, writes David Leppard.=3D20


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=3D20
officials have been removing information from their agencies' Web sites
on=3D20
the Internet: the location and operating status of nuclear power plants,
map=3D
s=3D20
of the nation's transportation infrastructure and an array of other
data=3D20
suddenly deemed too sensitive for general consumption.
Their actions have touched off a difficult and growing debate about
the=3D20
balance between the public's right to know and the nation's
heightened=3D20
security needs in an era of terrorism.
Critics say the government is overreacting, restricting information=3D20
needlessly and even removing information that would improve, not
jeopardize,=3D
=3D20
the public's safety, like details on environmental hazards that might
be=3D20
useful to local citizens.=3D20



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=3D
=3D20
Trade Center attack, according to real estate executives, who report
that=3D20
some standard clauses in leases relating to interruptions of business
are=3D20
also being re- examined.
No one is suggesting that there is anything a landlord can do to
prevent=3D20
suicide attacks by aircraft, but there is a heightened interest in how
peopl=3D
e=3D20
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=3D20=3D
a=3D20
man who was giving away thousands of books at a Downtown Brooklyn
storage=3D20
building. Such a giveaway seemed improbable to Ms. Beras, especially in
a=3D20
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=3D20
dropped by American Self Storage on Tillary Street at the foot of =
the=3D20
Manhattan Bridge. At the end of a long blue hallway Room B025 was
overflowin=3D
g=3D20
with people and pages. Visitors pored over volumes of 20th-century
poetry,=3D20
folk music records, pictures of jazzmen and Bob Dylan concert
posters.=3D20
Handwritten signs along the walls read: "Most things free. A few for 50
cent=3D
s=3D20
to $5. See me first."




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

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FACE=3D3D"=3D
Courier New" LANG=3D3D"0">There are 19 stories in this posting.
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Lincoln Journal-Star 10/27/01
<BR>Cather family donates papers, photos to NU
<BR>http://www.journalstar.com/nebraska?story_id=3D3D4623&amp;past=3D3D
<BR>
<BR>AP
<BR>A collection of family papers said to have provided the context for
some=3D
 of Willa Cather's novels, including "My Antonia," has been donated to
the U=3D
niversity of Nebraska.=3D20
<BR>The collection of letters, diaries, photographs and manuscripts from
Cat=3D
her's aunt and uncle, Frances and George Cather, was donated by the
couple's=3D
 great-granddaughter, Mary Weddle.=3D20
<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=3D20=3D
Trumbull County Recorder's Office has gone online. The office's new Web
page=3D
 debuted Monday.=3D20
<BR>Searchers can get basic information about any document dating back
to 19=3D
85, and any document dating back to 1997 can be viewed and printed in
its en=3D
tirety. The online users will need to sign in and give their password
each t=3D
ime before searching for documents on the site.=3D20
<BR>''It is a wonderful site. We are very happy with it,'' said County
Recor=3D
der Diana Marchese.=3D20
<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=3D
partment. Three men mill about the lobby, waiting for the records
department=3D
 to open.=3D20
<BR>At precisely 8 a.m., they board the elevator to the third floor and
appr=3D
oach the records counter. One man slips a check under the glass
partition an=3D
d a clerk hands over a batch of accident reports. The other two, working
tog=3D
ether, pay in cash. One quickly flips through the crash reports, then
they l=3D
eave. As they head out, another customer approaches the counter.=3D20
<BR>Known as "runners," they visit Twin Cities police stations daily to
obta=3D
in the names and addresses of people involved in traffic accidents. They
con=3D
tact victims in hopes of steering them to personal-injury lawyers and
doctor=3D
s.=3D20
<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=3D3D0001102=
7
0021=3D
33091500+cat=3D3Dnews+template=3D3Dnews1.html
<BR>
<BR>by Bryce Petersen Jr.
<BR>LOGAN -- The fate of the Arrington papers, including those not
currently=3D
 sequestered, is still in doubt.=3D20
<BR>The papers, donated to Utah State University by former Church of
Jesus C=3D
hrist of Latter-day Saints archivist Leonard Arrington, detail the
history o=3D
f the church. Church officials contend the documents belong to them and
cont=3D
ain information of a "private and confessional nature."=3D20
<BR>A document released by the church and signed by Arrington, who has
since=3D
 died, states that copies of "diaries, journals and documents filed in
the C=3D
hurch Archives" would be returned to the Historical Department upon
Arringto=3D
n"s retirement from Brigham Young University.=3D20
<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=3D
gents, historians -- Utah State University said Friday that ownership of
som=3D
e papers in the Leonard Arrington historical collection is far from
resolved=3D
.=3D20
<BR>The LDS Church presented USU with two documents this week asserting
its=3D20=3D
right to a significant portion of the collection; the disputed papers
have b=3D
een temporarily closed to public access.=3D20
<BR>"I don't see the documents as a slam dunk," said Craig Simper, USU's
leg=3D
al counsel. "We're looking very much forward to seeing the dust settle
this=3D20=3D
weekend and to continuing discussions with the church."=3D20
<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=3D
onard Arrington to Utah State University has been "temporarily
sequestered"=3D20=3D
by officials at the school while questions of ownership and copyright
are re=3D
solved with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
<BR>In a joint statement issued Wednesday, the two entities said the
collect=3D
ion "includes some private and confidential materials that the church
believ=3D
es are owned by the church or its affiliated entities and not by
Arrington o=3D
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=3D
 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=3D
 notes in class.
<BR>Of course, Jezzie -- and the scenario -- are fiction. "Agent
Flannigan"=3D20=3D
was actually actress Monica Potter, who tries to solve a kidnapping in
the r=3D
ecent thriller "Along Came a Spider."
<BR>In the movie, the FBI discovers that a girl has been e-mailing her
class=3D
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=3D
iding messages in other messages -- into the realm of real secret
agents. Th=3D
e government thinks that Osama bin Laden's supporters might have sent
coded=3D20=3D
images through cyberspace with secret marching orders connected to the
Sept.=3D
 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=3D
ire as caretaker of the historical materials stored neatly in the attic
of C=3D
ity Hall.=3D20
<BR>The 60-year-old city archivist, who has been known to come to work
as ea=3D
rly as 5:30 a.m. and stay late in the afternoon, has one more project he
wan=3D
ts to get rolling before he leaves at the end of January.=3D20
<BR>Hulett hopes to fill what he believes is a glaring absence in the
city a=3D
rchives, formally known as the Efner History Research Library.=3D20
<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.=3D20
<BR>He and his wife, Barbara, like to "relax" by buzzing around on
his-and-h=3D
er bulldozers, clearing acres of brush on farmland they own near
Delmont, ou=3D
tside of Murrysville.
<BR>It's an unusual pastime, but one you might expect from a man who's
made=3D20=3D
a living the last 30 years building multi-ton, industrial-size paper
shredde=3D
rs.=3D20
<BR>These monster, conveyor-fed machines, which can easily chomp their
way t=3D
hrough a catalog or hardback book up to about 4 inches thick, aren't
anythin=3D
g like the wimpy fax machine-size shredders you might have at home.=3D20
<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=3D
y suspension and reassigned after sending confidential police and
sheriff's=3D20=3D
documents to an imprisoned nephew.=3D20
<BR>St. Paul Police Chief William Finney suspended Benny L. Williams,
despit=3D
e the police-civilian review panel's recommendation to fire the
nine-year ve=3D
teran, according to police documents. In a disciplinary notice to
Williams,=3D20=3D
the chief formalized the suspension and informed Williams he would be
"retur=3D
ned to the position of Police Officer and assigned as a School Resource
Offi=3D
cer in the Juvenile Unit."=3D20
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Orlando Sentinel 10/28/01
<BR>When Disney went to war
<BR>http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/orl-subizdisneywar28102801oc
t28.=3D
story?coll=3D3Dorl%2Dbusiness%2Dheadlines
<BR>
<BR>by Robert Johnson
<BR>War has always been hell, but at least American military insignia
offere=3D
d some humor when Walt Disney's animators were in charge of the
marketing ca=3D
mpaign.
<BR>From Donald Duck to Thumper, Disney characters went into battle on
the s=3D
hirtsleeves and armaments of U.S. forces starting in World War II. Walt
Disn=3D
ey organized a six-person design team that created insignia with humor
and s=3D
tyle for more than 1,200 units.
<BR>"Disney helped the military maintain a balanced identity -- a sense
of A=3D
merica's humanity in terrible times," says Robert Tieman, a Walt Disney
Co.=3D20=3D
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=3D
s have removed significant amounts of potentially sensitive information
from=3D
 the Web, marking an abrupt departure from years of effort to make
public da=3D
ta available to anyone with a computer.=3D20
<BR>Advocates of government openness warn that a dangerous cloud of
secrecy=3D20=3D
is beginning to threaten efforts to allow Americans to monitor their
governm=3D
ent. But state and federal officials, fearing terrorist groups might use
suc=3D
h data to devise more devastating attacks, have deleted records on
everythin=3D
g from airport-security violations and contaminated well water to the
storag=3D
e of hazardous chemicals and air-quality problems.=3D20
<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=3D
e no more grudges as far as reference books, data and government records
are=3D
 concerned. For their main source of reference, the Planning Commission
Libr=3D
ary, is sporting a whole new look. Not only has the library been reset
and a=3D
 staircase built within to connect the ground and first floors, it is
also g=3D
oing to be fully automated soon.
<BR>The automation is being done on a turnkey basis by the Ghaziabad
based I=3D
nstitute of Management Technology (IMT). One of the country's top 10
managem=3D
ent institutes, IMT boasts of one of the few libraries that uses
bar-code (a=3D
utomated operation) technology in its lending and time-recording
operations=3D20=3D
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=3D
ah historian Leon=3DC2ard Arrington, whose papers currently are the =
object
of=3D20=3D
a tug of war between Utah State University and The Church of Jesus
Christ of=3D
 Latter-day Saints.=3D20
<BR>It was impossible to talk to this humble but charismatic dynamo
without=3D20=3D
falling under his spell. Born in 1917, Arrington grew up on a chicken
farm n=3D
ear Twin Falls, Idaho. Throughout his distinguished career, he somehow
alway=3D
s maintained the innocence of a farm boy.=3D20
<BR>He wasn't trained in history but received a doctorate in economics
from=3D20=3D
the University of North Carolina.=3D20
<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=3D
 locked room, are 658 boxes of papers, books and other artifacts on
steel sh=3D
elves -- all items donated to the library by famed Mormon historian
Leonard=3D20=3D
Arrington.=3D20
<BR>They are letters, diaries and meeting minutes of LDS Church leaders,
lau=3D
ded by some scholars as one of the most important public collections of
earl=3D
y pioneer and Utah history. Described as a crown jewel of the library,
the a=3D
rchive opened with a flourish Oct. 11.=3D20
<BR>Four days later, emissaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day=3D20=3D
Saints descended on the library, intensely poring over the voluminous
pages.=3D
 They took copious notes and then insisted USU relinquish 126 boxes of
mater=3D
ial the church contends it rightfully owns.=3D20
<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=3D
l?
<BR>
<BR>by David Leppard
<BR>THE Home Office has asked the Metropolitan police to investigate the
emb=3D
arrassing loss of 300 pages of confidential documents by an official in
a We=3D
stminster pub, writes David Leppard.=3D20
<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=3D
ent officials have been removing information from their agencies' Web
sites=3D20=3D
on the Internet: the location and operating status of nuclear power
plants,=3D20=3D
maps of the nation's transportation infrastructure and an array of other
dat=3D
a suddenly deemed too sensitive for general consumption.
<BR>Their actions have touched off a difficult and growing debate about
the=3D20=3D
balance between the public's right to know and the nation's heightened
secur=3D
ity needs in an era of terrorism.
<BR>Critics say the government is overreacting, restricting information
need=3D
lessly and even removing information that would improve, not jeopardize,
the=3D
 public's safety, like details on environmental hazards that might be
useful=3D
 to local citizens.=3D20
<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=3D
orld Trade Center attack, according to real estate executives, who
report th=3D
at some standard clauses in leases relating to interruptions of business
are=3D
 also being re- examined.
<BR>No one is suggesting that there is anything a landlord can do to
prevent=3D
 suicide attacks by aircraft, but there is a heightened interest in how
peop=3D
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=3D
out a man who was giving away thousands of books at a Downtown Brooklyn
stor=3D
age building. Such a giveaway seemed improbable to Ms. Beras, especially
in=3D20=3D
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=3D
s dropped by American Self Storage on Tillary Street at the foot of the
Manh=3D
attan Bridge. At the end of a long blue hallway Room B025 was
overflowing wi=3D
th people and pages. Visitors pored over volumes of 20th-century poetry,
fol=3D
k music records, pictures of jazzmen and Bob Dylan concert posters.
Handwrit=3D
ten signs along the walls read: "Most things free. A few for 50 cents to
$5.=3D
 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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Date:    Mon, 29 Oct 2001 07:59:54 EST
From:    Peter Kurilecz <PAKURILECZ@AOL.COM>
Subject: RAIN 10/29: Weekend Update Part 2

