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

IRON Mountain Accredited for .EU Domains
WebHosting.Info - San Francisco,CA,USA
Iron Mountain Incorporated, a provider of records and information 
management
services, yesterday announced that its Intellectual Property Management
business ...
<http://www.webhosting.info/news/1/iron-mountain-accredited-for-.eu-domai
ns_0913058714.htm>

MEDICAL files lost
Independent Florida Alligator - Gainesville,FL,USA
WASHINGTON (AP) - One oncologist evacuated flooded New Orleans clutching
a laptop computer with some patients' records, another threw some paper
charts in her ...
<http://www.alligator.org/pt2/050913ap2.php>

RADIOLOGY records available at Good Samaritan Hospital
The Journal News.com - Westchester,NY,USA
... But the hospital is asking people who don't need their records right
away to wait until it can transfer the files, Marshall said. ...
<http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050913/NEWS03
/509130365/1019>

PDF/ARCHIVE Secures ISO Approval
ArriveNet (press release) - Castle Rock,CO,USA
... generic PDF 1.4 files, and should allow information to be retained
longer as PDF," said Susan Sullivan of the US National Archives and 
Records
Administration. ...
<http://press.arrivenet.com/tec/article.php/692384.html>

DATABASE for audit panel to cost city $727,500
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
... More than 10 million pages of scanned and digital documents, 
including
e-mails, spreadsheets, presentations and word-processing files, will be
compiled in an ...
<http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20050913-9999-1m13docs.html>

IRVING Officials Back University of Dallas Plans for Presidential ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
13, 2005--As Irving-based University of Dallas prepares to submit its 
proposal
for the George W. Bush Presidential Library, Irving officials have put
their ...
<http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news
_view&newsId=20050913005818&newsLang=en>

NARROWING public-records law
Toledo Blade - Toledo,OH,USA
WHEN it comes to public records, the Ohio Supreme Court giveth and it 
taketh
away. While the state's high court has in recent years ...
<http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050913/OPINION02/509
130314/-1/OPINION>

STUDY: Journalists face long FOIA delays
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
... The top hurricane reporter of The Times-Picayune of New Orleans 
filed
a request under the federal Freedom of Information Act, asking for any
reports on spills ...
<http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?category=1
155&slug=FOIA%20Delays>

E-MAIL Archiving - A key piece to a compliance strategy
CTR - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... Government agencies, too, must archive e-mail messages to comply 
with
regulations set by the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the Patriot
Act, and other ...
<http://www.wwpi.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=256&Itemid=44>


FILENET to Showcase Records and Email Management Solutions at ARMA ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
... The differentiator in FileNet Records Manager is its ZeroClick 
technology,
which is designed to enforce records management policies at the 
technology
layer ...
<http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050913/latu061.html?.v=24>

NSW Department of Corrective Services turns to TOWER
IDM.net.au - Strawberry Hills,NSW,Australia
Fragmented document management and records management systems are set to
be united at the NSW Department of Corrective Services to increase 
access
to ...
< http://www.idm.net.au/story.asp?id=6665>

EVOCATIVE recount of post-911 New York captivates RMAA audience
IDM.net.au - Strawberry Hills,NSW,Australia
... and their lives back together in the wake of the 9-11 attacks 
captivated
delegates on the second day of the 22nd RMAA (Records Management 
Association
of ...
<http://www.idm.net.au/story.asp?id=6666>


HI tech students hold history in their hands
News Wales - Knighton,UK
... Kevin Matthias, County Archivist and Heritage Officer, said: "It's
an exciting and innovative project which helps everybody involved in it.
<http://www.newswales.co.uk/?section=Education&F=1&id=7904>

E-MAIL Archiving is a "Win-Win" Proposition
CTR - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... have been given mailbox quotas to force them to delete unneeded or
... have the flexibility to access critical and historical business 
correspondence
and records. ...
< 
http://www.wwpi.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=254&Itemid=44>

DIGITAL Again
Government Technology - Folsom,CA,USA
... to be a second wave of government agencies converting records to 
digital
images, finding it easier to turn stacks of paper documents into digital
files. ...
<http://www.govtech.net/magazine/story.php?id=96471>

TAKING documents digital
IT AsiaOne - Singapore,Singapore
 ... as TIFF (tagged image file format) files, one of ... allow users to
search the database for specific records. ... For example, while 
documents
may need to be scanned ...
<http://it.asia1.com.sg/newsdaily/news001_20050914.html>

ON the short side of a 7-0 opinion
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA
... Court of Appeals, which found that even though all of the e-mails 
were
public records subject to disclosure under the state's open records act,
there exists a ...
<http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/opinion/article/0,1299,DRMN_38_407
5508,00.html>

