Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories 
related to records and archives management.

INSURANCE contractor improperly destroyed claim files, audit shows
Pioneer Press - St. Paul,MN,USA
... The files' destruction violated state rules on retaining records and
delayed the legislative audit by one year as some 800 local governments
and the Office of ...
<http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/news/local/13016453.htm>

DISTRICT clerk, storage firm at odds over documents
Monitor - McAllen,TX,USA
... $6,000, Quiroga said. The staff gradually barcodes documents as they
come into the office because many files are in storage, he said. ...
<http://www.themonitor.com/SiteProcessor.cfm?Template=/GlobalTemplates/De
tails.cfm&StoryID=9853&Section=Valley>

BUDGET files damaged in DBM fire
Tempo - Manila,Philippines
... few others. Last month, fire broke out at the Bureau of Immigration
(BI) in Intramuros, Manila, destroying pertinent documents.
<http://www.tempo.com.ph/news.php?aid=17630>

CHANNEL Viewpoint: Active archiving is not an oxymoron
eChannelLine - North York,Ontario,Canada
... The identification process eases data retention processes such as 
automatically
deleting a document on a prescribed date as well as facilitating the 
compliance
...
<http://www.integratedmar.com/ECL.cfm?item=DLY102705-1>

SUN Gets Secretive on Storage
Byteandswitch.com - New York,NY,USA
... Earlier this year, for example, Time Warner made headlines when a 
truckload
of backup tapes containing information on hundreds of thousands of 
employees
went ...
<http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=83288&WT.svl=news2_1>

RECORDS sought by Nike could be lost
OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA
... Nike officials, who learned of the destruction Thursday, said the 
loss
of documents violates a judge's order to preserve the records. ...
<http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/front_page/1130
495466123380.xml&coll=7>


CLEVELAND law firm plays part in PwC settlement
Crain's Cleveland Business - Cleveland,OH,USA
... The lawsuit alleged that PwC destroyed documents related to its 
financial
audits of Fairlawn-based Telxon, a maker of scanner and handheld 
computers.
...
<http://www.crainscleveland.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051028/FREE/
51028003/1006&Profile=1006>

SURVEY Released About Preservation and Retention of E-Mail and ...
Government Technology - Folsom,CA,USA
... Over half (53%) do not include electronic records in their legal 
hold
orders associated with regulatory inquiries and litigation -- leaving
open the ...
<http://www.govtech.net/magazine/channel_story.php/97083>

STEPHEN Benowitz
Federal Times - USA
... effort. "Electronic records are a lot better, they're a lot safer,
because you can back them up a lot easier," Benowitz said. ...
< http://federaltimes.com/index2.php?S=1208947>

WHEN Not Re-Formatting is the Function: The Electronic Records ...
EContent (press release) - Wilton,CT,USA
... than $300 million to Lockheed Martin to construct the Electronic 
Records
Archives (ERA) to ... The archivist will be able to enter data regarding
which format the ...
<http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=14440>

ARCHIVISTS work to save parish sacramental records from mold ...
Catholic News Service - USA
... Charles Nolan, archivist for the New Orleans Archdiocese, and his 
counterpart
in the Baton ... a safe place, those records have come here" to the 
archives
at the ...
<http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0506159.htm>

ARCHIVES building delay unacceptable
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... I would be happy to lead a recall to remove them from office for 
attempting
to derail the construction of a new state archives building. ...
<http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/articles/1028frilets28
2.html>


OI archives find home at U of Toledo library
Toledo Blade - Toledo,OH,USA
... Barbara Floyd, director of the university's Ward M. Canaday Center
for Special Collections, said the OI archives will join those of the 
former
Libbey-Owens ...
<http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051028/BUSINESS03/51
0280348/-1 /BUSINESS>

CALL for return of Wallace letter
BBC News - UK
... on display. He urged the National Library of Scotland, Scottish 
Museums
and National Archives to join his campaign. The paperwork ...
< http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4385544.stm>

VIEWS mixed on electronic medical records
Portland Business Journal - Portland,OR,USA
Leaders of Portland's hospitals are confident enough about the promise
of electronic medical records to invest millions into implementing the
technology and ...
<http://portland.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2005/10/24/daily42.html
?jst=b_ln_hl>

CALL for returning Wallace document
Scotsman - United Kingdom
... The document currently rests in the National Archives at Kew. 
However,
Mather is calling on the National Library of Scotland along ...
<http://heritage.scotsman.com/news.cfm?id=2160732005>

KOREA'S Official Seal Still Missing
Donga - Seoul,South Korea
The National Archives and Records Service (NARS) has been searching for
the first Seal of State of the Republic of Korea (ROK) since the end of
last year, but ...
<http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?bicode=040000&biid=20051029721
08>

PROJECT breaks ground on modernized storage
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
  ... So the National Archives and Records Administration broke ground 
Thursday
on a $12 million, 204,000-square-foot regional Federal Records Center
in southeast ...
<http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/13020068.htm>

Q&A with Elizabeth West; Library archivist
The State - Columbia,SC,USA
West works with the South Caroliniana Library on USC's Horseshoe -- 
which
has more than USC artifacts inside. West describes ...
<http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/entertainment/13012102.htm>

RECOVERY AND RESTORATION
Monterey County Herald - Monterey,CA,USA
... The documents stay in those chambers for seven days ... companies in
need of recovering indispensable files, some are ... of property sales
and other records from a ...
<http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/business/13020169.htm>

E-MAIL : The unknown liability
Spokane Journal of Business - Spokane,WA,USA
... So, even if the writer and the recipient both delete an e-mail, it
... IM (instant messaging), blog, and Internet content creates written
business records that are ...
<http://www.spokanejournal.com/spokane_id=article&sub=2558>

NIKE and the 'confidential memo'
OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA
... Nike's galloping paranoia. The memo also may have violated more than
the spirit of Oregon's Open Records Law. The statute lists ...
<http://www.oregonlive.com/editorials/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/editorial
/113049163542650.xml&coll=7>

SECRETS sold: 'I did it for the money'
Honolulu Advertiser - Honolulu,HI,USA
... information and material both verbally and in papers, computer 
presentations
... During the search, federal agents seized classified documents dating
from Gowadia's ...
<http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051028/NE
WS01/510280366/1001/NEWS>

What, where and how long? The issues of archiving e-mail
 By Brian Eastwood, Assistant Editor
17 Oct 2005 | SearchDomino.com
<http://searchdomino.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid4_gci1134
807,00.html>

The Herald Democrat 10/26
Questions hanging over a missing file
By Jerrie Whiteley
Herald Democrat
<http://www.heralddemocrat.com/articles/2005/10/26/local_news/news01.txt>


ComputerWorld
SNW: Users concerned about data security, encryption
Better data oversight is a must, they say
<http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/storage/story/0,10801,105745
,00.html?>

Spokane Journal of Business
Finding storage room for expanding gobs of data
Companies buy beefier servers, off-site space to contain spiraling 
growth
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Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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