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San Antonio Express-News 10/26/01
Experts say Kenedy suit not much of a precedent
http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=3Dsaen&xlb=3D180&xlc=3D447524

by Alison Gregor
BROWNSVILLE - A jury verdict Wednesday that fortifies the legacy of
South
Texas ranching magnate Mifflin Kenedy may not necessarily set a
precedent for
Mexican American families seeking to right historic wrongs in court,
experts
said.
A 12-member jury delivered a unanimous civil verdict favoring the John
G.
Kenedy Jr. Charitable Trust, which had been sued by five descendents of
Mifflin Kenedy's adopted daughter, Carmen Morell Kenedy. They claimed
she had
been hornswoggled out of her rightful inheritance.



San Antonio Express-News 10/26/01
Officials eye local history center
http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=3Dsaen&xlb=3D180&xlc=3D444308

by Tom Bower
Officials announced Wednesday they will appoint a committee to look at
creating a history center to house San Antonio and Bexar County
artifacts and
archives.
In a news conference at the recently closed Hertzberg Circus Collection
and
Museum, local leaders, including County Judge Nelson Wolff and Mayor Ed
Garza, announced the panel will oversee a feasibility study on
renovating the
museum building to house local historic materials and documents.
The building was built in 1930 as the San Antonio Public Library. It
became
the circus museum in 1968.



The New Zealand Herald 10/25/01
Ex-Team NZ member sued in spy scandal
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sports/sportsstorydisplay.cfm?storyID=3D224419&=

thesection=3Dsport&thesubsection=3Damericascup&thesecondsubsection=3Dchal=
lenge
rs

by Eugene Bingham
A former Team New Zealand member has been implicated in the most
controversial espionage scandal to hit the America's Cup in almost 10
years.
Lawyers for the Seattle-based One World syndicate are suing a former
employee
alleging he turned double agent and tried to sell $US2.5 million ($5.9
million) of yachting secrets to a rival syndicate.



Interactive Week 10/26/01
Disaster recovery - be prepared
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2820507,00.html?chkpt=3D=
z
dnn_nb

s_hl

by John McCormick
COMMENTARY--Critical business papers floating through the New York air.
Documents stored on PCs lost in smoke and rubble. Information-laden
storage
devices crushed under mountains of concrete and steel.
How corporate data was input, stored and backed up wasn't the first
thing on
people's minds in the wake of the 11 September terrorist attacks. We
were
all, rightly, thinking of far more important things -- family, friends,
co-workers and others near and far.
But as this story points out, I-managers are back at work and
desperately
trying to set priorities for the new business order. They have a lot to
think
about, and network security tops the list. Yet, one of the key pieces of
a
networked system is the storage device attached to it.



Newsbytes 10/26/01
NJ removes chemical, reservoir data from state Web sites
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171567.html

by Brian Krebs
New Jersey has decommissioned Web databases detailing the state's
reservoir
system and hazardous chemical sites in an effort to keep the information
out
of the hands of terrorists.
Loretta O'Donnell, spokeswoman for the New Jersey Department of
Environmental
Protection, said the databases were pulled "temporarily, for security
reasons."



