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RAIN 11/05: Weekend Update Part 1



There are 16 stories in this posting.


CERN Courier 11/2001
History centre publishes archiving guidelines
http://cerncourier.com/main/article/41/9/3

According to a recently released report by the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Center for the History of Physics, the documentation of collaborative scientific research needs urgent attention.


CERN Courier 11/2001
Report urges scientists to secure their records
http://cerncourier.com/main/article/41/9/19

A new report underlines the importance of keeping scientific records to safeguard our scientific heritage. Once an experiment is complete, its responsibilities are not over.


Dallas Morning News 11/02/01
At county seats across Texas, symbols of cattle culture are kept on the books.
http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/STORY.e9eb520b89.b0.af.0.a4.c9ec2.html

by Dianne Jennings
In county courthouses across the state, letters and numbers will be turned every which way for the next few months, as Texans re-register their livestock brands.
O's will be mashed, D's will sit backward, and L's will fly as they do once every 10 years, when state law requires brands to be renewed to remain active.



Dallas Morning News 11/02/01
Court Oks Clinton Library land seizure
http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/STORY.e9eb444f2b.b0.af.0.a4.cfffa.html

by James Jefferson
AP
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday upheld Little Rock's method of seizing land for the Clinton Presidential Library, and the project's backers immediately scheduled groundbreaking for next month.
The court, in a 6-0 decision with one abstention, said Eugene Pfeifer III failed to prove that the $200 million library and archive complex on the south bank of the Arkansas River wouldn't be a park as the state defines it.


Econtent Magazine 11/2001
Editor's Note - Capturing the Ephemeral
http://www.econtentmag.com/Magazine/Editorial/ECeditorial11_01.html

by Bill Mickey
When a loved one dies, we often remark that he or she lives on in our collective memory. Often, too, family and friends gather photographs, documents, and personal belongings in an effort to memorialize the personality and character-in effect, creating a historical representation of that person. It's an intimate profile of what we miss, what we're proud of, and what we want everyone else to know so they can share in and maintain the memory of the recently departed.



The Globe and Mail 11/02/01
Fellini film foundation opens in Switzerland
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/GIS.Servlets.HTMLTemplate?tf=tgam/common/FullStory.html&cf=tgam/common/FullStory.cfg&configFileLoc=tgam/config&vg=BigAdVariableGenerator&date=20011102&dateOffset=&hub=headdex&title=Headlines&cache_key=headdexThearts&current_row=24&start_row=24&num_rows=1

AFP
Sion, Switzerland -- The Fellini Foundation for Cinema opened in Switzerland this week with some 12,000 documents devoted to Italian movie director Federico Fellini and the world of film.



New York Times 11/02/01
Bush keeps a grip on Presidential papers
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/02/national/02SECR.html

by Elisabeth Bumiller
Washington, Nov.1 - President Bush signed an executive order today to allow a sitting president to keep secret the papers of a previous president, even if a previous president wants his papers made public.
Administration officials said the order would provide an "orderly process" to help archivists handle requests for presidential papers. Ari Fleischer, the White House press secretary, said today that "more information will be forthcoming" because of the order.



New York Times 11/02/01
Bush defends decision on papers
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Presidential-Papers.html

AP
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush said Friday a new executive order balances the public's right to see the records of past presidents with a need to protect national security. ``A disaster for history,'' one historian calls it.
At a brief question-and-answer session in the Rose Garden, Bush said, ``It's a process that I think will enable historians to do their jobs and at the same time'' protect state secrets.
Advocates for the release of government documents say the executive order violates the spirit of the 1978 Presidential Records Act and will usher in a new era of secrecy for papers left behind by America's chief executives.



Deseret News 11/02/01
Officials seek way to keep Web data private
http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,340007571,00.html?

by Brice Wallace
State officials are trying to find ways to keep Utahns from having to re-enter information in various state government Web sites, but simultaneously ensure that private information remains so.
Phil Windley, the state's chief information officer, told the Information Technology Commission Wednesday that a rule and policies have been drafted that would let users know how their voluntarily submitted personal user information would be used by government Web sites other than the one the person used to submit that information.



