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

FORGED land deeds have the authorities on edge
Dominican Today - Santo Domingo,Dominican Republic
... pesos has brought enormous pressure to bear on the National District
Deeds Registry in the last few days, where the presentation of documents
of questionable ...
<http://www.dominicantoday.com/app/article.aspx?id=8213>

RUSSELL Stalters
Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal - Fairfield,NJ,USA
... This approach allows Compliance Officers and internal auditors to
improve
reporting, controls, business workflows and records management in
whatever
order they ...
<http://www.s-ox.com/News/detail.cfm?articleID=1418>

A Guide to Storing and Destroying Documents
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... for the computer age, as 80 to 90 percent of all information in the
average office is still maintained on paper(1). The importance of
records
management in a ...
<http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/1
2-13-2005/0004232838&EDATE=>

E-MAIL discovery: Steps for getting quick access to data you need
ComputerWorld - USA
... Case law has shown that companies that have haphazard or
inconsistent
approaches to records management place themselves at serious risk. ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/story/0,10801,10702
6,00.html>

COUNTY Clerk Dianne Wilson sold millions of Fort Bend's records
Rosenberg Herald Coaster - Rosenberg,TX,USA
... Fort Bend County Clerk Dianne Wilson has been imaging county records
for more than 10 years, and now has become a proponent of open access
to those records via ...
<http://www.herald-coaster.com/articles/2005/12/12/news/top_story/topstor
y.txt>


VICTORIA picks 'open' formats for digital repository
ZDNet.com.au - Australia
... in long term retention? our digital archive is designed to maintain
[the records] in a ... would be stored in open formats such as text and
tiff files and then ...
<http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Victoria_picks_open_formats_fo
r_digital_repository/0,2000061733,39227436,00.htm>

EU updates document access rules for merger and antitrust files
Forbes - USA
... files by complainants in either merger or antitrust inquiries. The
EU executive said two types of information will not be accessible --
'internal
documents' ...
<http://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/afx/2005/12/13/afx2387831.html>

NATIONAL Security Archive Automates Information Delivery With ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
... Though the Archive has always used advanced electronic tools to
collect
and catalog documents, the growing influx of files-more than 50,000 per
year- posed ...
<http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/051213/sftu060.html?.v=39>

HISTORICAL society at odds
Daily Mail - Charleston - Charleston,WV,USA
... The mayor's office is not so sentimental about it. "It's
disappointing
that a historical society -- any historical society -- believes it's
vital
to protect ...
<http://www.dailymail.com/display_story.php?sid=200512133&format=prn>

ARGUMENTS continue on eve of data retention D-day
EUobserver.com - Brussels,Belgium
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - With less than 24 hours left before the European
Parliament's almost certain approval of a new directive on data
retention,
some MEPs ...
<http://euobserver.com/9/20540>

EU data retention: Decision time
EUPolitix.com - Brussels,Belgium
The compromise on data retention is a good one. Vote for it. Charles
Clarke
makes the case for the EU presidency. This week, when ...
<http://www.eupolitix.com/EN/News/200512/4f44cd30-f72b-4486-8c05-695421f9
cb8d.htm>


EU data retention: Decision time
EUPolitix.com - Brussels,Belgium
The compromise on data retention is a good one. Vote for it. Charles
Clarke
makes the case for the EU presidency. This week, when ...
<http://www.eupolitix.com/EN/News/200512/4f44cd30-f72b-4486-8c05-695421f9
cb8d.htm>

COUNTY records effort trimmed; budget hearing Dec. 14
VillageSoup Belfast - ME, USA
... she said, will be the county's disqualification for grants from the
state archive that have helped pay her for the past three years. The
archivist
said the ...
<http://waldo.villagesoup.com/government/story.cfm?storyID=65057>

INTERNET breaks locks of personal diaries
Helsingin Sanomat - Helsinki,Uusimaa,Finland
... were the diaries of ordinary Finns that were stored in the
literature
archive of the ... it at all in a diary", says Dr. Anna Makkonen, a
literary
archivist at the ...
<http://www.helsinginsanomat.fi/english/article/Internet+breaks+locks+of+
personal+diaries/1101981943355>

GUILTY Plea in Classified-Document Case
Washington Post - United States
... beginning in 1992, according to court papers filed with ... Affairs
had more than 3,600 documents in his home, some of them highly
classified,
prosecutors said ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/12/AR200512
1201516.html>

NY'S 1775 'declaration' to be handed over to state archives
WSTM-TV - Syracuse,NY,USA
... Former Cornell University archivist Phil McCray of Ithaca discovered
the lost document last ... turn over the documents to the New York State
Archives in Albany.
<http://www.wstm.com/Global/story.asp?S=4237903&nav=2aKD>

