RAIN 061221
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories 
related to records and archives management.

How an Ex-Aide to President Clinton Stashed Classified Documents
New York Sun - New York,NY,USA
... The inspector general's report, released under the Freedom of
Information Act, was heavily redacted on national security and privacy
grounds. ...
<http://www.nysun.com/article/45551>

Mondale gives documents to Minnesota Historical Society
LaCrosse Tribune - LaCrosse,WI,USA
... Vice President Walter Mondale has donated documents from his public
life — including some recently declassified papers — to the Minnesota
Historical Society ...
<http://www.lacrossetribune.com/articles/2006/12/21/mn/03mnnews1221.txt>

On the Trail of Pilfered History
TIME - USA
... Whatever the motive, missing documents can be maddening for ... 
Records
of Mitchell's messy divorce from his first wife were missing from court
files in Milwaukee ...
<http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1572378,00.html>

eDocuMAN launches PDF Archiver to enable ISO compliant electronic ...
AME Info (press release) - United Arab Emirates
... servers in hierarchically managed folders as PDF/A files. ... 
accepted
for the delivery of final-format documents. ... PDF Archiver, users may
search e-records on the ...
<http://www.ameinfo.com/106168.html>

eDiscovery for Structured Data
CTR - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... classification, data migration and data preservation/destruction),
search technology ... For example, Digital Rights Management (DRM) and
eMail archiving software ...
<http://www.wwpi.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1693&Itemi
d=44>


BERGER TOOK PAPERS TO A HIDING PLACE
By Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Former National Security Adviser Samuel R. Berger, fined $50,000 for 
taking classified documents from the National Archives, hid the papers 
under a construction trailer where they later could easily be 
retrieved, a report yesterday said.
    The National Archives Office of Inspector General said that during a 
2003 visit to the facility, Mr. Berger left the building unescorted for 
a break, during which time he "placed the documents under a trailer in 
an accessible construction area outside Archives 1 (the main Archives 
building)."
<http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20061221-122447-6098r.htm>

State buys pivotal resignation letter
Chicago Tribune - United States
... According to state archivist Edward Papenfuse, Washington arrived in
Annapolis, then the nation's capital, with the intention of resigning. 
...
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0612210083dec21,1,546
4705.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed>

Berger Hid Archives Papers Under a Trailer, Probe Shows
Washington Post - United States
... former White House national security adviser Samuel R. "Sandy" 
Berger
stashed highly classified documents he had taken from the National 
Archives
beneath a ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/20/AR200612
2001968.html>

Group to study court-records purge
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville,KY,USA
... He said he doesn't know who specifically ordered the destruction of 
the
Jefferson County records and if proper procedures were followed. ...
<http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061221/NEWS0
1/612210376/1008>

Use of personal e-mail accounts makes hard-drive exams essential
The Decatur Daily - Decatur,AL,USA
... County records show that officials, including Revenue Commissioner
Amanda Scott and some employees, used county computers to access 
America On
Line, an ...
<http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/061221/emails.shtml>

Austin American-Statesman, Wed, 20 Dec 2006 9:50 PM PST
Historical sites spur political tug-of-war
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/12/21/21historic
al.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=52
Two agencies jockey for control of sites. Her husband died at the 
Alamo, and now Elizabeth Crockett, dead nearly 150 years, is bearing 
silent witness to a bureaucratic battle.

Fairfax Times, Wed, 20 Dec 2006 9:17 PM PST
Saving memories in the digital age
http://www.zwire.com/site/tab5.cfm?newsid=17617191&BRD=2553&PAG=461&dept_
id=511688&rfi=8
Unlike old family photographs from bygone holidays stashed away in a 
box on some closet shelf or even in the attic that are available to 
anyone simply by opening the box cover and taking the pictures out for 
a look, today's digital photos may not be as accessible in the years 
and decades to come.

SMU expected to be site for Bush presidential library
Houston Chronicle - United States
DALLAS — George W. Bush's presidential library will be built on the
Southern Methodist University campus here pending the outcome of further
talks between ...
<http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4418980.html>

EPA has research releases backwards
Bangor Daily News - Bangor,ME,USA
... and Governmental Affairs Committee, has expressed the same concerns 
to
EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson and asked that any document 
destruction
be halted. ...
<http://bangordailynews.com/news/templates/?a=144386&z=34>

Tape & backup: Speeding up archival
Network Magazine India - Mumbay,India
Here are some of the best practices to be followed by CIOs to optimise 
the
performance of the archival system. One of the best ways ...
<http://www.networkmagazineindia.com/200612/coverstory08.shtml>

Jersey archive purchases German soldiers' letters
UKTV - London,UK
... we have Red Cross messages and diaries but this is the only personal
material we have from the German forces," Jersey Archive senior 
archivist,
Linda Romeril ...
<http://uktv.co.uk/index.cfm/uktv/History.index/aid/579661>

Village OKs contract to archive e-mails
Lake Country Reporter - Waupaca,WI,USA
... Donna Baldwin-Haut said she belongs to several organizations and
wondered if all her e-mails on her personal account would be subject to 
an
open records request ...
<http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17615436&BRD=1399&PAG=461&dept
_id=173065&rfi=6>


How to Untangle 'Strings' of E-Discovery
Law.com (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... that companies may be obligated to retain, have led to the 
retention of
increasing ... attorneys naturally consider a string of e-mails to be a
single document. ...
<http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1166609206148
>

Virginia is for longer data retention
ZDNet - USA
... Still, rather than prescribing data retention laws, as some members 
of
Congress have supported, the task force makes a vague instruction to
Internet service ...
<http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6145509.html>

VA leader outlines computer security measures
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... decoded. In August, VA officials announced that other computer 
records
were missing from the Virginia offices of a subcontractor. ...
<http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06355/747867-85.stm>

Trek into world of open records is eye-opener for UW-RF students
River Falls Journal (subscription) - River Falls,WI,USA
... 201 information gathering classes, taught by Andris Straumanis and
Sandy Ellis, visited 20 offices earlier this month, conducting an open
records audit. ...
<http://www.riverfallsjournal.com/articles/index.cfm?id=81020&section=Uni
versity%20News>

More Details About Archives Case
Washington Post - United States
... security adviser Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger has admitted taking five
slightly different copies of a highly classified document from the 
National
Archives in 2003 ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/21/AR200612
2101509.html>

Glendora council updates public records policies
Whittier Daily News - Whittier,CA,USA
GLENDORA - Reacting in part to an ongoing lawsuit, Glendora city 
officials
made updates to their public records policies this week to correct what
they called ...
<http://www.whittierdailynews.com/news/ci_4882417>


eWeek
It's 2 A.M.: Do You Know Where Your E-Mail Is?
December 21, 2006
By  Evan Schuman
Securities regulators on Dec. 19 filed a disciplinary complaint against 
one of the nation's largest investment firms because, at best, it 
wasn't sure what e-mail was backed up. The worst-case scenario has 
Morgan Stanley telling investors that their e-mail records were 
destroyed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on New York City, while 
knowing that the backup records of those transactions were intact.
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2075504,00.asp?kc=EWRETEMNL122106EO
AD>




Peter Kurilecz
Richmond Va
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