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RAIN: Weekly Update 12/30



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BBC News 12/28/01
BBC screens 'lost' classics
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/tv_and_radio/newsid_1648000/1648907.stm

Two "missing" episodes of classic comedy series Dad's Army have been screened for the first time in 30 years on Friday.
They were among more than 100 "lost" BBC TV and radio programmes recovered for the nation after a six-month appeal by BBC archivists.
The programmes, shown on BBC2, had apparently been wiped from the archives.



St. Petersburg Times 12/30/01
Editorial: School Board needs public records law seminar
http://www.sptimes.com/News/123001/Hernando/School_Board_needs_Pu.shtml

When the Hernando County School Board decided recently to maintain its current part-time arrangement with board attorney Karen Gaffney, its members acknowledged Superintendent Wendy Tellone's concern that Gaffney's time could be used better.



Houston Chronicle 12/30/01
UNT maintains depository for U.S. documents online
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/1190593

by Angela K. Brown
AP
DENTON -- When government agencies die, their reports are buried but not forgotten.
The University of North Texas is one of 58 federal depositories in Texas and 1,300 in the nation storing and providing free public access to government documents -- everything from the Annals of Congress from the 1770s to U.S. Department of Agriculture soil studies.



New York Times 12/30/01
Ingenuity's blueprints, into history's dustbin
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/30/national/30PATE.html

by Alison Mitchell
Arlington, Va., Dec. 27 - On these frigid winter nights, Randy Rabin can be found combing through trash bins outside the United States Patent and Trademark Office, trying to rescue from destruction yellowed copies of patents from America's golden age of invention.
The patent office, home to nearly 6.5 million patents dating to 1790, is converting to an electronic database and discarding a significant portion of its paper files after they have been scanned and digitized.



Associated Press 12/30/01
S. Dakota investigates psych records
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011230/us/psychiatric_records_1.html

by Chet Brokaw
AP
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) - Carl Schwartz knew something was wrong as soon as he saw the bundle of papers sticking out of the convenience store trash can with references to suicide and psychiatry.
``It was sticking right out of the can so you could read the top sheet, and the top sheet had the name of the hospital and the names of the patients and diagnosis right there on top because that's what's caught my eye,'' Schwartz said.



Shawnee News-Star 12/30/01
Old newspapers hold fascination for collector
http://www.news-star.com/stories/123001/bus_papers.shtml

AP
TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- Something known as "fish wrap" and "bird cage liner" probably shouldn't expect a long life. It's yesterday's news. Passe. Old hat. Obsolete.
And nothing is more yesterday's news than yesterday's newspapers.
Some people, though, think what has happened to this country's old newspapers has taken throwaway culture to an extreme. Few libraries, archives or even newspaper publishers keep back issues for more than a few months. They rely on microforms -- microfilm and microfiche -- and to some extent digital images for preservation and toss the original publication.



The Herald 12/26/01
Basement harbors a treasure trove of Winthrop, area history
http://www.heraldonline.com/local/story/971677p-1018377c.html

by Andrew Dys
A few feet from an original copy of the New York Herald dated April 15, 1865, announcing the death of President Abraham Lin-coln, sits a Winthrop Uni-versity graduate student rifling through boxes of Rock Hill Chamber of Commerce dinner receipts from the 1950s.
Tucked in boxes are sewing diaries filled with patterns and needlework from 1910, a prop knife used in a long-forgotten play in the 1930s and even diaries and letters that tell what life was like at the turn of the century in Rock Hill and at Winthrop.



Seattle Times 12/30/01
Out with the old clutter, download the new
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/personaltechnology/134384791_ptgett30.html


by Linda Knapp
Just before a new year begins is a great time to clean up the clutter and other messes that accumulate on a computer over time. Fragmented files, leftovers from uninstalled programs, forgotten folders and other nuisances can gradually clog your system and cause it to slow down and sometimes crash.



Daily Oklahoman 12/30/01
Exhibit shows Guthrie's unpublished work
http://www.newsok.com/cgi-bin/show_article?ID=802988&pic=none&TP=getentertainment

by Max Nichols
NEW YORK -- Nora Guthrie was only 17 in 1967 when her father, Woody Guthrie, died of Huntington's disease.
Her mother, Marjorie, had saved all of her husband's work in boxes at their home in Queens, a New York City borough.
Woody Guthrie, who was born in Okemah in 1912, had become world famous for singing ballads about the common man and his struggles with natural disasters, unionism, love, war, fascism and children. His songs touched on the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.





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