BANKERS Box(R) Launches New Integrated Marketing Campaign
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... There's no doubt a records manager or two have been frustrated upon
discovering ruins of collapsed boxes and damaged or destroyed files in
their storage rooms. ...
<http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/1
2-13-2005/0004232840&EDATE=>


Santa Cruz Sentinel, Mon, 12 Dec 2005 9:40 AM PST
Older records open for research
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2005/December/12/local/stories/0

6local.htm
A law written by Santa Cruz Assemblyman John Laird opens records
created before 1931 for historical research. AB 2719, which took effect
Jan. 1, was
welcomed by local genealogists, who say family historians have faced
increasing
difficulty in gaining access to public records.

Rocky Mountain News, Tue, 13 Dec 2005 1:05 AM PST
Barnett grid camp records in 'disarray'
http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_4311008,00

.html
Financial records for Gary Barnett's summer football camps were in such
"disarray" that nobody could account for hundreds of thousands of
dollars in income and expenses, according to a blistering state audit
of the
University of Colorado's athletic department made public Monday.

SECURITY breach at Sam's Club exposes credit card data
ComputerWorld - USA
... The Sam's Club breach is the latest in a string of data compromises
this year at organizations that have included Bank of America Corp.,
ChoicePoint
Inc. ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/industrytopics/retail/story/0,10801,107014,
00.html>

HOW do You Recover after a Stolen Laptop?
IT Management - Darien,CT,USA
... But had it been someone else's stuff on that stolen laptop, I would
have had to notify them about the risk that my own carelessness exposed
them to. ...
<http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/article.php/3570566>

WELCOME to Longmont, 'Data Storage Central'
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA
By Bob Keefe, Cox News Service. But in the fast-growing business of
digital
storage technology, there's no place like Longmont. Amid ...
<http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/tech/article/0,2777,DRMN_23910_431
0093,00.html>

AMP threat for city's archives
Yorkshire Post Today - Leeds,Yorkshire,UK
... A 10 day cleaning programme had to be ordered in an attempt to keep
mould levels down, with staff cleaning all surfaces in the archives, and
during that work ...
<http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=1084&Article
ID=1283621>

VICTORIA'S Archives Go Online
IDM.net.au - Strawberry Hills,NSW,Australia
December 13, 2005: Fujitsu and EMC team up with the Public Records
Office
Victoria (PROV) to provide Australians with the 'Digital Archive' - a
secure, web ...
<http://www.idm.net.au/story.asp?id=6879>

SCOTTISH Freedom of Information Act under review
Out-Law.com - London,England,UK
With the first anniversary of the Freedom of Information Act's
enforcement
approaching, the Scottish Executive announced a review of the Scottish
version of ...
<http://www.out-law.com/page-6450>

INISTER launches probe to test the flow of information
Scotsman - United Kingdom
A REVIEW of the Freedom of Information Act is to be carried out in a bid
to make the legislation more effective. The consultation ...
<http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=2399562005>

TRAINING materials on open records unveiled
WFAA (subscription) - Dallas,TX,USA
... on Monday unveiled new mandatory open government training materials
designed to educate state and local public officials about Texas open
records and open ...
<http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/DN-tsw
briefs_13tex.ART.State.Edition2.e2b8415.html>

EMAIL Archiving Appliances
Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal - Fairfield,NJ,USA
... This isn't just a product for broker-dealers, but any small or
midsized
business needing better email archival and search," said Alan Sund, Sony
general ...
<http://www.s-ox.com/News/detail.cfm?ArticleID=1421>

COMMUNICATING With Geographically Disparate Board Members
Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal - Fairfield,NJ,USA
... RSA Security. . Secure document storage on an encrypted database
server
with document retention and storage rules. . Board Book ...
<http://www.s-ox.com/news/detail.cfm?articleID=1414>

New York Times
Europe Expected to Require Keeping of Phone-Call Data
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/13/business/worldbusiness/13data.html>

Wall Street Journal
Pipe Dream
Music Stash Recalls When Rock Was Young
By ETHAN SMITH
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
December 13, 2005; Page B1
Two and a half years ago, a Minneapolis entrepreneur named Bill Sagan
spent more than $5 million to buy a treasure trove of rock 'n' roll
memorabilia: millions of T-shirts, posters, handbills, photographs,
concert tickets and other items from the archives of Bill Graham
Presents, the legendary San Francisco rock promoter that virtually
invented the modern concert business in the mid 1960s.
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB113443205766020664.html?>



Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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