Washington Post 10/25/01
Paper Chase: what to keep and where
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49930-2001Oct25.html

by Eileen Alt Powell
AP Business writer
NEW YORK -- One of the biggest benefits of putting your financial papers
in
order is that you can finally figure out what you have - and what you
don't
need.
"The problem is that people keep a lot of stuff they don't need and
often
can't put their hands on the stuff they do need," said Robert K. Doyle,
a
certified public accountant in St. Petersburg, Fla.
It's not unusual for people to feel overwhelmed by paper, adds financial
planner Robert Glovsky of Boston.
"Look at what's in filing cabinets these days," he said. "Tax returns
are
more complicated and a lot thicker than they used to be. And people have
a
lot more different accounts so they have investment statements, mutual
fund
statements, bank statements, 401(k) statements."



New York Times 10/26/01
Pornography takes over financial site for children
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/26/technology/26NET.html

by Susan Stellin
Visitors to a financial Web site for children this week were in for a
shock:
the math-and-money game they expected to find had been replaced by a
pornography site.
The money game, which is still accessible at Moneyopolis.com, was
produced by
Ernst & Young, the auditing and consulting company. An Ernst & Young
spokesman, Kenneth Kerrigan, said the company had learned this week that
pornographic images had been posted at an alternate Web address for the
site,
Moneyopolis.org, which has been under new ownership since this summer.
The sudden change of scenery was a result of an expired domain
registration,
a situation that has become more common as companies amass dozens of Web
addresses, which generally must be renewed every year. Ernst & Young had
not
renewed the registrations for the Moneyopolis addresses, which expired
this
summer, because VeriSign Inc. (news/quote), the company that handled the
registration, sent notices of the expirations to an employee who had
left the
company, Mr. Kerrigan said.



Canadian Press 10/26/01
Premier Harris swears in affidavit there are no more Ipperwash documents
http://www.canoe.ca/NationalTicker/CANOE-wire.Ipperwash-Harris-Affidavit
.html

LONDON, Ont. (CP) -- Ontario Premier Mike Harris has sworn in an
affidavit
that there are no more government documents related to the 1995 police
raid
in which an unarmed native protester was killed.
Broadcast News has obtained an affidavit sworn by Harris about meetings
held
the day Dudley George was shot at Ipperwash Provincial Park.



Science Daily 10/26/01
Betting on climate change: Alaskan gambling contest yields treasure
trove of
scientific data
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/10/011026075116.htm

A celebrated betting pool in Alaska is providing researchers with a
remarkably accurate record of global climate change, according to a new
study
in the journal Science. And the results show that spring is coming
earlier
and earlier.
Every spring, the Alaskan village of Nenana (population 500) hosts the
Nenana
Ice Classic - a popular event that awards cash prizes to those lucky
enough
to guess when the annual ice breakup will occur on the nearby Tanana
River.
Winners must predict the exact minute that a specially constructed
wooden
tripod will crash through the icy surface.



Dallas Morning News 10/26/01
Mormon church claims signed document proves ownership of papers
http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/STORY.e9ca469076.b0.af.0.a4.25
a6f.ht

ml

AP
SALT LAKE CITY - The Mormon church claims it has a document that gives
full
ownership of some historical papers to the church, not Utah State
University.
USU isn't so sure.
The document is a paper signed by historian Leonare Arrington stating
that
after he retired as a church employee "any copies or transcripts of
diaries
and journals he used in his research ... would be returned to the
church."



Reuters 10/26/01
New Internet library holds 10 billion Web pages
http://www.totaltele.com/view.asp?ArticleID=3D45102&pub=3Dtt&categoryid=3D=
626

by Andrea Orr
The world's largest Internet library opened its virtual doors this week,
showcasing more than 10 billion Web pages, including many believed to be
long
gone - and some that people probably wish they could erase.
Dubbed the Wayback Machine (http://web.archive.org), the archive is the
work
of San Francisco entrepreneur Brewster Kahle who for the past five years
has
been working on a library that would store not just documents like old
newspapers that are normally preserved, but a sampling of everything
that has
ever been posted on the World Wide Web.



New York Times 10/26/01
Zeroing in on the suspicious number above the state motto
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/25/technology/circuits/25HOWW.html

by Catherine Greenman
Car washes use them to cut down on nonpaying customers. Parking garages
use
them to prevent customers from swapping tickets and paying lower fees.
But
while digital license plate readers, which read and verify a vehicle's
license plate, have primarily been used in the United States as a means
of
ensuring payment, they are now being sized up as security tools.
Digital license plate readers use a camera with a light source to take
an
image of the front or the rear of a vehicle as far as 250 feet away.
Optical
character- recognition software converts the plate image to text that is
then
sent to a database for verification purposes.



Detroit News 10/25/01
County puts law online
http://www.detnews.com/2001/oakland/0110/27/d04-326847.htm

by Jennifer Chambers
WATERFORD TOWNSHIP -- Online, not in line.
That's where attorneys and members of the public will go in the near
future
to quickly access and file documents at the Oakland County courthouse.
As Oakland County moves forward with its new $7-million case management
computer system, which tracks all cases start to finish, it plans to be
the
first courthouse in Michigan to offer electronic filing. That will allow
attorneys and those engaged in lawsuits to file cases, briefs, pleadings
and
motions online without stepping foot in the courthouse and allow the
public
to view cases via the Internet.



Yomiuri Shimbun 10/27/01
University allegedly faked official document
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20011027wo31.htm

Kanazawa University falsified public documents submitted to the former
Education Ministry in July last year about a male lecturer who was
involved
in a scandal with a female student in 1997, sources said Friday.



Florida Times-Union 10/27/01
Watchdog groups criticize efforts to close meetings, records
http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/apnews/stories/102701/D7FDDQB81.ht
ml

by Brendan Farrington
AP
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Florida's Sunshine Laws are designed to give the
open
access to government meetings and records. Since the Sept. 11 terrorist
attacks, some lawmakers want to close part of those laws to the public.
During a hectic week when lawmakers were supposed to focus on cutting
about a
billion dollars from the state budget, the Senate voted to allow secret
committee meetings to discuss legislation related to security from
terrorism
or espionage. Some senators wanted to go so far as to make secret any
votes
on bills.
Senate committees also considered legislation to reduce access to public
records, including a provision that would allow the Florida Department
of Law
Enforcement to close otherwise public records for up to a week.


