RAIN 060201

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

FIRE destroys LANL bid papers
Santa Fe New Mexican - Santa Fe,NM,USA
ALBUQUERQUE -- An arson fire destroyed documents related to Lockheed 
Martin's
unsuccessful bid to manage Los Alamos National Laboratory. ...
<http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/38820.html>

IMMEDIATE ROI in RFID asset protection case study
UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
... provided automatic inventory, location determination and protection
against theft. ... and protection (including intellectual property, 
trade
secrets and personal ...
<http://www.usingrfid.com/news/read.asp?lc=q58105gx637zs>

COUNCIL donates historical documents to NMI Archives
Saipan Tribune - Saipan,Northern Mariana Islands,Micronesia
The holdings of the CNMI Archives have grown considerably thanks to a 
recent
donation of historical documents by the Northern Mariana Islands Council
for the ...
<http://www.saipantribune.com/newsstory.aspx?cat=1&newsID=54467>

JEB shredding state records?
Rock River Times - Rockford,IL,USA
... The Texans are overseeing the destruction of state documents, 
according
to the source. A source in the FBI confirmed that public records are 
being
destroyed on ...
<http://www.rockrivertimes.com/index.pl?cmd=viewstory&cat=2&id=12347>

OLD MOTOWN OFFICES DEMOLISHED: Detroit building torn down to make ...
Eurweb.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA
*Folks standing near the destruction of Detroit's 10-story Donavan 
Building
-- home to Motown Records from 1968 through 1972 -- may have come across
...
<http://eurweb.com/story.cfm?id=24589>

AWASH In E-Mail, Firms Embrace E-Discovery
Investor's Business Daily (subscription) - USA
... Courts have ruled that companies must produce all e-mail records 
related
to litigation ... court found that the UBS attorneys failed to stop 
routine
destruction of e ...
<http://www.investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=17&issue=20060
131>

OAKLAND tries paperless court
Oakland Press - Pontiac,MI,USA
... court system could save judges and lawyers from lugging hefty files
around, trim ... new pilot project that allows lawyers to file case 
documents
electronically in ...
<http://www.theoaklandpress.com/stories/020106/loc_2006020103.shtml>

INADVERTENT Disclosures of Classified Nuclear Info
Secrecy News - Washington,DC,USA
Out of more than 150,000 pages at the National Archives that were 
reviewed
by DOE, 16 pages contained Restricted Data, and another 99 pages 
contained
Formerly ...
<http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2006/01/inadvertent_disclosures_of_cla.h
tml>

ADVANCING History
The Easterner - Cheney,WA,USA
... "We have had a lot of interest from various states, from the 
national
archives and international archives in China and England.". ...
<http://www.easterneronline.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/01/31/43e085a5c1
5a0>

PROVIDENCE faces suit over stolen records
OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA
... pay for ongoing credit monitoring for patients whose records were 
stolen
and to ... information systems analyst, who reported the theft of a 
laptop
computer bag ...
<http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/business/113877
1538256400.xml&coll=7>

AMERIPRISE Loses Laptop Too: 230,000 IDs
Security Pronews - Lexington,KY,USA
230,000 names were compromised because a laptop computer was stolen from
an employee's parked car. This sounds like déjà vu all over again. ...
<http://www.securitypronews.com/insiderreports/insider/spn-49-20060131Ame
ripriseLosesLaptopToo230000IDs.html>

RECORDS Experts Question 'Keep Everything' Philosophy
Enterprise Storage Forum - Darien,CT,USA
... When the fine points between record/data and retention/archiving are
understood ... Interestingly, both evolved from the document/content 
indexing
field, not the ...
<http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/continuity/features/article.php/35
82216>

GOOGLE moves into storage field
Techworld.com - London,UK
... information. Policies can then be applied to it to drive its storage
in Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) multi-tiered disk arrays. ...
<http://www.techworld.com/storage/news/index.cfm?NewsID=5284&inkc=0>

UNEXPECTED associations: An abortive Allen Funt project, a ...
Knoxville Metro Pulse - Knoxville,TN,USA
Film archivist Bradley Reeves has collected several of Orleans' films 
and
has ... has learned that Cornell University has the original Funt 
archive,
and may have ...
<http://www.metropulse.com/articles/2006/16_05/secret_history.shtml>

STATE archiving to draw global attention
The Olympian - Olympia,WA,USA
... "We are an archive, not just a big ... we can to provide long-term
access to information for future generations," said Adam Jansen, a 
digital
archivist for the ...
<http://159.54.227.3/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060201/NEWS01/60201014/
1006>

IDENTITY theft under control, says report
Ars Technica - Boston,MA,USA
... Nearly 70 percent of consumers are shredding documents, so that 
trash
as a source of data compromise is now less than 1 percent. ...
<http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060201-6096.html>

THE data value conundrum
Computerworld Australia - Australia
Aligning the cost of managing data with its business value is at the 
crux
of initiatives like information life-cycle management (ILM) and tiered
storage. ...
<http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1491242314;fp;16;fpid;0>

DAMAGED HISTORY: Restoration firm hopeful about glass negative ...
Ridgefield Press - CT, USA
... "They've handled a lot of very large collections of glass 
negatives,"
she said. "They've done something like 33,000 for Baylor University.".
...
<http://www.acorn-online.com/news/publish/article_4212.shtml>

PHOTOS Show City Devastated by 1906 Quake and Fire
San Leandro Times - CA, United States
... One weekend, she found a box of 4x5 glass negatives at a flea market
in Alameda of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, and prints of those 
negatives
were used ...
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SECURITY snafu at Boston Globe exposes subscriber data
ComputerWorld - USA
... health care patients about a theft of back-up tapes containing 
confidential
... a variety of companies in recent months, including Bank of America,
LexisNexus and ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,10826
8,00.html>

SMALLEST state's website cracked
SC Magazine - London,UK
... sensitive data records leaked by online breaches and stolen backup
tapes," SecurityFocus said. MasterCard International and Bank of America
were sources of two ...
<http://www.scmagazine.com/uk/news/article/539202/smallest-states-website
-cracked/>

DATA leaks already inundating 2006
SecurityFocus - Cupertino,CA,USA
... That same month, Bank of America acknowledged that backup tapes 
containing
information on 1.2 million government credit-card holders had gone 
missing.
<http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/123>




Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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