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RAIN 804 Weekly Update: Archives (21)



The Telegraph 7/22/02
Document from Madison County sheds light on
president's life
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=4816090&BRD=1719&PAG=461&dept_id=25271&rfi=6


The Washington Times 7/28/02
Confederate Museum won't leave building
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020728-55754860.htm


Las Vegas Review-Journal 7/28/02
THE MEDICAL MALPRACTICE INSURANCE CRISIS: History suggests legislators must strike balance
Special sessions previously have resulted in ousters
http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/2002/Jul-28-Sun-2002/news/19255784.html


Washington Post 7/28/02
A Comma Denominator
Manuscript Marking May Hold Clue to Transverse Flute's Early History
By Philip Kennicott
On Page 156 of a manuscript compiled by one of Louis XIV's chief music librarians, there is a slight, wispy arc of a line that has sat there for more than 300 years, probably confusing no one. It is apparently a comma, a simple stroke of the pen dividing two words.
But for Jeffrey Cohan, a baroque flutist who will perform music from the Library of
Congress manuscript at the Capital Hill Chamber Music Festival this evening, it is also an enigma, or worse.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6405-2002Jul26.html


Reno Gazette-Journal 7/29/02
Archivist forced to put retirement on hold
http://www.rgj.com/news/stories/html/2002/07/28/20384.php


Wired 7/29/02
Read All About It
By Kendra Mayfield
"Titanic Sinks Four Hours After Hitting Iceberg."
With that banner headline on April 16, 1912, The New York Times informed the world about the 20th century's most epic disaster.
Now, the venerable Gray Lady has digitally preserved its account of the Titanic sinking for future generations to see, exactly as it appeared to readers some 90 years ago.
The Times has preserved everything else, too.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,54030,00.html



New York Times 7/29/02
Philharmonic Gets Diary of a Savvy
Music Man
By RALPH BLUMENTHAL
He was New York's original music man, and his name was Hill.
Not Professor Harold Hill, the fast-talking brass-band huckster of ``The Music Man.''
Ureli Corelli Hill, the violinist and conductor who founded the New York Philharmonic in 1842.
Now the Philharmonic has landed a long-sought prize: a vast collection of Hill's papers and other effects that illuminate the origins of the Philharmonic Society of New-York, as the nation's oldest continuing orchestra was then called, and the roots of classical music in the United States.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/29/arts/music/29HILL.html?



Government Computer News 7/29/02
Another View: Is Web scrubbing an exercise in futility?
By Gabe Goldberg
When cuneiform stone tablets represented state-ofthe- art printing, the best records retention policy was "Don't drop them." Each successive form of IT-printing press, filing cabinet, copier, e-mail and Internet--has made it harder to control information
flow and access, and especially to reclaim freely disseminated material.
Sept. 11 changed the rules, forcing government agencies to re-evaluate data they'd put online, such as infrastructure layouts.
http://www.gcn.com/12_21/opinion/19421-1.html


Clinton Recorder 7/30/02
Clinton and Killingworth receive $5,000 in vault grants
By: Stan Fisher, Special to the Recorder July 30, 2002
The oldest and most priceless history of a community is not contained in an historian's
words, but in the ancient maps which record the changes in its landscape, and in the
elegant handwriting used to document the birth, marriage, and death of its citizens.
The house lots, business sites, and cemeteries as they existed in Clinton's oldest times are drawn in white lines on heavy blue paper, so frayed and fragile from age and
handling that they are affixed to large sheets of paper.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=4885509&BRD=1634&PAG=461&dept_id=8416&rfi=6


AP 7/31/02
Wall Street Journal, NY Times back issues scanned into digital archive
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/07/31/financial1200EDT0111.DTL


New York Times 7/31/02
Restoration for 'Freedom' Murals at Archives
By CELESTINE BOHLEN
WASHINGTON — The Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution are big subjects for an artist, and big is certainly the word for the two giant murals — each measuring more than 34 feet long and almost 13 feet high — that hang on the walls of the cavernous rotunda inside the National Archives building here.
The murals were commissioned in 1934 as background for the nation's most precious documents: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, collectively called the charters of freedom, which in an average year are seen by a million or so visitors.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/31/arts/design/31MURA.html?