AUTOMATED Tape Storage for Check Image Archival
CTR - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... Significant among these challenges is the topic of archival. Each 
major
check image application has a critical archival component ...
<http://www.wwpi.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=319&Itemid=44>


COULD compliance nix VOIP?
Techworld.com - London,UK
... It could easily mean that there will be a significant increase in 
the
 need for archival storage systems to store VOIP-related sessions. ...
<http://www.techworld.com/storage/features/index.cfm?featureid=1769&inkc=
0>

EXPERTS: Electronic medical records could have aided evacuees
SHRM Magazine - Alexandria,VA,USA
... A database of electronic records "would have been useful" for 
emergency
medical workers trying to administer care to people displaced by 
Katrina,
said ...
<http://www.shrm.org/hrnews_published/CMS_014078.asp>

KATRINA highlights need for electronic health records
CNN - USA
... The project, still developing three weeks after the disaster, 
underscores
the glaring reality that the hurricane destroyed medical records of 
untold
numbers of ...
<http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/09/13/katrina.health.records.ap/>

BOADICEA Basher? Meet Edward Evil
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
... Rene Jackaman, an archivist, started the list after discovering the
name Horatio ... Other unusual names to emerge from the archives include
Susan Booze, Edward ...
  
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/09/13/names13.
xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/09/13/ixportal.html>

MORBID Museum of Health and Medicine fleshes out history
News-Leader.com - Springfield,MO,USA
... preserve a very specialized version of American history," said 
Michael
Rhode, chief archivist. ... Its archives hold clues for historians, 
investigators
and lawyers ...
<http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050913/LIFE04/50
9130310/1035>

4 more Butte residents charged in embezzlement scheme
Billings Gazette - MT, USA
... of the scheme until earlier this month, when Department of Revenue
employees discovered the internal theft while transferring computer 
records
from their old ...
<http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?tl=1&display=rednews/2005/09/13
/build/state/90-embezzlement.inc>

SIDS protect against identity theft
Yale Daily News - USA
... In March, the Social Security numbers of 98,000 University of 
California,
Berkeley students were stolen during the theft of a campus laptop 
computer,
a UC ...
<http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=29793>

EU stumps Clarke data retention plan
Register - London,England,UK
UK home secretary Charles Clarke failed to get agreement to his 
proposals
for an EU-wide data retention regime at an informal meeting of EU 
justice
and home ...
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/13/eu_data_retention/>

The Natchez Democrat, Mon, 12 Sep 2005 10:17 PM PDT
Couple recounts stories of escape, reunion from aftermath: Chuck's
story
http://www.natchezdemocrat.com/articles/2005/09/13/news/news20.txt
While Gayle Nolan packed the car to travel to Long Beach, her husband,
Dr. Charles "Chuck" Nolan, archivist for the Archdiocese of New Orleans,
went to the Ursuline Convent in the French Quarter to prepare as best 
he could for
an approaching storm.

The Natchez Democrat, Mon, 12 Sep 2005 10:17 PM PDT
 Couple recounts stories of escape, reunion from aftermath: Gayle's
story
http://www.natchezdemocrat.com/articles/2005/09/13/news/news19.txt
On opposite sides of the great swath cut by Hurricane Katrina, Dr.
Charles "Chuck" Nolan and his wife, Gayle Nolan, tell equally compelling
stories.

The News & Advance, Mon, 12 Sep 2005 9:37 AM PDT
Documents of death
http://www.newsadvance.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=LNA/MGArticle/LNA_B

asicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031785014580&path=
A city's history is told not only through how its citizens lived, but
  also how they died. For that reason, a "permanent loan" of historical 
records
 from Diuguid Funeral Service (the second oldest funeral home in 
continuous
operation in the country) has Old City Cemetery staff excited.

Washington Post, Wed, 14 Sep 2005 3:50 AM PDT
Lockheed to Lead Archives Project
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/11/AR2005091

101019.html?nav=rss_technology/techpolicy
The National Records and Archives Administration has responsibility for
the billions of electronic records that federal agencies produce 
annually,
including architectural plans for federal buildings, weapons systems 
designs,
White House e-mails, and memos from every department and agency.


New Scientist, Tue, 13 Sep 2005 7:38 AM PDT
New Orleans will struggle to identify its dead
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7992&feedId=online-news_rss20

Lost dental records, scattered relatives and bodies swiftly decomposing
in warm, infested waters is making identification a daunting process


Market Wire via Yahoo! Finance, Tue, 13 Sep 2005 8:00 AM PDT
PDF/Archive Secures ISO Approval
http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/050913/095179.html
AIIM The Enterprise Content Management Association and NPES The
Association for Suppliers of Printing, Publishing and Converting 
Technologies today
announced that the International Organization for Standardization has 
approved
PDF/Archive.




Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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