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

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FACE=3D"Courier New" LANG=3D"0">There are 15 stories in this posting.
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>San Antonio Express-News 10/26/01
<BR>Experts say Kenedy suit not much of a precedent
<BR>http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=3Dsaen&amp;xlb=3D180&amp;x=
lc=3D
447524
<BR>
<BR>by Alison Gregor
<BR>BROWNSVILLE - A jury verdict Wednesday that fortifies the legacy of
South Texas ranching magnate Mifflin Kenedy may not necessarily set a
precedent for Mexican American families seeking to right historic wrongs
in court, experts said.
<BR>A 12-member jury delivered a unanimous civil verdict favoring the
John G. Kenedy Jr. Charitable Trust, which had been sued by five
descendents of Mifflin Kenedy's adopted daughter, Carmen Morell Kenedy.
They claimed she had been hornswoggled out of her rightful inheritance.
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>San Antonio Express-News 10/26/01
<BR>Officials eye local history center
<BR>http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=3Dsaen&amp;xlb=3D180&amp;x=
lc=3D
444308
<BR>
<BR>by Tom Bower
<BR>Officials announced Wednesday they will appoint a committee to look
at creating a history center to house San Antonio and Bexar County
artifacts and archives.
<BR>In a news conference at the recently closed Hertzberg Circus
Collection and Museum, local leaders, including County Judge Nelson
Wolff and Mayor Ed Garza, announced the panel will oversee a feasibility
study on renovating the museum building to house local historic
materials and documents.
<BR>The building was built in 1930 as the San Antonio Public Library. It
became the circus museum in 1968.
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>The New Zealand Herald 10/25/01
<BR>Ex-Team NZ member sued in spy scandal
<BR>http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sports/sportsstorydisplay.cfm?storyID=3D224=
4
19&amp;thesection=3Dsport&amp;thesubsection=3Damericascup&amp;thesecondsu=
bse
ction=3Dchallengers
<BR>
<BR>by Eugene Bingham
<BR>A former Team New Zealand member has been implicated in the most
controversial espionage scandal to hit the America's Cup in almost 10
years.
<BR>Lawyers for the Seattle-based One World syndicate are suing a former
employee alleging he turned double agent and tried to sell $US2.5
million ($5.9 million) of yachting secrets to a rival syndicate.
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Interactive Week 10/26/01
<BR>Disaster recovery - be prepared
<BR>http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2820507,00.html?chk
pt=3Dzdnn_nbs_hl
<BR>
<BR>by John McCormick
<BR>COMMENTARY--Critical business papers floating through the New York
air. Documents stored on PCs lost in smoke and rubble. Information-laden
storage devices crushed under mountains of concrete and steel.
<BR>How corporate data was input, stored and backed up wasn't the first
thing on people's minds in the wake of the 11 September terrorist
attacks. We were all, rightly, thinking of far more important things --
family, friends, co-workers and others near and far.
<BR>But as this story points out, I-managers are back at work and
desperately trying to set priorities for the new business order. They
have a lot to think about, and network security tops the list. Yet, one
of the key pieces of a networked system is the storage device attached
to it.
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Newsbytes 10/26/01
<BR>NJ removes chemical, reservoir data from state Web sites
<BR>http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171567.html
<BR>
<BR>by Brian Krebs
<BR>New Jersey has decommissioned Web databases detailing the state's
reservoir system and hazardous chemical sites in an effort to keep the
information out of the hands of terrorists.
<BR>Loretta O'Donnell, spokeswoman for the New Jersey Department of
Environmental Protection, said the databases were pulled "temporarily,
for security reasons."
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Washington Post 10/25/01
<BR>Paper Chase: what to keep and where
<BR>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49930-2001Oct25.html
<BR>
<BR>by Eileen Alt Powell
<BR>AP Business writer
<BR>NEW YORK -- One of the biggest benefits of putting your financial
papers in order is that you can finally figure out what you have - and
what you don't need.
<BR>"The problem is that people keep a lot of stuff they don't need and
often can't put their hands on the stuff they do need," said Robert K.
Doyle, a certified public accountant in St. Petersburg, Fla.
<BR>It's not unusual for people to feel overwhelmed by paper, adds
financial planner Robert Glovsky of Boston.
<BR>"Look at what's in filing cabinets these days," he said. "Tax
returns are more complicated and a lot thicker than they used to be. And
people have a lot more different accounts so they have investment
statements, mutual fund statements, bank statements, 401(k) statements."
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>New York Times 10/26/01
<BR>Pornography takes over financial site for children
<BR>http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/26/technology/26NET.html
<BR>
<BR>by Susan Stellin
<BR>Visitors to a financial Web site for children this week were in for
a shock: the math-and-money game they expected to find had been replaced
by a pornography site.
<BR>The money game, which is still accessible at Moneyopolis.com, was
produced by Ernst &amp; Young, the auditing and consulting company. An
Ernst &amp; Young spokesman, Kenneth Kerrigan, said the company had
learned this week that pornographic images had been posted at an
alternate Web address for the site, Moneyopolis.org, which has been
under new ownership since this summer.
<BR>The sudden change of scenery was a result of an expired domain
registration, a situation that has become more common as companies amass
dozens of Web addresses, which generally must be renewed every year.
Ernst &amp; Young had not renewed the registrations for the Moneyopolis
addresses, which expired this summer, because VeriSign Inc.
(news/quote), the company that handled the registration, sent notices of
the expirations to an employee who had left the company, Mr. Kerrigan
said.
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Canadian Press 10/26/01
<BR>Premier Harris swears in affidavit there are no more Ipperwash
documents
<BR>http://www.canoe.ca/NationalTicker/CANOE-wire.Ipperwash-Harris-Affid
avit.html
<BR>
<BR>LONDON, Ont. (CP) -- Ontario Premier Mike Harris has sworn in an
affidavit that there are no more government documents related to the
1995 police raid in which an unarmed native protester was killed.
<BR>Broadcast News has obtained an affidavit sworn by Harris about
meetings held the day Dudley George was shot at Ipperwash Provincial
Park.
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Science Daily 10/26/01
<BR>Betting on climate change: Alaskan gambling contest yields treasure
trove of scientific data
<BR>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/10/011026075116.htm
<BR>
<BR>A celebrated betting pool in Alaska is providing researchers with a
remarkably accurate record of global climate change, according to a new
study in the journal Science. And the results show that spring is coming
earlier and earlier.
<BR>Every spring, the Alaskan village of Nenana (population 500) hosts
the Nenana Ice Classic - a popular event that awards cash prizes to
those lucky enough to guess when the annual ice breakup will occur on
the nearby Tanana River. Winners must predict the exact minute that a
specially constructed wooden tripod will crash through the icy surface.
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Dallas Morning News 10/26/01
<BR>Mormon church claims signed document proves ownership of papers
<BR>http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/STORY.e9ca469076.b0.af.0.a
4.25a6f.html
<BR>
<BR>AP
<BR>SALT LAKE CITY - The Mormon church claims it has a document that
gives full ownership of some historical papers to the church, not Utah
State University.
<BR>USU isn't so sure.
<BR>The document is a paper signed by historian Leonare Arrington
stating that after he retired as a church employee "any copies or
transcripts of diaries and journals he used in his research ... would be
returned to the church."
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Reuters 10/26/01
<BR>New Internet library holds 10 billion Web pages
<BR>http://www.totaltele.com/view.asp?ArticleID=3D45102&amp;pub=3Dtt&amp;=
cat
egoryid=3D626
<BR>
<BR>by Andrea Orr
<BR>The world's largest Internet library opened its virtual doors this
week, showcasing more than 10 billion Web pages, including many believed
to be long gone - and some that people probably wish they could erase.
<BR>Dubbed the Wayback Machine (http://web.archive.org), the archive is
the work of San Francisco entrepreneur Brewster Kahle who for the past
five years has been working on a library that would store not just
documents like old newspapers that are normally preserved, but a
sampling of everything that has ever been posted on the World Wide Web.
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>New York Times 10/26/01
<BR>Zeroing in on the suspicious number above the state motto
<BR>http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/25/technology/circuits/25HOWW.html
<BR>
<BR>by Catherine Greenman
<BR>Car washes use them to cut down on nonpaying customers. Parking
garages use them to prevent customers from swapping tickets and paying
lower fees. But while digital license plate readers, which read and
verify a vehicle's license plate, have primarily been used in the United
States as a means of ensuring payment, they are now being sized up as
security tools.
<BR>Digital license plate readers use a camera with a light source to
take an image of the front or the rear of a vehicle as far as 250 feet
away. Optical character- recognition software converts the plate image
to text that is then sent to a database for verification purposes.
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Detroit News 10/25/01
<BR>County puts law online
<BR>http://www.detnews.com/2001/oakland/0110/27/d04-326847.htm
<BR>
<BR>by Jennifer Chambers
<BR>WATERFORD TOWNSHIP -- Online, not in line.
<BR>That's where attorneys and members of the public will go in the near
future to quickly access and file documents at the Oakland County
courthouse.
<BR>As Oakland County moves forward with its new $7-million case
management computer system, which tracks all cases start to finish, it
plans to be the first courthouse in Michigan to offer electronic filing.
That will allow attorneys and those engaged in lawsuits to file cases,
briefs, pleadings and motions online without stepping foot in the
courthouse and allow the public to view cases via the Internet.
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Yomiuri Shimbun 10/27/01
<BR>University allegedly faked official document
<BR>http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20011027wo31.htm
<BR>
<BR>Kanazawa University falsified public documents submitted to the
former Education Ministry in July last year about a male lecturer who
was involved in a scandal with a female student in 1997, sources said
Friday.
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Florida Times-Union 10/27/01
<BR>Watchdog groups criticize efforts to close meetings, records
<BR>http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/apnews/stories/102701/D7FDDQB8
1.html
<BR>
<BR>by Brendan Farrington
<BR>AP
<BR>TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Florida's Sunshine Laws are designed to give the
open access to government meetings and records. Since the Sept. 11
terrorist attacks, some lawmakers want to close part of those laws to
the public.
<BR>During a hectic week when lawmakers were supposed to focus on
cutting about a billion dollars from the state budget, the Senate voted
to allow secret committee meetings to discuss legislation related to
security from terrorism or espionage. Some senators wanted to go so far
as to make secret any votes on bills.
<BR>Senate committees also considered legislation to reduce access to
public records, including a provision that would allow the Florida
Department of Law Enforcement to close otherwise public records for up
to a week.
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
<BR>pakurilecz@aol.com
<BR>Richmond, Va</FONT></HTML>

