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Richmond Times Dispatch 8/3/02
New Woodrow Wilson Library
STAUNTON (AP) - Nestled in the 19th-century part of the city, the old whitewashed house where Woodrow Wilson was born remains the nicest on the block.
Even though the 28th president lived here for only a year as an infant, the locals have adopted him as their native son.
The house was converted to a museum soon after his death. Gardeners now keep the grass and shrubbery tidy. Museum officials have imported Wilson's Pierce-Arrow limousine and keep it polished and ready to drive in the garage below.
http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/localupdates/MGB0GYLGG4D.html


The Miami Herald 8/4/02
Archivists share documents, make news on top officials
BY SUMANA CHATTERJEE
Herald Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON - As President Bush tries to deflect questions about his 1990 sale of stock in Harken Energy Corp., one lone investigative team is keeping the story alive by repeatedly feeding the company's financial records to the news media.
The Center for Public Integrity's archives are deep with Harken documents drawn from the Securities and Exchange Commission's 1990 investigation into Bush's sale.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/3795306.htm


The Independent 8/5/02
Japan was 'days away from test' of A-bomb
By David McNeill in Tokyo
05 August 2002
Japan's secret plans to build its own atom bomb have resurfaced with the uncovering of a dossier smuggled out of the country at the end of the Second World War.
The papers, containing crude diagrams for a small nuclear weapon, were part of a six-year effort by military scientists to make the country the world's first nuclear power.
According to yesterday's Asahi newspaper, the American widow of a Japanese researcher, who fled to the US with the document in 1945, has returned it to the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, where he worked during the war. The researcher, Kazuo
Kuroda, who later became a professor at the University of Arkansas, kept the document secret for half a century until his death in America in April last year.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/pacific_rim/story.jsp?story=321619


Tax-News.com 8/5/02
Boris Becker And German Taxman Reach Deal
http://www.tax-news.com/asp/story/story.asp?storyname=8979


Richmond Times Dispatch 8/6/02
Warner mulls mediator to settle library dispute
BY JEFF E. SCHAPIRO
Hoping to prevent a court fight, the Warner administration might enlist a mediator to settle the dispute between the state library and former Gov. Jim Gilmore over his papers.
Capitol sources said officials are exploring such a possibility to avert a lawsuit by the library against Gilmore that would have implications for Gov. Mark R. Warner and his successors.
http://timesdispatch.com/news/politics/MGBZZKC5J4D.html


Chicago Tribune 8/6/02
Lincoln artifacts donated to state
Items collected by late judge
By Courtney Flynn
SPRINGFIELD -- The mother of the late U.S. District Judge Abraham Lincoln Marovitz may in a way be responsible for the latest collection of artifacts and memorabilia to be donated to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, which is scheduled to open this
fall in Springfield.
Marovitz, who died last year at age 95, liked to tell the story of how a misreading of American culture and history led his Lithuanian immigrant mother to name him after Lincoln, who she presumed was a great Jewish hero because he wore a beard and "was shot in the temple."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0208060292aug06.story?coll=chi%2Dnews%2Dhed


ColdNorthWind 8/6/02
COLD NORTH WIND AND WASHINGTONPOST.NEWSWEEK INTERACTIVE AGREE TO DIGITIZE THE WASHINGTON STAR
Cold North Wind to digitize archives of The Washington Star going back to 1852 to create a newspaper archive-based portal for U.S. capital
http://www.coldnorthwind.com/popups/Aug06.html


The Orange County Register 8/6/02
Veterans' museum may fly
Group is pushing for a military museum to be housed in blimp hangar at Tustin Marine
base.
http://www.ocregister.com/news/blimp00806cci.shtml


Cheboygan Daily Tribune 8/7/02
History desired by new society
Booth at fair familiarizes public with the needs of new organization
By RICH ADAMS
CHEBOYGAN - Ever wondered how much M.D. Olds paid in taxes? Or, for that matter, how much money he made near the turn of the century?
Have you ever wanted to find out how people fought sawmill fires in the 1800s? Better yet, how would you like to hear the words straight from someone who was actually there?
It's now possible, thanks to the Straits Area Heritage Society. The newly formed organization has a display at the Cheboygan County Fair where you can get answers to all of the above questions, and more.
http://www.cheboygannews.com/archives/index.inn?loc=detail&doc=/2002/August/07-473-news5.txt


