RAIN (Records/Archives In the News) is a daily compilation of news 
stories from around the world.

WMU archivists sort soggy documents to preserve paper-company ...
Kalamazoo Gazette - Kalamazoo,MI,USA
... Department to continue sifting through files, photos and ... the WMU
Archives' interest in preserving the records. ... of moldy, dusty, 
water-stained
documents to pick ...
<http://www.mlive.com/news/kzgazette/index.ssf?/base/news-14/1121181642207210.xml>

CREATING a book from letters in the past
MidWeek - DeKalb,IL,USA
One of them, the Griffith Letters, so interested the assistant archivist
at Northern Illinois University that she was inspired to write a book
about it -- her ...
<http://www.midweeknews.com/local/articles/071305-past.html>

AN angry professor uses a state law to get colleagues' e-mail ...
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) - USA
... Like most states, Georgia has an open-records law, or "sunshine 
law,"
which allows anyone to receive copies of records created by public 
employees,
including ...
<http://chronicle.com/free/v51/i45/45a02001.htm>

THE Price of Canadian Heritage
Digital Copyright Canada - Canada
... While I know that it can get noisy in an HMV record store, surely 
the
Minister of Canadian Heritage can hear the cries of the archivists, 
historians,
and other ...
<http://www.digital-copyright.ca/node/view/985>

PublicTechnology.net
Tue, 12 Jul 2005 10:57 PM PDT
Irish Department of Defence to encrypt military personnel records
database http://www.publictechnology.net/article_avantgo.php?sid252
The Irish Department of Defence is putting in a database encryption
solution to protect military personnel records and sensitive inventory 
information,
within its Oracle E-Business Suite and database.


JUDGES cite concerns in Quattrone case
International Herald Tribune - France
... that he was never told which documents were covered by the subpoenas
and that the company's lawyers never suspended the firm's document 
retention
policy, as ...
<http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/07/13/business/quattrone.php>

BAKBONE Encrypts Backup Data
socalTech.com - Thousand Oaks,CA,USA
... increasingly looking to encrypt the backup data for protection 
against
lost or stolen tapes, and as reports of the Bank of America losing tapes
containing the ...
<http://www.socaltech.com/story/0002164.html>

MEDICAL firm's files stolen
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... "If people's information had been included on the tapes, then they
would have received or will receive a letter from ... Citigroup Inc.,
Bank of America Corp. ...
<http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/business/articles/0713biodyne13.html>

RECOVERED JFK Cuba map to go on display at library
Reuters - USA
... 16, 1962, according to Allan Goodrich, the library's chief 
archivist.
... The National Archives and Records Administration, which operates 
Kennedy's
library and ...
<http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2005-07-13T184803Z_01_N13231736_RTRIDST_0_USREPORT-LIFE-KENNEDY-ARTIFACTS-DC.XML>

COOKING up HISTORY
Santa Fe New Mexican - Santa Fe,NM,USA
... in the New Mexico State Records Center and Archives. I had bumped 
into
a group of humanities scholars touring the center's vault. Archivist 
Felicia
Lujan was ...
<http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/30061.html>

ACT now to save archives
Gloucester Daily Times - Gloucester,MA,USA
The city's archives, which date to at least its incorporation in 1642,
if not a few years earlier, could be the longest uninterrupted set of
municipal records ...
<http://www.ecnnews.com/cgi-bin/04/g/gstory.pl?fn-gedit12>


Los Angeles Times
Michael Hiltzik:
Golden State
Turning Your Life Into Bits, Indexed
'I think we've got the Memex dream down," Gordon Bell told me when I 
greeted him at Microsoft Corp.'s downtown San Francisco laboratory.
<http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-golden11jul11,1,6949080.column?coll=la-utilities-business&ctrack=1&cset=true>

PJSTAR.com
Cat is in a mood to hire
New Deere book is out
Like Caterpillar, Deere and Co. is the subject of many books about its 
history.
The newest, "The John Deere Story: A Biography of Plowmakers John and 
Charles Deere," (Northern Illinois University Press) recently hit 
bookshelves in the area and its authors will be signing them at Borders 
stores throughout Illinois, Iowa and Missouri.
<http://www.pjstar.com/stories/071205/PAU_B6V6IVU0.027.shtml>

New York Times
Keeper of Expired Web Pages Is Sued Because Archive Was Used in Another 
Suit
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/13/technology/13suit.html?ex=1278907200&en=377b4b470d4593e0&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>

BACKUP Encryption Mulled
Byteandswitch.com - New York,NY,USA
... Even if one or two tapes are lost, the impact can be devastating. 
Just
ask Time Warner or City National Bank (see A Tale of Lost Tapes and 
Choice
Bits). ...
<http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=77157&WT.svl=news1_3>

LIBRARY Gets Control of Items From Kennedy's Presidency
New York Times - New York,NY,USA
... In the late 1960's Mr. White wrote Mrs. Lincoln, who worked at the
National Archives cataloging Mr. Kennedy's presidential items; she 
suggested
they have lunch ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/14/national/14jfk.html>

MISSING JFK artifacts arrive at presidential Library
Worcester Telegram (subscription) - Worcester,MA,USA
BOSTON-- Several artifacts from John F. Kennedy's presidency have 
arrived
at the Kennedy Library and Museum in Boston, including a piece of wood
from the ...
<http://www.telegram.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050713/APN/507131315>

The following article is written by an IT person, if you read the 
article note her recommendation in the final paragraphs. PAK
TALKING Tech
Richmond.com - Richmond,VA,USA
... Records must be retrievable, authentic and accurate. ... human 
intervention,
by using technology to set and enforce policies for data storage and 
destruction.
...
<http://www.richmond.com/sci-tech/output.aspx?Article_ID=3774126&Vertical_ID=127&tier=1&position=6>

HOME computer records exemption passes Senate
Coos Bay World - Coos Bay,OR,USA
By Charles E. Beggs, Associated Press Writer. SALEM - A bill barring the
disclosure of some personal data on public water system ...
<http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2005/07/13/news/news13.txt>

EU must be reserved about telecom data retention
Telecom Paper (subscription) - Houten,Netherlands
EDRI expects the UK Presidency to table a new urgent procedure for the
proposal on telecommunication data retention, bypassing the European 
Commission
and the ...
<http://www.telecom.paper.nl/site/news_ta.asp?type=abstract&id=88094>




Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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