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RAIN 623 Weekly Update: Archives (11)



Black World Today 6/13/02
Malcolm X's Letter To Elijah Muhammad
by Herb Boyd
Once again a piece of memorabilia belonging to Malcolm X (El Hajj Malik El-
Shabazz) is the source of controversy. For the last several days, if not weeks, the
Internet has been abuzz with the news that Gary Zimet of momentsintime.com
has posted a notice asking $125,000 for a letter Malcolm wrote to Elijah
Muhammad.
http://athena.tbwt.com/content/article.asp?articleid=962


AP 6/17/02
Room Holds Key to Soldiers' Search
By LAWRENCE L. KNUTSON, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - On a summer day five years ago, a government carpenter crawled into a dark and dirty attic and gave history a nudge.
Near the edge of piles of Civil War-era letters, abolitionist publications, old photographs, bandages and period women's clothing he found a square tin sign inscribed with gold letters on a black background.
It read: "Missing Soldiers. Office. 3rd Story. Room 9. Miss Clara Barton."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020617/ap_on_go_ot/clara_barton_s_attic_1



News-Record 6/17/02
Preserving words of war
http://www.news-record.com/news/local/ww2tapes17.htm


Spokesman-Review 6/18/02
EWU site a first step in protecting our history
Guest column
Sam Reed
Special to The Spokesman-Review
Today on the Eastern Washington University campus, the Washington Secretary of State's
office breaks ground on a digital memory bank so enormous it boggles the mind.
This new, $14 million building, the first state government digital archives in America, will have the capacity to store 800 terabytes of information within 15 years. Someday this could approach 200 billion pages of text. If you attached each page end-to-end, it would stretch far enough for 70 round trips to the moon.
http://www.spokesmanreview.com/news-story.asp?date=061802&ID=s1169050


Government Technology 6/18/02
Washington Breaks Ground on Digital Archives Building
Shane Peterson, News Editor - Jun 18, 2002 --
OLYMPIA, Wash. -- The Secretary of State, Sam Reed, announced on Tuesday that the state is taking steps to create a Digital Archives building that will use storage area networks (SANs) to store electronic records from the various branches and levels of state government.
http://www.govtech.net/news/news.phtml?docid=2002.06.18-3030000000011749


Richmond Times Dispatch 6/19/02
Army: Send us the battle flag
http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/more/MGB3HVTIM2D.html


ComputerWorld 6/19/02
Washington state to create digital archives
By LINDA ROSENCRANCE
The Washington Secretary of State's Office yesterday broke ground on a
building that will house the state's history recorded through e-mails and
electronic documents.
Secretary of State Sam Reed said his research indicates that Washington is the first state government to establish digital archives in the country. Although the state has done a good job maintaining and preserving paper documents, which are also transferred to microfilm, it has done nothing to ensure that its electronic records are stored for posterity, Reed said.
http://www.computerworld.com/databasetopics/data/story/0,10801,72096,00.html


Seattle Post-Intelligencer 6/19/02
State digital archives getting a new home
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SPOKANE -- Work began yesterday on a $14.3 million state government archives
building that will preserve critical electronic records that are in danger of being lost to rapid technological change.
"It's very important for us to get with the program on this," said Secretary of State
Sam Reed, who shepherded the project through the Legislature.
The 48,000-square-foot building on the Eastern Washington University campus at Cheney will house "digital archives" -- the first state facility of its kind in Washington -- to store electronic records.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/75162_archives19.shtml


The News Journal 6/20/02
DuPont peers into past
1952 time capsule is opened at last
By SETH AGULNICK
Bob Bristow was a 20-year-old clerk in the DuPont Co.'s records hall in 1974 when he came across a locked box in the corner of a vault.
When he learned it was a replica of the time capsule that had been buried in 1952 to celebrate DuPont's 150th anniversary - with instructions to be opened for the 200th anniversary in 2002 - he slipped a note into the outer casing.
http://www.delawareonline.com/newsjournal/business/2002/06/20dupontpeersinto.html


Richmond Times Dispatch 6/20/02
Some Gilmore papers tardy
Library archivists want policy documents
BY JEFF E. SCHAPIRO
Some of former Gov. Jim Gilmore's official papers are overdue at the state
library.
Six months after the Republican left office, several of his top aides and The Library of Virginia are quietly battling over gubernatorial records that archivists contend are public information.
http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/MGBB0Q6ZN2D.html


Washington Post 6/20/02
State Archivist Demands Files From Gilmore
Law Covers Official Papers
By R.H. Melton
RICHMOND, June 19 -- Former governor James S. Gilmore III has provided the state an
incomplete set of official documents from his administration, prompting a rebuke from Virginia's top archivist and a sternly worded demand for the missing files.
State Librarian Nolan T. Yelich, who oversees a priceless archive of gubernatorial papers going back to Patrick Henry, asked that Gilmore explain in writing by July 1 why his administration has delivered only a trickle of documents from the Republican's four years in office, which ended in January of this year.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14528-2002Jun19.html



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