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Date:    Mon, 29 Oct 2001 08:06:23 EST
From:    Peter Kurilecz <PAKURILECZ@AOL.COM>
Subject: Re: dogs at work [was Re: service animals and archives]

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Someone mentioned (don't remember who) that they thought people were
training
horses as service animals. Well to learn more about it click on the
following
link to the Richmond Times Dispatch story about miniature horses being
trained as a service animals. So don't be surprised if one comes in the
door
in the future.

http://www.timesdispatch.com/flair/MGB347OP7TC.html


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

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<HTML><FONT FACE=3Darial,helvetica><FONT  SIZE=3D2 FAMILY=3D"FIXED"
FACE=3D"Courier New" LANG=3D"0">Someone mentioned (don't remember who) =
that
they thought people were training horses as service animals. Well to
learn more about it click on the following link to the Richmond Times
Dispatch story about miniature horses being trained as a service
animals. So don't be surprised if one comes in the door in the future.
<BR>
<BR>http://www.timesdispatch.com/flair/MGB347OP7TC.html
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
<BR>pakurilecz@aol.com
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Date:    Mon, 29 Oct 2001 08:30:25 -0500
From:    Thomas Berry <tberry@HCEA.NET>
Subject: An open letter to my employer

Good morning!

I had a lengthy and constructive conversation with our former managing
director last Friday evening. In it, he informed me that he had been
privy
for at least a year to my numerous "venting" postings on this list. He
was
very angry and hurt over what I had written, but expressed himself very
professionally and eloquently, keeping our conversation much clearer
than it
could have been. I received his words with gratitude, understanding
that,
regardless of the validity of my grievances or the events that led to
them,
I was in the wrong to express those grievances as I did.

He also took time to help me work through my internal processes that
drove
me to do such things as spill our dirty laundry on the List. This is
something he was under no obligation to do, other than the obligation of
one
man reaching out to another as a friend. While our differences over
operation of the Archives and other matters will likely never be
resolved, I
say in the words of Jellaludin Rumi: "Thank you, my friend. Your words
are
freedom to me." Where he could have taken far worse action, he cared
enough
to help me identify and correct a considerable blind spot in my attitude
and
my performance, something no one else had done, and for that I am
grateful.

What follows is the text of an open letter I have sent to my fellow
employees and to the officers, directors and museum volunteers, which I
promised him I would share with you.

"I have received a long-overdue and much-deserved reprimand for my bad
habit
of using the Archives and Archivists listserv as a channel for venting
my
often-considerable frustrations over my job. In doing this, I very often
made very unfortunate and, intolerably, untrue, half-true or exaggerated
statements about the HCEA, its staff, its directors and its volunteers.

"I very obviously was in the wrong to do this. I have never to hurt of
defame any individuals, parties or the HCEA. But I have too often
allowed my
temper to get the best of me, with the consequence that the deep respect
and
esteem in which I hold these people and this Association were often lost
in
a torrent of bile.

"I have been very frustrated for a long time. My desire to bring
excellence
to my work for the HCEA has been constantly overwhelmed by the
increasing
workload within the Archives and continuing diversions to other business
outside the Archives. A self-inflicted pressure to perform always
struggled
vainly and painfully against the sheer impossibility of the work I
demanded
myself to do. Through a series of events that need not be recounted
here, I
was also led to feel that neither my standards for performance, my
vision
for the Archives, my experience, nor my frustrations were of consequence
to
anyone within the HCEA, that my own volunteerism has been inadequate and
that even my employment was detrimental to the HCEA. I do not offer
these as
excuses, but as a statement of the unfortunate frame of mind I allowed
myself to fall into.

"I allowed my frustrations to turn to resentment, anger and bitterness,
until on numerous occasions it drove me to say and write things that, in
my
right mind, would be unthinkable to me. Rather than seek out people who
would hear me out one-on-one, I began broadcasting my woes to the
on-line
world of fellow archivists. I did this because I felt I had no other way
of
venting to others who would sympathize with me or understand my plight,
and
as a not-always-unwritten plea for help from others in coping with my
problems. You who read my postings read what should not have been
written,
yet nonetheless many of you offered sympathy, encouragement and advice,
which was always received with gratitude. But any help that I was given
was
undone by the damage done to others and to the image of my employer.

"Although in my anger I was blind to it, the profound irony of how
crassly
this conduct violated my desire to conduct myself with the utmost
professionalism is no longer lost on me.

"I write this letter in the most profound spirit of apology that I can
offer. I ask your forgiveness, both from you whom I have wronged and
from
those who have seen what I have written.  Knowing the sordid details of
what
I have done, you may feel that you have no reason or desire to trust
either
me or my sincerity. I understand this, but nonetheless I ask you,
please, to
forgive what has been a very great sin, and to take at face value my
assertion that this does not reflect who and what I am as a man. I also
ask
you to believe me when I state unequivocally that the employees,
directors,
officers and volunteers of this organization are the finest people I
have
the honor of knowing, and that they are clearly much better people than
I.

"While I cannot undo the damage I have done to individuals, to the image
and
reputation of the HCEA or to myself, I ask you, please, to allow me the
grace to make amends however I can and to allow me a fresh start. I ask
your
mercy and your prayers in helping me do this.

"Respectfully submitted,

Thomas Berry"

Best wishes,

Thomas Berry, Archivist
Historical Construction Equipment Association
16623 Liberty Hi Road
Bowling Green, Ohio 43402
Phone 419-352-5616
Fax 419-352-6086
tberry@hcea.net
http://www.hcea.net

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Date:    Mon, 29 Oct 2001 13:48:12 -0000
From:    Maria Clara Assuncao <massuncao@BN.PT>
Subject: Re: Worst job in the company

I teach in a course of librarian and archivist sciences and I allways =
=3D
tell
to my students that we get much fun in our profession.
They don's seem to believe at the beginning...
Nevertheless, it is impossible to work in library or archive if you =3D
don't
LOVE what you do.
Some people look at me as a kind of alien because I say I love my
profession.
MC

Maria Clara Assun=3DE7=3DE3o
Bibliotec=3DE1ria (Librarian)

Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal  (National Library of Portugal)
Centro de Estudos Musicol=3DF3gicos (Musicological Studies Center)

Tel./ph.: +351 21 798 20 16
e-mail: massuncao@bn.pt

"Sad period is when it is harder to break a prejudice than an atom" =3D
(Albert
Einstein)


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> De:   Ellee Louise Figi[SMTP:ellee@WAM.UMD.EDU]
> Responder a:  Ellee Louise Figi
> Enviado:      sexta-feira, 26 de Outubro de 2001 21:32
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> misunderstood by the public.
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> have at work, either we wouldn't get paid anymore or everybody'd want
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> > plays a personnel manager in a department store
> >
> > Boss (who wants to punish an employee for being too assertive):
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> >
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the
> > sub basement.
> >
> > Boss: Excellent.
> >
> >
> >
> > Bob Shuster
> > BGC Archives
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Date:    Mon, 29 Oct 2001 09:01:53 -0500
From:    Nighat Saleemi <NSaleemi@HOTCHKISS.ORG>
Subject: Re: An open letter to my employer

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reluctantl=3D
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I appreciate your employer for confronting you and thus giving you a =3D
chance to face the reality and you, for coming out smelling like roses.
Well done.
Nighat Saleemi

Nighat Saleemi
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The Hotchkiss School
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Date:    Mon, 29 Oct 2001 08:27:23 -0600
From:    Dean DeBolt <ddebolt@MAIL.UWF.EDU>
Subject: Friday Funny?

