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

Disaster Recovery: Power Up
"Monday was not a good day." That's how Ray Johnson, CIO of
New Orleans-based Entergy, remembers Aug. 29, 2005--the day
Hurricane Katrina hammered the Gulf Coast. And he would see
darker days. But he and his team would also see success, as
they struggled against the odds to restore electric power
to more than a million customers. Read his account.
http://www.cio.com/go/index.html?ID=7022&PMID=33548082&s=1&f=1

CommsDesign, Thu, 15 Sep 2005 3:10 PM PDT
OmniRIM's eConnector for FileNet P8 Provides Unified Records Management
Solution
for Regulatory Compliance
http://www.commsdesign.com/press_releases/prnewswire/showPressRelease.jht

ml?&CompanyId=1&HeadlineId=X367800

Casper Star-Tribune, Tue, 20 Sep 2005 1:04 AM PDT
Former State Museum manager sues
http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2005/09/20/news/wyoming/d7dde0a

b3d0d4f758725708100826425.txt
CHEYENNE -- The former program manager of the State Museum claims she
was transferred to a nonexistent job in Laramie with no work, no phone, 
no
computer and no supervisor in order to force her resignation, according 
to a
civil rights lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Cheyenne.

PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance, Thu, 22 Sep 2005 5:00 AM PDT
FileNet to Highlight Risks of Non-Compliance With Records Management
Regulations During Nationwide Mock Trial Tour
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050922/lath030.html?.v=27
q?s=file&d=t">

Sydney Morning Herald, Thu, 22 Sep 2005 7:05 AM PDT
Lessons of the Domesday project
http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/lessons-of-the-domesday-project/200

5/09/22/1126982184212.html
There is probably no more dramatic example of the risk involved in
relying on digital records than that of the BBC's Domesday Book project.


Press-Citizen, Wed, 21 Sep 2005 9:51 AM PDT
UI preservation expert headed to Gulf Coast
http://www.press-citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050921/NEWS01/5

0921001/1079/RSS01
The conservator from the preservation department of the University of
Iowa Libraries is headed to Mississippi to help preserve historic books 
and
artifacts damaged by Katrina.

IT-Analysis, Mon, 19 Sep 2005 11:10 PM PDT
The Mining of the Invisible Web
http://www.it-analysis.com/article.php?articleid=12903&
Yahoo, Google, and other major search engine companies have estimated
there are between 8 and 20 billion documents on the web. It isn't so. 
The truth
is that the web is home to more than 500 billion web based documents 
that have
thus far been unreachable by today's crop of search engines.

KTLA 5, Mon, 19 Sep 2005 0:04 AM PDT
Caltech Mines a Rich Trove of Voices From the Past
http://ktla.trb.com/news/local/la-me-caltech19sep19,0,4257530.story?coll=

ktla-news-1
An oral history project offers insights into the lives of top U.S.
scientists with ties to the campus. Ever heard the story about Albert 
Einstein and
the Long Beach earthquake of 1933?

Sydney Morning Herald, Thu, 22 Sep 2005 7:04 AM PDT
The digital Dark Age
http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/the-digital-dark-age/2005/09/22/112

6982184206.html
Dark age the Powerhouse Museum's Matthew Connell with an ancient
clay tablet that will probably outlive the 1980s tape in his right 
hand. The
quicker we are to record and store our lives in digital form, the 
bleaker the future
of information looks, writes John Huxley.

Brandon Sun, Thu, 22 Sep 2005 7:13 AM PDT
Some experts think digital craze could be dark age
http://www.brandonsun.com/story.php?story_id=4542
TORONTO Did your parents keep volumes of books filled with embarrassing
baby photos? Do you have a pic from your sweet 16? Your first car? Some
experts think today s babies might not be so lucky now that the 
snapshot generation
has gone digital


PR Web, Fri, 23 Sep 2005 0:06 AM PDT
Lorman Education Services Presents "Document Retention And Destruction"
Seminar
November 8, 2005. http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/9/prweb288226.htm
This "Document Retention And Destruction" seminar will not only provide
organizations with guidelines on how to establish a records management
program, it will provide those guidelines for electronic and other 
formats.

The Clarion-Ledger, Fri, 16 Sep 2005 3:13 AM PDT
Reconstructing records after disaster possible
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050916/BIZ/5091

60337/1005
WASHINGTON â?" Following Hurricane Katrina, we're all being told to do
some disaster planning. Create an evacuation box that contains your key
personal documents, experts say.

National Catholic Reporter, Tue, 20 Sep 2005 9:20 AM PDT
Stumbling upon Guatemala's past
http://ncronline.org/NCR_Online/archives2/2005c/092305/092305t.htm
In late July, human rights workers in Guatemala stumbled onto an
enormous cache of documents believed to contain the details of that 
country's brutal
36-year civil war that ended with the signing of peace accords in 1996.

PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance, Tue, 20 Sep 2005 6:00 AM PDT
MDY Expands its Offering of Federated RM(TM) to Manage Corporate Silos
of Content http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050920/cltu509.html?.v=9
MDY, ., today announced that the Federated RM methodology can 
accelerate time to market and reduce costs
associated with managing multi-repositories while helping organizations
centralize their records and compliance management programs across the
Enterprise.

Intranet Journal, Mon, 19 Sep 2005 8:42 AM PDT
Interwoven Puts Records Management Front and Center
http://www.intranetjournal.com/articles/200509/ij_09_19_05a.html
Traditionally a back-office task focused mostly on paper, records
management is integrated with e-mail and document management systems in 
Interwoven's
Records Manager 5.0.

Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, Mon, 19 Sep 2005 3:29 AM PDT
The call for backup: People turn Web into storage unit
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/living/12685353.htm
When disaster strikes and every second counts, there?s rarely time to
sift through file cabinets for insurance policies or flip through photo
albums to grab irreplaceable pictures.

Indian Country Today, Fri, 23 Sep 2005 1:52 PM PDT
ICT [2005/09/23] Discarded Trust documents found
http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096411617
WASHINGTON - Someone in the Department of Interior may have
intentionally discarded records pertinent to Indian Trust 
accountability, according
to a letter from the Office of General Counsel.

Hartford Courant, Fri, 23 Sep 2005 0:23 AM PDT
Data Backup Gets Easier
http://www.courant.com/technology/hc-hometechstorage.artsep23,0,243056.st

ory?&track=rss
When disaster strikes and every second counts, there's rarely time to
sift through file cabinets for insurance policies or flip through photo
albums to grab irreplaceable pictures.

CNN.com, Wed, 21 Sep 2005 8:01 PM PDT
Federal Indian records found discarded
http://www.cnn.com/rssclick/2005/POLITICS/09/21/indian.money.ap/index.htm

l?section=cnn_latest
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal officials are investigating how National
Archives documents of interest to Indians suing the Interior Department 
were
found discarded in a trash bin and a wastebasket.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Tue, 20 Sep 2005 10:06 PM PDT
Historic trust rallies to preserve damaged New Orleans buildings
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05264/575108.stm
There will be no rush to judgment on the approximately 100,000
buildings in New Orleans damaged by Hurricane Katrina, and there will 
be no demolitions
without public review.

WNDU 16, Tue, 20 Sep 2005 10:09 AM PDT
News: Studebaker Museum rolls out of old home
http://www.wndu.com/news/092005/news_44848.php
South Bend, IN - With the possible gas price increase, hopefully all
the Studebaker cars are already gassed up as the band of classic cars 
is on
the move.

Eweek
EU Data Retention
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1861850,00.asp>


EU States Propose Massive Data Retention Plan
eWeek - Woburn,MA,USA
... Council, the Commission fails to provide any evidence for the need
and benefits of data retention," said civil liberties group EDRI 
(European
Digital Rights ...
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1862184,00.asp>

FILENET announces agreement to acquire Yaletown Technology Group
Al-Bawaba - Amman,Jordan
... "As much as 80 per cent of a company's content assets remain 
unmanaged
and uncontrolled by electronic records management systems presenting 
potential
business ...
<http://www.albawaba.com/en/countries/UAE/189382>

ELECTRONIC storage sought by city clerk
Orange Transcript - NJ, USA
... law, to be the city's records manager ... Laserfiche system takes 
images
of the documents, either scanned from paper or imported from electronic
files, and stores ...
<http://www.localsource.com/articles/2005/09/21/orange_transcript/news/lo
cal/doc433213e32edbd873073403.txt>

FILENET to Highlight Risks of Non-Compliance With Records ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... FileNet Records Manager and Email Manager FileNet's ECM platform, 
FileNet
P8, and its Records Manager and Email Manager suites are being adopted
by a number of ...
<http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/0
9-22-2005/0004113104&EDATE=>

LORMAN Education Services presents "Document Retention And ...
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
... Les T. Bossert is the corporate records manager for MDU Resources 
Group,
Inc., with their corporate offices in Bismarck, North Dakota, where he
has accumulated ...
<http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/9/prweb286993.htm>

CLINTON Co. argues over tax records destruction
Centralia Morning Sentinel - Centralia,IL,USA
... Supporters of the destruction of the old records say finding storage
for the records will be a burden on taxpayers. Mueller contends ...
<http://www.morningsentinel.com/news/2005/0920/Front_Page/004.html>


COUNTRY Folk, Rescued From Oblivion
New York Sun (subscription) - New York,NY,USA
... Until recently Disfarmer's work was known mostly through prints that
had been made from the 3,000 glass negatives that were saved from his
studio when it was ...
<http://www.nysun.com/article/20398>

PROTECTION Gets Granular
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
... accounts were exposed to fraud; Citigroup notified 3.9 million 
customers
that it had lost archive tapes containing their data; Bank of America
notified 1.2 ...
<http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=1712002
08&tid=5979>


Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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