RAIN (Records/Archives In the News) is a daily compilation of news
stories from around the world.
LESSONS from the dead: Backup, backup and print
USA Today - USA
... t need to protect our digitized physical objects the way we had to
protect things like paper burial records and album ... I save my images
as TIFF files instead of ...
<http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/andrewkantor/2005-05-20-kantor_x.htm>
FBI, DA's office review expunged records
AL.com - Birmingham,AL,USA
... office have subpoenaed hundreds of expunged Mobile Municipal Court
files that remain ... A short perusal of one year's records did not
yield
anything "out of hand ...
<http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/111658069270060.xml&coll=3>
FACE document challenges head-on with on-site management
ITWeb - South Africa
... With a well-managed document environment, organisations benefit from
being able to access documents, files and information immediately; they
can track the ...
<http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/techforum/2005/0505200835.asp?A=HOME&O=FPW>
MORRIS gets $1.4M to preserve historic records
Parsippany Daily Record - Parsippany,NJ,USA
Morris County will get $1.4 million to begin a program to preserve
public
records, including historic records now stored in local warehouse. ...
<http://www.dailyrecord.com/midday/midday1-update0519.htm>
SCOPE of bank data theft grows to 676,000 customers
ComputerWorld - USA
... Lembo, who police said was the kingpin of the operation, saved
electronic
records of all his transactions, including payments he made to the
former
bank ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/cybercrime/story/0,10801,101903,00.html>
OLD family secrets revealed online
Guardian Unlimited - UK
... Those logging on can buy pre-paid credits at the cost of £6.99 to
view 20 pages from Ancestry.co.uk which works with the National
Archives
on the project. ...
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1488265,00.html>
SHORE gets $3M grant for recordkeeping
Asbury Park Press - Asbury Park,NJ,USA
... by county and municipal governments, New Jersey Secretary of State
Regena L. Thomas announced grants Thursday from the state's Public
Archives
and Records ...
<http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050520/NEWS01/505200417/1004>
CITY to Track Employees' Internet Use
WBNS - Colombus,OH,USA
... A subsequent audit of the employee's computer records confirmed that
he regularly spent long periods surfing the Web, including 9 ½ hours
one workday. ...
<http://www.10tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3370988>
PURPORTED will of Mormon pioneer to be sold at auction
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
... "A lot of times, clerks would make more copies for themselves or
others,"
said Val Wilson, patron service archivist with the Utah State Archives.
...
<http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/11696360.htm>
TRANSPORTATION Department Shredding Memo Never Went Out
WTVQ - Lexington,KY,USA
... comes after a Transportation Department memo, that mentions
shredding
personnel information ... Attorney General's office showed up to
confiscate
records - he says ...
<http://www.wtvq.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WTVQ/MGArticle/TVQ_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031782828012&path=>
SPECIAL Report: Trashing Your Identity
HomeTown channel.com - Fort Smith,AR,USA
... Because most of the documents in the courthouse are public records,
Butler said, anyone ... is teaming up with Shredmax once again for a
major
shredding event that ...
<http://www.thehometownchannel.com/news/4512392/detail.html>
STATE provides $25 million to preserve pages of history
Newark Star Ledger - Newark,NJ,USA
... records. Morris: $136,675 for microfilming and records preservation
and $162,741 to pay for a records manager and records analyst. ...
<http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/firstglance/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1116552634163960.xml>
HIPAA and SOX: What You Need To Know
Enterprise Storage Forum - Darien,CT,USA
... way of ensuring that critical data is always available, but as
recent
tape losses at Bank of America and other have shown, shipping tapes
without
having the ...
<http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/continuity/features/article.php/3506751>
DOCUMENT-SHREDDING policy shelved
Kentucky.com - Lexington,KY,USA
... On Monday, Nighbert also sent a directive to Cabinet employees
urging
them to cooperate with investigators and not to destroy any personnel
files. ...
<http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/11692471.htm>
IBM Looks To 'Viper' Database to Combat Oracle, Microsoft
Information Week - USA
... This obviates the need for shredding. ... of corporate data is
unstructured--think
of all those Word or WordPerfect documents, e-forms, PDF files and
content
...
<http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=163106288>
BLUE lasers, BioGlass create backup blues
Search Enterprise Linux - USA
... MSE's scientists had to use more than a gigabyte of data to create
blue lasers, which enable 30 times the digital storage of the original
red laser CD, or ...
<http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1089996,00.html>
SAVING the Historical Record
Inside Higher Ed - Washington,DC,USA
... An intense lobbying campaign by historians and archivists appears to
be paying off, however, and there is now optimism that the NHPRC, as it
is called, will ...
<http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/05/20/records>
INFORMATION, please
Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Sarasota,FL,USA
... In 2003, the Heritage Foundation reviewed FOIA requests for six
months
at four agencies -- the General Services Administration, Department of
Transportation ...
<http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050520/OPINION/505200517/1030>
PROVIDING public documents core duty of government, panelists say ...
Port Angeles Peninsula Daily News - Port Angeles,WA,USA
... Overstreet, who was a member of a four-person panel on access to
public
documents, said the best guideline for public agencies when it comes to
public records ...
<http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/sited/story/html/207488>
The Scotsman, Fri, 20 May 2005 5:21 AM PDT
Just for the record, university wins award
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=553462005
THE University of Edinburgh has received the Records Management Society
Award
2005.
The Signal, Thu, 19 May 2005 7:08 PM PDT
School Finds Bogus COC Transcripts
http://www.the-signal.com/News/ViewStory.asp?storyID=7168
College of the Canyons officials are scrutinizing more than 1,000
graduating students’ records after another community college discovered
forged
COC transcripts among its files last week.
BusinessWeek, Thu, 19 May 2005 3:12 PM PDT
Hacker Hunters
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_22/b3935001_mz001.htm?campaign_id=rss_magzn
An elite force takes on the dark side of computing
Deseret News, Thu, 19 May 2005 11:30 PM PDT
Young's will is on the block
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,600135387,00.html
Brigham Young's last will and testament designated that $25 from his
estate was to be paid each month per wife. Now, the original will of
the pioneer
LDS leader could be selling for significantly more than that stipend
— a
thousand times more.
Galveston County Daily News, Thu, 19 May 2005 10:04 PM PDT
Collections highlight island s history
http://www.galvnews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=9a966db5b48ad54d
GALVESTON The Rosenberg Library s Galveston and Texas History Center
recently opened several small collections for research. Library
officials said
the collections bring to life Galveston s social history as well as
commemorate past
natural disasters.
Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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