RAIN (Records/Archives In the News) is a daily compilation of news
stories from around the world.
RULES on data disposal in force in US
Out-Law.com - UK
... According to the FTC this could include: burning, pulverising, or
shredding
papers; destroying or erasing electronic files or media; or conducting
due
...<http://www.out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=rulesondatadispos1117796873&area=news>
IRON Mountain's Immovable Shares
BusinessWeek - USA
... Would you lose the customer? Would you lose others? In May a Boston
company called Iron Mountain endured just such embarrassment. ...
<http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_24/b3937124_mz026.htm>
NEW Law Targeting Identity Theft, Affects Most Businesses
Baltimore Times - Baltimore,MD,USA
... The most secure, efficient, and economical method for any business
is to contract their document destruction needs with another party
engaged
in the business ...
<http://www.btimes.com/News/article/article.asp?NewsID=57865&sID=4>
HISTORY saved from hiding
Albany Times Union - Albany,NY,USA
... conference at the archives within the next few years. "There will be
a lot of opportunities to view these materials," said state archivist
Christine Ward, who ...
<http://www.timesunion.com/aspstories/story.asp?storyID=366576>
OH Henry: Fitz Hugh Lane was actually Fitz Henry Lane
Gloucester Daily Times - Gloucester,MA,USA
... Intrigued, the Gloucester Archives Committee took up he challenge.
In October, archivist Jane Walsh found a copy of a name-change petition
on the Internet. ...
<http://www.ecnnews.com/cgi-bin/04/g/gstory.pl?fn-gfitz03>
DISCOVERED: rock'n'roll's scratchy start
Age (subscription) - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... old 78s now being held at ScreenSound Australia's Canberra archives
were pressed ... ScreenSound archivist Dan Fernandez says the argument
about what constitutes ...
<http://www.theage.com.au/news/Music/Discovered-rocknrolls-scratchy-start/2005/06/03/1117568374677.html>
TAPE encryption: An obvious gap for Sun/StorageTek?
Inquirer - Harrow,Middlesex,UK
... to another are prone to being lost or stolen and that the
information
on those tapes should be encrypted is sound. Remember the Bank of
America
debacle which ...
<http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23702>
MAN at the heart of nation's history records
East African Standard - Nairobi,Kenya
... Mr George Mworia, the chief archivist in the Custodial Services
Department
at the Kenya National Archives, says archivists plan and oversee the
arrangement
...
<http://www.eastandard.net/mags/schoolcareer/articles.php?articleid=21845>
UT soon will get notes on Deep Throat
WFAA (subscription) - Dallas,TX,USA
... Now, however, those papers are fair game, and UT officials say they
expect them to arrive "at some point," said Ransom Center archivist
Steve
Mielke. ...
<http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/060305dntexwatergate.10c860199.html>
HOW managing documents better can help your business
Techworld.com - London,UK
... file drawer, pull out the appropriate records and return ... true
resources
for you and these files can then ... or suppliers to access specific
documents
through your ...
<
http://www.techworld.com/applications/features/index.cfm?FeatureID=1493>
PITTSBURGH judge says company must open doors to patient records
Penn Live - Harrisburg,PA,USA
... 15 and make arrangements for long-term storage of the documents. ...
the state believes the company has 200,000 medical records or files,
including
mammograms, X ...
<http://www.pennlive.com/newsflash/pa/index.ssf?/base/news-27/1117810349272730.xml&storylist=penn>
THE International Tracing Service -- 50 years on
noticias.info (press release) - Spain
... preserving and processing the personal records of civilians ...
contains
over 50 million reference files relating to ... The documents take up
25,000 metres of shelf ...
<http://www.noticias.info/asp/aspComunicados.asp?nid=71884&src=0>
GOOGLE'S long memory raises privacy concerns
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA
... At a time when libraries delete lending records as soon as a book is
returned, Google should purge its records after a certain point to
protect
users, they say ...
<http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/3209757>
A Gold Mine Of Naturalization Records In New England
ILW.com - New York,NY,USA
... Thanks to serendipity and some forward-thinking NARA archivists,
this
important collection still exists today for the use of all. ...
<http://www.ilw.com/lawyers/articles/2005,0603-hickey.shtm>
FOIA for Kenya
Toledo Blade - Toledo,OH,USA
KENYAN President Mwai Kibaki has promised to see to it that his country
has a freedom of information act. If his proposal becomes ...
<http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050603/OPINION02/506030305/-1/OPINION>
HISTORICAL Society races to save microfilm
Columbia Missourian - Columbia,MO,USA
... of acetic acid, which deteriorates the film and causes it to give
off
a vinegar odor, said Lisa Fox, senior conservator for the Missouri State
Archives. ...
<http://columbiamissourian.com/news/story.php?ID=14149>
COURT'S Ruling Should Relieve Document Retention Burden
Gartner - Stamford,CT,USA
... retention schedule that includes document life cycle management and
legal destruction. ... The principles of good records management haven't
changed in years ...
<http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?doc_cd=128225>
SUN shells out $4.1 billion for digital storage company
TheNewsTribune.com - Tacoma,WA,USA
Hoping to revive a business that still hasn't recovered from the
Internet
bust, Sun Microsystems Inc. agreed Thursday to buy Storage Technology
Corp. ...
<http://www.thenewstribune.com/business/story/4917727p-4504775c.html>
NATIONAL Archives National Personnel Records Center Releases ...
U.S. Newswire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
Contact: National Archives Public Affairs, 202-501-5526; or Bryan McGraw
of the National Personnel Records Center (St. Louis), 314-801-9132. ...
<http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=48321>
Web Services Pipeline, Thu, 02 Jun 2005 9:07 PM PDT
A Legacy Worth Keeping
http://www.webservicespipeline.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=163703128
Washington state preserves the past with E-archives.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Thu, 02 Jun 2005 10:24 PM PDT
Graduate donates rare books to MU
http://www.jsonline.com/enter/books/jun05/330780.asp
Thanks to a book-collecting alumnus, Marquette University's rare book
collection
will receive a first edition "Gulliver's Travels" this afternoon.
Sydney Morning Herald, Thu, 02 Jun 2005 9:30 AM PDT
Raising the data
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Management-Focus/Raising-the-data/2005/05/30/1117305545143.html
Aone extreme, data storage is all about dealing with exploding
quantities of digital landfill, such as the hundreds of employee
mailboxes containing
the same PowerPoint presentation everybody has forgotten about but
keeps anyway,
just in case.
Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
[log in to unmask]
|