The Philadelphia Inquirer 8/1/02
Archivist given 21 months in thefts of historic items
By Joseph A. Slobodzian
Inquirer Staff Writer
A former federal archivist driven by what he called a passion for history and a psychological compulsion to collect received a 21-month prison sentence yesterday for stealing hundreds of historic documents from the National Archives branch in Philadelphia.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/3777277.htm
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/nation/3787677.htm

Air & Space Magazine
The Papers of Crocker Snow
"Crocker Snow, now that's a Boston name," says Mark Kahn, a former
Bostonian himself and currently an archivist at the Smithsonian's National
Air and Space Museum. "I remember hearing about the battles over [the
expansion of] Logan Airport in the 1970s. I was in high school at the time,
and he was in the news." Kahn fingers the rough list the Museum has
created of the contents of the Crocker Snow collection, which it acquired
last summer.
http://www.airandspacemagazine.com/ASM/Mag/inthemuseum.html



Dover Post 8/1/02
Delaware's copy of the Bill of Rights coming home -- after 200 years
It's been more than 210 years since its departure, but Delaware's copy of the Bill of Rights will soon be making its homecoming.
Delaware State House Majority Leader Wayne Smith joined National Archives’ officials, Delaware’s congressional delegation and Gov. Ruth Ann Minner at the Senate Russell Office Building in Washington D.C. recently for the announcement of an agreement that will bring the historic document back to the First State.
http://www.doverpost.com/pages/billofrights.html


Richmond Times Dispatch 8/1/02
A link to the city's past
Found in attic, Pump House drawings are donated to group
BY WILL JONES
Michael Windbiel stumbled across a bunch of rolledup pages when he was exploring the attic of his sister's newly purchased house in the West End.
He unfurled them to find mechanical drawings of Richmond's "new water works." The drafts were dated from 1896 to 1902 and done in black ink and calligraphy.
http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/more/MGBI9U10C4D.html


The Olympian 8/1/02
Our Views: Bury the time capsule
Bury the time capsule and dig it up in 2053 when Washington residents celebrate the
territorial bicentennial.
That's our advice as state officials and archivists ponder the future of a 155-pound time capsule found recently in the upper levels of the domed Legislative Building.
http://www.theolympian.com/home/news/20020801/opinion/24048.shtml



Wired 8/2/02
Britain's Great Digital Empire
By Daithí Ó hAnluain
A tiny book in the venerable Bodleian library's Institute of India at Oxford University is the focus of regular pilgrimages for some of Britain's 70,000 Narayan Hindus. In a bid to make life easier all around, it is undergoing digitization so anyone can
access the book on the Internet.
The sacred text, the Shikshapatri, was given to the English governor of Bombay, Sir John Malcolm, by Narayan Hinduism founder, Sahajanand Swami (aka Swaminarayan) in 1830, just a few years after it was created. The object's history renders it sacred in itself as well as for what it contains. When pilgrims visit they can only view one page, which is kept on a viewing stand.
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,54196,00.html


Richmond Times Dispatch 8/2/02
Kilgore wants out of fight
BY JEFF E. SCHAPIRO
Attorney General Jerry W. Kilgore wants to quit as mediator in the fight over former Gov. Jim Gilmore's official papers and perhaps dodge taking the fellow Republican to court.
Kilgore said through a spokesman yesterday that Gilmore and State Librarian Nolan T. Yelich should slug it out alone, backed by private lawyers paid with taxpayer dollars.
http://timesdispatch.com/news/more/MGBAI7SFD4D.html


AP 8/3/02
Report: Japan Bomb Papers Returned
Sat Aug 3,12:11 PM ET
TOKYO (AP) - Classified World War II documents on Japan's plans to develop an atomic bomb have been returned to Japan by the wife of a Japanese scientist who had secretly kept them until his death last year in the United States, a newspaper reported Saturday.
The 23 pages of documents, which contain the blueprint of the Imperial Army's atomic bomb development, had been kept by Kazuo Kuroda, professor emeritus of Arkansas University, who died last April. His wife recently sent them to the Japanese research institute near Tokyo where Kuroda had worked as a young researcher, the Asahi newspaper reported.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020803/ap_on_re_as/japan_atomic_bomb_2


Corpus Christi Caller-Times 8/3/02
BP gives $7.5 million for geological studies
UT gift includes rock from the Earth's core; oil giant also to spend billions exploring Gulf
By Associated Press
August 3, 2002
AUSTIN - The University of Texas got some very valuable rocks Friday.
John Browne, chief executive officer of London-based oil giant BP, handed over $7.5 million worth of earth core samples from oil and gas wells to the Bureau of Economic Geology.
The gift from Browne, lord of Madingley, includes a 12-acre space in Houston with offices and machinery, and $2.4 million in cash for a permanent endowment to cover related expenses.
http://www.caller.com/ccct/national_world_news/article/0,1641,CCCT_812_1304526,00.html



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