Darn!  I leave the list for one day and you're talking
about "service monkeys."   Pray tell, what are service
monkeys??

Dean
Dean DeBolt
University Librarian
Special Collections and West Florida Archives
John C. Pace Library
University of West Florida
11000 University Parkway
Pensacola, FL  32514-5750
Tele:  850-474-2213;   Fax:  850-474-3338

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Date:    Mon, 29 Oct 2001 09:37:33 -0500
From:    "Roberts, Janet" <Janet.Roberts@STATE.ME.US>
Subject: Re: Friday Funny?

I think service monkeys are like guide dogs, but for people who are
mobility-impaired.  I think they are trained to retrieve things, can
fetch
something off a shelf, can probably put a drink to your mouth.

Perhaps they could be trained to retrieve records off high shelves!

---------------------------------
Janet E. Roberts
Maine State Archives and        Tel: 207-287-5791
Maine Newspaper Project         FAX: 207-287-5739
#84 State House Station         email: janet.roberts@state.me.us
Augusta, ME   04333-0084

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Date:    Mon, 29 Oct 2001 15:07:23 -0000
From:    Butcher Sharon L Contr AEDC/ACS <Sharon.Butcher@ARNOLD.AF.MIL>
Subject: Re: Friday Funny?

Service monkeys, usually Capucine primates if my failing memory serves
me
correctly, are really nifty little helpmates, particularly for para- and
quadraplegic individuals. Those little critters, very agile, fetch
objects,
turn on light switches, and really are a godsend to those handicapped. I
have seen them pictured with handicapped artists, for which many of us
have
received greeting cards for charity.

While I worked in a public library, a patron one day brought in a
machete,
removed it from a backpack, and proceeded to simply stare at it as it
lay on
the desk. Calls to the police...?  Well, he hadn't hurt anyone or 'done
anything'.   Go figure.   Thak you,  I'll take just about any animal
critter
any day than some dude with a machete.

Oh, this library mascot was a one-eyed tabby that everyone loved. A
gentle
creature, quiet, slept a good deal of the time. I think it's name was
Library...

(I have an undergrad in animal science....sorry if I droned on).

Sharon Lee Butcher
Reference Librarian
AEDC Technical Library
100 Kindel Drive, Ste C212
Arnold AFB, TN  37389-3212
931-454-4430
Fax:  931-454-5421
sharon.butcher@arnold.af.mil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roberts, Janet [SMTP:Janet.Roberts@STATE.ME.US]
> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 8:38 AM
> To:   ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject:      Re: Friday Funny?
>
> I think service monkeys are like guide dogs, but for people who are
> mobility-impaired.  I think they are trained to retrieve things, can
fetch
> something off a shelf, can probably put a drink to your mouth.
>
> Perhaps they could be trained to retrieve records off high shelves!
>
> ---------------------------------
> Janet E. Roberts
> Maine State Archives and        Tel: 207-287-5791
> Maine Newspaper Project         FAX: 207-287-5739
> #84 State House Station         email: janet.roberts@state.me.us
> Augusta, ME   04333-0084
>
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Date:    Mon, 29 Oct 2001 09:08:36 -0600
From:    Catherine Bruck <bruck@IIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: College Archives Collection Policy

You may want to consider what is most important right now -- getting the
college archives started off (I presume this is a new or relatively new
activity for your college) on solid footing.  The support of the people
who
have appointed you will be essential if progress is to be made.  And
given
the small amount of space available, your archives wouldn't be able to
accommodate a large volume of materials at present, or probably anytime
soon, so it makes sense to concentrate on the most essential documents
of
your institution, i.e., the "records pertaining to the founding and
administration of the college (ie. policy manuals, board of trustee
minutes,
committee meetings, etc.)" that you mentioned.

As far as writing policy and procedures, I would suggest you keep them
neat
and clean; stick to the basics, and don't get too specific.  Try to get
the
people who will approve them to agree to review them in a year or two
and
consider revisions then.  That would be the time to discuss whether it
would
be appropriate to broaden and deepen your collecting scope.  And that
discussion will be strengthened based upon the presumption that you will
be
able to demonstrate a record of  "good stewardship" during the next 12
to 24
months.

Good luck.

Catherine Bruck
University Archivist
Illinois Institute of Technology
Paul V. Galvin Library
35 W. 33rd St.
Chicago, IL  60616
312/567-6840
312/567-5318 (FAX)
bruck@iit.edu
http://archives.iit.edu/

-----Original Message-----
From: Archives & Archivists [mailto:ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU]On
Behalf Of Martin Firestein
Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 9:33 AM
To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
Subject: College Archives Collection Policy


Hello to everyone on the list:

I recently began formulating a policy and procedural manual for the
college
archives that I work at.  (I'm the only archivist there, by the way)  My
employers have previously told me several times that they do NOT want
the
archives collecting any of the following materials:

student papers (student writings [ie yearbooks, newspapers, etc] are ok)

faculty manuscripts, lecture notes, etc.

Likewise, my employers have repeatedly emphasized that they are not
interested in having a records management program because they feel that
it
would make them responsible for all the records in the college, and they
don't want any part of that.

I recently got a hold of a copy of Bill Maher's "Management of College
and
University Archives", and the text emphasized the importance of student
and
faculty papers, as well as a records management program, to any and all
college or university archives.

My questions to the members of the list are thus:

1. Is it vital for all college and university archives to collect the
above
mentioned papers and to have a recors management program?

2. If the answer to question 1 is yes, how do I convince my employers of
the importance of collecting such records?  Right now, all they want me
to
collect are records pertaining to the founding and administration of the
college (ie. policy manuals, board of trustee minutes, committee
meetings,
etc.).

3. Considering the actual archives itself is rather small (think of an
oversized closet), is it perhaps reasonable for them to only want to
collect documents pertaining to the founding and administration of the
college at this point?

Any help will be appreciated.  I think it would be great for any
responses
to my inquiry to be posted here on the list so everyone could learn from
them.

Thanks a lot.

-Martin Firestein

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Date:    Mon, 29 Oct 2001 10:07:58 EST
From:    UFTARCH1@AOL.COM
Subject: Re: Thomas Berry's apology to his employer

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Tom--

     I am sending this message as one of support for your earlier
attempts on
the list to problem solve about your job.  I was distressed this morning
to
read your lengthy apology to your employer on our listserv, because of
your
past comments about your job difficulties.  Many (most?) of us have
experienced similar problems to yours in our jobs--a lack of respect for
our
professional concerns or unrealilistic expectations that we will take on
more and more responsibilities without additional staff or budget
support.

     Although I have sometimes cringed at your very blunt descriptions
of
your problems related to management in your organization,  I could
definitely
identify with the stress and pressures that you found yourself working
under.
 I was upset by your apology, though, today because it seemed coercive
and
tried to dismiss or erase the *very legitimate* grievances that you had
outlined previously.    Although each of us should be circumspect in
"airing
our dirty organizational laundry" on the list, I do feel that this
listserv
can serve as a sounding board  for help with the full range of archival
responsibilities, including managing an archives and dealing with
unsupportive supervisors.