Sewickley Star 8/7/02
Historical Society is everyday resource
By Lindsey Grant, Herald intern August 07, 2002
Whether you are interested in looking through old newspapers or just want to laugh at your parents' yearbook pictures, the Sewickley Valley Historical Society is the place
to go.
http://sewickleystar.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=4970330&BRD=2147&PAG=461&dept_id=361941&rfi=6


Richmond Times Dispatch 8/8/02
Filling in the Gaps: Issue of Administration's Papers Could Be Resolved Amicably
by Jim Gilmore
I want to directly address the recent controversy regarding the archiving of
documents from my administration.
After I received an initial letter from Nolan Yelich, the State Librarian, raising
concerns about some documents, I wrote back to him that I wanted to cooperate completely and to ensure that every official document that belonged at the Library was archived there.
http://www.timesdispatch.com/editorials/oped/MGBE8SOQL4D.html


Richmond Times Dispatch 8/9/02
Kilgore quits files flap
Outside counsel urged for Gilmore, Yelich
BY JEFF E. SCHAPIRO
Attorney General Jerry W. Kilgore wants out of the Gilmore gubernatorial papers dispute because he and the state librarian aren't on the same page.
Beyond a possible conflict in advising former Gov. Jim Gilmore and librarian Nolan T. Yelich, Kilgore said that he had no choice but to quit the case because of the "reluctance of the library to work with [my] office."
Nonetheless, the chairman of the Li- brary Board accused Kilgore of a "fundamental conflict of interest."
http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/more/MGB5Q18EN4D.html

Journal and Courier 8/10/02
TCHA sale of artifacts questioned
Ex-employees think auction won't stem financial woes
By Joe Gerrety, Journal and Courier
Plans by the Tippecanoe County Historical Association to sell 75 to 80 items from its museum collection can't and won't help resolve the organization's financial troubles.
Staff and board members with TCHA said Thursday the auction Saturday of the items that have been "de-accessioned" from the museum's collections is merely a matter of "keeping the collections healthy."
But some former employees of the historical association said they're concerned that Tippecanoe County could be losing some historical treasures at Saturday's auction at the National Guard Armory in Delphi.
http://www.lafayettejc.com/news20020809/200208096local_news1028869366.shtml


The Royal Gazette 8/10/02
How Archivist Karla vaulted into the limelight
BUSINESS PEOPLE by VICTORIA ROBERTS
WORKING in and out of the vaults of the Bermuda Archives – maintained at a steady 65 degrees, with 40 per cent humidity – does sound quite comfortable. But despite the physical conditions, and despite the white gloves often worn, the work, which Archivist Karla Hayward has been doing for ten years now, is far from indolent.
http://www.theroyalgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20020809&Category=MIDOCEAN&ArtNo=108090077&Ref=AR


ComputerWorld 8/5/02
Preserving Web History
By ROBERT L. MITCHELL
With 60 Web sites, 20,000 Web pages and approximately 100 page changes per month to
manage, you would think that Chris Strout wouldn't dwell on the past. But Strout, Web site manager at Chicago-based insurance brokerage Aon Corp., says that preserving historical Web site information is critical to meeting his company's regulatory obligations.
"We've had some compliance issues with the SEC where they've said, 'Information we're looking for is not on the site. Where is it? Has it been on the site in the past?' " he says. Using TeamSite, a content management tool from Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Interwoven Inc., Strout says, he can show where the requested content appeared at a given time - and how users navigated to it.
http://www.computerworld.com/developmenttopics/websitemgmt/story/0,10801,73175,00.html



ComputerWorld 8/5/02
Public Web Archives: The Missing Link
By ROBERT L. MITCHELL
Public Web archives such as The Internet Archive can play a useful role in summoning up the ghosts of Web sites past. When Bruce Bruemmer, corporate archivist at Cargill Inc. in Wayzata, Minn., needed to dig up a copy of his company's first Web site, for example, he found it by using the Wayback Machine, an application from the Internet Archive in San Francisco. "[The Internet Archive] had some evidence of Cargill's Web site on their [Web site]," he says.
That content, especially for earlier pages, isn't always complete, however.
When Fynette Eaton, director of the technical services division of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, attempted to recover the Smithsonian's first Web site (which has been lost to history) she found the text, but no images. Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle says the completeness of the archives has improved substantially since its inception in 1996. However, it can copy only publicly accessible content; pages that require user registration or passwords, or Web sites that publish a robot exclusion (including Computerworld.com) aren't archived.
http://www.computerworld.com/developmenttopics/websitemgmt/story/0,10801,73145,00.html



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