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RAIN 02/16 Weekly Update: Archives (37)



Controversy still swirled around Rudy Giuliani's mayoral papers but by week's 
end it appeared that an agreement had been reached.

However one story did surface that was even more shocking and that was the 
report out of Philadephia that a NARA archivist was accused of stealing 
documents from the National Archives and selling them on e-Bay. If not for 
the sharp eye of a National Park Service employee who knows when the thefts 
would have been discovered. What I do find interesting is that only two 
newspapers carried it as a major story, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Los 
Angeles Times. I never did see a report in either the Washington Post or New 
York Times. The Associated Press did put several stories but it appears that 
most newspapers printed it as barely 1 or 2 column inches.

With that said here are the links.

Giuliani's Records Deal Questioned
Wed Feb 13, 8:20 PM ET
By DIEGO IBARGUEN, Associated Press Writer
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&;
u=/ap/20020214/ap_on_re_us/giuliani_records_

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&;
u=/ap/20020214/ap_on_re_us/giuliani_records_5


Giuliani Records to Be Handed Over New York City Releases Plan for Archival, 
Public Access to Ex-Mayoral Records
The Associated Press
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20020215_384.html


Giuliani Papers Handover Questioned
Fri Feb 15, 8:09 PM ET
By DIEGO IBARGUEN, Associated Press Writer
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&;
u=/ap/20020216/ap_on_re_us/giuliani_records_8 


NYC officials develop plan to process Giuliani papers
By The Associated Press
02.16.02
http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=15751


New York Times 2/15/02
City Agrees to Private Control of Giuliani's Mayoral Papers
By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/15/nyregion/15PAPE.html



U.S.Newswire 2/11/02
National Archives Recovers Stolen Documents
Mon Feb 11, 5:35 PM ET
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020211/180/13f7d.html


Los Angeles Times 2/12/02
Pieces of U.S. History Pilfered
Theft: A National Archives employee is accused of selling artifacts for 
$100,000.
By FAYE FIORE, TIMES STAFF WRITER
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-000010964feb12.story


Philadelphia Inquirer 2/11/02
Archives curator accused of stealing historic documents
By Joseph A. Slobodzian
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/2649691.htm


Associated Press 2/11/02
Nat. Archives Employee Faces Charges
Mon Feb 11, 5:09 PM ET
By JOANN LOVIGLIO, Associated Press Writer
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&;
u=/ap/20020211/ap_on_re_us/archives_theft_2


Philadelphia Inquirer 2/12/02
Man stole, sold pieces of history, officials say
Documents and photos from the National Archives in Phila. were offered on 
eBay. A former curator is charged.
By Joseph A. Slobodzian
Inquirer Staff Writer
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/2653852.htm



Bucks County Courier Times 2/12/02
Missing archives used at BCCC
Archivist Shawn Aubitz, accused of stealing hundreds of historical documents,
routinely showed them to his college students. His lawyer said that was legal.
By HARRY YANOSHAK
Courier Times
http://www.phillyburbs.com/couriertimes/news/news/0213aubitz.htm


The Trentonian 2/12/02
STOLEN HISTORY: Feds: Prof sold hundreds of stolen documents
by Dave Sommers
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=3247670&BRD=1697&PAG=461&;
dept_id=44551&rfi=6


The Trentonian 2/14/02
Lawyer: Archivist had mental problems
MARYCLAIRE DALE, Associated Press
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=3267647&BRD=1697&PAG=461&;
dept_id=44551&rfi=6


CNET 2/11/02
Vandals burn out defacement-tracking site
By Robert Lemos
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
February 11, 2002, 5:35 PM PT
The Alldas.de Web site, which archives copies of Web pages that have been 
digitally defaced by online hoodlums, announced Monday that the founder of 
the site would be retiring and the site moving to a new domain.
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-834848.html


New York Times 2/11/02
Battling Over Records of Bush's Governorship
By ALISON LEIGH COWAN
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/11/politics/11LIBR.html


National Post 2/9/02
Six universities receive $2.6M to create giant online database
Believed to be largest single grant to a humanities project
Heather Sokoloff
National Post
The federal government has given $2.6-million to six Canadian university 
libraries to
create one of the world's largest online databases of old texts and archives.
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/national/story.html?f=/stories/20020209/6651.