       Anyway, it was very painful reading your lengthy, and in my
opinon,
inappropriate apology to us.  You could simply have said that you
regretted
some of your more inflammatory comments to the list and that you would
moderate your messages in the future.    It would have been nice to hear
that
this past manager either recognized or agreed with many of your
difficulties
on the job, then it might have been worth being raked over the coals. HA
So,
take care, and keep fighting the good fight, Tom--
                         Sincerely yours,  Lucinda

Lucinda Manning
UFT Archives & Records Center
United Federation of Teachers
260 Park Ave. South
NY, NY   10010
212-598-9213



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<BR>Tom--
<BR>
<BR> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I am sending this message as one of support
for your earlier attempts on the list to problem solve about your job.
&nbsp;I was distressed this morning to read your lengthy apology to your
employer on our listserv, because of your past comments about your job
difficulties. &nbsp;Many (most?) of us have experienced similar problems
to yours in our jobs--a lack of respect for our professional concerns or
unrealilistic expectations that we will take on &nbsp;more and more
responsibilities without additional staff or budget support.
<BR>
<BR> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Although I have sometimes cringed at your
very blunt descriptions of your problems related to management in your
organization, &nbsp;I could definitely identify with the stress and
pressures that you found yourself working under. &nbsp;I was upset by
your apology, though, today because it seemed coercive and tried to
dismiss or erase the *very legitimate* grievances that you had outlined
previously. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Although each of us should be circumspect
in "airing our dirty organizational laundry" on the list, I do feel that
this listserv can serve as a sounding board &nbsp;for help with the full
range of archival responsibilities, including managing an archives and
dealing with unsupportive supervisors.
<BR> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<BR> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Anyway, it was very painful
reading your lengthy, and in my opinon, inappropriate apology to us.
&nbsp;You could simply have said that you regretted some of your more
inflammatory comments to the list and that you would moderate your
messages in the future. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It would have been nice to
hear that this past manager either recognized or agreed with many of
your &nbsp;difficulties on the job, then it might have been worth being
raked over the coals. HA &nbsp;So, take care, and keep fighting the good
fight, Tom--
<BR>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Sincerely yours, &nbsp;Lucinda
<BR>
<BR>Lucinda Manning
<BR>UFT Archives &amp; Records Center
<BR>United Federation of Teachers
<BR>260 Park Ave. South
<BR>NY, NY &nbsp;&nbsp;10010
<BR>212-598-9213
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<BR>
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Date:    Mon, 29 Oct 2001 09:10:42 -0600
From:    Russell Baker <russell.baker@MAIL.STATE.AR.US>
Subject: Re: service simians

Dear Colleagues:
Perhaps we could train such service simians to assist our patrons with
their
research projects - their assistance and advice would be as good as or
better than some "human" advice I've heard over the years. I once heard
a
lady tell her companion that it the U. S. Census indicated that a
person's
place of birth was the "U. S. " - often used on census records when a
person
did not know the state of their birth or the birth place of a parent -
this
"U. S." meant that the person was a "native American". Because, she
said,
she had read in her world book that native Americans were born in the
"U.
S.". Bring on the service monkeys.

Russell P. Baker, CA
Arkansas History Commission and State Archives
One Capitol Mall
Little Rock, AR 72201
501-682-6900
russell.baker@mail.state.ar.us <mailto:russell.baker@mail.state.ar.us>


-----Original Message-----
From: Roberts, Janet [mailto:Janet.Roberts@STATE.ME.US]
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 8:38 AM
To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
Subject: Re: Friday Funny?


I think  are like guide dogs, but for people who are
mobility-impaired.  I think they are trained to retrieve things, can
fetch
something off a shelf, can probably put a drink to your mouth.

Perhaps they could be trained to retrieve records off high shelves!

---------------------------------
Janet E. Roberts
Maine State Archives and        Tel: 207-287-5791
Maine Newspaper Project         FAX: 207-287-5739
#84 State House Station         email: janet.roberts@state.me.us
Augusta, ME   04333-0084

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Date:    Mon, 29 Oct 2001 09:13:01 -0600
From:    Dean DeBolt <ddebolt@MAIL.UWF.EDU>
Subject: Re: An open letter to my employer

While I agree with the spirit of Tom's letter, my thirty years of
experience in archives have provided me with many, many
similar situations that Tom faces and has faced.   Archivists
are often in positions where they are one-person shops or
in operations of more than one staff, but the others are not
archivists or have archival training.

The archives list is a wonderful source of collegial problem
solving, idea matrix, and even therapy tool.   I have always
enjoyed Tom's postings, keeping the company and situation
confidential, because they allow me to remember similar
situations that I've faced and consider whether I handled them
in the best manner.

I would hope that if Tom's boss is monitoring this that he realizes
what a dedicated employee he has, one that is truly interested in
learning how to handle difficult situations, deal with frustration (my
own is the incredible backlog here), and one who makes use of
his fellow colleagues as a source of advice, wisdom, support,
and if we can do nothing else, prayers.

My grandfather spent his life as a construction worker, most often
operating cranes.  He would describe them to me, the different
ones, the man who worked with him as his "oiler," and similar
things.   I frankly had never thought about an archives devoted to
the construction industry until Tom joined the list, and am now
much wiser than I was.

To be honest, I vent through typing and I've always accepted Tom's
rants for what they were, rants and an opportunity for him to safely
blow off steam or ask for help.   I would hope his boss understands
this and continues to encourage his involvement with the list, even
if it means fewer rants and less specific information.

Dean

Dean DeBolt
University Librarian
Special Collections and West Florida Archives
John C. Pace Library
University of West Florida
11000 University Parkway
Pensacola, FL  32514-5750
Tele:  850-474-2213;   Fax:  850-474-3338

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Date:    Mon, 29 Oct 2001 09:37:20 -0600
From:    "Amy C. Schindler" <ac_schind@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Thanks

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Date:    Mon, 29 Oct 2001 10:14:48 -0600
From:    "Pope, Barbara" <bpope@MAIL.STLCOP.EDU>
Subject: Re: Worst job in the company

I know exactly what you are talking about. Most of my job has to do =3D
with
reference work with pharmacy students and faculty and a small part with
archives.  When I try to tell my relatives what I do, they either look =
=3D
at me
really strange like I am an alien or they say something like, "so you =
=3D
must
like to read." Or, they will say, "so you must get to sit around and =3D
read
all day and play on the computer?"  I assure them that I do indeed use =
=3D
a
computer and read, but I read library science magazines and catalogs =3D
about
pharmacy books and search databases.  But even with all of that, it is
exciting because of the interesting people I deal with and the =3D
information I
find about drugs.

Barbara M. Pope, M.L.S.
Reference Librarian
O.J. Cloughly Alumni Library
St. Louis College of Pharmacy
4588 Parkview Place
St. Louis, MO 63110
Voice: +1 314-367-8700, ext. 1001
Fax:    +1 314-367-2784
Email:  bpope@mail.stlcop.edu


-----Original Message-----
From: Maria Clara Assuncao [mailto:massuncao@BN.PT]
Sent: 29 October, 2001 7:48 AM
To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
Subject: Re: Worst job in the company


I teach in a course of librarian and archivist sciences and I allways =
=3D
tell
to my students that we get much fun in our profession.
They don's seem to believe at the beginning...
Nevertheless, it is impossible to work in library or archive if you =3D
don't
LOVE what you do.
Some people look at me as a kind of alien because I say I love my
profession.
MC

Maria Clara Assun=3DE7=3DE3o
Bibliotec=3DE1ria (Librarian)

Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal  (National Library of Portugal)
Centro de Estudos Musicol=3DF3gicos (Musicological Studies Center)

Tel./ph.: +351 21 798 20 16
e-mail: massuncao@bn.pt

"Sad period is when it is harder to break a prejudice than an atom" =3D
(Albert
Einstein)


> ----------
> De:   Ellee Louise Figi[SMTP:ellee@WAM.UMD.EDU]
> Responder a:  Ellee Louise Figi
> Enviado:      sexta-feira, 26 de Outubro de 2001 21:32
> Para:         ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Assunto:      Re: Worst job in the company
>=3D20
> On a serious note:  This is an example of how archivists and our work
=3D
is
> misunderstood by the public.
>=3D20
> However, (on a much less serious note) if everybody knew how much fun
=3D
we
> have at work, either we wouldn't get paid anymore or everybody'd want
=3D
to
> be an archivist!  :)
>=3D20
>=3D20
> Ellee Figi
>=3D20
> On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Mr Robert D. Shuster wrote:
>=3D20
> > Just a bit of dialogue of interest to cheer you all as you head =3D
into the
> > weekend.  It is from a recent rerun of The Drew Carey Show.  Carey
> > plays a personnel manager in a department store
> >
> > Boss (who wants to punish an employee for being too assertive):
> > Carey, what's the worst job in the company?
> >
> > Carey (not even pausing for a second): Organizing the archives in =
=3D
the
> > sub basement.
> >
> > Boss: Excellent.
> >
> >
> >
> > Bob Shuster
> > BGC Archives
> >
> > A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List!
> >
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Date:    Mon, 29 Oct 2001 11:21:01 -0500
From:    "James E. Hanks" <jhanks@ARCHIVEIMPACT.COM>
Subject: Continuing Education - Technology - Chicago

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Date:    Mon, 29 Oct 2001 11:44:44 -0500
From:    Nancy Shader <NShader@CSLIB.ORG>
Subject: Telephone Requests

I need some help...

