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RAIN 06/06: 'ONORS, OPENINGS and ONLINE



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The State 6/5/00
Archives director honored
http://www.thestate.com/local/docs/archives05.htm

by Karen E. York
Friends and admirers paid tribute Sunday to Charles Lee for his role in
preserving South Carolina's history.
Lee, 82, served as director of the S.C. Department of Archives and History
for 26 years, guiding its growth and helping to build its national
reputation.
He said during a reception in his honor that not enough South Carolinians
recognize the importance of the millions of papers catalogued at the S.C.
Archives and History Center on Parklane Road.
Those documents, which include land grants, tax records and governors'
correspondence, date as far back as 1671.


Memphis Commercial Appeal 6/5/00
Shelby County Archives is open
http://www.gomemphis.com/newca/local/060500/e5arch.htm

by Jimmie Covington
Shelby County marriage records from 1820 to 1998 are there. So are death
records for Memphis from 1848 through 1913 and countywide from 1914 to 1949
and old Probate Court and other records dating far back into the 19th
Century.
The Shelby County Archives hasn't had its official opening yet, but it is
already serving the public.
In recent weeks, about 8,000 cubic feet of county records have been moved
from Cossitt Library to the archives on upper floors at 150 Washington, said
Steve Satterfield, county public records administrator who oversees the
operation.



National Post 6/5/00
Document trail outlines knowledge of debacle
HRDC officials sent memos, held two-day meeting
http://www.nationalpost.com/news.asp?f=000605/308491&s2=national&s3=politics

by Andrew McIntosh
OTTAWA - Jane Stewart claims she was first briefed about an internal audit
revealing mismanagement of job creation grants by Human Resources
Development Canada on Nov. 17 last year.
But documents obtained under the Access to Information Act show that for
months before that date, HRDC officials were aware of mismanagement, mindful
of the need to control disclosure to the public of this mismanagement, and
actively seeking ways of curtailing it.


Knoxville News-Sentinel 6/5/00
Knox records moving online
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/9982.shtml

by Michael Silence
To make paying property taxes less taxing, Knox County property owners
within months will have the option of taking care of that task online.
Also coming soon to a computer screen near you, view property purchases, tax
records and perhaps look up contributions to candidates.
Lawyers will be able to look up court dates, and residents of neighborhoods
can already look up when a zoning case in their neighborhood comes up before
the Metropolitan Planning Commission, Knox County Commission or City
Council.



Chicago Sun-Times 6/3/00
INS may have lost 4,000 files from area
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/ins03.html

by Lynn Sweet
Sun-Times Washington Bureau
About 4,000 Chicago area naturalization cases may have disappeared from the
files of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, according to a General
Accounting Office study released Friday by Rep. Judy Biggert (R-Ill.)
"We cannot expect people to put their lives on hold because the INS cannot
keep track of their paperwork," Biggert said in a prepared statement.


Nando 6/5/00
Court won't limit phone companies' use of data from customer bills
http://www.nando.com/noframes/business/story/0,2469,500212247-500298803-5016
44730-0,00.html

by Richard Carelli
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (June 5, 2000 11:51 a.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - The
U.S. Supreme Court turned aside a plea for enhanced privacy on Monday and
refused to limit how telephone companies use information gleaned from
customers' bills in trying to sell them additional services.
Without comment, the justices refused to reinstate Federal Communications
Commission rules wiped out as violations of telephone companies' free-speech
rights.
The FCC rules, imposed under a 1996 telecommunications law, had required
companies to get customers' permission before using or sharing their records
- calling patterns and other personal information - to market new services
to them.



The Western Producer 6/1/00
Problems avoided with spraying records
http://www.producer.com/articles/20000601/production/20000601prod02.html

by Saskatchewan Agriculture
With new technologies, attention to weather and good neighbor relations,
spray drift problems can be minimized.
However, if complaints are received, detailed crop and field management
records are critical. They can also help document when a spray product
doesn't work.