Star Banner 11/02/01
Editorial: Let the sun shine on government
http://www.starbanner.com/articles/insight/491.shtml

When Floridians talk about sunshine, they're not necessarily referring to the weather. Often they're discussing Florida's Government-in-the-Sunshine laws, which guarantee the public access to government meetings and records.
So it is disturbing that some Florida legislators are seeking to circumvent these laws by initiating exceptions that would allow secret meetings to discuss legislation regarding security, terrorism or espionage.



Columbus Dispatch 11/02/01
Lawsuit seeks release of documents on slaying
http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/news/news01/nov01/920741.html

by Bruce Cadwallader
City officials who refuse to release public documents related to a fatal shooting by an off-duty police officer were sued yesterday by The Dispatch.
The lawsuit says the Police Division has repeatedly denied the newspaper's requests for a list of witnesses and witness statements surrounding the Oct. 16 shooting of Karlos Shammar Davis.
The reports are public records under state law, say Dispatch attorneys John W. Zeiger and Marion H. Little Jr. And Ohio Supreme Court decisions say the witness statements are not exempt from public disclosure, the lawsuit says.



Associated Press 11/02/01
Bush's executive order on presidential papers criticized
http://www.nando.com/politics/story/162704p-1549188c.html

by Deb Riechmann
WASHINGTON (November 2, 2001 10:29 a.m. EST) - One historian calls it a "disaster for history," but the White House insists that a new executive order issued by President Bush balances the public's right to see the records of past presidents with a need to protect national security.
Advocates for the release of government documents say the executive order violates the spirit of the 1978 Presidential Records Act and will usher in a new era of secrecy for papers left behind by America's chief executives.



Scripps Howard News Service 11/02/01
Opinion: Keeping history a secret
http://www.nandotimes.com/opinions/story/162977p-1552014c.html

by Dale McFeatters
It may be an unworthy thought, but it seems that the Bush White House has taken advantage of the nation's preoccupation with other matters to slip a patently self-serving executive order past Congress and the public.
An executive order, quietly drawn up and quickly signed the night after its existence became public, gives President Bush the power to veto the release of any presidential documents from the archives of his predecessors, including his father.



Salt Lake Tribune 11/02/01
Documents debate may go to court
http://www.sltrib.com/11022001/utah/145332.htm

by Kirsten Stewart
A winner has yet to emerge from the week-long tug of war between Utah State University and the LDS Church over a collection of historical papers.
Meanwhile, the fate of a sequestered portion of the 658-box collection, 12 full and 52 partial boxes, hangs in the balance. So does the reputation of Mormon historian Leonard Arrington, who donated the papers to Utah State before he died, say historians.



The Times 11/02/01
Thieves attempt to snatch hidden gold
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001380013-2001381391,00.html

by Nicholas Wapshott
FROM the wreckage of the World Trade Centre evidence is emerging of an amazing attempt at a high-risk heist in the basement.
After seven weeks of rescue and restoration operations involving 7,000 men crawling all over the building, workers penetrating the lower reaches of the basement were astonished to find signs that criminals had been there first.
Thieves who were unable to crack the tight security while the twin towers stood, have been posing as rescuers to gain access to the buried strongrooms.



Washington Post 11/02/01
A veto over Presidential Papers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27293-2001Nov1.html

by Mike Allen and George Lardner Jr.
President Bush signed an executive order last night allowing either the White House or former presidents to veto the release of their presidential papers, drawing criticism from former president Bill Clinton and several historians.
The order reinterprets the Presidential Records Act of 1978, which put the papers of future presidents in the public domain after a court fight over Richard M. Nixon's papers. The act envisioned the release of most sensitive records 12 years after a president had left office.





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