Administrators at the CT State Library (State Archives of CT) have
raised =3D
the issue of requesting archival materials to be paged by telephone =3D
request.

They want researchers (who already have an archives pass) to be able to
=3D
call in and request materials. Staff would not hunt through the
registers =3D
to determine the correct box or volume*only requests with specific item
=3D
level information would be accepted.

Does anyone provide this type of service?=3D20

Please reply to me directly. If interested I will post results on the =
=3D
list.

Thank you,
Nancy

Nancy M. Shader
Archivist
Connecticut State Library
231 Capitol Ave.
Hartford, CT 06106
(860) 757-6513
nshader@cslib.org

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Date:    Mon, 29 Oct 2001 12:03:16 -0500
From:    Roberta Ransley <ransley@USM.MAINE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Worst job in the company

I was an archivist for 12 years and no one understood what I did!
Not very many people knew or know what an archivist is. The
rewards were many as I catalogued some little known materials
and learned so much history of New England in the process. Yes,
it could be underpaid and I became a one-person operation in my
last position with no help but I learned many lessons (I can sort of
relate to what Thomas Berry was going through and I would not go
through that again!!). Roberta Ransley

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Date:    Mon, 29 Oct 2001 12:09:54 -0500
From:    Ellen Doon <ellen.doon@YALE.EDU>
Subject: NEA Newsletter deadline November 8

The deadline for submission of press releases, job and people
announcements, and calendar events
for the New England Archivists Newsletter is just around the
corner.  Please send all submissions to
Ellen Doon at ellen.doon@yale.edu no later than 3:00 PM on Thursday,
November 8.  Submissions received by this date will be included in the
January issue.  We are especially looking for news items from
organizations
in New England, but we welcome news of broader appeal and importance.

The NEA Newsletter is a quarterly publication. Deadlines for submission
are
in February, May, August, and November.

Thank you,

Ellen Doon
Archivist
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Yale University
P.O. Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520-8240
e-mail: ellen.doon@yale.edu
Tel: (203) 432-8114
Fax: (203) 432-4047

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Date:    Mon, 29 Oct 2001 10:58:29 -0800
From:    Cynthia Van Ness <bettybarcode@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: service simians

Gee, inspired by this post, a whole new publishing opportunity
presents itself: "Library Research for Complete Monkeys!"

--- Russell Baker <russell.baker@MAIL.STATE.AR.US> wrote:
> Dear Colleagues:
> Perhaps we could train such service simians to assist our
> patrons with their
> research projects - their assistance and advice would be as
> good as or
> better than some "human" advice I've heard over the years. I
> once heard a
> lady tell her companion that it the U. S. Census indicated
> that a person's
> place of birth was the "U. S. " - often used on census records
> when a person
> did not know the state of their birth or the birth place of a
> parent - this
> "U. S." meant that the person was a "native American".
> Because, she said,
> she had read in her world book that native Americans were born
> in the "U.
> S.". Bring on the service monkeys.
>
> Russell P. Baker, CA
> Arkansas History Commission and State Archives
> One Capitol Mall
> Little Rock, AR 72201
> 501-682-6900
> russell.baker@mail.state.ar.us
> <mailto:russell.baker@mail.state.ar.us>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roberts, Janet [mailto:Janet.Roberts@STATE.ME.US]
> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 8:38 AM
> To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject: Re: Friday Funny?
>
>
> I think  are like guide dogs, but for people who are
> mobility-impaired.  I think they are trained to retrieve
> things, can fetch
> something off a shelf, can probably put a drink to your mouth.
>
> Perhaps they could be trained to retrieve records off high
> shelves!
>
> ---------------------------------
> Janet E. Roberts
> Maine State Archives and        Tel: 207-287-5791
> Maine Newspaper Project         FAX: 207-287-5739
> #84 State House Station         email:
> janet.roberts@state.me.us
> Augusta, ME   04333-0084
>
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So much has been destroyed
I have to cast my lot with those
who, age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary
power, reconstitute the world."  -Adrienne Rich
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Date:    Mon, 29 Oct 2001 11:18:48 -0800
From:    Julia Bazar <julia@GLBTHISTORY.ORG>
Subject: Re: service animals and archives

Back briefly to the original thread of service animals in the archives.

Yes, you are required to allow any type of service animal into the
library
or archives reading room, anywhere you normally allow researchers.  They
can
be dogs, cats, monkeys, birds, horses or any creature.  They do not have
to
be wearing any form of vest or identification.  The human they are
accompanying does not have to have any visible handicap and they do not
need
to provide any proof that the animal with them is a service animal nor
disclose what their disability is nor what the animal does for them.

There will always be people who abuse the system, but the actions and
acceptance of service animals have made many people's lives a thousand
times
better than they were before.  I know archivists are generally very well
meaning people and try to be aware of others,  I know that we use this
list
to vent and have off-time.  Most of the responses have clearly come from
people trying to understand and learn about issues they may not have
thought
of before, but some of the reactions to the query about service animals
I
found insensitive and even offensive.  I don't mean to start things, but
as
a non-disabled person (temporarily able-bodied person or "tab" to those
in
the disabled community) who has been made keenly aware of the barriers
that
exist in most of America, I felt I had to say something.  Walk around
your
building or city for one day thinking about how you would manage if you
were
in a wheel-chair, were severely vision impaired, had severe arthritis
and
could not handle stairs, or have muscle weakness in your arms so you can
not
carry anything or open heavy doors, or even just had to look at the
ground
as you walk, because you can not tell by feel if the ground is uneven
and
could sprain or break an ankle on an unseen slope.

Julia Bazar
Special Projects Librarian (Archivist)
GLBT Historical Society of Northern Ca.
973 Market Street, Suite 400
San Francisco, CA  94103
415-777-5455

julia@glbthistory.org
http://glbthistory.org

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Date:    Mon, 29 Oct 2001 15:12:13 -0500
From:    Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer <c_crawfo@CULINARY.EDU>
Subject: Archivist for Mars/M&M??

Does anyone know if there is an archivist at the Mars/M&M candy
company, and if so, have a name and/or contact information?

Thanks for any help.



Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer
Special Collections Librarian/Archivist

Culinary Institute of America
1946 Campus Drive
Hyde Park, NY  12538
(845) 451-1757
c_crawfo@culinary.edu

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Date:    Mon, 29 Oct 2001 11:50:24 -0900
From:    Jill L Schneider <jschnidr@USGS.GOV>
Subject: Re: service simians

Rusell Baker wrote:
Perhaps we could train such service simians to assist our patrons with
their
research projects - their assistance and advice would be as good as or
better than some "human" advice I've heard over the years.
<snip>
--------------------------------------------
One of my favorite quotations:

"We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters
will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare.  Now, thanks
to
the Internet, we know this is not true."   -Dr. Robert Silensky

Hope you all had a great weekend!!   ttfn - Jill in Alaska (the one with
hedgehogs)  ;->

------------------------------

Date:    Mon, 29 Oct 2001 12:01:29 -0900
From:    Jill L Schneider <jschnidr@USGS.GOV>
Subject: Re: Telephone Requests

Nancy - Because the US Geological Survey has quite a few geologists who
perform summer field work in Alaska, but live in regional centers
outside
of Alaska, I often need to provide materials &/or information to
off-site
researchers.  Requests come in via phone or e-mail.  In reply, I never
send
original materials, only photocopies.   Sometimes, the requestor knows
exactly what he/she needs, other times I send a short list of
possibilities
for them to winnow.   Hope this helps.    ttfn - jill.

Jill L Schneider
A gentleman visited us this morning to donate a Baltimore photograph.
His father owned the Stutz dealership here, and he has several photos of
the Stutz Plant in Indianapolis-- both an aerial view and interiors.

He would like to donate them to an appropriate institution in
Indianapolis or elsewhere in Indiana. If you're interested, email me and
I'll give you contact info.

Mary Markey
Maryland Historical Society

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