Ka Leo O Hawaii 6/1/00
World War II documents donated to U. Hawaii library
http://news.excite.com/news/uw/000601/university-30

Staff Reports
(U-WIRE) HONOLULU -- The University of Hawai'i at Manoa library system has
received over 300 photographs and 600 pages of manuscripts documenting World
War II and the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Mrs. Robert F. Walden donated her late husband's collection of WWII
photographs and manuscripts to the library for use in the Hawai'i War
Records depository.



PRNewswire 5/30/00
Dargate to auction important Civil War-era letters and documents, a rare
full plate daguerreotype...
http://news.excite.com/news/pr/000530/pa-dargate-auction

PITTSBURGH, May 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Dargate Auction Galleries will feature
several important signed, historical documents at auction on Saturday, June
3. They highlight the political procedure, military perspective and personal
dynamics of Abraham Lincoln, Salmon P. Chase and other key Civil War-era
leaders.
Dated December 31, 1860, just 10 days after South Carolina became the first
state to secede from the Union and in Lincoln's own hand, a brief note
invites Chase, "in these troublous times," to visit the president-elect in
Springfield. Significantly, the auction will also feature a certificate in
which Chase is appointed by Lincoln as Secretary of the Treasury. It is
dated March 5, 1861.



Atlanta Journal Constitution 6/2/00
New cache of writer's documents at Emory
http://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/ajc/epaper/editions/friday/features_93
73b4e2e55ff1cd00f8.html

Emory University's Robert W. Woodruff Library has acquired a collection of
previously lost papers of the American poet and novelist Robert Penn Warren.
The papers include correspondence with fellow writers as well as family
letters that cast new light on Warren's first marriage.
The documents were discovered in the basement of the Mitchell College
Library in New London, Conn., by the library's director, Barbara van der
Lyke, 30 years after they were placed there by the widower of Cinina Brescia
Gardner, Warren's first wife.




CNN.com 6/5/00
Online records becoming too public, Clinton official suggests
http://cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/05/too.public.records.idg/index.html

William Matthews
Federal Computer Week
IDG) -- The noble goal of free-flowing information in the Internet Age has
collided with the harsh reality of hackers, criminals and aggressive
marketers, President Clinton's privacy counselor, Peter Swire, said this
week.
Records that could be safely made available to the public in the form of
paper documents stored in courthouse file cabinets may not be suitable for
posting in electronic form on the Internet, Swire told an audience of law
enforcement and information technology specialists at the National
Conference on Privacy, Technology and Criminal Justice Information.
Bankruptcy records, which are substantially controlled by the federal
government, are of particular concern to the Clinton administration. At
present, they're public records and can be examined by anyone who goes to a
courthouse and requests to see them. They contain a wealth of personal
information, including financial worth, bank account and brokerage account
numbers, Social Security numbers, and other financial data.


Akron Beacon Journal 6/5/00
Elected officials won't release records of private phones
http://www.ohio.com/bj/news/ohio/docs/026945.htm

Associated Press
AKRON, Ohio (AP) -- Several elected state officials won't release records of
private phone lines in their offices that they said were used for campaign
and private business but not for fund raising.
The officials said logs for these phones and other records don't qualify
under Ohio's definition of public documents, the Akron Beacon Journal
reported Monday.


Akron Beacon Journal 6/5/00
Silence on phones in offices
State officials refuse to release records of calls on private/political
lines
http://www.ohio.com/bj/news/ohio/docs/024059.htm

by Doug Opliner and Dennis J. Willard
COLUMBUS: When an elected state official installs a private telephone in his
or her government office, how that phone is used is none of the public's
business, 11 officials said last week.
The officials were responding to a request from the Akron Beacon Journal
that they release information showing how the phones are used.
The private lines -- often called ``bat phones'' or ``white phones'' -- are
installed in offices of at least 13 top state officials, according to a
Beacon Journal survey. Most of the elected officials use campaign
contributions to pay for the phones.













Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Manager, Records Management
Woodside Summit Group, Inc
Richmond, Virginia
Tel: 804-744-1247 extension 23
Fax: 804-744-4947
mailto:peter.kurilecz@woodsidesummitgroup.com

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