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

LIBRARY opens archive doors
Pioneer Times - Wayne,NJ,USA
... been an archivist for WPU for 16 years, as well as special 
collections
librarian to the Cheng Library and a member of the University Archives
Committee, which ...
<http://www.pioneertimeswpu.com/news/2005/05/17/CampusNews/Library.Opens.
Archive.Doors-951040.shtml>

AFTER the storm
Biloxi Sun Herald - MS, USA
... He said Mississippi Department of Archives and History took a load
of ... Charles Sullivan is the Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
Archivist and the MGCCC ...
<http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/12636031.htm>

400 NY Court Volunteers Set to Aid Hurricane Victims
Texas Lawyer (subscription) - TX,USA
... Mississippi hinge on retrieving or recreating vital documents, the
New York court official most likely to head south is Rick Hogan, OCA's
chief records manager ...
<http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1126528532927>

IRVING, Texas A&M Join Race For Bush Library
NBC5i.com - Ft. Worth,TX,USA
... The Bryan-College Station Eagle filed an open records request for a
copy of the plan, but had not received a response by late Tuesday. ...
<http://www.nbc5i.com/education/4970908/detail.html>

ARCHIVESONE of Waterbury buys Pennsylvania firm
Waterbury Republican American - Waterbury,CT,USA
... ArchivesOne, a privately held records storage company headquartered
on Watertown Avenue, said it acquired Reagent Information Storage of 
Exton,
Pa., a suburban ...
<http://www.rep-am.com/story.php?id=27263>

RECORDER'S office to use digital files
Tracy Press - Tracy,CA,USA
The Board of Supervisors authorized the county to transfer all of the 
office's
records from microfilm to a digital image format. ...
<http://www.tracypress.com/local/2005-09-14-files.php>

DATABASE cleaning destroyed one million tax records, says report
Out-Law.com - London,England,UK
... By that time, however, almost one million records had been 
incorrectly
deleted, meaning that ... for at least 10 years, and had been deleting
live files since its ...
<http://www.out-law.com/page-6121>

DUTCH to open electronic files on children
Miami Herald - FL,USA
... 1, 2007, all citizens will be tracked from cradle to grave in a 
single
database - including health, education, family and police records - the
health ministry ...
<http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/12635984.htm>

MARKEY files legislation to protect privacy of personal data ...
Boston Globe - United States
... noted two instances in India and Pakistan where workers for US-based
medical firms or centers threatened to release confidential medical 
records
online unless ...
<http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2005/09/14/markey_files_legislat
ion_to_protect_privacy_of_personal_data_overseas>

RECORDS Lost in the Storm
KRNV - Reno,NV,USA
... There are thousands of court files stored in the basement. Some are
backed up on micro-film, but there are no current backups for records
from 1993 to 1999. ...
<http://www.krnv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3846333&nav=8faOeUIE>

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>

NAZI gold to UFOs - National Archives frees information
Silicon.com - UK
... life. It is the oldest record held at the National Archives (NA) 
today
and one of millions of historic documents stored there. There ...
<http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39152248,00.htm>


E-MAIL Archiving - A key piece to a compliance strategy
CTR - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... these policies requires knowledge of the requirements for data 
retention
that are ... then be in a position to deliver a solution design document
with recommended ...
<http://www.wwpi.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=256&Itemid=44>


RMAA praised for its "vital role" in raising RM standards
IDM.net.au - Strawberry Hills,NSW,Australia
Sep 14, 2005: As the 22nd Annual RMAA (Records Management Association of
Australasia) International Convention drew to a close, the event 
organisers
came in ...
<http://www.idm.net.au/story.asp?id=6669>

CORRECTIVE Services locks up disparate records
Computerworld Australia - Australia
... director of information management Peter Konstantin said the 
solution,
Trim Context, will replace fragmented and disparate records management
practices. ...
<http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;995644217;fp;16;fpid;0>

9 Islanders tell their story for oral-history project
Staten Island Advance - Staten Island,NY,USA
... Archivist James Kaser of the College of Staten Island is planning to
archive the histories and make them available to researchers, while 
Professor
Lori ...
<http://www.silive.com/news/advance/index.ssf?/base/news/1126703713269510
.xml&coll=1>

OMNIRIM'S eConnector for FileNet P8 Provides Unified Records ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
... between OmniRIM's advanced physical records management solution and
FileNet Corporation's (Nasdaq: FILE - News) industry-leading Records 
Manager
suite, part of ...
<http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050914/law100.html?.v=21>

Arizona Daily Star, Wed, 14 Sep 2005 0:12 AM PDT
Lawyer: Educate records-keepers
http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/news/93298.php
TEMPE - The only way to ensure the public has access to public records
is to educate the people who keep them, an attorney said Tuesday during 
a
round-table discussion of public records. Attorney


CBS News, Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:00 AM PDT
Getting Documents After Disasters
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/09/14/earlyshow/series/main845019.sht

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Among the many problems faced by victims of Hurricane Katrina is that
important papers may be gone.  Ray Martin  has advice on which ones to 
try to get
first and how to do it. Also, his tips are useful for everyone, not just
Katrina's displaced.




Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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