html


Cleburne Times-Review 2/14/02
Depot talk frank & heated
By:Rob Fraser, Times-Review Writer 
A dozen members of the Johnson County Historical Commission voted to retain 
what building was left of the Trinity & Brazos Valley Railroad Depot, 
according to Wanda Erickson, commission archivist.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=3279829&BRD=1212&PAG=461&;
dept_id=445643&rfi=6


Associated Press 2/12/02
Lawmakers say President Clinton left office with more than $400,000 in gifts
Tue Feb 12, 6:52 PM ET
By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - President Clinton (news - web sites) left office with more than 
$400,000 in gifts, including $75,000 in china, crystal and furniture received 
in his last weeks in office, according to a congressional report.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&;
u=/ap/20020212/ap_to_po/clintons_gifts_9&printer=1


New York Times 2/13/02
Clintons Accused of Not Disclosing
Gifts' True Value
By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ
ASHINGTON, Feb. 12 - The Clintons underestimated the value of dozens of gifts 
they received while in the White House and failed to disclose others, 
according to documents released today by Republican Congressional 
investigators.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/13/politics/13GIFT.html


Star_Tribune 2/10/02
Private Civil War collection goes on the auction block
Bill Hendrick
Cox News Service
Published Feb 10, 2002
MOUNTAIN CITY, Ga. -- There they are, listed as a lot of five on a brown, 
brittle
sheet of parchment along with a $40.25 moonshine still and $25 worth of sheep
and hogs valued at $541.12. And when the slaves were sold at the estate sale 
of a
Georgia planter for a lump sum of $2,372.75, they were as anonymous as the
livestock.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/1606225.html


The Honolulu Advertiser 2/12/02
Kailua collecting fading memories
By Eloise Aguiar
Windward O'ahu Writer
KAILUA — Having organized and received some basic training, the Kailua 
Historical
Society has begun collecting oral histories from dozens of residents whose 
memories will become the foundation of the organization's historic collection.
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2002/Feb/11/ln/ln16a.html


New York Times 2/13/02
Letter: The Giuliani Papers
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/13/opinion/L13RUDY.html


Topeka Capital-Journal 2/12/02
Black history talk focuses on communities
By Vincent Brydon
Black history is Kansas history.
That is the message University of Kansas archivist Deborah Dandridge passed 
on to hundreds of Topeka High School students Monday during her oral and 
pictorial presentation on black communities in Kansas during the 
20th-century, part of the school
Black History Month celebration.
http://cjonline.com/stories/021202/com_archivist.shtml


Eastside Journal 2/13/02
Society spotlights Kirkland's lost history
by Patti Payne
http://www.eastsidejournal.com/sited/story/html/82673


Associated Press 2/11/02
Kissinger Phone Calls to Be Released
By DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - The public will get its first look at transcripts of phone 
calls Henry Kissinger made in the Nixon White House during a time of war in 
Vietnam, secret diplomatic deal making and Watergate.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&;
u=/ap/20020211/ap_on_re_us/kissinger_phone_c

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San Francisco Chronicle 2/10/02
A new chapter for libraries
Preference for online research has its price
Tanya Schevitz, Chronicle Staff Writer
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/02/10/M

N169969.DTL


New York Times 2/16/02
Lincoln Online: New Treasures
Honest Abe? Not according to Charles Hanks,
Abraham Lincoln's cousin, who said Lincoln was
famous for "rowdying," the 19th-century version of
wilding. Charles wanted to set the record straight after
reading a letter supporting Lincoln's presidential bid by
Charles's own brother, John Hanks.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/16/arts/16LINC.html?pagewanted=all


Wired 2/15/02
Museum Explains Why Snot Exists
Reuters
7:03 a.m. Feb. 14, 2002 PST
LONDON -- Burp, fart and be merry. Grossology is coming to London.
The London Science Museum is inviting children to learn about the "impolite" 
science of the human body in an exhibition at which they will be offered the 
chance to scale a wall of human skin -- warts and all -- and generate 
volcanic flatulence.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,50422,00.html


The Wall Street Journal 2/13/02